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Yes, recursive acronym's have a very good heritage, all the way back (at least) to Hofstadter.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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raddevus wrote: Where's the 'O' come from?
It's there to woo twits. 
"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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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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As I posted on WTDWTF:
E_WTF_OVERFLOW
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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raddevus wrote: Called OWL, for OWL Web Language*, the language features a JavaScript-like syntax and compiles to PHP.
Thanks man. That sentence caused me physical pain, and I could have gone my whole life without reading it.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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In the spirit of maintaining a high security bar in Windows, we’re launching the Windows Bounty Program on July 26, 2017. This will include all features of the Windows Insider Preview in addition to focus areas in Hyper-V, Mitigation bypass, Windows Defender Application Guard, and Microsoft Edge. "I'm wanted (wanted), dead or alive"
I so hate myself right about now.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I so hate myself right about now.
The first step is admitting you have a problem. 
"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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You're not alone 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The tech giant and a leading US fusion company develop a new computer algorithm that significantly speeds up progress towards clean, limitless energy How else will they power all their servers in the future?
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The flaws could allow a hacking victim to strike back, and perhaps learn who else the attacker is targeting, or clues on who exactly the hackers are. Aren't they worried about hackers?
It's like there aren't any true craftsmen anymore. 
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The Transportation Security Administration, the only line of defense between us and an influx of Satanic fidget spinners, just announced new airport screening policies that are designed to make your life a living hell. I guess I'll have to cancel that flight with my TV now
Good thing they don't charge for those bins (yet)
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Quote: The TSA will now require “all electronics larger than a cell phone” to be removed from carry-on bags and placed in their own separate bin for X-ray screening with nothing on top or below, similar to how laptops have been screened for years.
Hmmm. Don't see the big deal.
#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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/shrug. We're just the news, we don't judge.
Mind you, I used to know a guy that had to travel with multiple laptops and devices (around a dozen or so) for presentations. Sucks to be him now.
TTFN - Kent
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Just commenting on the article.Kent Sharkey wrote: Sucks to be him now.
Forsooth.
#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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How could Microsoft’s Windows Phone licensing business model stand a chance against Google’s free and open Android? None of the Redmond giant’s complicated countermeasures worked—its smartphone platform is dead. And yet, inexplicably, Microsoft failed to use a very simple move, one we’ll explore today. "Hindsight is always 20/20"
How anyone looks from their hind is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How anyone looks from their hind is left as an exercise for the reader.
Speaking from it seems to be pretty easy though.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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http://yedlin.net/ResDemo/#[^]
This is a video demo in 2 parts (10 and 66min) comparing a half dozen cameras ranging from 3-6 megapixel digital models and 35 and 69mm (iMax) film. It demonstrates that more megapixels have stopped mattering (unlike the SD to HD transition) for perceived quality; and that other camera implementation details, sensor noise, levels of compression, and post-processing dominate the outcome.
Part 1's a number of scenes shot with each of the test cameras to demonstrate that at the macro level they all look the same. Part 2 is zooming in to show where and how the sources actually differ and that the megapixel count isn't an indicator of which are better under any given circumstance.
I've watched the first and half of the second before work and will finish this evening; it's definitely an eye opening demo for anyone who things that more is always better.
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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Is the video in high enough quality to display those differences? And do you have enough resolution on your monitor to see such differences? In my case, the limiting factor is my screen and (if I'm streaming it) the internet connection
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Part 1 is encoded at 4k and I watched at 2.5k. Part 2 is 1080p and shows zooms at a minimum of 1:1 pixel scaling (and frequently significantly higher) so that your displays resolution shouldn't be the limiting factor.
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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Fascinating, Dan; thanks !
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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USB-C has long been touted as the universal standard that will save us all, a single port that can charge your phone, your laptop, your tablet, your Bluetooth speaker, and even your Nintendo console, all through a single common port. "And now you have 15 standards"
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in 3.3, it'll have lambdas.
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Software developers have almost no interest in creating applications for wearables or smart TVs, but they're keen on web and hybrid apps, so much so that native-only developers are dwindling. Code for five people, or five billion? Oh, decisions, decisions.
How to get a dev interested in your platform:
step 0 - Show how they can make money writing for it.
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Maybe I'm naive, and I'm definitely not interested in the niche market of mobile games, but in my very small work with things like Bootstrap, I have no reason to write a native app. And while I appreciate native apps like Slack, I never use them -- Slack, because who the heck wants to type on a tiny virtual keyboard. Video calls on a phone? Nope, again not interested, again because of the UX.
That said, I write my web apps so that they look decent on mobile devices -- still learning the nuances of that! My latest work displays very nicely the status messages of 60+ SBC's: alarms, motion, door access, comm issues, etc., and it blows my mind what that "media" css stuff can do -- I can fit my the status graphs on a desktop screen and mobile devices in both portrait and landscape mode, and the display updates are near realtime.
Native apps? Meh. I'll leave that to the WSOP, WWF, chess and Backgammon devs.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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So what you're really saying here is :
Marc Clifton says: I love JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks!!!
It's okay, <whisper> I like JavaScript too.</whisper> 
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