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USB isn't perfect, but it replaced lots of ports we'll never have to see again. For those too young to remember SCSI (and all the others)
Yes, an updated article from 2014. Happy slow news turkey weekend.
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Microsoft is adding a new opt-in defense for enterprises to block adware, which is often sneakily wrapped into free downloads. It will work, until the CEO wants to update his Ask Toolbar
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So.. it will remove that part from the Java-Installer?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Today, I’m pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of Raspberry Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5.
A new export hit from Wales? I think so.
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I hear Apple is looking to compete in this space, they call it: The Apple Pi
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According to a new update regarding Google’s “AMP” project – or the “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project,” as it’s also known – thousands of publishers have expressed interest in having their pages optimized. Followed directly by advertisements to slow it down again
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It's all in the pigeons.
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In 1999, Butler Lampson gave a talk about the past and future of “computer systems research”. Here are his opinions from 1999 on “what worked”. Basically everything that was a Yes in 1999 is still important today. "Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
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After the continued success of the Windows Insider program, Microsoft is looking to expand its functionality to include hardware design. Did they run out of ideas?
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What could possibly go wrong?
The Homer[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That was exactly my first thought.
TTFN - Kent
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The company aims to achieve scaling and cost savings with upcoming 10-nanometer and 7-nm processes. Honey, they shrunk the process
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A company has announced its intention to resurrect the dead by storing their memories and using artificial intelligence to return them to life. Or some point between 'never' and 'after the money runs out'
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I think I'll wait for version 2.0
Marc
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Do any of the researchers have real intelligence?
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Enough to sucker some people out of their money.
TTFN - Kent
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Because saving Trump when he moves on is vital to humanity!
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Being a specialist means that you have a deep understanding of a technology. Being generalist means that you know about many technologies. Yes
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Yes... aw, you beat me to it.
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I was thinking of going with Special Generalist or General Specialist, but then I thought of you
TTFN - Kent
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I'm thinking of saying I'm a Specialist Specialist because I do only backend and only with C# and SQL Server.
But it's not actually true.
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And being an expert means that you have the skills to deeply learn the new technology that the job requires you to learn.
"I'm this, or I'm that" is BS. People are always learning new skills, forgetting old ones, adapting to new circumstances, etc. We are not just one thing all our lives.
Marc
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Generalists for sure, with the ability to specialize in whatever, that's the ticket
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Old quote:
Generalist - tends to know nothing about everything.
Specialist - tends to know everything about nothing.
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