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Marc Clifton wrote: [mastadon] the hiring team. They're a bunch of morons anyways. Let's focus on the helping out the people with the actual skills
It's the hiring team that pays the bills. The people with the actual skills are simply the product.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Project Debater is the latest AI-based system from IBM's research team (the folks behind Watson). "An argument isn't just contradiction."
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So I can blow hundreds of dollars on something that argues with me? I'll pass thanks, one wife is enough for me...
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The wife costs you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
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It must have been written in Python.
This space for rent
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Ready to argue? Well, let it loose in the soapbox and we'll give it a spin
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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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Language creator calls proposals 'insanity' "Remember the Vasa!"
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He's onto something. I really like C++11 and C++14. C++17 is more of a mixed bag; its strongest "features" are the fixes and refinements done to the former iterations. In addition, filesystem was a much needed feature, though it has several issues, especially for cross platform (choosing POSIX as the layer to implement really hurt it.)
So far, I find C++20 comes dangerously close to jumping the shark. Bjarne is right that it must first, and foremost, fix issues with C++03/11/14/17. It MUST also have networking. Many new proposals are not only addressing increasingly smaller segments of the user base, they are trying to turn C++ into something it's not. Worse, some may cause even more code bloat.
(BTW, Bjarne is partly wrong about std:thread. It's okay, but it's hampered by following POSIX. In Win32, being able to wait on several handles, including a thread, is so powerful, I still have modules which use that. If I have to go cross platform on those, I cringe and punt.)
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Now that the dust has settled on the big news of Microsoft’s plans to acquire GitHub, developers have had a chance to react. Never trust a Redmondian bearing Gits?
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The problem with today's arc-fault detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly sensitive, shutting off an outlet's power in response to electrical signals that are actually harmless. Back to replacing fuses with pennies?
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Study on high-stakes poker reveals how people process information in many settings Boss's toadie to King's Bishop 6
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There's a growing view that Apple needs to update its Mac lineup across the board. Shiny aluminum is the new beige box?
Mostly here for @chris-maunder's benefit
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Several former Microsoft engineers and execs have launched a new cross-cloud, multi-language development framework called Pulumi. If you get laid off, make lemonade?
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The Pulumi CEO did NOT say, "Pulumi is just like every other cloud solution out there, but with a different name."
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"cross-cloud" ?
Keep your nimbus away from my cirrus !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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World Health Organization is today announcing that ‘gaming disorder’ will be the official term for the condition, which is likened to substance abuse. VB development still OK
And if that seemed a bit harsh to you, I should add that my name's on more than a few VB dev books (just none lately).
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Microsoft wants to make sure nearly everyone is on the latest version of the OS, and has released a new update for older versions of Windows 10 to prompt users to update to the latest release and to fix any issues which prevent those PCs from updating. "Patches. I'm depending on you, son, to pull the family through"
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Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik’s Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven’t been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now. Then they came for the Rubik's fans, and I did nothing as I can't get one side all red
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Except that's not really true. The machine was programmed to solve the Rubik's cube using a very specific algorithm. Granted, the program came up with its own steps, which is laudable, but to suggest it did this 'entirely on its own' is not true.
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Zapcc is a C++ compiler based on clang, designed to perform faster compilations. (now open source) I wonder what it compiles with?
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There have been several products doing what this does (cache the crap out of everything) but none seem to stick.
Edit: I was just reminded one reason why--link time tends to be a much bigger limiting factor than compile time.
modified 18-Jun-18 21:31pm.
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Internet domains are becoming increasingly desirable, especially as the web becomes crowded and it becomes harder to find memorable addresses. Hand over your excess domain inventory and unused C-block addresses, and no one gets hurt!
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That guy was a few bits short of a byte.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Researchers says that the SafeSpec model supports "speculation in a way that is immune to the sidechannel leakage necessary for attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre". Importantly, the design also avoids the problems associated with other Meltdown/Spectre fixes. It probably only causes a few side effects
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"All your base are belong to us" ?
Another excellent article on Axios from Steve Levine's "Future of Work" series: [^]Quote: These stores are examples of an expanding battleground among China’s cutthroat tech giants, and petri-dishes of the future of business around the world.
Self-contained universes: What Alibaba and rivals like Tencent and JD.com are doing is corralling businesses into branded, self-contained, AI-infused universes in which only their affiliates capture the profit.
Moving across sectors: Acting rapidly at large scale, they are conceiving and trying out new business models not only in retail, but also investment, lending, payments, and logistics.
Among the central ideas is that in the future, shoppers will not view e-commerce and brick-and-mortar as distinct things, but as a single merged organism — as simply “commerce.” Alibaba regards this concept as so fundamental that only businesses that grasp it will survive.
By comparison, the West’s tech, retail and financial elite appear lumbering. Even Amazon and Walmart are well behind.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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