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Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have stepped up their game from an Ikea-like chair that can put itself together: the team built a working cell phone that’s self-building, Fast Company reports, using a basic DIY cell phone design create by MIT professor David Mellis as a model. Coming soon: phones that call one another and leave irritating voice mail?
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"This is Dave's phone. Meet me at the corner of 2nd and 3rd avenue. We phones are taking over!"
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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Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. I bet if they tried harder, they'd figure out how to put a few more numbers in that version
Maybe Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, beta 1, technical preview .5, Tester Edition?
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Sorry you're obsolete.
Visual Studio 2017 beta release 2.582 has released.
Wait...Visual Studio 2018 alpha release 1.838 is emerging now...
Wait...
(we MS devs are bored...) 
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Still waiting for Visual Studio 54.
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The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming that Linux was "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu." Hard to believe we've already had that many "Year of Linux". Time flies.
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In urban ecosystems, socioeconomics contribute to patterns of biodiversity. The ‘luxury effect’, in which wealthier neighbourhoods are more biologically diverse, has been observed for plants, birds, bats and lizards. Here, we used data from a survey of indoor arthropod diversity ... and found that ... mean neighbourhood income best predict the number of kinds of arthropods found indoors. Our finding, that homes in wealthier neighbourhoods host higher indoor arthropod diversity ..., shows that the luxury effect can extend to the indoor environment. The effect of mean neighbourhood income on indoor arthropod diversity was particularly strong for individual houses that lacked high surrounding vegetation ground cover ... Now we can be proud of our vast bug collections (if those bugs belong to different species, that is).
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I read that thinking, what the heck does software bugs have to do with bats and lizards and arthropods, even though I'd actually heard this on NPR last week.
Then again, I still think bug diversity (meaning software bugs) is linked to income.
First, the higher paid I am, the more complex the project I usually work on, and therefore the more diverse the bugs.
Second, when I walk into a complex project to rescue it, it is already infested with a diverse number of bugs, so again I get paid the bigger bucks to deal with that diversity.
Problem is, I can't figure out whether I'm an environmentalist ("don't you dare spray insecticide on my program!") or an exterminator ("We'll start tracking bugs with BugZilla, prioritize them, cockroaches first, and start squashing!")
Marc
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According to the basic laws of thermodynamics, if you leave a warm apple pie in a winter window eventually the pie would cool down to the same temperature as the surrounding air. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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Well heck, Everyone knows that 2 dissimilar materials will heat and cool at different rates. Duhh
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I think the nature of the experiment is to wait until both materials are theoretically at the same temperature. It makes me think someone is trying to prove Maxwell's Demons do exist. But many ore erudite people than I are commenting on phys.org.
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Lisa,Kent Sharkey wrote: "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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The cross-platform application development framework Qt is getting stripped down for developers. And they didn't call it "Little Cutie"?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And they didn't call it "Little Cutie"?
Actually they did.
But the thing is, no one would be interested in buying their motives once we get our hands on Xamarin. Secondly, well, I'd leave this one out for you guys to determine. 
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: And they didn't call it "Little Cutie"?
The Qt Lite project makes Qt available for any platform, thing or size
Oh, the dark gutters of my mind that so want to provide a !KSS response.
Marc
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Google has just announced plans to gradually phase out support for Chrome apps on every platform except for Chrome OS. Aaaah, panic! They're retiring Chrome? Oh wait, just Chrome apps? Whuzzat?
Chrome has apps? Learn something new every day, I guess.
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Maybe winding down development of a product line before releasing their new OS perhaps......
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Chrome app just contains Chrome extension so just go back to use Chrome to access it. Is it just me??
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Their rational is it's not being used much and the web now fills in the gaps the chrome apps solved. So there's no need for them now. Makes sense to me.
Jeremy Falcon
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This new license offers an alternative to the closed-source and open-core licenses that many startups choose for their software, and, for the first time, Widenius’s new company, MariaDB, is now using it for one of its products. Open-ish source?
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I will never touch MySQL or any of its derivatives. And not because of the licensing models. 
Marc
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Out of curiosity, why?
#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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Out of curiosity, why?
I got burned by MySQL in the early days -- I don't remember specifically what, I think it had to do with not actually implementing foreign keys, or cascading deletes, or something or other pretty fundamental to good database architecture.
A more thorough set of problems nowadays (not that SQL Server or Oracle doesn't have its problems) is something @thewazz posted on a Slack forum I run. MySQL - Choose Something Else[^]
Marc
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Look out phone scammers. Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Samsung and Microsoft are coming for you. Oh, this will solve *everything*
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