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It's not like they started from scratch...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Unusually large torrents renew calls to better protect vital Internet resource. Just in case you're noticing things a little slower than usual
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There is nothing "vital" about the Internet.
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Yahoo is reversing its plan to spin-off its huge stake in Chinese retail monster Alibaba. Instead it will spin of its core internet business, including names you recognize like Flickr, Tumblr, et al, into another business. Sell everything that people associate with your brand... Winning?
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Avoiding billions in tax from spinning off their Alibaba share off instead is a win. (Actively selling the shares would be even worse; they'd still have the tax hit, but dumping that many shares at once would probably cause the price of them to plunge.)
The split should also remove billions of dollars worth of Conglomerate Discount[^] in Yahoo's current price. Currently Yahoo is worth ~$30bn, it owns ~$30bn of Alibaba, ~$8 billion of Yahoo Japan (a separate company now despite the name), and its own properties are worth several billion as well (I saw an estimate of $3-8bn in either the Arstechnica article or comments).
The next step will probably be to detach its Yahoo.jp stock as well (another holding company?), and then dismember what's left. I'm skeptical of any one entity wanting all of it. MS would probably want the search page (to protect Bings share if nothing else); but now that Nandella is at the helm I'm not sure if they'd want all the other odds and ends. Google'd be anti-trust blocked. Apple/Facebook/Twitter don't buy old ailing internet companies. It's too consumer for IBM or whOracle. Verizon bought AOL; even if they hadn't all of (divested) Yahoo would've been a really huge meal for it to try and digest. Even divested it's too big for most of the bottom feeder companies who buy up randomish sites in bulk hoping to make their acquisitions work based on benefits of scale in selling ad space; however there're a number of parts of Yahoo that could still be worth something to someone so I don't see it being shut down.
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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All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess. The current fad for short learn-to-code courses is selling people a lie and will do nothing to help the skills shortage for professional programmers. So.... 22 days?
Or 25 hours? for those who read those books.
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Rather good article.
I am self taught programmer with something close to "bachelor degree in computer science" (French degree).
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess
LIE...
programming requires only:
gimme code plzzzz, it's urgntzzzzzzzz
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: LIE...
programming requires only:
gimme code plzzzz, it's urgntzzzzzzzz
Only when it works 
I stopped counting how many points I won by moderating those questions.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: I stopped counting how many points I won by moderating those questions.
I stopped going to QA 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: We have such huge advantages because of the world wide web being invented as a result of British ingenuity.
 Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! Wait a minute here... Hold the phone...
I thought Al Gore invented the world wide web. 
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Nice article! Regarding this:
Quote: after three years of computer science education they can’t code.
I'm not at all surprised. Getting a BS in CS/CIS means that you can follow the directions in a textbook and pass tests...very little creative thinking or problem solving required.
My intern this past summer quit after less than two months stating 'This is way harder than I thought it would be' and stopped returning emails and calls. Luckily, we were paying him by the module. He never completed the first one! (just 2700 loc) It's a little awkward since his mother is our point of contact (main end user) for a really good client. The last I heard was that he changed his major back to mechanical engineering!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: The last I heard was that he changed his major back to mechanical engineering!
I've always seen mechanical engineering to be 1000 times harder for me than software programming. I guess it must have just been his cup of tea!
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Researchers from Google’s AI Lab say that a controversial quantum machine that it and NASA bought in 2013 resoundingly beat a conventional computer in a series of tests. The cat is alive!
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I can remember reading about quantum computers many years ago in New Scientist, and am excited by how close we are to harnessing this important technology 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Works perfectly - so long as you don't take it out of the box.
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Code breaks down the way disorganized collaboration breaks down Do you smell something?
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A newly revealed malware that has been in use since at least the beginning of this year has been dubbed a “bootkit,” for its ability to infect a computer at the most fundamental level, running when the computer boots to actually load before the operating system itself. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Is its name "Windows 10" perhaps? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Are there any more details on this?
Mike
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If you have to ask, it's too late
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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How much Community involvement has there been since Microsoft open sourced large parts of the .NET framework? They did mean "open" (I have to admit I'm surprised)
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