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What would you say if I told you that I could put you in charge of the biggest LEGO set you have ever seen, giving you access to more than 8 trillion blocks. Oh, and you wouldn’t even have to move from your seat? Well, that’s exactly what Google has done. Play with LEGO online, then place your creation on a real Aussie landmark.
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Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats. The neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which is actually no frivolous activity. In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
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*cough*
Some people just never learn. 
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We present the first large-scale analysis of hardware failure rates on a million consumer PCs. We find that many failures are neither transient nor independent. Instead, a large portion of hardware induced failures are recurrent... Among our many results, we find that CPU fault rates are correlated with the number of cycles executed, underclocked machines are significantly more reliable than machines running at their rated speed, and laptops are more reliable than desktops. Blue survey of death.
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I love scripting and am quite frustrated by what apps don’t support scripting (or support it poorly). But when I go through my script folder I find that I really don’t have that many scripts. If a big scripting proponent like me doesn’t use scripting nearly as much as he thought what does that say about 90% of people? AppleScript is (almost) dead. Will anyone (except uberdorks) care?
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Are you part of a software development team that's recently moved to GitHub? Where some team members are excited to use git for source control but you're more comfortable with Subversion? The good news is that you can all use the tools you already enjoy - GitHub repositories can be accessed from both Git and Subversion (SVN) clients. Now you can commit without making a commitment.
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Google's simulated human brain trains itself find cats on YouTube[^]
As intelligent as computers continue to get, it's still a lot of work for them to perform tasks many humans do on a regular basis--like, say, enjoying cat videos on YouTube. In an attempt to bridge that gap, scientists from Google's X laboratory created a simulated human brain by putting 16,000 computer processors together and having them browse around the Internet, learning facts about the world as they went. And the simulated human brain successfully found YouTube's cats. ...
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The term Modern Perl can mean a couple of things to different people. Sometimes it means those two different different things to the same people. It depends on context. That’s a joke for the Perl programmers. The definitive Perl book is now up to date with the way that the best Perl programmers now program Perl.
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Bazinga?
Leonardo Paneque
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It's a technical term.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: the best Perl programmers
What is a "best" programmer? 
Anyhow, cool read.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What is Modern Perl?
Unreadable?
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I kind of enjoyed it back in the day .. Just me and PERL on my EditPlus app and HTML/JavaScript. Life was simple !
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Greg and Svein decided to make Mighty Moose free. This is not a decision that is being take lightly and much thought has gone into it. This post is to explain why they went free and the future of their continuous integration tool. Making sure business goals are aligned with personal goals: changing the way people code.
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So you want to know more about development for Window 8. Great! There are lots of reasons you should be excited about this. Since I don’t know why YOU are interested in this, I’ll make a list of reasons people can choose from. So… Why would you care about making an app for Windows 8? 5 good reasons for going Metro.
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Great reasons? That article looked like
1. Cause I'm a fanboi
2. Cause I'm a fanboi
3. Cause I'm a fanboi
4. Cause I'm a fanboi
5. Cause I'm a fanboi
It didn't contain any info about the platform or why it would be good business at all :/
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All the Metro UI arguments I've heard so far from Microsoft and all of the fanbois remind me of the line from National Lampoon's Vacation where the slimey car salesman sticks Clark Griswald with the Family Truckster. To quote him, Quote: You think you hate it now, but just wait until you drive it.
QRZ? de WAØTTN
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The core problem for OEMs is this: they want to offer a unique OEM-specific experience as a way to differentiate from their competitors and allow them to squeeze a little extra margin out of otherwise undifferentiated systems. Most of the time what you see out of OEMs just seems like a hack. This isn’t just about PCs. Wonder why Android Tablets haven’t made a dent in the iPad? It is the same factors that are causing PCs to lose ground to Apple products. Surface follows the modern consumer computing device playbook, OEMs don’t.
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Now that person gets it.
Enjoyed the article. 
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It's not OEM, it's Microsoft. The only reason iPod/iPhone/iOS had conquered the market was a consolidated marketplace where developers/publishers/artists can with minimum startup cost publish their work and start making money and end-user doesn't have to browse around forever to find piece of media/software they need. Any music player would play MP3 files but iTunes made it easy to find, check review and download. Up until recent Microsoft Store, user would need to hunt down and struggle with download of the content they want. That's by the way is the reason Kindle Fire took off - plenty of easy-to-find contents.
Besides there is a "good enough" factor. If price difference is substantial user may decide to settle (as they do with $300 laptops). If components are priced similarly, there is no reason to settle. Low end android devices are crap. High end - priced similarly to iPod and there is no reason to go for second best - might as well get the best.
Microsoft have an uphill battle. Just because the Metro interface is arguably better is not sufficient. They need to create a marketplace (which they started with they new store) and make sure it's loaded with contents, create devices that are either better than iPod or significantly cheaper - which might be a problem.
A lot of content developers I imagine will take a wait and see approach - you don't want to spend your development dollars to build a contents for the marketplace w/o future or the marketplace where backing company doesn't honor backward compatibility.
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After computers were made of bronze cogs but before they were made of integrated circuits, they were made of paper, they were found in books. All of this is just another dimension of the relationship between book and computer. More than containers that sometimes compete for the same information, they are on the family tree of a daunting ambition to compute and compile all that can be known. Each in their own time they are the best-fit materials for the job. Lullian Circles and the long history of paper computing.
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Have you ever wanted your users to click your links, but didn’t know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem they’re tempted to use the words “click here” on their links. Before you give in to the temptation, you should know that using these words on a link can affect how users experience your interface. To learn more, click... er, read on!
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It's certainly safe at this point to say that flash has won the war in the mobile space—I don't think we'll ever see another tablet or phone based on anything other than solid state storage. The war for the proverbial desktop (which includes most laptops) is far from over, with hard disk drives still outnumbering SSDs in most traditional computers. Still, SSDs are in enough places doing enough things that modern operating systems have changed to accommodate them. Long live Flash RAM! You've saved your Earth. Have a nice day.
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The touchpad problem illustrates why Microsoft had to build the Surface rather than let its hardware partners take the lead on Windows 8 tablets. Making a great trackpad isn’t easy. Humble as it seems, perfecting the interface depends on a host of skills that most companies don’t possess—top-notch industrial design, perfectionist control over manufacturing processes, and, most importantly, software that’s finely crafted to work with the hardware. If PC vendors can’t even get this small thing right, how could they possibly make something as polished as an iPad? If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.
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Software licensing is and will remain a viable revenue stream for the foreseeable future. But both public market valuations and observed behaviors of strategic software players indicate that the days of software licensing as a primary revenue stream are potentially over. If the world’s largest software firm pivoting into hardware doesn’t convince you that the world is changing, my question to you is: what would? The value of software in general is not in decline... just bad software.
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