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Nonethless, I haven't seen in linked here before.
Entertaining question on Stack Overflow from Alan Kay, relating to inventions in computing since 1980. Its amazing how many times he elicits a response of "No, we had that at PARC in the 1970s".
To a (much lesser) extent, I feel this frequently myself - younger dev's frequently attempt to introduce me to a "new paradigm" which sounds suspiciously like a refinement of an old paradigm. A case in point being "Behavior Driven Development", which just seems like Domain-Based Design, which in turn is basically doing OOP. OK, there are refinements, like the use of TDD type disciplines, but even that has very early roots (as pointed out in the responses).
(Edit: and the all important link[^]).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At one exhibit, titled “Realtime Crowd Insights,” a small camera scanned the room, while a monitor displayed the captured image. Every five seconds, a new image would appear with data annotated for each face — an assigned serial number, gender, estimated age, and any emotions detected in the facial expression. So it can detect eye rolling and face palms?
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They're reading facial expressions of the audience? From the title, I expected it to be some kind of lie detector for the candidate or warning system when they evade questions.
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I'd pay for that, but the poor thing would probably break down all the time from excessive use. 
TTFN - Kent
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That'd be too easy, it'd only have to detect moving lips.
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I will go you one better, a telepathic lie detector for politicians, if there is a heart beat the bastard is thinking a lie!
I'm convinced they can talk themselves into believing their own lies.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Actually, that's remarkably easy for all of us, sadly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Bedoya also pointed out that Microsoft’s marketing did not seem to match the consent policy. “It’s difficult to envision how companies will obtain consent from people in large crowds or rallies.”
Did anyone read the terms and conditions you had to agree to when buying a ticket to the RNC or DNC? 
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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I wonder if it can detect hand gestures. n|m
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: n|m
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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If I wrote software which randomly decided between "bored" and "that guy is so full of himself", I suspect it would do amazingly well.
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Once deprived of sunlight, the thin atmosphere condenses on the moon's surface. Hold your breath until sunrise
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Uranus steals it.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Now we know why the dwarves favour mining at night...
IO, IO, its off to work we go.
(I'll fetch my coat)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Of course (to steal one of the Ars responses), the correct pronunciation should always be proceeded by E, I, and E.
(I'll fetch my coat again)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body. Time to jack into cyberspace
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The sensor, 3 millimeters long and 1×1 millimeters in cross section,...
They have really big dust at UC, Berkeley!
...and ultrasound vibrations can penetrate nearly anywhere in the body, unlike radio waves, the researchers say.
Time to retire my tin foil hat for...what?
modified 4-Aug-16 16:30pm.
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Says if companies don't modernize and adapt, they're "not going to be around." That crying you hear is coming from the Windows (and Office) buildings
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If they don't take care of their current customers then their "Cloud" will only be accessed by Macs and Linux flavor os's. When the interent breaks they will have No customers.
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Already, nearly 30% of Azure instances are linux([^]).
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The two have unveiled OpenYOLO — not this YOLO, but short for “you only login once” — an open-source API project for app developers to access passwords stored in password managers, whichever one you happen to use. Counting down to when it gets hacked...
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Sounds like, if it were hacked, it be an easy backdoor to all your secrets, or "EBAYS"tm for short.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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