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Kent Sharkey wrote: What share of your time do you expect to be coding?
Hmm...
Lemme think...
... About 3% less than for drinking coffee.
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It could modify Einstein's theory of general relativity — and kill the need for dark energy altogether. The New Physics: Just Keep Guessing(tm)
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New?
It's about a decade old, isn't it? I remember briefly looking over the numbers when it won another purse -- it made a lot of sense, but it was still only numbers, which can be deceptive (and it's still only numbers, by the look of it). I suppose that the news is that it's just got another purse, so she doesn't have to work in a chip shop, for a while.
And it's not a paradox, it's a quandary.
That's like calling a pun a joke. Or funny. Or entertaining. Or even mildly amusing.
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Sounds like one of the growing number of theories that can reproduce the easy cases of large scale structure and galaxies with normal amounts of dark matter; but falls flat on its face if asked to explain the steadily growing trickle of dwarf galaxies with abnormally high or low ratios between normal and dark matter.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: The New Physics: Just Keep Guessing(tm)
Nailed it!
Also, I owe you fee for the use of your TM. 
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Well.. it turns out the theory is not that new!  (it was first uttered in 1930)
Massive gravity - Wikipedia
But, maybe, it has recent interesting developments, perhaps?
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But Chrome's browser rivals are pushing hard to improve online privacy. In this case, by "the web" he means, "our profits"
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a Google Chrome leader said: trying to make that change too soon could actually hurt the web by driving developers to mobile apps instead
Ridiculous.
The naivete of that statement is typical of liars and psychopaths, who will say anything at all to make people do what they want.Justin Schuh said: At our scale, it's not reasonable to move too fast, because it's too destructive
Oh, I think the web will weather it just fine.
Advertisers will still advertise on the web, they just won't all be paying google tons extra, on top of the advertising costs, for ineffective "targetting", so millions of small businesses will be richer, and be able to invest in better web-sites.cnet said: We'll pay subscription fees for some things -- some newspapers and streaming video sites, for example -- but it's not clear we'll pay for everything to avoid prying advertisers
Um, paying people to not do something to you would be what's known as a protection racket.
Ya don' a-wannus ta take-a ya data anna do whaddevva we wan' with it, ya godda pay, see?
Mind you, that's not really any worse than google's current business model.
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This is just FUD.
My response to the statement is, "So what? Given its current model it needs to be broken. Badly."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers. Surveillance product surveils, news at 11
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boingboing ding-donged: personally identifiable information (PII). Four main analytics and marketing companies were discovered to be receiving information
Four? That's two twos, so the PII are squared!
I've just checked, and the app is on the android playstore, so it obviously doesn't do anything that google disapproves of.
If I have to explain that any further, I'll have no choice but to do so with a cricket bat.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Four? That's two twos, so the PII are squared!
I refer you to the following pearl of wisdom:
Quote: That's like calling a pun a joke. Or funny. Or entertaining. Or even mildly amusing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quite right! I never do puns!
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They've created a modified version of Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset — imbued with algorithms that provide info about people within the wearer’s surroundings. "Right behind you I see the millions"
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What about spikes, and cups under the lenses, to catch the blood?
Oh, hang on; it's Tokyo.
I'm going Monty Python, where I should be going Gojira.
My bad.
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With the CDNJS team’s permission we collect anonymized and aggregated data from CDNJS requests which we use to understand how people build on the Internet. But if you update - things break
JS house of cards is house of cards
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So we need javascript auto-updaters, obviously.
I'm fine with that, as long as it doesn't take more than ten seconds to disable them.
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Microsoft will give all Windows 7 users one more update, to fix the glitch caused by its final security updates. I'm sure all you Windows 7 folk feel much safer now
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Makes you wonder wtf kind of architecture windows has, if a "security update" can screw with something like desktop wallpaper.
Built like a huge cauldron of spaghetti, with mouldy meatballs and several live octopi, by the sound of it.
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In my opinion, reading code is a process which can help you become a more proficient software developer. It has undoubtedly improved and influenced my software development skills. Maybe start with your own
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe start with your own
And then read it again.
Contrary to stupid statements that are popular with teachers (who, let us remember, are "them as can't", so anything they teach obviously didn't work for them), one does not learn to write, whether it be literature or code, by reading literature or code.
You can learn a bit by editing literature and analysing code (same thing, different horses), after you've made at least a good start on studying the syntax of the language, but, as with any other calling that requires a high level of creativity, you need to have that spark built in -- you can't learn to be creative; you can only learn how to fake it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You can learn a bit by editing literature and analysing code (same thing, different horses), after you've made at least a good start on studying the syntax of the language, but, as with any other calling that requires a high level of creativity, you need to have that spark built in -- you can't learn to be creative; you can only learn how to fake it.
Coding is hardly being creative; repeating patterns with a degree of predictability. And yes, reading other people's code is educative, I learned many a thing from projects that contained inputs from different developers over years of writing and modifying.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sure, but you analyse it, not read it.
My gripe with the article is that it makes you go through about 3,000 words of waffle to get its only point ("analyse code that other people have written"), without ever using the word "analyse" -- the most important word for the topic.
Maybe he was afraid of sounding too technical (in an article for developers!), or maybe he just doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, so he just rambled, then added more. And more. And more. (The symptoms are quite recognisable.)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Sure, but you analyse it, not read it.
True; you jump from here to there; it's not a line-by-line story, where you "finish" by getting to the last line.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Steven Sinofsky was at Microsoft for more than 20 years but will always be remembered for the failed operating system, Windows 8, Microsoft’s response to the iPad. For those who wondered why they suddenly tried to shove tablet UI everywhere
...without attempting to understand why the iPad works for people (while few other tablets seem to)
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