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imho, a remarkable, satisfyingly deep, journalistic essay anchored by the technical biography of polymath Mark Sagar.
"Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano" [^].Quote: BabyX isn’t just an intimate picture; she’s more like a live circuit board. Virtual hits of serotonin, oxytocin, and other chemicals can be pumped into the simulation, activating virtual neuroreceptors. You can watch in real time as BabyX’s virtual brain releases virtual dopamine, lighting up certain regions and producing a smile on her facial layer. All the parts work together through an operating system called Brain Language, which Sagar and his team invented.
Quote: With a click of his mouse, Sagar stripped away BabyX’s skin, leaving a floating pair of eyes—bloody veins and all—attached to a finely detailed brain with a brain stem running down the back. This version of BabyX could still see out into the world and interact with us. When we showed her words, the part of the brain that deals with language glowed purple. When we praised her, the pleasure center lit up yellow. “Researchers have built lots of computational models of cognition and pieces of this, but no one has stuck them together,” he said. “This is what we’re trying to do: wire them together and put them in an animated body. We are trying to make a central nervous system for human computing.”
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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If you are a WinForms developer and use Visual Studio on a high DPI system, you will be surprised how Visual Studio messes up all your WinForms in the designer. Bonus item so Chris can find the fix next time he needs it
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Also see this Sept. 3rd. post: [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Yeah, Chris couldn't find that one. 
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: you will be surprised how Visual Studio messes up all your WinForms in the designer.
no, such a thing would never surprise me.
they haven't had a good designer since VC6
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Security firm Symantec has warned that hackers, and state-sponsored at that, have managed to penetrate multiple operational networks of both US and EU energy companies. "Blackness, blackness draggin' me down"
Your choice of version, but I do think Nazareth nailed it.
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I’m pleased to report that the last major ballot was completed: A few hours ago, the C++17 DIS (Draft International Standard) ballot came back with 100% approval, 23 editorial comments, and no technical comments. Insert your choice of "Why isn't my feature in there?" or "Why doesn't my compiler support it yet?" here.
Or even both, if you're cranky.
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Still no concepts or modules yet, and Visual C++ still lags in support.
Does that fit the bill?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No concepts? I assumed they would be in, considering Sutter's efforts since way back.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sadly no - kicked out the long grass of C++ 20.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Only being in 3rd place out of 12 is so brutal. 
C++ compiler support - cppreference.com[^]
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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Yes, but with the exception of Intel's compiler, almost no-one uses any of the other C++ compilers listed. GCC and CLang are by far the widest used.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In order to better support external contributors to our open source projects, such as Kubernetes, AMP, or Dart, and to allow for more consistency across developer documentation, we're now making that style guide public. Google has documentation?
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Social Security numbers and other information has been compromised, the company says. How did they get anywhere on the Equifax site without having to enter a credit card number?
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I smell a massive lawsuit... and I'll be joining in!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How did they get anywhere on the Equifax site without having to enter a credit card number?
I'll give you a hint, they didn't use their CC number. 
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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On the morning of 6 September the sun let out two pretty sizeable burps of radiation. That would explain why I'm lost
Apparently you can just walk into Mordor
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apparently you can just walk into Mordor
It's a 45 minute commute for me. 
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Need inspiration? Happy background music can help get the creative juices flowing. So, that Industrial is happy, isn't it?
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Pfft, The Smiths, since the beginning.
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He said happy. Morrissey could sing happy birthday, and it would sound like he wanted to kill himself. 
Great choice though!
TTFN - Kent
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As the programming language field gets more crowded and developers use more languages in their code, Python and C# suffer from inherent limits. "Confusion - it's such a terrible shame"
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Not that bad an article, at least the writer relativates the "popularity" polls by comparing two different ones. Also he rightly mentiones GO as a promising language.
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I dislike Java but understand why it's in the top 10 and even #1 to some extent. The real shocker to me was that Perl was on that list considering how much vitriol is directed at it 
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Meh, it uses TIOBE index as a measure of popularity.
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