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I never tried it. I never saw a reason to line the pockets of Apple executives when YouTube has everything I'll ever need.
modified 29-Apr-16 0:17am.
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I always thought Apple was awful, but iTunes is, by far, the worst piece of crap software I've ever dealt with...
I remember that time I just installed iTunes, just to try it out. First thing it did was sync my (full 160GB) iPod with my (still empty) iTunes library (didn't even ask if I wanted that!)
Winamp is still my music player of choice
For streaming I use Spotify.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Winamp is still my music player of choice
(Unfortunately, the web site has been saying "There's More Coming Soon" for quite a while now. Too bad the owners don't spin it off as open source.)
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Yeah, I was sad to see it go, but when the site was updated with "More Coming Soon" I was excited!
Too bad "Soon" turned out to be somewhere between now and infinity
You can still download the latest stable version though (5.666).
I think it was somehow optimized for playing Iron Maiden!
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In this year's "Founder's Letter", Sundar Pichai puts down his six areas of focus for the famously unfocused company. Is the AI going to have to watch commercials before taking over the world?
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GCC 6.1 defaults to the C++ 14 standard and enhances experimental support for C++ 17 It's C++, ++!
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Quote: GCC has front ends and libraries for languages, including C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go. I don't understand, why the introduction comes at the end of the post.
Besides, ++C++ would have been better.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The nostalgia for periodic big upgrades every five to 10 years is seriously misplaced, and it's not good for users or IT. Speak for yourself
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OpenAI is releasing tools you can run locally to test out algorithms in various “environments” — including Atari games like Air Raid, Breakout, and Ms. Pacman — and a Web service for sharing test results. The system automatically scores evaluations and also seeks to have results reviewed and reproduced by other people. It's not enough they beat us at chess and go, now they want to take away Ms. Pacman?
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Grady Booch, co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. "You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back."
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Open source’s march toward preeminence in business software continued over the past year, according to a survey released today by open source management provider Black Duck Software and venture capital firm North Bridge. Shocking data from an open source company. You won't believe the results!
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Microsoft is buying 10 million strands of long oligonucleotides — laboratory-made molecules of DNA — from San Francisco startup Twist Bioscience, the companies announced today. Look out! They've cloned Clippy!
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I'd hate to be the shipping/receiving people, "one, two, three...., nine million nine hundred nintey nine thousand nine hundred ninety five, hey! they shorted us 5 molecules!"
"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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BusinessInsider wrote: long oligonucleotides
They'd have to be long, that word (oligonucleotides) has SEVEN SYLLABLES!
It ought'a be illegal!!!
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I think that's worth a haiku:
oligonucleotides
that are all twisted
leave me limp wristed
«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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Quote: Unlike hard drives, Blu-Ray discs, or pretty much any current storage technology, DNA stays intact and readable for as long as 1,000 to 10,000 years. What a bullshit! Scientist struggle hard when they try to sequence ancient DNA: it is fragmented into many small pieces. Instead of 23 chunks of DNA with an average length of some 100 million bp for the human genome, you'll have to cope with tens of millions of fragments of 50 bp...
That's long-term storage technology, yeah.
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: What a bullsh*t! As long as it sounds credible to the guy that decides over funding..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It may seem obvious but Microsoft is planning to release the Anniversary update for Windows 10 in late July. Just in time for a summer vacation
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Elon Musk's company finally reveals the first details of its Mars architecture. "There they go, off to Mars, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future."
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Bradbury wrote: What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission has quietly stepped up its investigation into Android, over fears that Google is exploiting its position in the smartphone market. Remember when every government was after Microsoft? Yeah, good times.
Remember when Microsoft said they'd stop siccing governments after Google? Yeah, good times.
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Personally, I feel there should be some new regulations relating to protecting customer data, and ensuring that data is accessible to the customer, such that it can be transferred between vendors.
It is vendor lock-in that I hate passionately. Apple are probably the worst at this, but have a small market share so escape considerations as they are not a monopoly.
"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 Xamarin Evolve this morning, .NET Foundation Director Miguel de Icaza officially open sourced the Xamarin SDKs for Android, iOS, and Mac and contributed them to the .NET Foundation under the MIT license. Developers, developers, etc?
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Researchers have fired a wireless signal through slabs of pork and beef at speeds fast enough to transmit high-definition video. "This work was supported in part by the department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, under grants ONR MURI N00014-07-1-0738 and ONR N00014-07-1-0311."
Not sure if they also used a proxy to watch the US-only content.
Also not sure if watching House of Cards through pork is kosher.
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