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Absolutely, although I don't believe he was responsible for that one.
"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 eulogy will start as soon as we get the volume and treble controls in exactly the right place...
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Sad to hear of his passing. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX80. Still have it. Have not fired it up in decades.
Dad bought it from a CES in Chicago when it was still here. $99
IIRC 1K RAM with optional 4K module. BASIC lang. TV used as monitor. Cassette tape storage. Learned to program on it. Good memories except for having to turn the cassette player upside down every once in a while.
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Lasers and eyes generally don’t mix. But super thin and flexible laser stickers created by a team of scientists might eventually stick to your contact lenses and act as a security tag. Call Dr. Evil. I think we have something for him.
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“Null is evil.” If you’ve been a software developer for any reasonable length of time, I bet you’ve come across that statement several times. This blurb intentionally left blank
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The first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago.
The first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth. Zero reached western Europe in the 12th century.
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So, we've had 0 for maybe a few thousand years to represent "nothing." And there was quite a bit of kicking and screaming about it, including theological arguments. A good read: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
Now we have, what, a couple dozen years of experience with null? I say we bring on the theological arguments again -- null cannot exist because it would mean god is not omnipresent, and therefore not god! 
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Null exists but is undefined. We’ll call it the god value. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: A good read: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
Plus the author is famous enough to have the "selfie" named after him, although they mispelled his name on that!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The FTC says that if companies don't change their warranty practices, it may take 'legal action.' Does this mean they'll visit everyone to pull their stickers off?
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Now if only the FTC can do something about those mattress tags!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I guess I'm in big trouble. I threw out my son's old Nintendo. So Instead of illegally removing the sticker, I removed the whole apparatus. Thhat's probably double bad. I wonder if I'll get any visitors and whether I'll be in jail or in a loony bin?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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A small but unspecified number of GitHub staff could have seen plaintext passwords. You did say, "open source", didn't you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A small but unspecified number of GitHub staff could have seen plaintext passwords.
So everyone including the janitor.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Blockchain development is now the hottest skill in the freelance job market, growing more than 6,000% since this time last year and putting it on pace to be the new “cloud” of the 21st Century, according to a new report. Because you want to be trendy, don't you?
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It takes some doing to extract sound from an 1885 wax disc I hope Watson hears this. It sounded urgent.
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One example involved focusing a beam of light, projected through a liquid, onto a prepared photographic glass plate, which was described in U.S. Patent 341,213.
Dang, he invented the CD in the 1880's!
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For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source code? Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Urgentz! My computer says I must be an idiot because my source code is such garbage! Plz Helps!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Done I have popcorn!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No, nothing can make sense of some of the Q's in Q&A
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As great as that is, Microsoft recently explained that the update also removes some experiences in Windows 10, so here’s what you need to know before you consider installing it on your PC. Bad(ish) news for fans of the XPS viewer
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Quote: Other notable features removed from Windows 10 can be seen below, complete with suggestions on alternatives:
People – Suggestions will no longer include unsaved contacts for non-Microsoft accounts: You can instead manually save the contact details for people you send mail to or get mail from.
Language control in the Control Panel: You can instead use the Settings app to change your language settings.
They removed people from their operating system? The biggest one for me was language control. Now I have to go back to the swear jar and my piggy bank is running on an empty stomach the way it is.
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Here’s what you need to know about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018 Just in case you're wondering why every site has changed its privacy policy lately
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Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. You want us to install byte switches again?
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Where do all these people you reference buy their straw men? (Or is that straw people?)
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