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I once worked at a place where we had to deal with hard drives in embedded systems. SMART proved completely useless in identifying what went wrong, let alone predicting failures.
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Dealing with iOS (and really Apple in general) is like trying to have a conversation with a paranoid robot working as a soviet border officer in a Kafka novel. "Why is it that Apple doesn’t allow other browser engines on iOS?"
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We’ve recruited a group of female engineers with years of industry experience to try an experiment with us called “Ask A Female Engineer.” What about the application and interview experience would lead you to choose to join or not join a company?
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That would be awesome!
#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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On this particular morning, at the cusp of 40, I have to admit I feel a little drained. I know this is part of the job - if I want to stay relevant (and well paid), I know that every so often I need to cast out some of the knowledge that I've so dutifully absorbed, and gear up up for the next journey. It's just how it is. Buzz. *heh* Hoopla. *heh* A Developer craves not these things.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Reflections of an "Old" Programmer
Sean Ewington wrote: On this particular morning, at the cusp of 40,
Being 20 twice does not count as "old".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Comcast's home internet data caps are going live for a majority of customers starting November 1st, the company announced today. *leans back in chair* Let me tell you about data caps, my American friends.
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A lawsuit brought by the world's largest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures, and handled on appeal (as are all patent cases), by the notoriously awful Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) may have actually killed off software patents. A different report on a story that includes a copy of the appeal.
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A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Marissa Mayer of leading a campaign to purge male employees.
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Indian police have arrested 70 people and are questioning hundreds more after uncovering a massive scam to cheat thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars by posing as U.S. tax authorities and demanding unpaid taxes, a police officer said Thursday. The scam brought in more than $150,000 a day
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Bob Jung's team spent six years working with designers at Monotype to banish tofu from Google’s devices with a cohesive, pan-language set of fonts called Noto (short for “no more tofu”) !
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No Klingon? Are you kidding me?
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In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface. The young man was Johann Georg Locher, and his book was Mathematical Disquisitions Concerning Astronomical Controversies and Novelties. And while Locher heaped praise upon Galileo, he challenged ideas that Galileo championed – on scientific grounds. Science’s history matters.
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Locher opposed Galileo based on his own scientific view and research, but those are declared his work 'heretical' came from the inquisition...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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... nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
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I suspect he cares not.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Two students at Carnegie Mellon University have designed an artificial intelligence program that is capable of beating human players in a deathmatch game of 1993's Doom. Oh yea? Which humans?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Which humans?
Yeah, they haven't played against me! 
Marc
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Bring it on!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I foresee a distant future where wars are fought on a chess-board by the two opposing AI players.
World-wars would be a bit more complicated though. How about Cluedo?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. Don't worry, some of the team are joining Stripe.
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We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business.
Oh, how the tiny fall.
Marc
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Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010. "Siri, are you going to be obsolete?" Siri: I don’t know, but maybe we should put paper bags over our heads or something.
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“Statcheck” is a program that automatically detects errors in psychology papers. Statcheck made the results of 50,000 papers public. Was that wrong?
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