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Which, as of now, cannot quite be described: [^] Quote: “We are at a point in terms of computing platforms where there’s a certain level of maturation that’s led to a decline in innovation,” says Humane president and chairman Chaudhri, who worked on the UI design of the iPhone and the iPad during his 21 years at Apple. “For us, it’s really about how we actually bring vitality and how we bring a new opportunity to computing. How do we move the needle?”
Quote: The startup’s ambitions derive in part from Chaudhri reckoning with the downsides of the products he was instrumental in creating—particularly the ways in which smartphones can nag at and monopolize our attention while siphoning away private data for corporations to profit from. But that doesn’t mean that Chaudhri and Bongiorno, a former director of software engineering at Apple who worked with Chaudhri to launch the iPad, believe that technology is a net negative force in society.
“We’re tech optimists at heart,” says Bongiorno, who is Humane’s CEO. “But we believe it’s also time to question everything to build something better.” In my crystal ball I see: two or three screens, foldable.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I see non-rounded corners, for a surer grip.
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BillWoodruff wrote: In my crystal ball I see: two or three screens, foldable. A triptych tablet! Plus ça change...
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The Milky Way is filled with planets. Now astronomers have found the first candidate planet in another galaxy. Is it making the galaxy wobble?
I'm surprised there isn't a rendering of the surface.
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Amazing!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A feature that was added to .NET Core apps was the ability to publish as a single file. Coming soon: Why is my hard drive full again?
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I'm getting the impression that it is a big Zero.
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So, essentially, it's ILMerge on steroids?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Digging through the code, The Verge has found that Microsoft actually had a secret, unreleased Microsoft XP theme that looked exactly like Apple's Aqua interface from 2000. "Some day soon I'll make you mine. Then I'll have candy all the time."
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A physics student named Germain Tobar from the University of Queensland in Australia says that he has figured out the math that would make time travel viable without paradoxes. Still, try not to kill any butterflies if you go back
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A physics student named Germain Tobar from the University of Queensland in Australia says that he has figured out the math that would make time travel viable without paradoxes, for those who survive.
(Restating Kent's phrasing?)
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So the theoretical math for a theoretical problem checks out, theoretically?
It's like my software: theoretically bug-free.
Got it
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With the name Smarter, you might expect a network-connected kitchen appliance maker to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter’s Internet-of-things coffee maker, you’d be wrong. Welcome to the Internet of Tomfoolery
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I find the existence of an Internet-connected coffee maker, and the fact that people would buy such a thing, necessary and complete proof that natural selection isn't working fast enough and should be lent a hand.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It always amuses me that the most luddite of people are those who work develop software or otherwise work in IT.
This tells me something about the anti-wisdom of some ideas that are floating around nowadays.
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You didn't get that memo?
That's what this whole year is all about. 1 in 7,800 and counting.
Naturally and terribly sadly, there have been some targeting errors.
What was that old Russian saying again. In 2020, you don't get virus. Virus get you!
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The creator of the C programming language and co-creator of Unix never got his Ph.D. because he didn't file his dissertation Just imagine what he might have accomplished if he got those three letters after his name
That didn't come out as sarcastic as I had hoped.
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Here's a takeaway from this week's Ignite 2020 event: An advanced Azure cloud portends the death of the traditional, high-powered dev machine packed with computing, memory and storage components. It's all fun and games until the network goes down
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for your comment.
Plus it'll have a subscription fee and overage charges for extra cores or memory.
And your codebase will get hacked and stolen.
Pass. With prejudice.
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Greg Utas wrote: Pass. With prejudice.
Indeed. The cloud (what we used to just call "someone else's server") is cool for much stuff but this seems like a risk for no real advantage or benefit. If we want to work from anywhere then this can be arranged without having to put the entire environment on someone else's server.
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Funny. We're moving our dev stuff to the cloud, and they say we will no longer need our dev machines as a result.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Who are "they"? And what is your view?
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"They" are management, and my opinion doesn't matter because I'm a) "just a developer", and b) "just a contractor" (their words when they said my opinion doesn't matter).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Don't take this the wrong way John:
You're a contractor and you work a contract for the gubment. Having done this myself throughout the 1980's for both the DoD and the DoE, I can add the following:
You are also a whore. The key I found was to never be a cheap whore.
Software Zen: delete this;
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They pay me an awful lot to just ignore my advice.
Their current push is to replace all of our apps (there are 12) with a single Tableau dashboard. I advised against it, and cited my years of prior experience using that product to wrangle the heavy data payload with it, but they ain't hearin' it. I'll quit my job before going through that bullshit again...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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