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Honestly... if management wants to give my job to a robot and they can find a robot willing to do it - the robot is welcome to it.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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machines will be make sense of data faster than humans can."
And hopefully they'll write better English.
BTW: Humans Need Not Apply[^]
A bit hyper, but a good watch.
I predict that the word "organic" will take on new meaning. Drone-free farming. Papers graded by professors, not machines (and certainly not interns!) "Made by humans." The government will enforce product labeling "made by real human hands" and "made by a robot."
And while the roads will become safer with drone cars, no machine can ever replace the NYC taxi experience. Nor would I want one to, even the bad experiences. So that probably means that taxis will still have a "taxi-driver" but as a passenger, and you pay extra for the Taxi Driver Wisdom[^].
Marc
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Dang, you beat me to it.
TTFN - Kent
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Sorry, the news came in via RSS and I couldn't resist.
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Microsoft will radically revamp which Windows updates customers receive starting with Windows 10, a move analysts said was the biggest-ever change in the firm's update practices. Goldilocks will be pleased
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Down with blanket autoupdate. Kill it dead.
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You can always turn it off.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Down with id10t's running unpatched software. Kill their internet connections dead.
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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I think this is potentially a good move. But could be a support nightmare for ISVs.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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PHP vs. Node, SQL vs. NoSQL, compiled vs. scripting -- the passionate debates and technical rifts that define programming today "We've always been at war with Eastasia"
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No debate for me - just use the right tool for the job
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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OK, here's my attempt in my best Internetese:
No! You're absolutely wrong (wrong, wrong)!!!oneone1!!! You MUST use the programming language|development environment|whatever that I have invested my interest into, or the Nazis win.
Or something like that.
TTFN - Kent
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Deflinek wrote: just use the right tool for the job
Which of the many right tools?
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When Microsoft encourages its engineers to think outside the box, the results aren't always dead-ends like the Kin. In fact, the company's research division is now showing off an amazing thin transparent film called FlexSense that can sense deformations and allow us to interact with tablets and eReaders in fascinating new ways. I'm obviously not the target market for this
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I think the target market may be indicated by this "discourse" in the comments:
fangbanger: "What kind of other shapes can it adopt ?"
Andrew Liszewski: "Umm, round, cylindrical, curled, tubular, etc."
fangbanger: "I mean the concept, can they do a boob shaped sheet of plastic ? You know, for scientific research, of course..."
I guess it could be used to help train for "mammary checks".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What happens when you give an Android Wear smartwatch to a 16-year-old with a bit too much time on his hands? You get Windows 95 on your wrist.
Soon to be available for the Apple Watch? (Through Google Play for the utmost irony.)
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Why?
(I would guess 'Why Not?')
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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See? Those smartwatches are actually so 1990ies, as practically proven by this hack.
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Hewlett-Packard is reportedly planning to splitting itself up into two companies, one for PCs and similar consumer-focused products and the other for business-focused lines, such as IT services. H and P?
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Bring back DEC!
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It's been around for a long time, and existed in various forms, but the version we'll be solving I originally encountered in a handout given to physics students at Harvard, and is called "Green Eyed Dragons." That's easy: 42
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No, I can't
In code we trust !
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