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Don't forget the ones in Africa
Ooops... Forget it, they are more scammers than hackers 
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Nelek wrote: they are more scammers than hackers
Really?
I thought they were princes among men.
At least, that's what they keep telling me.
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Research shows that the problem with interviews is worse than irrelevance: They can be harmful, undercutting the impact of other, more valuable information about interviewees. Time to try the "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" style of hiring.
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You can't trust CVs, you can't trust references, and you can't trust interviews, so the only winning move is not to play.
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From cassette tapes to blocky graphics, modern computing has taken away some things we really rather miss ... Prepare the nostalgia center of your brain -- it's about to be tickled.
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#22 owner has total control of the computer
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Great. Now I'll be mentally humming tunes from 8-bit games, all day.
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#2 When games with parallax scrolling backgrounds first happened. (ie when you moved 2 pixels left the mid background would shift 1, while the far background shifted at 4:1).
#6 The first (and only) time I heard understandable speech coming from the internal PC speaker. And that it was wasted as an installer gimic not for anything more useful. 
#7 Writing my own games is why I'm where I am today. I never did it professionally - labor conditions at US gaming companies are hellish - but my first big applications were a Tetris clone and the engine for a top scrolling shooter where I reinvented a big chunk of the abstract base class concept via function pointers (data was fixed, between object types but move/shoot/etc methods were configurable).
#18 Somethings never change
#21 Having to restart from scratch being the other half of why I'm not a game programmer. (How naive my thinking was at the time.)
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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Quote: the PDP-10 mainframe
Ummm... what? DEC did not make mainframes. 
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[updated]
The 36 bit PDP-10 was considered a mainframe.
The 32 bit VAX 8600 was considered a mainframe (the first in the 32 bit series?). There were others in the 32 bit world as well.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one machine or in a datacenter. And Google has built one of the most secure and robust cloud infrastructures for processing this data to make our services better. Big potential down the road?
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Which is the very same, it's just centralized in the Cloud. Machine learning actually without centralized training data has great potential of degenerating to uselessness.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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den2k88 wrote: has great potential of degenerating to uselessness.
I prefer uselessness than self conscious 
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I prefer deterministic algorithms with repeatable results to machine learning, and leave the learning part to the humans designing the algorithms.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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good point 
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Centralized personal data? Sounds like the NSA* to me.
*U.S. National Security Agency
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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"Centralised data" is really the wrong term for this.
"A predefined set of accessible data" is a more appropriate term, so they're pretending to have re-invented the wheel.
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The "official" release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, version 1703, won't come until Patch Tuesday on April 11, but if you want to upgrade now—and don't want to enroll your system in the potentially unstable Windows Insider Program—you can now do so. "Every version of Windows is worse than the previous one ... until you actually go back and use the previous version"
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Note to self: backup everything tonight - laptop getting bricked tomorrow.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Note to self 2: Unplug Ethernet until backup is successfully done and tested, and even saved in several external drives 
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Well, if any product ever needed its manual upgraded...
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OpenAI developed an unsupervised system which learns an excellent representation of sentiment, despite being trained only to predict the next character in the text of Amazon reviews. Hopefully used for good
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This is actually astounding. I'm surprised this is one of the few items from today's newsletter without any discussion going on right now.
I think "real" AI is so much closer than the skeptics think it is, with incredible stuff like this continuing to reinforce that position. The "emergent" sentiment recognition capabilities of this model really makes me think about how our brains evolved. Although it still kind of feels like magic (as any sufficiently complex system does), it really shows that it's "not that hard" to create complex emergent behavior when you have a lot of time, data and a large neural network to play with, as mother nature certainly does.
So awesome.
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I could have made any number of glib comments, but it does actually look extremely interesting, so I deferred the "taking the piss" phase until after I've researched it a lot more.
You're absolutely right, though: taking it at face value, I'm fascinated at the advance.
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Twitter is working to renew its relationship with developers. Here we go again.
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