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Regardless of title, in my mental notes, I consider someone a senior engineer if they have a combination of expertise and time working in that field--usually six to eight years. Moreover, the real key of a senior engineer isn't knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do.
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In a growing sign of the increased sophistication of both cyber attacks and defenses, GitHub has revealed that this week it weathered the largest-known DDoS attack in history. Good thing that's not a place that everyone stores their code
Yeah, kind of a dupe, but a different focus on this article (as opposed to the one talking about the memcached bug)
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The nation's top lawyers recently battled artificial intelligence in a competition to interpret contracts — and they lost. You had me at, "beat lawyers"
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So, do we now ask; What do you call one AI at the bottom of the ocean?
(A good start.)
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Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come. Flying car notably absent (again)
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The 'extended mind thesis' suggests devices deserve the same protections as our brains and bodies. Or just welded to your hand?
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No, it's something that wakes me up in the morning, receives the odd phone call and allows me to check the cricket scores. You really wouldn't find out much about my life by looking at my phone.
I think there's a huge gap here between those young types that are permanently plugged into the damned things to the point that they can't even walk down a street properly and old farts like myself who treat the thing as a pocket telephone.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches closer to theaters, the marketing masterminds at Warner Bros. have been tapping into that nostalgia with Easter egg-filled trailers, and now there’s an online arcade with a number of vintage games to play. Beware the "unbeatable?" pterodactyl!
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Researchers have set a new speed record for the 'logic gates' that form the building blocks of quantum computing -- a technology that could transform the way we process information. Is it just me, or are quantum computers heavy on, "lookitthis", and light on, "1+1"?
Yeah, I know, it's early, but someone promised me a SQUID
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Google's vertical search tormentors in Europe have called for Alphabet's cash cow to be broken up, arguing that Google's solution hasn't improved competition. Seems to me I've seen this movie before
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What is wrong with these european anti-business people. All they have to do is Google "top internet search sites" to find all of googles competitors.
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Not anti-business; but Google has become too powerfull to exist, and must follow Ma Bell.
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It is also not just about competition in search-engines; it is about their parent-company that has now more political influence in Europe than could be considered healthy. It kills innovation and threathens democracy in the long-run.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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although I admit, I know nothing of googles/alphabets european influence. My comment was merely meant to be a bit of sarcasm telling them to google, googles competitors. I enjoyed the ironic aspect of it.
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Bullshiz
#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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About 21,100 results (0.40 seconds)
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Really proud of your eloquent argumentation 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The problem isn't Google, but that companies persist in the belief that online advertising is highly effective and worth the money they pay for it.
Quote: McNamee envisages "eight or 10 different monopolies"
May be the dumbest thing I've read in a very long time and arguing with stupid is a Sisyphean task.
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Technology users who receive guidance when setting passwords -- including how likely it is that hackers could break into their accounts -- are significantly more likely to make their choices secure. Colour me unconvinced
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Kent Sharkey wrote: are significantly more likely to make their choices secure.
and that is supposing the site allows you to type a secure password.
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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When functional programming started to become a “thing” in the software industry, I had a lot of difficulty understanding the fundamentals. Coming soon: when do-loops don't loop, and when functions are funky
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The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. Because I rolled boxcars when I wanted a seven
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Popular ad-blocking browser extension AdBlock has added a new feature that will cache popular JavaScript libraries locally on the users' computers. Fewer ads, faster pages. How could I lose?
Other than having 23 cached versions of jQuery on my machine, that is
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I use my hosts file to block ads. It works amazingly well, it's free, and it can't be turned off or hacked. I wish I could do the same thing on my iPad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As technology trends changed, Mono's Windows.Forms platform has not been actively developed, but does remain a common dependency for various third party libraries and applications making its support important beyond those writings WinForms applications directly. Just in time for no one to care
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A major dust-up on an Internet discussion forum is touching off troubling questions about the security of some browser-trusted HTTPS certificates when it revealed the CEO of a certificate reseller emailed a partner the sensitive private keys for 23,000 TLS certificates. What if he asked that person (nicely) to delete the email?
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