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SoMad wrote: how close the robots are to being able to control humans
They already do; haven't you seen all those zombies standing around swiping their "smart"phones?
EDIT: Isn't Pokémon Go the next stage? It makes the human go to specific locations. 
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 am now imagining a scifi book/movie about a child, fitted with such an apparatus at birth, learning to control a flock of microdrones as naturally as his own appendages.
A disturbing thought, to be sure, but how far distant can such an experiment be?
(Of course, Marvel's already been-there-done-that, essentially.)
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Verizon and Yahoo are set to announce that they are striking an acquisition deal, according to sources close to the situation. The news is expected by Monday, although it could come earlier or later. Now we know who's next to be clueless about running Yahoo
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Verizon has been clueless in running a number of things now. That way, one could claim they're experienced enough to take on yahoo. 
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What about their fantastic success with the Tumblr acquisition?...
[-- Yahoo posted a loss of $440 million on revenue of a little over $1.3 billion in the second quarter of this year. The large loss was mainly because of a $395 million write-off on account of the microblogging social network Tumblr, which Yahoo acquired in 2013 for over $1 billion. --]
(from computerworld.com article)
People inside the company were raving lunatics about that purchase..."We'll make trillions!!!"
Almost everyone outside the company was like...Tumblr? Really?
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Dan Neely wrote: Hasn't Yahoo's biggest problem for the last decade plus been that it's remained a web 1.0 company even as web 2.0 and mobile web have came and eaten its lunch.
Even worse - they buy up Web 2.0 companies (Flickr, Tumbler) and drag them back into Web 1.0. I had thought only Microsoft was capable of such regression.
TTFN - Kent
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I've seen a lot of diatribes from Flicker users/developers from the years after being acquired; but don't recall any about the latter. Did they actually actively screw anything up with Tumbler? I thought it was just a have-no-idea-how-to-make-money company sold for $$stupid$ (aka the same as 90% of startups at acquisition), and that after buying it Yahoo was never able to figure out how to get money back from their acquisition (aka 90% of former startups after acquisition).
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
modified 25-Jul-16 13:36pm.
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Yeah, I think that was most of the problem. There did seem to be some complaints[^] about letting it go stale though.
TTFN - Kent
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$44 bn in 2008 to $4.8 bn now, how bad isn't it?
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Those numbers aren't remotely comparable.
The MS bid was for the entire company including large holdings in yahoo.jp and Alibaba. Yahoo's current holdings in the former two are worth $36bn after cashing out on $9bn of Alibaba after the IPO (would've been worth more today if they held it; but since it could've also cratered cashing out on part of it was a reasonable move at the time). There're also a pile of misc patents that Verizon isn't buying that're expected to be sold separately; but the estimates I've seen for them is only a few hundred million.
On that basis alone even if MS managed to mismanage the rest of Yahoo to the point that it turned the lights off instead of selling it for several billion they'd've broken even on the deal; and since MS hasn't killed Hotmail/Outlook or Bing it's safe to assume that at least some of the classic Yahoo bits would've survived intact even in the otherwise worst case. If anything they'd've probably gotten some benefits from it; one of the reasons becoming a Bing wrapper hurt Yahoo was that while they were comparable in the US, elsewhere on the planet Bing was still badly behind the competition. Assimilating Yahoo.notUSA's search indexes would've given Bing a major boost in parts of the world where they needed it most.
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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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what they claim is the maximum amount of time a person can sit on average per day before it starts to damage their heart. Coming next week: a study about the dangers of standing
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Quote: The researchers defined sitting as being sedentary, which includes lying down.
Yeah, that famous definition of "sitting" that includes "not sitting". 
"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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It’s taken me years to realize how OO lied to me. I too was wide-eyed and inexperienced and trusting. "A bad craftsman always blames his tools"
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Seems like he had been getting too much of those semicolon missing errors. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "A bad craftsman always blames his tools"
A good craftsman also always blames his tools. 
Marc
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Yeah, but they know where to kick it to make it work
TTFN - Kent
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Nah, a good craftsman just uses the correct, quality tools, and cares for them.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A bad entity::life form::mammal::human::adult::craftsman blames his IUsable<t>
I do think he will fall out of love with functional programming too because sometimes writing software isn't just about making something that works but rather making something that explains.
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He forgot to mention that functional programming has its own weaknesses as well. In some regards, it just gives you the opposite of object-oriented programming. For example, in the object-oriented world, you deal with a closed set of functions over an open set of objects, and in the functional world, you deal with an open set of functions over a closed set of objects.
The triangle problem, at least the example he gave, is not a problem at all if you realize that a copier is really just a container of a scanner and a printer that delegates both to make it work correctly (first scan, then print). This is not an inheritance problem, even if multiple inheritance was possible it wouldn't be logical to use it here.
Both object-oriented and functional programming are powerful ways to solve problems - if done right, you don't have to blame one and abandon it for the other. But I guess it seems to be en vogue to make a fuss about the old way and glorify the new way.
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Charles Scalfani wrote: And great. Now it won’t compile. Why?? Oh, I see… This object contains this other object.
Looks like this self-styled architect isn't unaware of dependency injection. Never before was "a bad craftsman always blames his tools" more apt.
/ravi
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His naivety has virtually made him look like an object to be laughed at.
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that's just bad, really bad.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Mister, this is a private discussion. 
modified 25-Jul-16 0:45am.
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