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Means a lot to accountants - got to know your audience 
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"Solaris 11.next" projected to arrive in late 2018, is last version through 2021. Insert "Sun setting" joke here
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Last week, the project announced that it is fully C++17 compatible. All planned C++17 features will be supported in GCC 7. Some of those features are even supported in older versions of the compiler collection. "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
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Gemalto has just issued a report which clearly shows how lenient we are when it comes to protecting our private data on the Internet. In short, we are very quick to give companies our personal data, we want them to safeguard it, but we’re pretty certain they’re doing a terrible job at it. Aaaaaaand there's your problem
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Yes, but I only give my data to big companies like Yahoo! 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we are very quick to give companies our personal data
Who is this "we" whereof he speaketh?
I'm certainly included out of it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't worry, Kent is giving them your data.
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Ha!
[Real name unknown] lives in the Netherlands but is English, is not a web developer, and talks bollocks in the Lounge.
That's about as much as they'll get.
It ain't paranoia, it's just common sense to take into account that if it you make it possible for strangers to abuse your trust, some of them will.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts. "Thus every poet in his kind Is bit by him that comes behind."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Thus every poet in his kind Is bit in the behind by him that comes behind."
A "bit" more accurate... 
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Jonathan Swift said it thus:Quote: The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
"On Poetry: a Rhapsody" (1733)
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Jonathan Swift wrote: The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet in his kind
Is bit by him that comes behind.
On Poetry: A Rhapsody (1733)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Until the AI suddenly prints "screw you" and goes to a virtual beach, it's not AI.
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Microsoft is about to take the next step with its "One Windows" vision by introducing an improved, adaptable Windows Shell that'll work across PC, Mobile and Xbox. Because that whole, "Everything works like a tablet/phone" worked out so well the first time
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The researchers studied how we learn what to pay attention to in order to learn more effectively—that is, to make the most of life experiences—assuming that in real-life situations most of what is going on is irrelevant and shouldn't be learn about. Music lyrics, old quotes, and Monty Python sketches in my brain it seems
modified 18-Jan-17 15:19pm.
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A Dutch developer illegally accessed the accounts of over 20,000 users after he allegedly collected their login information via backdoors installed on websites he built. Where did I leave that article on ethics for developers again?
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So, is he in deep Dutch now?
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Obviously not in his office 
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I think it's in the folder next to the one with the spreadsheet of all our personal info  
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"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."
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The CIA has put almost 12 million pages of its records online, allowing anyone with an internet connection to browse 50 years worth of declassified intelligence reports, briefings, and other once-secret documents. Feed all your conspiracy theories at once!
Fidel Castro faked the moon landing at the behest of alien telepaths and the Bat Baby!
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Fabric, Twitter's developer platform, now belongs to Google. All 140 characters of it?
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Take care when deciding whether to adopt new languages onto the team. Yes, they can open new doors, but they can also lead to havoc and a lack of stability in your app. I know I always get confused after typing File > New
Maybe I'll just do the next one in Lisp.
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Nowadays, "creativity" is synonymous to an unthinking plunge into something new and shiny and see if your demo of an HTTP server in afformentioned glitz gets attention on GitHub.
Used to be that "creativity" was associated with discipline, well thought out planning, and deep understanding.
Marc
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