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It is definitely time for SOME humans to get off planet Earth, but not for the reasons he is implying. That's why we need to start building ships. Three gigantic "Arks" in space. You lot will go first.
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Resonant and wave-guiding systems are present in the vast majority of optical and electronic systems. Their role is to temporarily store energy in the form of electromagnetic waves and then release them. For more than 100 hundred years, these systems were held back by a limitation that was considered to be fundamental: the length of time a wave could be stored was inversely proportional to its bandwidth. Maybe someone can shine a light on this one?
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Quote: Bionanophotonic
I dare you to say that 10 times fast. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A solution to runaway electrons gets us one step closer to nuclear fusion. Maybe's not just a spring insect?
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Think compilers cannot compromise the security of your application? Think twice! Oh, just use an interpreted language and avoid the compiler problems
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By total coincidence we have developed a product which solves the problem we have just explained. (Snark aside, what they did IS pretty cool.)
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Google says governments should overhaul their laws for carrying out requests for private user data as part of investigations. Do they want them to just Google it?
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Does anyone have more information about what the substance of Google's proposal is?
They want to make it easier to request data across national borders. On the one hand the current processes for doing so are highly bureaucratic. On the other hand a big part of the reason why MS has been fighting the US DoJ[^] over an attempts to get data from their Irish data center via US Courts has been that the demands being made are in violation of Irish law.
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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Following up on my initial comment, Engadget[^] has a decent explanation of what Google actually wants.
It's being driven by the fact that while MS has won it's fight with an overseas data request Google and Yahoo have lost similar ones in other courts; and that the US has opened the door for overseas courts - including those in oppressive regimes to make similar demands for data on US servers.
The devil is definitely in the details, but on the face of it their proposal:
Quote: Similar to those statements, Walker today urged Congress to change relevant laws, making it clear what tech companies are to do when faced with government requests for data. He also proposed that the US should allow countries that commit to privacy and human rights to directly request data from US companies without have to first consult with the US government. Walker added that oppressive regimes should not be eligible.
...seems reasonable. The only thing I'd want that wasn't called out was a reciprocity clause. Basically if country X refuses to allow direct data requests from US courts for data on servers in their jurisdiction that country X's courts can't take advantage of the same direct and expedited mechanism to request data on US servers.
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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Justices Kennedy and Alito are engaged in a low-key capitalization battle that may change the future of digital law. Maybe we should get them to decide on color vs colour as well?
Seems they don't have anything more urgent to deal with.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe we should get them to decide on color vs colour as well?
How about "Kuller"?
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Duh, it's "Internet", everyone knows that.
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It should be internet. Like telephone or telegraph.
Capitalization is for persons or trade names.
If you want to make it something more than a bunch of computers and fiber interconnects. Do so, but I won't. 
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No, capitalization is for proper names. And Internet is a proper name. It's not like there are dozens of generic internets out there. There is only one network that is called "The Internet."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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... which is why it should be "Internet" and "intranet".
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Most technical job interviews for developers are somewhat predictable in that they will likely involve some kind of coding — generally on a whiteboard. "Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it."
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For whiteboarding, they should add a feature where it looks at the computer language and type of problem and automatically links you to various solutions you can then cut and paste.
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According to a sneak peek at Packt’s annual Skill Up survey, developers and engineers in various jobs plan on learning several new tools and technologies over the next 12 months. random.randrange(-math.inf, math.inf)
Or something to that effect, I'm not in the set listed in the article
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Python: the perennial "yeah, I should probably learn that sometime" language.
As long as the respondents who said they'd learn it last year didn't learn it, they are free to report the same the following year.
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Quote: Oh, and performance. We love performance. I love performance. You love performance. My dog loves performance. Let’s have a performance hug. That was nice. Thank you. You smell nice.
Nick Craver (Stack Exchange sysadmin) blog entry on the years of work required: May 22: [^]Quote: Fair warning: This is the story of a long journey. Very long. As indicated by your scroll bar being very tiny right now. While Stack Exchange/Overflow is not unique in the problems we faced along the way, the combination of problems is fairly rare. I hope you find some details of our trials, tribulations, mistakes, victories, and even some open source projects that resulted along the way to be helpful. It’s hard to structure such an intricate dependency chain into a chronological post, so I’ll break this up by topic: infrastructure, application code, mistakes, etc.
«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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Been there, done that (though not to the extent of those guys).
The protocol-relative URLs were a surprise to us, too. How hard is it for an email client to just default to *something*? Our biggest issue was Fastly caching our stuff. they came to our rescue, though, and made some changes there end to get us through. Super easy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Dang. The hardest part of switching over my websites to HTTPS was figuring out how to register the certificate in the Windows cert manager! 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Technology standards often fade with age, but at 30 the GIF is more popular than ever. Let's just not get into "how to correctly pronounce it"
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