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The coders of tomorrow may be bug-checking the multiverse. Is a box involved?
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Definite response before reading the article: you code in discrete chunks (or quanta).
Projected response that I will likely give after reading the article (which I might not even bother to read): you code in discrete chunks (or quanta).
Essentially, it won't make a blind bit of difference, unless you use a ridiculously* low-level language.
* "Ridiculously", because you really need the computer to handle such details. Anyone who chooses to do it for himself is cruisin' for a career of sitting a home doing nothing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Find integrations and put them to work in minutes with GitHub Marketplace, pair developer tools and fine-grained repository permissions with GitHub Apps, or build the exact tool you need with a new, production-ready version of our GraphQL API. Because every company needs their own marketplace
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Gitwhat?
Github?
Oh, yeah! I remember github!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft's researchers have developed a true, near-eye holographic whose optics can fit inside a regular pair of glasses. "It was just a, nothing but a grand illusion."
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The only problem being that the ribbon takes up 30% of the screen, and baby blocks for "recommended product" ads take up just over 83%.
Other than that: Yeah, it's great. You'll love it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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NT Times: "No, Google’s Not a Bird: Bringing the Internet to Rural India" May 21, 2017: [^]. Note: I am able to view the full article ... without a NY Times sub ... by opening the link in a Chrome incognito window.Quote: In the 70 years since independence, India’s government has done very little to connect Taradand, in Madhya Pradesh State, in central India, to the outside world: The first paved road appeared in 2006. There has never been a single telephone landline. Electricity is available to only half the houses. When Mr. Neti was growing up, if someone in the village needed emergency medical care, farmers tied the patient to a wooden cot and carried him five miles through the forest to the nearest hospital, a journey of four hours.
By comparison, India’s battling telecoms have wired Taradand with breathtaking speed. Two years ago, Mr. Neti counted 1,000 mobile phones in the village, which has a population of 2,500. This tracks with India as a whole; last year it surpassed the United States to become the world’s second-largest market for mobile phones behind only China
Quote: At some point, Mr. Neti discovered that he had become skeptical of nearly everything he had been taught. “I tried to find out if the gods created the earth,” he said. “I found out it was not true. But still I cannot answer the question of who created the earth. But I believe Google contains the answer.”
Technology: socially/politically/economically disruptive ? harbinger of doom for ancient cultures ? catalyst for radical change ? enabler/empowerer ? saviour ?
There was a time in the early so-called "Renaissance" of Europe when rare Chinese items (elaborate silks, porcelain), and scientific equipment and knowledge from the Islamic world and the "eastern Christian world" (i.e. Byzantium), had a profound effect. This is described compellingly by Lisa Jardine in "Worldly Goods" [^].
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Google and Facebook would face the same rules as Comcast and AT&T So I can't tell you where I found this item
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If only I would get some discount...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe that crashed into our own in a galactic impact mirroring a car crash. Is that the one where everyone with a goatee is evil? (Or is that this one?)
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Goatees == evil is a trans-Universal constant. 
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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With an infinite amount of parralel universes, and we hit only a single one in 13.8 billion years.
I think most gamblers would fold on a bet like that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It means, either that the we crack the secret of the Eternals, or we reached the Infinite (as the parallels are to meat only there)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"Hey, there's a chunk of empty space, over that way. How about we come up with some stupid theory for it that will get us grants to examine it, for a few years -- I need to work on my drive and bunker shots!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like a Schrodinger catasstrophe to me.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I'm not sure that they've successfully eliminated some of the more likely explanations, including:
1) The cold region is populated by giant space-turtles that absorb vast quantities of heat.
2) Somebody left the air-con on while the windows were open.
3) Some places are warmer than others. Djibouti, for example, tends to be a lot warmer than Finland.
4) We may not always be 100% correct when we measure temperatures in places that are billions of miles away.
5) Somebody wanted a cheap headline in the hope of getting a commission from the History Channel because academia's not really working out too well for him.
These, and several million more explanations, all seem somewhat more likely than the one offered and I'm leaning towards #5.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I originated there. BeOS was the most used OS, Internet had a security baked in from its inception and Bernie won the elections. But coffee doesn't exist there. So I left.
modified 22-May-17 18:03pm.
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I resemble that remark!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The "Intel State of Personal Technology" study examines Americans' attitudes toward personal technology and new innovations that enable better experiences. "On average, Americans surveyed report they can go 18 days without talking to their family but only 13 days without their computer." Have you met my family?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but only 13 days without their computer
And that because they do not consider smart-phones as computers... It would be 13 seconds otherwise...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft wants to clear up confusion about Windows 10 S and Linux distributions available on the Windows Store. Unless you wanted to port Linux to UWP, I guess
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Microsoft is always looking for ways to make their AI more useful and weave her more tightly into our lives. It looks like you're trying to set up your IKEA shelf. Would you like help with that?
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