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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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While Microsoft has claimed that Edge is the most secure browser around, it has been discovered that scammers can exploit a flaw in Edge to display fake SmartScreen error messages. You had me at "Flaw in Microsoft Edge"
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Fortunately no one is running Edge.
And for those few who are, none are using a SmartScreen.
And for the handful using SmartScreen, they are unable to view error messages.
So, it's all good, since no one is using any of the MS technologies related to devices.
There are those few people running Edge on iPhones who should beware.
modified 12-Dec-16 15:26pm.
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I made a very primitive web page about 15 years ago and I use it to hold my most frequently used bookmarks so I can easily transport them from machine to machine. It has worked without issue since that time on every browser I have tried it with. That is, with the exception of Edge. It does not display the page correctly. This page has no scripting or anything special. It has a couple of images, a background image, and some links and that's it - about as primitive as possible. Somehow, the latest and greatest browser from Redmond can't handle it. Oh well. I have alternatives.
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This means that unless a website has an HTML5 content player, the Flash content won’t display. Users will have to enable it manually on a site-by-site basis. "Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge. I'm trying not to lose my head"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge. I'm trying not to lose my head"
Anyone on MS Edge would feel like that.
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