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Machine learning is poised to change the nature of software development in fundamental ways, perhaps for the first time since the invention of FORTRAN and LISP. If I have seen further, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of an AI?
For those that noticed it was also in last week's Trending Tech newsletter: yes, but I thought it further, and felt needed a broader audience (even if it is long)
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So, if we repeat this often enough, it comes true!
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GitHub has updated its security alerts feature this week to support Python projects, after previously supporting JavaScript and Ruby. It warns you if you try to start a Python project?
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Add in machine learning and we can put a stop to all this python nonsense.
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Changing one line in an INI file noticeably upgrades the 2013 game's AI. That would ever happen with these blurbs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Changing one line letter in an INI file
FTFY
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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TypeScript 3.0, our next release of the type system, compiler, and language service, is fast-approaching The 'unknown' type? Sounds mysterious
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Guido van Rossum, the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Python, has had enough and is walking away from leading the popular open-source language. What part of 'Benevolent Dictator *For Life*' did he not read?
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Perhaps his tab key broke.
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No different than a lifetime warranty, that only lasts for the life of the object or until you get rid of it for something else.
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A hacker has gained access to a developer's npm account and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the poisoned package inside their projects. This would only be a problem if there were a centralized, shared location of commonly used packages that everyone trusts
Too wordy? Still trying for that bumper sticker certification
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Too wordy? Still trying for that bumper sticker certification
Poisoned Pez Pilfers Peoples Personals!
(Now too superfluous.)
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Microsoft Teams (free) is intended for use by organizations, such as small businesses or groups of coworkers and is limited to up to 300 users and features In case you're a little short on chat programs this week
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For the first time, we have an optical signal to match a cosmic neutrino. We need to respond. This is a job for Spaaaaaccce Fooooorrrrrrcccce!
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Are you referring to the song by Muse - Super Massive Black Hole 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Who doesn’t love the smell of performance reviews in the morning? A smell welcomed by employees and managers alike with joy and delight. An efficient ritual that is fair and definitely motivates everyone to improve. A ritual that no one doubts is worth the investment of time and energy. I promise I did great work this year. Pinkie swear. Now where's my raise?
(Not talking to Chris on that one. I'd be overpaid if I did this for free.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'd be overpaid if I did this for free
Way to ask for a reduction in your salary.
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Fortunately @chris-maunder is off to Iceland, so he'll never read this. I feel perfectly safe. 
TTFN - Kent
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Good to know Iceland has no internet.
Perhaps Chris will eat some Hákarl and be out-of-commission.
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far be it for me to ever spend a holiday ensuring I’m on top of emails, logs and site ops. That’s be defeating the purpose of s holiday, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At a previous company I worked for we had 360 reviews i.e. where your peers / direct reports anonymously reviewed your progress along with your manager. This gave a 360 degree appraisal (those beneath, alongside and above you).
I remember getting critical feedback from some of my peers, but as the whole thing was anonymous, I didn't know who had said those things (although I had very strong suspicions).
This created a very bad working environment where you could annually bad mouth a co-worker, and your manager would take this into your review meeting and ask you for comment.
So glad I no longer work there. One of the worst company cultures I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: we had 360 reviews
Per year? That seems a bit excessive. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Believe me.....it was
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Americans have trouble trusting technology companies, and a slim majority think that more regulations on these firms is a good idea, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. My delusions are shattered (Shadoobie)
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Google researchers demonstrated that a neural network could be tricked into performing free computations for an attacker. That AI is going to be so miffed when it finds out.
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