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holds the potential
I wonder if we can mark the place in time when science changed from "we announce an amazing new thing" to "we announce the potential of an amazing new thing."
Maybe it was around the point where AI or nanotechnology was first announced as an amazing potential thing. Maybe it was when the media became the voice of science.
Potentially. 
Marc
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What goes around comes around.
Remember old and slow core memory boards?
They also stored a 1 or 0 in magnetic direction.
Hope lower power consumption doesn't come at the expense of the speed we crave.
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Launched as an experimental project, the Servo browser engine is nearing its first release, scheduled for this June, as Mozilla's engineers have revealed in an internal discussions group. Oh good: a new browser to support (said no one ever)
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Written in Rust, so it will be interesting to see if it's security vulnerability-resistant - at least with respect to use-after-free and buffer overflow errors.
Kevin
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Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned. If only there was some way to block those adverts!
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I’m excited to announce that WebAssembly has reached an important milestone: there are now multiple, interoperable, experimental browser implementations. Write Once, Play Everywhere
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Microsoft is privately testing its next major version of Visual Studio, which ultimately may be christened 'Visual Studio 2016.' For those of you considering upgrading from Programmer's Workbench
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They expect us to start shelling out that much yearly?
My employer will choke!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Once you get shackled to the MSDN subscription treadmill it doesn't matter how frequently they pop out new versions. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not making code easily understandable for other developers will inevitably increase the cost down the line, especially if the person working on the code you wrote has no other choice but to start over from scratch. Bonus #0: Write it all on one line, less scrolling that way
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Less vertical scrolling anyway...
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Keep variable names short. a, b c and d suffice. If you run out, there is always a1, b1 etc. That way you cut down on horizontal scrolling.
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Simple, set your text editor to wrap lines.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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On Error Resume Next
sub UnpolishableTurd
Count = Count/MAGIC_NUMBER_CONSTANT
end sub
sub ICanHazUnitTest
UnpolishableTurd()
end sub
Quote: Comment your code
Got comments
Quote: Don’t forget about error checking
I handled every possible error
Quote: Use less code
In as little code as possible
Quote: Write code that can be easily modified
That's why I'm using a constant instead of hard coding my magic number
Quote: Write code that can be easily tested
I have tests
Quote: Fix the problem, not the symptoms
Oh elephant
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft is expected to release Extensions for Edge to Insiders sometime soon. Just like Firefox 2! (or Chrome 4)
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We are very happy to announce along with our partners at DevExpress, a new version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is now available. This version, labeled 16.1 delivers some documentation improvements, tutorials, and some long requested updates for existing controls. For those who haven't already moved to jQuery
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Kent Sharkey wrote: For those who haven't already moved to jQuery
jQuery is not a control toolkit. The two could be used together.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The Federal government is embracing open-source programming with a new pro-open-source development policy. It will save them time from suing to get the keys
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They will directly pit back doors in every app. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The problem with this is that they continue to reject a custom software solution, spending MILLIONS of dollars trying to find a generic "off-the-shelf" system to perform a specific task.
Instead of hiring a number of teams of competent programmers, and going through the SDLC process to design/deliver exactly what is needed, they'd rather spending millions of dollars searching, followed by hundreds of thousands of dollars purchasing "seats", and "support".
Of course, they're over-the-top security bullsh|t does as much as possible to hinder the software development process. But that's none of my business...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft is adding new capabilities to its Skype for Web, as well as its Skype for Business services. Skype for Web users can now call cell phones and landlines directly. Meanwhile, bugs a' plenty remain in the desktop client
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It's better to concentrate on precise movements executed in perfect harmony, than powerful single tugs. With this in mind, the scientists from the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory (BDML) were able to use just six of their 17-gram microTug robots to pull an 1,800 kg car. MicroTug, MicroTug, does whatever a spider can
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While many tech moguls dream of changing the way we live with new smart devices or social media apps, one Russian internet millionaire is trying to change nothing less than our destiny, by making it possible to upload a human brain to a computer, reports Tristan Quinn. "Within the next 30 years", for 30 years running
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If I did that, my pc would be stupider.
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freeing them from the biological constraints of the body.
I quite enjoy some of those "constraints", and if death is a part of that experience, then so be it. I cannot imagine a worse death than for my personality to be locked up in some machine, never to truly live.
Marc
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