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Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9. Just a few years after everyone disabled it
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Beware anything that boils programming down to simple rules like "don't use magic numbers". Code is more subtle than that. It takes more than 10 steps
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DWORDs fail me...
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just dont code and sleep all day
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With a nod to the new "X-Files" reboot, the Central Intelligence Agency has released a trove of once classified documents on several real-life unidentified flying objects. The truth is in here
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According to an investigation by researcher Ashish Singh, websites visited from InPrivate can be easily recovered from a user’s hard drive by examining the WebCache file. Mental note: don't use Edge when "shopping for spouse's gifts"
I guess I could have stopped part way through that sentence.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess I could have stopped part way through that sentence. "Shopping for spouse"?
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In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern contest of strategy and intuition that has bedeviled AI experts for decades. Ah well, at least the computers will never beat us at Solitaire
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Wow, I believe this was the last game where we had some chance. Welcome, Skynet.
Life is too shor
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There must be a lot of goto in that google program!
I'd rather be phishing!
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That's huge. Just yesterday I saw a video on status of AI in Go and today it was beaten. If DeepMind defeats even that champion, it's the last big game. Now there are only real world problems to beat. I hope it goes open source or at least library. It would be great to have such capabilities in. .NET for example.
I found the games they played, you can review them here:
Game Over? AlphaGo Beats Pro 5-0 in Major AI Advance: American Go E-Journal[^]
modified 27-Jan-16 17:55pm.
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DevOps, microservices, and the shift to containers and lightweight computing environments explain a lot about Microsoft’s position on .NET, open source and Nano Server. They are kind and good, and always doing what's best for their customers?
This message brought to you by Bizarro Kent. Am good!
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Is this what you reference in your quip?[^]
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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I was going for more of a "Bizarro Superman", but dang if that comic isn't more appropriate for me.
TTFN - Kent
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Abstruse Goose has some very funny comics.
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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One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work Really interesting article describing why you shouldn't use the colour black in your applications.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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You can use the same arguments against white.
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The theory is to use black on mobile apps to prolong battery life. It takes more energy to display white #FFFFFF, all bits on, then it does to display black, #000000 no bits on.
So when it comes to mobile apps, always use black.
And when you need caffeine, drink your black.
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That would be true for all phones with AMOLED displays.
But for devices with some kind of backlit TFT it wouldn't matter much.
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To prove the point, the author set the text color to some gray, but that only made it less readable...
While I agree that black isn't a good color for surface coloring, when you have a pure white background gray text will create a blur effect only...
So like with everything in design - no real rules, but guidelines with exceptions...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That is an interesting read and probably very much so to HCI professionals.
I will say 1 thing about black.
Using black or even a dark gray would substantially reduce the amount of glare from the screen. Law enforcement asks for their software in very dark colors and I know this because I have built software for them. They have to deal with working at night, with traffic lights coming at them and at the same time staring at a laptop with a white background nearly blinds them.
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How Schrodingerian is it that a web site that evangelizes for "never use black" uses body-type that is such a "whiter shade of pale" it is virtually unreadable (for my older eyes rapidly going downhill, anywho) ?
Oh yes, in theory, nothing we see is absolutely "black," but for a graduate of RISD to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me
Agree 100%
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That's what happening when you turn something to religion in design - a good designer looks on every work with fresh eyes, the moment stops doing so he ain't designer no more...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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