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Spiegel is reporting that it has seen "top secret NSA documents" that detail the NSA's ability to gather information from most smartphones, including iPhones, Android, and and BlackBerry phones. How to keep things secret. Rule 1: never talk with anyone.
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Do programs exist in order to tell computers what to do, or do computers exist in order to execute programs? "Crazy? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?"
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Wow what have they been smoking ?
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That sounds like a great topic to debate in the 1970's. Our current decade is dedicated to the holy wars over different web frameworks.
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Twitter is great for real-time news and updates, but searching through your history for tweets on a specific topic — that's much less efficient, even with hashtags. With more than 450 million tweets created every day, finding one from, say, 2007 may be harder (and more painful) than finding a piece of hay in a stack of needles. Find all those important milestones: What did I have for lunch on July 23, 2010?
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CoffeeScript has made the landscape of JavaScript development so much more interesting. There is no doubt that CoffeeScript has emerged. Rails and any other framework worth its salt ships with support for it. This of course assumes it has a present
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It's hoping to dismiss the class-action suit over privacy Peeking isn't evil
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Lowest ethical bar POSSIBLE. "Don't be evil."
And they screwed THAT up.
away with them.
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Apple has been a modern marvel. Starting with the revolutionary iPod, the company’s former chief executive officer Steve Jobs spearheaded an attack on the established order in consumer electronic devices. And this was an industry ripe for disruption. When the state of the art is the Sony Walkman, you know there’s real opportunity to change the game. Oh wait, this article is the one
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BBC: We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.
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Whaaaaa? Auntie keeps stuff away from you lot (who pay for it)? I've gotten used to seeing those kind of blocks in Canada, but I never expected they'd block their own. Sorry about that.
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TTFN - Kent
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But of course - those of use who fund the BBC through the licence fee shouldn't be able to see other content from the BBC which the rest of the world can see for free.
Thankfully, there are easy ways around the block[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Someone who says Apple has ripped him off by not giving him enough episodes of “Breaking Bad” has filed a putative class action suit against the company. Bad was broken
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Not long ago I received an E-mail from an energetic and talented developer who was tackling an ambitious software project. He asked if I had any advice to pass along. Maybe if you make it purple next time?
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Bruce Schneier thinks we (engineers) should re-engineer the Internet to make it harder for governments to conduct surveillance. This is just silly. If we aren't willing to re-engineer it to stop criminals we sure won't do so to stop governments. "Dream until your dream comes through"
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As heard on Going Native 2013 yesterday.
ISOCPP[^]
The first piece of code acquired by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – "Planetary", written in C++.
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Planetary is an iPad application written in C++ using the Cinder framework. Planetary offers an alternative music player application for the iPad that visualizes your music collection as a series of celestial bodies. Songs are moons, albums are planets, artists are suns—and the orbits of each are determined by the length of albums and tracks. Their brightness represents their frequency of playback.
Kudos for C++
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is your extensive IT experience and your age making it harder to find a new positions? Learn how to limit the effects of age discrimination and land that interview. You have to do something so you can afford that mid-life crisis
I kid because I love. If you're "older" and looking for work: good luck. There is stuff out there. Honest.
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Yeh right.
speramus in juniperus
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A new poker machine has such smart artificial intelligence that players are hooked even though the house always wins. This is why we can't have nice stuff.
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A computer program has the best poker face and reveals no tells
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If you listen for the faint clicking of the hard drive as it laughs at you, you can beat them. Every time!
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"The only winning move is to play against stupid humans"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft's pivot to a devices and services company sounds cool, but what about enterprises who want no part of that vision? "Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone..."
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Windows powers countless markets from flower shops and burger joints to hi rise hotels and beyond.
They are abandoning the entire world that had little choice in business than to use windows and before that, DOS because there were no other players.
Now they are walking away.
Great.
National Cash Register to re-rise.
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And I'm sure if you counted up all those computers, it easily dwarfs "the enterprise" numbers. But those people can't buttonhole an executive in Building 33 and don't pay to have Microsoft enterprise advisor consultants on site.
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TTFN - Kent
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