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Competitive places where people "cooperate with each other"? 
Competition is the "other thing".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent arguably miss-titled his post; the article concerned competitive industries. In short, it found that meritocracies tend to lead to respect among competitors.
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The bug, which is thought to impact "all supported Windows version[s], including server editions," is unpatched at the time of writing. Well it is the database engine for Access
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Suddenly, we’re looking at voice-first everything — including the voice-first workplace. "Talking, talking. It doesn't matter what the people all around you say. Talking, talking It doesn't matter What the people All around you say. "
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Quote: Companies are focusing now on consumer smart speakers because the business models require harvesting personal data for the purpose of improving personalized advertising and Amazon buying recommendations.
Once again proving that my NSA Test is a valid mechanism for determining if a new piece of tech should be allowed into my life or smashed with a hammer without ever being powered on. It's a very simple test too that anyone can do.
1) Summarize the tech in a simple sentence. "Always on internet connected microphone."
2) Would the above cause a professional privacy violator to celebrate with unholy glee? "![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) yes!"
3) If the answer to 2 is positive, the tech fails and should be destroyed.
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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I couldn't agree more. 
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In research recently published in Science Advances, the group reports on a method for spraying invisibly thin antennas, made from a type of two-dimensional, metallic material called MXene, that perform as well as those being used in mobile devices, wireless routers and portable transducers. Can I make it look like bunny ears?
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To quote Homer Simpson: Think unsexy thoughts. Think unsexy thoughts.
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This article is on how I could write a 3D engine using only excel formula "The answer to ANY problem is an Excel spreadsheet"
Yes, not new (it's from February), but it was new to me, and didn't look like it had been posted before.
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 Quote: In a business environment, using formula rather than macro is :
Faster to write for anyone but professional analyst programmer
Easier to maintain for anyone but professional analyst programmer. (while macro are mostly unusable once the initial developer is gone)</blockquote>
Gotta disagree here. Once you go beyond simple calculations into Things Which Should Not Be Done in Excel, macro's are much less opaque than formulas. At a previous job I needed to implement run length encoding in a spreadsheet to generate an output. (For anyone unfamiliar, RLE would turn a sequence like 0001011 into 3 zeros, 1 one, 1 zero, 2 ones,) The reasons for doing it in a spreadsheet and as formulas not VBA amounted to the above quoted. (Why this was needed doesn't matter at all other than legacy system with a limited input format.) In code this would be really simple to do and could be heavily documented via comments to the point that anyone with a quasi-engineering/engineering background (the other people who'd be seeing my work) could follow along. Excel formula's don't allow any sort of inline commenting, and the result was so opaque that even a week later I needed to refer back to the assorted StackOverflow questions I used to generate it in the first place to have any idea what it did because while the formulas worked they were the most cryptic unreadable crap I'd ever coded. 
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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New research shows digital content platforms can increase traffic to their websites from social media and boost digital ad profits by at least 8 percent, simply by aligning their posting schedules with target audiences' sleep-wake cycles. Don't show me adverts until I've had my third coffee
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Optical illusions can be fun to experience and debate, but understanding how human brains perceive these different phenomena remains an active area of scientific research. There's a 50% chance the dress is blue
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Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? "That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over!"
But it's actually got a "happy" ending. OK, maybe just hopeful.
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"Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 — and one part will be led by China" CNBC [^] Quote: "I think the most likely scenario now is not a splintering, but rather a bifurcation into a Chinese-led internet and a non-Chinese internet led by America.
If you look at China, and I was just there, the scale of the companies that are being built, the services being built, the wealth that is being created is phenomenal. Chinese Internet is a greater percentage of the GDP of China, which is a big number, than the same percentage of the US, which is also a big number.
If you think of China as like 'Oh yeah, they're good with the Internet,' you're missing the point. Globalization means that they get to play too. I think you're going to see fantastic leadership in products and services from China. There's a real danger that along with those products and services comes a different leadership regime from government, with censorship, controls, etc.
Look at the way BRI works – their Belt and Road Initiative, which involves 60-ish countries – it's perfectly possible those countries will begin to take on the infrastructure that China has with some loss of freedom."
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 20-Sep-18 22:44pm.
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The saddest part is... I don't really see the answer to: What is worst?
Some loss of freedom?
or
The delusion of freedom, in which you are actually the product and not the customer?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hi Brother Nelek,
I focus on what I believe is "best:" the illusion of the gift of this life, in this human form, in a world of illusions 
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Starting with Windows 10 October 2018 Update and Windows Server 2019, .NET Framework fixes will be delivered through a Cumulative Update for .NET Framework. An update on updates
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A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year. Not "My Cloud", but "Everyone's Cloud"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year.
Did they even try it? Or is it an english peculiarity that "failing" implies not doing anything too?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Internet of Sh*t (@internetofshit) | Twitter
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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For integer g≥5, we prove that any positive integer can be written as a sum of three palindromes in base g. "Never odd or even"
OK, not earth-shattering, but it's Friday (at least when the newsletter itself goes out)
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Instead of coming home to a new (partially damaged) Amazon box of goodies as some people eagerly look forward to, Steve Teixeira the GM for the Windows dev ecosystem at Microsoft came home and became the development lead of Windows apps such as Notepad and Calculator. That can't be a great career sign
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Researchers in UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have given the first demonstration of crowd counting through walls using only everyday communication signals such as WiFi. At the very least, you can count all the people wandering around trying to find a WiFi signal
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Cloud Source Repositories is powered by the same underlying code search infrastructure that Google engineers perform their code searches on every day. You get super fast results and save a lot of time finding that piece of code that you know you’ve seen before. They're going to index it anyway, might as well give it up voluntarily
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