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Combined, the explosions of software and hardware will give developers everywhere the tools they need to easily solve computing problems once thought impossible in a way that's cheap and efficient enough for every car, toy, and appliance manufacturer to take advantage. Because you all want to be trendy, right?
Edit:
Sorry about that - when I read the article, and added it to the newsletter, it didn't have that "Subscribe to read" popup on it.
Message learned to not trust Business Insider in the future.
modified 26-Nov-18 12:56pm.
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Another one for the hosts file, I'm afraid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unfortunately, I can't view the article without paying them. Perhaps because I'm in Thailand, and not using a VPN at the moment ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I suspect it's a general paywalled site, no matter where you live. It looked like an interesting article too.
Could whoever sends out the news emails maybe double-check for paid sites please?
Days spent at sea are not deducted from one's alloted span - Phoenician proverb
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Hopefully one trend is releasing products which work.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
Message learned to not trust Business Insider in the future.
Or Microsoft executives.
Hey, Mr. CTO Scott, how about you pay attention to the sh*t your company is churning out instead of spewing it? (I'm only being partly sarcastic. Microsoft executives seem far more interested in pontificating that in paying attention to their own company.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry about that - when I read the article, and added it to the newsletter, it didn't have that "Subscribe to read" popup on it.
Message learned to not trust Business Insider in the future.
I wonder what triggers it, even with all of my crap blockers off I still don't have anything in the way of the article. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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In the paper On buildings that compute. A proposal published this week, they have made proposals to integrate computation in various parts of a building, from cement and bricks to paint. Bringing new meaning to server crash
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In ten years, they'll probably have a great, new idea, called "centralised computing", which would mean that they won't have to moronically install a complete computer in every brick.
Then, ten years later, they'll come up with the great, new idea of only incorporating these stripped-down computers -- let's call them "sensors", to save me from RSI) -- in a few bricks, which could be manufactured separately, even by companies that don't specialise in making house bricks (although why anyone should want anything other than a house-brick company to make computers, I don't know).
Then, ten years after that, they'll come up with the great, new idea to not put the sensors in house bricks at all, but instead let them look like sensors, so that people know what they're looking at.
At that point, it will finally dawn on them that they spent thirty years achieving absolutely nothing, so they will start looking for new great, new ideas, like incorporating phones into clothing[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. I hear pouring a glass of water really fast on them will help
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The benchmark tasks used to measure how Reinforcement Learning algorithms are performing—like Atari video games and simulation environments—don’t reflect the complexity of the natural world. Does this mean it also has to move out of it's parent's basement?
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So they have to get dumped by connected Olive Oyl dolls, who run off with connected Brutus dolls.
Problem solved, Where's my consultancy fee?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The US Postal Service says it’s fixed a security weakness on usps.com that let anyone see the personal account info of its users, including usernames and street addresses. Mailing in the security
But I guess it's now fixed, so everything is OK?
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I came across a terrifying hard copy of a database, recently, which contained a huge number -- gotta be in the millions -- of people's full names, addresses, and phone numbers.
There was also a secondary one, which did the same for all companies, even banks, hospitals, and insurance companies! That one was printed on yellow paper, for some reason.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The firms, known for their Chrome and Firefox web browsers, are heading a group that is devising a way for users to save changes they make using web apps. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
And those who deliverately ignore the past having both eyes fixed on $$$, don't give a crap if something repeats itself or not.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: So great care will have to be taken to limit how much damage a website can do, and make sure a user understands what they are giving a website access to
The irony being that this is from a website where I had to click "Accept" on a ubiquitous pop-up without even reading what the pop-up says.
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D lang is a high-level programming language designed for coders who use C and C++ extensively. It is defined as a general purpose systems and applications language. The philosophy that drives D is that It is intended for coders who want to complete their tasks quickly and efficiently. It's also a grade?
With apologies to Jamie Zawinski for the theft/paraphrasing.
I'd also wager a few more Very Banished languages are more underrated.
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Not a great article on D.
The criticisms of C++ in the article are not all strictly true - newer versions of C++ have already addressed many of them, either in the language itself or the standard library.
It also fails to mention the GC as a reason for people not switching to D. For the spaces C/C++ is typically used, this may be a blocker. It is possible to avoid in D, but in my experience it was hard to tell which library features were safe to use in the absence of GC - often requiring frustrating reworking.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I wanted to try D out, but they said I had to stand in the corner to use it.
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Rather bad article: a laundry-list of assertions that D is better at ... well ... most everything, but not one link to any content that might back-up the claims; it's just a gushing testimonial by a (evidently) true believer. I learned nothing about what D is.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Computer science boffins have demonstrated a side-channel attack technique that bypasses recently-introduced privacy defenses, and makes even the Tor browser subject to tracking. News site, news site, CP, news site, cat videos, email
There. I saved it some time.
Edit: fixed it.
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If someone will go to that much trouble to "do evil", but gain information that can only be used to target ads on the active tab, I say let the stupid fokkers get away with it.
It does highlight the point that dedicated laws are needed to govern what web-site designers are allowed to do and not do with code on their pages, though.
99% of web designers wouldn't dream of mistreating visitors that way, but we need a mechanism to punish the 1% of little sh1ts who would.
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This web app uses machine learning to analyze and repair your technical resume, allowing you to shine to recruiters at Google, Yahoo and Facebook. It just adds an extra 10 years experience to everything
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