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A Google engineer who just left the company after nearly 13 years criticized it Wednesday for becoming "100% competitor-focused" and said the company "can no longer innovate." So, "Google is the new IBM/DEC/Microsoft?"
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Billed by Google X chief Astro Teller as a “digital immune system,” Chronicle focuses on detecting threats by analyzing and storing security-related data within large enterprises. All you have to do is run all your company's data through Google to keep it safe?
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The title (of the link below) is a bit misleading.
The document is very well written and :
1. explains the challenges of concurrency
2. a method of solving those challenges.
What Are Actors | Akka.NET Documentation[^]
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That article actually does a great job of pointing out that most software engineers falsely believe that the computer is following the Von Neumann architecture[^]. But actually... most modern CPU are implementing a Modified Harvard architecture[^].
But we really need something new... and in light of the recent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities... the existing architectures are under intense review. Hopefully the JUMP research grants[^] will pay off and result in a new distributed CPU architecture.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Great comments. I agree.
Randor wrote: But we really need something new... and in light of the recent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
I thought that was interesting that the article also touched upon the way parallel cores work and as I read it I thought of the spectre and meltdown bugs too. That's what made the article additionally interesting at this current time. 
EDIT
Also, thanks for mentioning that von neumann architecture vs. modified harvard architecture difference. That was good reading too.
modified 24-Jan-18 17:12pm.
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In many projects, there is a certain amount of code generation. The generated code is not seldom treated as a second-class citizen, the only measurement of code quality being whether it compiles and passes the tests. We can – and should – do better. This blurb was generated by a tool
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"This blurb was generated by a tool"
That's being unkind to yourself. I know you occasionally double-post news, but wouldn't go so far as to call you a tool. 
(That may be an English idiom, but when someone here is described as a tool, it means they're a bit of an idiot)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I thank you for recognizing where I was going with that one (and even more for accepting me as a non-tool)  
TTFN - Kent
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Every time in my career I have had to deal with Lex/Yacc or similar tools, I shudder and pray I don't need to debug the generated code, and inevitably do.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily due to the good morning messages sent with colourful images and even videos. And good morning to you!
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And I thought LinkedIn emails were irritating. 
Yeah , I could see that getting bad, fast.
TTFN - Kent
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations. Light bulb goes out, light bulb goes on. Can't explain that!
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How did they get that idea?
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One of the things I've told potential employers ever since I was fired for refusing to work more is that I don't do overtime. At the very least, not on a regular basis. Assuming you want to be, that is
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That's an awkwardly-worded title - "and so can you" what? 
"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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If it's not give and take then it's all take and I quickly lose interest.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I'm a 9 to 5 developer as well. 9PM to 5AM that is.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Why should I. I'm a 10 to 4 already... 4 days a week...
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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We can often hear that allocation of objects is “cheap” in .NET. I fully support this sentence because the most important part is its continuation – allocation is cheap but allocating a lot of objects will hit you back as sooner or later garbage collector will kick in and start messing around. All I've got is, "Fear the GC"?
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With the new Windows Desktop Program, developers now have a convenient, one-stop portal to view their desktop application analytics or access the data via an API. I think they could have made that product name a little longer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think they could have made that product name a little longer
OMG, AFAIK "Windows Desktop Program for Desktop Application Analytics" AKA WDPDAA TL;DR;STL;SDR
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets. Qualcomm prevented rivals from competing in the market by making significant payments to a key customer on condition it would not buy from rivals. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.
For those who did not know or remember:
Quote: In 2011, Qualcomm signed an agreement with Apple, committing to make significant payments to Apple on condition that the company would exclusively use Qualcomm chipsets in its "iPhone" and "iPad" devices. In 2013, the term of the agreement was extended to the end of 2016.
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A new era of computing just got closer, as researchers have created the design and run the first ever practical test for an artificial synapse that could let computers replicate some of the brain’s most powerful and intricate functions. A simulation of a possible chip design that might be made? Where do I invest?
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