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I still drive a manual; to hell with your automatics 
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I haven't owned a car in 15 years (Singapore  ) and you can't hire a manual these days. I miss futzing with the gears and actually driving a car instead of simply steering one.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A new report by leaders in computational methods and reproducibility lays out recommendations for ways researchers, institutions, agencies and journal publishers can work together to standardize sharing of data sets and software code Ah, just throw everything on GitHub. That's what everyone else does.
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There's a good talk here: GOTO 2016 • The Error of Our Ways • Kevlin Henney[^] that includes several examples where policy decisions have been made on the back of flawed data or flawed code.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that some form of external quality advisory/enforcement is needed. (Especially when you throw machine learning into the mix where poor choice of training data can radically affect the outcome)
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, and SDKs might be just the same. RTFP (Read The Fine Print)
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After suffering through a decade of product delays, missed opportunities and lackluster stock performance, Microsoft found a rebirth of sorts through cloud computing. "Take me to the clouds above"
Heh:
One of Guthrie’s first moves was to gather Azure’s leaders at an off-campus retreat for an experiment: He asked them to try to build an application using their own cloud service.
It didn’t go well. Some features didn’t work, and some managers failed to complete the online sign-up process to use Azure.
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Computer Programming Is a Dying Art[^]
Newsweek: Writing code is a terrible way for humans to instruct computers. Lucky for us, new technology is about to render programming languages about as useful as Latin.
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Finally, it looks as if that will change. A couple of developments illustrate how.
A little backward looking perspective can be interesting.
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I laughed at this line; "The first step is for MUSE to suck up all of the world’s open-source software..."
The word "suck", and forms of it, didn't appear often enough in that sentence. "con" is also strangely missing.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The word "suck", and forms of it, didn't appear often enough in that sentence. "con" is also strangely missing.
Agreed!
Yeah, I think Newsweek should actually delete the article in an attempt to preserve any integrity as a news magazine that may be left.
oh...too late. 
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most of it repeats something that lots of programmers all over the globe have already done.
Now, if only the program could figure out what that "something" is. Ask a programmer "what do these lines of code do?" and you'll most likely get "uuuuh, I dunno" as a response.
And I speak from the experience of looking at my own code!
Marc
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Not only that but how will it determine which code is better? One might be more space efficient, the other time efficient, and different solutions may target different specific system specs like MPP for business needs. I applaud DARPA for trying but I don't see this being at all useful in the real world.
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Well, if it could figure out things like that, then you could say "I need an algorithm to run on an rPI clocking at 300Mhz with 500MB of RAM and I can wait a week for the answer" vs "Here's a Cray, I need the answer NOW!" 
Marc
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Now that you mention it, I wonder what hardware they're attempting this on and what their estimated delay will be before any "useful" information is generated.
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Jon McKee wrote: and what their estimated delay will be before any "useful" information is generated.
It's the government, and even worse, DARPA, which gives the work a kind of twilight zone / Schrodinger's cat timeline - it's done / not done / sort of done.
Marc
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Year 2027: Breaking news: The DARPA MUSE experiment returned results today. Researchers around the globe gathered in anticipation for the press release.
Today we are proud to announce the initial results. Our project has successfully identified and packaged its first algorithm - addition.
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Computer programmers will be replaced by computer whisperers whose almost arcane incantations bends computers to their will.
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Werd.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Mozart may enhance a man's performance in board games - while AC/DC may hinder their chances, according to new research. So, how did you spend your grant money, Dr. Fancourt?
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Since when is the game "Operation" a board game?
As for the "study":
"The researchers are unsure why rock music affected men more than women."
Perhaps the answer is in the previous sentence:
"Generally, women took longer to remove the body parts."
AC/DC makes you operate faster. Had they run advertisements for shoes... (I duck and cover.)
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Microsoft has been targeting Mac users with its Surface commercials recently, and it appears they might be paying off. If you can only afford one overpriced, shiny, laptop this year?
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Run C, C++, Go and Node.js programs as processes in browsers, including LaTeX, GNU Make, Go HTTP servers, and POSIX shell scripts. For those who felt Flash and Citrix were just too lightweight
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 Why the F***?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Jeremy Falcon
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The same reason that a decade ago one of my friends commented that the real problem with priorities among people goofing around with open source was that he could install linux on his ipod, but not sync music to his ipod using linix. 
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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The flaw allows hackers to execute arbitrary shell commands on affected devices. Welcome to our special, "Hello, hackers" edition
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