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I'm a lot more afraid of humans getting dumber than machines getting smarter.
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A company called MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), spearheaded by Walmart, was started to build a mobile payment solution that would become an app called CurrentC that’s preparing to launch, but is already in the app stores. QR codes?! Someone suggests QR codes as a solution to something?
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The good news is that after the banks proprietary attempt (the platform formerly known as ISIS) faceplanted, GooglePay faceplanted, and ApplePay just being shoved toward a faceplant; we only have to wait for the merchant companies to fubar their effort (by alienating Google, Apple, and the banks if nothing else) before there's any reasonable chance of the major players attempting to work together to create an interoperable standard instead of squabbling over who'll be allowed to pocket 2% of every retail transaction forever. (Or until brainwave pay becomes a thing anyway.)
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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Waiting for industry cooperation seems a bit optimistic to me.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Dan Neely wrote: (Or until brainwave pay becomes a thing anyway.)
That'd best be marketed as "BrainPay".
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Quote: The idea behind MCX was that if enough retailers teamed up, they could convince consumers to adopt their mobile payment system that would let retailers avoid paying credit card fees in the 2 percent to 3 percent range by processing payments through Automatic Clearing House transactions through bank accounts that have much smaller fees. MCX’s app could also help retailers by encouraging loyalty to participating merchants and possibly provide them additional intelligence on their customers.
So it's only going to support debit cards not credit. Yeah good luck with that. 
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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Rather than create another new programming language—Google has already done that with Dart—AtScript is designed to run on top of not only ECMAScript 5 and the upcoming ECMAScript 6, but atop Microsoft’s superset TypeScript language as well. The goal of AtScript is to make type annotation data available at runtime, also known as type introspection, in an effort to enhance JavaScript with type, field and metadata annotations.
ECMAScript, TypeScript and AtScript...one big happy JavaScript family?
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Last week at the ng-europe conference in Paris, the Angular team gave attendees details about the upcoming AngularJS 2.0 release. It's a significant departure from version 1.X with no migration path and made with a new language, AtScript, in mind.
Developers familiar with the Angular 1.X will encounter a drastically different looking framework and will need to learn a new architecture. -- souce[^]
Oh great, just when I was about to start learning AngularJS 1.X for a project, this happens. I think I'll go back to starting fires by rubbing two sticks together.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oh great, just when I was about to start learning AngularJS 1.X for a project, this happens. I think I'll go back to starting fires by rubbing two sticks together.
It's still better than painting yourself head to toe with woad and doing a thunderstorm dance to light a fire.
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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Dan Neely wrote: It's still better than painting yourself head to toe with woad and doing a thunderstorm dance to light a fire.
Hmmm, that could be quite, um, stimulating.
On the other hand, here's an opportunity to actually learn a technology as it's emerging, something I have never cared to do with anything W.. related (WPF, WCF, web..., etc.) We'll see if it's true that you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Marc
modified 27-Oct-14 17:08pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: something I have cared to do with anything
Missing a never here?
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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Dan Neely wrote: Missing a never here?
Indeed. Fixed. 
Marc
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We’ve asked over 350 developers and 3 JCP experts about their Java 9 expectations, here’s what we found out.
"Do not question the all-powerful Oracle...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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The Wizard of Oz. A great movie.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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IT salaries will remain mostly stagnant in 2015, except for workers with highly coveted skill sets, according to a report tracking IT salaries and skills demand in the coming years. Where is 'headline snark writers' on the list?
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Global, high mobility, lightly regulated industry has wages governed by supply and demand? Shocked I am!
Edit That said, I'm surprised "machine learning" isn't on that list yet.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Where is 'headline snark writers' on the list?
Down at the bottom of the list, right next to 'headline writing snarkers'.
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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We’re excited to announce development has begun on the ORTC API for WebRTC, a key technology to make Real-Time Communications (RTC) on the web a reality. WebRTC API FTW
(especially if it kills Skype)
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IE is still a joke to the masses, but you have to at least admire the developers for trying.
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Do people really still use Internet Explorer?  
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For testing, yes.
I saw an appropriate joke about this earlier today:
"How do you tell HTML from HTML5? View it in IE. If it doesn't work, it's HTML5."
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is removing its OneDrive storage limits for Office 365 subscribers. If you’re an Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscriber then OneDrive storage will be unlimited in the coming months as Microsoft rolls out its changes to every account. Finally someone gives me a space to back up my Internets!
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Once you have all your stuff there; they'll increase the price.
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As I commented elsewhere, along with Google, Apple, and Amazon, MS is one of the four companies I don't expect to back peddle from offering an unlimited tier for consumer users. They know the PR backlash from doing so would be huge, and even if they flubbed their estimate about how many users went crazy with uploading files, the server cost above what they budgeted being subsidized by the vast majority of lighter users is a much smaller number.
I do however expect them to be pickier about the consumer unlimited plan being for consumers and not business customers (who must buy metered data) when a pro photographer/videographer starts trying to upload a TB of raws/video a month.
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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