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I bet you are driving a spider 
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By now, everyone in the development community is familiar with the extent to which Microsoft has open sourced its development tools -- .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and others. What most might not know is that Microsoft tried numerous times in the past to do this. "Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart, I'm coming home"
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Yup - the technology:
The Internet wasn't ready, GitHub didn't exist, and they didn't understand licensing appropriately.
finally exists for Microsoft to get you to work for them for free, legally. 
Marc
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Quote: Microsoft researchers have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to keep the sailplane in the air without using a motor, by autonomously finding and catching rides on naturally occurring thermals, similar to how many birds stay aloft.
Science mimics nature: Microsoft researchers test AI-controlled soaring machine - News Center[^]
What is particularly interesting (to me) about this is the two-layer approach to the AI with the high level AI using one set of techniques to derive a policy/objectives view of the problem and another layer working on the actual implementation details. This mimics the conscious/automatic split of the animal brain (?)
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Schlock Mercenary - Wednesday 16 Aug 2017[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Message Closed
modified 17-Aug-17 11:40am.
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Hmmm... promotes a product by fear-mongering (the NSA can't spy on you with this! Buy now!) and instead of discussing the merits of this YT competitor he attempts to sell it with get-rich-quick ideology... also his channel is almost entirely conspiracy theorist rhetoric. Seems shaky at best in my opinion.
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More technology: ^
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Nothing is cuter than pictures of kids sitting at their computers, mastering skills their parents never dreamed of. And nothing is more popular than the current idea that all our children should learn to code. Readin', Ritin', 'n' 'Rithmatic. Nuttin but! And where is my wax tablet and stylus?
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Don't knock it. These kids are going to grow up to be the next smart contract Wall Street blockchain coders! 
Marc
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It is one of the few things we teach children that allows for imagination and critical thinking/problem solving.
I suspect those traits will be very valuable.
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“Coding is going to disappear,” computer entrepreneur Emmanuel Straschnov told IBTimes UK. “The vision is that people shouldn’t even have to know what a server is. The vision is that people should only know: I want my app to do this, this and that, and then you build it.” The vision is that people should only know: I want my app to do this, this and that, and then you build it.” Ah yes, the old "coding will be replaced" argument. I've seen this argument, in one form or another, for the last 30 years.
This space for rent
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Today almost all information stored on hard disc drives or cloud servers is recorded in magnetic media, because it is non-volatile and cheap. For portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets, other forms of non-magnetic memory are used because the technology based on magnetism is impractical and is not energy efficient. Oh, of course, it was the chirality of the vortex domain wall all along! How silly of me not to realize it.
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I wonder if there's a market in high speed printers as an emergency backup measure. As in:
"Holy Sunshine, Batman! We have 6 hours to back up the Internet on paper before that X9 CME hits the earth and wipes out all electronics!"
Of course, there wouldn't be anything left to scan the paper back into digital form, at least for a few years.
Marc
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Latest Kaspersky Lab findings reveal over five million attacks in the last three months following leaks of major exploits. "It's a very, very mad world"
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The company faces an inherent contradiction it has yet to resolve: It says Windows 10 is the last Windows ever, but has also set time limits on support. Same as the rest of us
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As the Moon blocks the Sun’s light completely next week in a total solar eclipse, more than 50 high-altitude balloons in over 20 locations across the US will soar up to 100,000 feet in the sky. On board will be Raspberry Pi cameras, weather sensors, and modems to stream live eclipse footage. They’ll also have metal tags coated with very hardy bacteria, because NASA wants to know whether they will survive on Mars. They want to make everyone sick! Wake up Sheeple! DooOoOOOooOOoOOOOMMMMM!11!!eleven
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The latest C++ Core Guidelines Checker is deployed as a part of the Native Code Analysis tools in Visual Studio 2017 15.3. These tools are designed for use in Visual Studio, which provides a rule set editor for filtering warnings. But what if you want to adopt the C++ Core Guidelines checks in your automated builds? Getting it without Visual Studio is left as an exercise for the reader
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LinkedIn must remove any technical limitations it has put in place to prevent the "scraping" of members' data. I'm glad the bots find that site useful
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This is a good result tbh, you can't put information on the public internet the complain when it gets read. Just because it was read by a computer program is irrelevant.
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