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Kent Sharkey wrote: experts on IT spending, hiring and compensation
Translation: Idiot agency staff who don't know their Ajax from their ESPOL.
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In a recent study (pdf), economists Daren Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University try to quantify how worried we should be about robots. "More human than human" is our motto.
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2000AD got it right, then.
Build a wall around a section of North America, and populate it entirely with the unemployed.
Incidentally, I (and just about everyone in Europe) will happily contribute to the eastern wall, Russia would be over the moon to pay for the western wall (they'll just hack Wall Street, to get the money), so all we need to know is whether or not you Canadians are willing to pay for the northern wall (the rest of us will chip in, if it runs too expensive).
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Our brains’ creative flow isn’t time-bound the way the typical brainstorm is. Here are a few ways to shake things up. Cage match!
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Quote: Split your team into two groups, and put each in a separate room. The teams are set up to work on the same topic or problem statement. Team 1 doesn’t speak; they write down their ideas quietly and individually. Team 2 has a more traditional brainstorm, calling out their ideas and writing them up on the whiteboard.
Team 1's conclusion: "Jeeze, those guys are idiots!"Quote: Tell everybody to take them home, read through those notes, and sleep on them. The next morning, have everybody take 15 minutes to write down any new ideas that came to them. Then share these ideas with everyone in the group.
Non-attendees' contribution: "boobies, Boobies, BOOBIES, Boobies, boobies!"Quote: A group of people come together to brainstorm on a given problem for a half-hour to an hour. Their ideas are written up and handed out to the entire team. Now everyone is sent outside for a walk.
Perambulists' contribution: "Can I Please go back to my desk, now?"
But they missed one:
The Functional Method
Get everyone to write down what they think of HR, then give the results to HR and watch until they start crying.
This method works because they and their bright ideas get out of your way, for a while, so you've got time to think.
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Developers are scrambling to fix flaw that allows theft, malicious code execution. There's a problem keeping all your passwords in one place?
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My face is my password.
The only problem being that it takes me ages to type out the ASCII art.
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The code of these projects will still live on GitHub and Google’s self-hosted git service, of course, with the new site functioning as a central directory for them. Everything they'll cancel next year, in one convenient location!
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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That is a classic example of style over substance. The horrible drifting tag cloud thing in the "projects" page fails to offer any way of seeing projects by subject, author or anything remotely useful. OK you can search, but that isn't the best way of discovery by accident.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Given their abundance and the voraciousness of their appetites, two European biologists recently wondered: If you were to tally up all the food eaten by the world's entire spider population in a single year, how much would it be? Just thought you should know. Also: AaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaHhh!
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I knew it!
J. Jonah Jameson was right!
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And why the hell they missed you  
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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A team of scientists from Boston University have found a way to hack into mammalian cells -- human cells, even -- and make them follow logical instructions like computers can. They're good at P problems, less so with NP problems
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I wonder if these guys realise that they've just signed the death warrant for universities.
Who needs to sit in lecture halls, listening to boring old farts, when a simple injection will give you the knowledge you need?
Oh, and training cells to not degrade during mitosis will turn everyone into boring old farts -- really old boring old farts.
You think the Interwebs and mobile technology are good? Wait until all you need is a tree or a flower, nearby.
Hell, I had all this stuff ideated years ago -- decades, even -- because it's the only completely concrete idea for the way things could go.
I just wish they'd get a move on!
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A triple fart message so to speak
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Can any message ever be over-farted?
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Needs to be tested 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Unit testing, or saturation testing?
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Don't know both of them. I know only customer testing; very effective and very very expressive answers in case of failures 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Another form of DNA computing, perhaps?
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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Microsoft is making the final version of its Windows 10 Creators Update available early for those who want to install the update ahead of its general availability. Because I know you'll all be interested
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Isn't that what they used to call "beta testing"? 
"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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