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Fuze has created its own programming language, Fuze BASIC, a riff on the classic BASIC programming language that was the foundation of Microsoft as a company and a formative experience for anyone who typed a program into an Apple II or Commodore 64. Press 'jump' to add a loop?
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Public space in the digital age has no shape and no physical place. But the US Supreme Court is now sorting out what that means for free-speech rights. You can take my Twitter from my cold dead hands!
No, actually, you can feel free to take it anytime. I'm not really using it (or the Facebook, or the Instagram, or whatever else the kids are snapping and chatting with these days)
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Where's my free 'bama book????
#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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With such an active president in tweeter... that is not a big surprise.
About the free-speech... that's another history 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Based on a recent survey from BMC, 67 percent of organizations are looking to increase capacity on their mainframe to meet their business priorities. In a strange coincidence, the author works for a company providing mainframe languages and services
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The entrepreneur says one million people sent safely to the planet can help us avoid extinction -- and has outlined how to do it. Or, you know, we could just try to avoid "Doomsday"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or, you know, we could just try to avoid "Doomsday"
That would imply intelligence as a collective... and mankind is... is... well...  I think you get the point
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Elon Musk has outlined how to do it
Given his rate of failure I'd recommend not putting a dime in it.
Give a child a room and tell the kid to keep the room clean. Would there be cleaning if there's a backup?
In that respect, Doomsday might be closer if we actually succeeded in colonizing another planet.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kepler has discovered 219 new candidates since NASA's last data unveiling, including 10 near-Earth-size planet candidates in the so-called habitable zone around their stars where the conditions are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface — a key feature in the search for habitable worlds. "Where is everybody?"
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By now you've surely heard about the junior software developer who destroyed a production database on his first day on the job, was immediately fired and even warned about possible legal action. "There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster."
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How on earth can a junior programmer be in a position to delete a production database on the first day on the job?
Someone higher up needs to be hauled over the coals for this one too.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Should you become a “jack-of-all-trades” and a “full-stack developer,” or should you specialize in one or two areas of software development and “go deep?” Yes
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Quote: Yes
I concur.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What if? Else...
M.D.V.
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I think it's useful to have a wide knowledge of the different areas of software development, such as the UI, database, design, coding etc. But then to specialise in a more limited range of skills.
I personally think that the Fullstack Developer is a myth, and that it's only purpose is to allow companies to save costs by attempting to overload as many skills as they can onto as few people as they can get away with.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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“Stack Clash” poses threat to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other OSes. Is it The Year of Linux Hacks?
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The National Security Agency is amongst the most secretive of the US’ intelligence agencies. It employs genius-level coders and mathematicians in order to break codes, gather information on adversaries, and defend the country against digital threats. Help them hack you
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According to the GitHub account this news is almost a year old.
Their Lemongrenade was committed on July 27, 2016.
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Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors. Those people that hate cat videos must be stopped!
Making too light of it? Sorry, but it's about time they stepped up.
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Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. Blockchain is the new GUID?
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It is being reported that Intel has canceled all three of the following IoT product lines.
I'm shocked.
Intel Discontinues Joule, Galileo, And Edison Product Lines | Hackaday[^]
However, for my own projects I think of IoT projects as being "small".
Anything I wanted to do via IoT would always include an Arduino (especially Nano) which I can get for ~ $4 USD. Edison was always too expensive and overkill for what I wanted to do. My 2 cents.
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Warning: reading this may take a bit of "shine" off your new iToy.
Guardian, June 18, excerpt from Brian Merchant's book, "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone" : [^]Quote: In 2012, 150 workers gathered on a rooftop and threatened to jump. They were promised improvements and talked down by management; they had, essentially, wielded the threat of killing themselves as a bargaining tool. In 2016, a smaller group did it again. Just a month before we spoke, Xu says, seven or eight workers gathered on a rooftop and threatened to jump unless they were paid the wages they were due, which had apparently been withheld. Eventually, Xu says, Foxconn agreed to pay the wages and the workers were talked down.
Quote: If you know of Foxconn, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard of the suicides. In 2010, Longhua assembly-line workers began killing themselves. Worker after worker threw themselves off the towering dorm buildings, sometimes in broad daylight, in tragic displays of desperation – and in protest at the work conditions inside. There were 18 reported suicide attempts that year alone and 14 confirmed deaths. Twenty more workers were talked down by Foxconn officials.
Quote: The corporate response spurred further unease: Foxconn CEO, Terry Gou, had large nets installed outside many of the buildings to catch falling bodies. The company hired counsellors and workers were made to sign pledges stating they would not attempt to kill themselves.
Quote: One worker said 1,700 iPhones passed through her hands every day; she was in charge of wiping a special polish on the display. That works out at about three screens a minute for 12 hours a day.
More meticulous work, like fastening chip boards and assembling back covers, was slower; these workers have a minute apiece for each iPhone. That’s still 600 to 700 iPhones a day. Failing to meet a quota or making a mistake can draw public condemnation from superiors. Workers are often expected to stay silent and may draw rebukes from their bosses for asking to use the restroom
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Of course, this would never happen at the Samsung, LG or HTC factories...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Much worse happens in factories in many countries; your (apparent) inference that I am unaware of this gives you an "easy way out" of actually thinking about the content of the article ... I guess.
In the case of Apple, its unique stature (its vast wealth) in the world may mean that it can be brought to account in some ways.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Nono, I am not challenging your knowledge. The condition in those factories are unquestionably horrendous. I am protesting the innuendo of the article that Apple is worse than the others. One could argue that the real bad guys are Foxconn et cohortes, for having created such a system.
The flop-side is that mentioning Apple serves nicely as a click-bait/book-advertising for the publisher.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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