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In what may prove to be the most exciting find to date, the German weekly Der Spiegel announced recently that astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, just 4.25 light-years away. Just around the corner. We should pop in.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: n Earth-like planet
Poor bastards.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It may only take 20 years to get there but it will take at least 40 years to get politicians to agree to fund (or "permit") the trip. I would go but high speed internet would get slower as we moved away from Earth, hmm... although as we approached the speed of light (or 20% of it) relativity may help speed it up again?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, considering there is already so much noise on the internet, the signal would even more quickly get swamped out!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Do remember that what scientists mean by "earth-like" and what the phrase actually suggests are two entirely different things. To scientists, having a similar size and orbit, with massive margins of error, makes a planet "earth-like."
(I loved where the article mentioned that the observatory which "discovered" this, likes to make stuff up. We are assured that they really mean it this time. Why do I suspect funding was running short and....)
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Say hello to computer augmented program engineering, "in which a programmer and an automated program-synthesis tool collaborate to generate software that meets its specification." It looks like you're trying to write an expert system. Would you like help with that?
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he research project has received grants totaling more than $9 million, covering research from 2012 through 2017.
With $9M, I could have done more than just research. 
I can't wait (actually, I can) to see what Intellisense in 10 years will look like. It'll be integrated with Cortana, suggest better solutions found on Stack Overflow or CP, figure out what you're trying to do and suggest a previously implemented algorithm found on GitHub or CP -- and not just the whole repo but rather, after AI analysis of open source projects, will point you to the specific class/methods that have already solved the same problem you're working on), document your code for you, write usable unit tests for you, and suggest security, usability and UI improvements.
Yeah, with $9M, I think I could put together a team to accomplish that in less time than the 5 years they've been researching this already (except the Cortana part, ewwww.)
If we get that, maybe there won't be so many "can you do my homework for me?" questions posted in the Q&A forums!
Marc
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you are corrct, if we build a better search algorithm for GitHub. Those people may search GitHub for answer instead of ask same repeated questions that all schools given (joke)
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Well the grant is to a university, academia moves at a considerably slower pace than private industry (corporate), and corporate moves at a slower pace than an individual developer or even a small team. So $9m and 5 years to research what you just posted sounds about right!
Besides the goal is not to produce anything but to get the grant. Producing a solution is pure bonus!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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We had developed such kind of system many years ago (at least in solving the tedious and error-prone problems). It may not solve all the problems they are trying to solve, but its core part is a practical (because we had zero grant) and managable system that is "production" ready (internally) beacuse it was used to generate most of the relational data systems underlying our products and services for years, published or not. It's not realy "simple" or "easy", that's not our target, but a quite flexible meta-programming system and a useful tool to us, at least ...
modified 15-Aug-16 3:22am.
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If it produces random garbage, fails to interpret keywords in context, etc., it can be called MSDNII.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Read the whole article and quickly realized it's just more bullshit. The giveaway was "developers can also express their intents through means such as commands spoken in natural language". Uh, yeah, right that always works.
As for that actual practical stuff the article mentions, it's already being done.
I supposes kudos should be given to the con artists who managed to get $9 million for this nonsense.
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With the appropriate tools and environments, developers can take the first step forward in safeguarding app security Why did no one think of that before?
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Or maybe if they were just given some time to do some investigation. Security is overhead. 
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Happy birthday, you old rascal, you. Thirty-five years ago today you came into world with a compact design and a $1,565 price tag, at time when IBM’s entry-level “microcomputer” run $90,000 and looked more like a washer and dryer set. It's platform: a floppy in every bay
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Given the options for the current election... I think I would vote for the PC. 
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Google appears to be working on a new unified operating system, codenamed Fuchsia OS that will work across computers, phones, tablets, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. #FF00FF FTW?
It's amazing how many words can be written about an almost empty repository
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I didn't say a thing JSOP, honest!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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There are interesting people working on the project, is about all we can really assume for now. With no announcement and little documentation, the rest is all filler.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Isn't fuchsia the color of puke? Coincidence?
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I dunno. If my puke were fuchsia, I'd be heading to a doctor. 
TTFN - Kent
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Be honest. First you would Google it.
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