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Wow. OK, so this little snots are going to try and equate "practicing engineering" with sending an email. OK.
They need to be sued into the next century.
I almost wish this happened to me. I would make an example of these idiots.
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So, technically, if I stack my dishes in the dishwasher, in Oregon, I'm committing a crime if I don't have a certificate attesting that I'm a "professional engineer".
Really, almost anything can be considered "engineering". The hell with suing, take this to the supreme court.
Funny thing is, I was just listening to a stand-up comedian this morning just tearing up Portland for being such idiots. I've never been to Oregon, and I guess I never will now.
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Google says it will stop supporting Portable Native Client in the first quarter of 2018, with some exceptions, because WebAssembly has become more popular. "Google cancels product" is the new "dog bites man"
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WASM is a game changer. Can't wait for mainstream support of it.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'd say Chrome and Firefox are fairly mainstream browsers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mainstream platforms supporting it are here, but the tool chains to let you work in a wide variety of sane languages and build to web-asm aren't. And until webasm is available in all major browsers (probably never for IE11); any production level toolchain also needs to be able to compile into javascript as well. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Touché 
I was thinking more along the lines of IE/Edge. It's always slow to catch up.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm actually more concerned about Safari. That seems to have adopted IE6's old position of failing to implement many Web standards (notably relating to Touch/Mouse) preferring to stay with whatever Apple have implemented.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Here’s a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. This year’s report includes 355 slides and tons of information, including a new section on healthcare that Meeker didn’t present live. Spoiler alert: there will be an internet in 2017
"Companies are increasingly worried about getting locked in with cloud vendors and not being able to switch to new providers." Huh.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Companies are increasingly worried about getting locked in with cloud vendors and not being able to switch to new providers." Huh.
The levels of stupidity are infinitely recursive... 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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;TMPPDR*
These are the key internet trends for 2017 (SPOILER ALERT - they are no different to those of last year, the year before that, the year before that ...)
TECHNOLOGY: Messy is getting messier.
COMMERCE: Invasive advertising is becoming even more invasive.
CONTENT: Dumb is somehow managing to become even dumber.
SOCIAL MEDIA: Widespread hate-mongering has become more hateful and more widespread.
SECURITY: Even more of your bases is belonging to Russia.
IOT: Evermore pointless devices are becoming attached to the internet just in case the Russians need some extra help.
*Too much Power Point - didn't read
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Quote: While internet growth is slowing globally, that’s not the case in India, the fastest growing large economy. The number of internet users in India grew more than 28 percent in 2016. That’s only 27 percent online penetration, which means there’s lots of room for internet usership to grow.
"Hello, I am calling from Microsoft security departments and am most concerned about viruses crashing your hard drive"
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The launch window for the Parker Solar Probe opens July 31, 2018. "I want to touch the sun but I don't need to fly"
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Are they going at night? 
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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I wonder how close they'll get.
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The fault for today’s failure with Windows Mobile can ultimately be laid at the feet of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, who failed to nurture their mobile OS when it needed it the most. That article's title could be ended at so many spots and still be accurate
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Still amazes me that in 2006, Microsoft owned 99% of the handheld space, yet did next to nothing with CE 6 for five years. Trying to deal with them was a nightmare.
Ironically, Windows 10 IoT core is pretty damn cool.
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It was the IE6 story all over again. They gobbled the entire market, declared victory, disbanded the development team, and then the leadership sat around with their thumbs up their *ahem* until the competition caught up and ate them for lunch.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Microsoft today announced the launch of Draft, a new open-source tool that helps developers streamline the processes of developing container-based applications that are meant to run on Kubernetes clusters. Draft? Because someone left the Windows open?
Has anyone seen my coat?
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Draft?
Because voluntary compliance didn't fly.
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Draft because people don't wanted bottled apps.
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Smartphones are already computers in our pockets, but Intel’s new Compute Card turns an actual PC into something you can take with you wherever you go. Does it come with a PCMCIA slot?
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Sort of cool, but an rPi or similar is a LOT cheaper, and pretty much the same bang for the buck, IMO.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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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And a nice qwerty keyboard. Maybe in a backpack.
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Didn't Handspring have this (phone) concept many years ago?
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