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I remember the moment when code began to interest me. It was the tail end of 2013 and a cult was forming around a mysterious “crypto-currency” called bitcoin in the excitable tech quarters of London, New York and San Francisco. Is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship?
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The author speaking of his experience starting to learn Python:Quote: I instantly appreciate the concision of Van Rossum’s layout, which, like written prose and many other programming languages, uses indentation to delineate blocks of code rather than littering the screen with symbols (such as arrays of brackets and braces) to achieve the same result.
"man ,/Drest in a little brief authority,/plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven/As make the angels weep." Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Because of GitHub’s roots in the developer community — and the increasing centrality of developers in general — understanding GitHub’s trajectory may actually provide a glimpse of what the future of work holds for businesses everywhere. Looks into the cup at the tea leaves.
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Quote: Chinese companies already claim several superlatives in 21st century technology, including the largest maker of phone equipment and the dominant platform for online shopping, as well as electronic payments. But the core components of all these companies are made by either Intel or Qualcomm, and the operating systems at the heart of their applications are by Google’s Android unit in smartphones, or Microsoft for computers.
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«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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One of the big advantages that Microsoft has been promoting for its Edge browser is that it's more battery efficient than both Chrome and Firefox. Once Edge had a big advantage over competing browsers. It doesn't any more.
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Elon Musk’s idea of creating a credibility rating site for journalists and media outlets seems wacky on the face of it. Maybe one day it will pick the Insider News for me ...
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You should create an automated RSS feed into this forum using a handful (3-5) of tech news sites (trusted tech news aggregates, etc.) that way you guys are NOT manually picking articles. I am assuming you are manually picking articles here - I could be wrong.
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One of the ongoing system administration controversies in Linux is that there is an ongoing effort to obsolete the old, cross-Unix standard network administration and diagnosis commands of ifconfig, netstat and the like and replace them with fresh new Linux specific things like ss and the ip suite And the old sysadmin grumbles.
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Now Intel has finally announced that they are shipping their Xeon 6138P Gold with integrated FPGA accelerator to selected customers. According to Intel, the integrated processor Xeon delivers a 3.2x throughput improvement at half the latency compared to an FPGA-less Xeon device.
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The jury goes halfway between what Samsung and Apple want. Samsung isn't happy one bit.
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May 25th marks the first day of enforcement for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, otherwise known as GDPR, a set of rules that could fundamentally flip the relationship between massive tech companies that gather data, and the users they gather it from. GDPR gives companies a new set of rules for sharing data online
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Valve’s game streaming service Steam Link won’t be coming to iOS today, despite a successful Android beta launch earlier this month. Some air quotes you have to read with a larger degree of sarcasm.
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Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect. The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among those saying they were currently unavailable in most European countries.
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Well, the prez says there all fake news, so it's all good. Now if they could block Facebook too, that would be great.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
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The difficulty is that machine learning is a fundamentally hard debugging problem. What is this 'debugging' you speak of?
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Maybe "machine learning" be called "machine simulation" more appropriate for this field of study. This is because learning implies gaining knowledge about the subject which is not what the said study is about. It is about, imho, fitting of phenomenon (data outcomes) within a limited range of experiences (data coverage). Sometimes "successful" models for available data could be changed dramatically as more data is acquired, if the modeling is sufficiently far from the "truth". It could be stablized only if a tuth reflecting model is found, which is even harder ...
Some of us who had struggled in area of physical sciences know what it's like ...
Perhaps someone should invent an AI system to do machine learning for humen 
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Since most programmers only want to write code, and don’t care about what problem they are solving, you need to learn to effectively micromanage them. Bingo! (my card is full)
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And yet I've got a bunch here that I just set free and they all get the job done extremely well. I can't stand micro-management as it is really fear-incompetence-immature management.
You don;t hire a grand master and tell them what moves to make!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: You don;t hire a grand master and tell them what moves to make!
That is SO true.
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The best manager I ever had basically told us "you guys know way more about this stuff than I do so just do it the best way you know and let me know how you did it later." We were the most productive team in the company and with the fewest errors and always made the deadlines! Happy memories of long ago, sigh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bingo! (my card is full)
On your second card is:
- Enforce a strict 8 hour day even for your salaried employees.
- Have a "no work at home" policy but everyone has to share in taking "on-call" calls from home on evenings and weekends
- Give the developers 5 year old technology and tools to use.
- Developers have to come begging for work that is doled out in dribbles, leaving 50%+ chair warming time (see #1)
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Micromanaging is only possible if you have the same or more knowledge of the subjectmatter than the employee.
Come micromanage me 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I really hope this article is a spoof.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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