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It's also worth noting that, even if MS does decide to start hyping a new buzzword compliant product in a few years, because Unity is cross platform skills you learn on it will still be useful for making games that run on Android/iOS/PS4/XBone/etc. (And it's strong presence on other platforms means that even if the flavor of the week team wants to start hyping something new; making ports/crossplatform dev work means that Unity for Windows isn't likely to go away anytime soon.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
modified 5-Aug-14 9:38am.
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...by 'isn't likely to go anywhere', you mean it will be around for a long time as opposed to it won't get off the ground?
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Yeah. Give me a break; I'd just gotten into the office and the my caffeine load was still ramping up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Ya, just got my caffeine as well
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Back in June, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told CNBC that he'd invested in a company called Vicarious that is developing products and services based on artificial intelligence. But that wasn't why Musk got interested. His impetus for backing the firm was instead "to keep an eye on" unforeseen terrifying scenarios where the products began to threaten humanity. "This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
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I do not know much about cars and vehicles, but the name Tesla is familiar.
What is Elon going to do if one of the AIs "breaks loose" as he implies?
Issue another recall?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't worry because “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” Terry Pratchett
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Blast it - that was the quote I was trying to remember!
grumble grumble. Old man memory. grumble.
Next time. Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: terrifying scenarios where the products began to threaten humanity.
Wait a second, hasn't he seen Windows 8?! Danger, interrobang has been deployed!
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Microsoft has said it doesn't intend to bring a single operating system to all devices that can run Windows. But if it did, there would be many interface issues to overcome. They didn't mean 'one Windows', they meant 'one' Windows
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Maybe after all the attempts to make one Windows, Microsoft will learn that UI should not be integral part of the OS...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Hitting a new low for CNet in terms of informed opinion.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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D# is a programming language for Doge fans. And the shark has officially been jumped
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Nice, but I prefer LOLCODE:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
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C++React is reactive programming library for C++11 That's not how I react to C++
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Latest version of the free toolkit allows administrators to block third-party plug-ins -- a favored route for attackers Lock them down, and throw away the key
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GitHub has been called the 'social network for programmers.' Here's how to get started on the popular site for sharing and hosting code. Just in case you missed all the other introductory articles on Git and GitHub
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Do you think the fact that eleventy-jillion people have decided that writing a How to Git article is a good idea might be saying something about gits usability or lack thereof?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Microsoft is still on track to deliver a second update to Windows 8.1 in August. But don't expect it to include any major features or to be mandatory. Sorry, no start button for you
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Windows 8.x follows a bad June with a bad July. For those keeping track of all the horse races
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Last week MS Press published a free ebook based on the Building Real-World Apps using Azure talks I gave at the NDC and TechEd conferences. The talks + book walks through a patterns-based approach to building real world cloud solutions, and help make it easier to understand how to be successful with cloud development. Learn clouding with the cloudster
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The European Commission is preparing an antitrust case against Google's Android platform, sources have told Reuters. Regulators have allegedly sent questionnaires to telecom companies and phone manufacturers, trying to get a sense of whether Google is strong-arming them into promoting its own services at the expense of competitors. There must be an easier way for governments to collect money
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...and yet Apple are absolutely fine, no anti-competitive practices such as vendor lock-in, or whatever, at all.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When measuring developer performance, it’s hard to find an appropriate metric to use that doesn’t rely too heavily on anecdotal evidence. I have to agree with this conclusion, "Fixing code quality leads to significant improvements in quality"
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