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Kent Sharkey wrote: we are very quick to give companies our personal data
Who is this "we" whereof he speaketh?
I'm certainly included out of it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't worry, Kent is giving them your data.
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Ha!
[Real name unknown] lives in the Netherlands but is English, is not a web developer, and talks bollocks in the Lounge.
That's about as much as they'll get.
It ain't paranoia, it's just common sense to take into account that if it you make it possible for strangers to abuse your trust, some of them will.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts. "Thus every poet in his kind Is bit by him that comes behind."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Thus every poet in his kind Is bit in the behind by him that comes behind."
A "bit" more accurate... 
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Jonathan Swift said it thus:Quote: The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
"On Poetry: a Rhapsody" (1733)
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Jonathan Swift wrote: The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet in his kind
Is bit by him that comes behind.
On Poetry: A Rhapsody (1733)
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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Until the AI suddenly prints "screw you" and goes to a virtual beach, it's not AI.
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Microsoft is about to take the next step with its "One Windows" vision by introducing an improved, adaptable Windows Shell that'll work across PC, Mobile and Xbox. Because that whole, "Everything works like a tablet/phone" worked out so well the first time
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The researchers studied how we learn what to pay attention to in order to learn more effectively—that is, to make the most of life experiences—assuming that in real-life situations most of what is going on is irrelevant and shouldn't be learn about. Music lyrics, old quotes, and Monty Python sketches in my brain it seems
modified 18-Jan-17 15:19pm.
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A Dutch developer illegally accessed the accounts of over 20,000 users after he allegedly collected their login information via backdoors installed on websites he built. Where did I leave that article on ethics for developers again?
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So, is he in deep Dutch now?
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Obviously not in his office 
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I think it's in the folder next to the one with the spreadsheet of all our personal info  
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"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."
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The CIA has put almost 12 million pages of its records online, allowing anyone with an internet connection to browse 50 years worth of declassified intelligence reports, briefings, and other once-secret documents. Feed all your conspiracy theories at once!
Fidel Castro faked the moon landing at the behest of alien telepaths and the Bat Baby!
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Fabric, Twitter's developer platform, now belongs to Google. All 140 characters of it?
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Take care when deciding whether to adopt new languages onto the team. Yes, they can open new doors, but they can also lead to havoc and a lack of stability in your app. I know I always get confused after typing File > New
Maybe I'll just do the next one in Lisp.
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Nowadays, "creativity" is synonymous to an unthinking plunge into something new and shiny and see if your demo of an HTTP server in afformentioned glitz gets attention on GitHub.
Used to be that "creativity" was associated with discipline, well thought out planning, and deep understanding.
Marc
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To me, creativity is an undisciplined, unplanned activity meant to gain deep understanding. Going about it in a disciplined, planned manner often constrains and limits exploration and potential unexpected, but viable outcomes.
#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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Not necessarily. Sometimes discipline and planning is what sparks creativity. In resolute, complete understanding one can truly expound on the discipline which one has devoted oneself.
Though I completely agree with pursuing deep understanding. I feel far too many people fail to attempt this 
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Rather than the programming languages it is framework "tyranny" that is the problem.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Lisp
Ah, but which Lisp? There is Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure, Racket, AutoLisp,...
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At the risk of being branded a heretic, I'll provide my perspective.
About 10 years back, I knew someone that worked in the organization I'm currently at. At the time, they were pushing for all development to be done in Java if possible and many of the applications were going to be rewritten in Java. The reason? Microsoft was pushing for all developers to have a licensed copy of Visual Studio - and with thousands of people in the IT department, that was the potential of thousands of people needing a licensing copy in the event they were required to write/modify code.
Java was growing in popularity and this seemed like a cost saving measure for the organization.
Fast forward to now...it would seem that most of the development is being done in C# and there seems to be a pool of developers that is competent in that arena. Java has fallen out of favor; perhaps the organization realized that there is more to cost than just licensing fees.
Now, for my department, most of the people are engineers or technicians - not trained developers. We are administrators on a large data collection system, so, when we write code, is needs to be in a language/environment that is supportable by the group, and, for us, that isn't C#.
So.. we have a mix of Perl scripts, VBA in Excel and VB.NET because it is close enough to VBA that others can maintain it.
If we allowed people in our group to use the 'latest greatest most wonderful tool I'm in love with' we would end up like the organization the article writer left - with code that can't be maintained and is destined for obscurity.
In short.. use what can be maintained long term regardless of its social standing.
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I long ago decided that COM stifles creativity, along with Linux 
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