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We’re proud to announce that we are partnering with Adafruit to release a new Starter Kit designed to get you started quickly and easily on your path of learning either electronics or Windows 10 IoT Core and the Raspberry Pi 2. This kit is available now at http://www.adafruit.com/windows10iotpi2 and includes a compatible set of sensors, electronic parts, wires, and cables that have been verified to work with Windows 10 IoT Core. It also has an SD card preloaded with Windows 10 IoT Core meaning you can start right away.
What’s next for Windows 10 IoT Core[^]
My robo-sheep project may yet see the light of day
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: My robo-sheep project may yet see the light of day Sort of a Roomba for the lawn?
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Exactly. Room-baaaa!
(OK - more boringly a putative robot to kill rushes in pasture by targeted application of microwaves, instead of the current really very dangerous chemicals)
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Just have it "eat" the rushes and then generate its own fuel, converting the cellulosic material to bioethanol/biobutanol.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Does it also enforce "Get off my lawn" commands?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: My robo-sheep project may yet see the light of day
The local hackers will have a field day!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I may need to use a field programmable gate array
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With Google Contributor, you contribute a certain amount of money each month. That subscription means that you see fewer ads on the web, and you support the sites that you visit with your money. "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion"
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To quote Dr. McCoy: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."
Kent Sharkey wrote: "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion" So when is CP implementing this?
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Recently, on an interview, I was explaining to an enthusiastic candidate what is TDD. Just like a table saw is a design methodology for a house
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Pshaw... that requires a house saw.
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Or a house saw factory builder pattern ...
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TDD is an anti-pattern
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Competitive coding, where programmers race to be the first to come up with the solution to complicated code challenges, has exploded in popularity as a place for Silicon Valley firms like Facebook and Google to find top talent. This blurb writer thinks they need a yellow card for silliness
Or 10 yard penalty, depending on which side of which ocean you live on.
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I would not hire any of the participants.
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Commentator: And Smith has selected a for loop...
Color guy: Interesting choice, that, I was sure he'd go for a while loop here...
Commentator: Oh no! Smith has tried to use a single-character variable name! There's a flag on the play!
Color guy: I see this time and time again with Smith. He needs to understand that a short-term gain will usually lead to a long-term loss.
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Commentator: Meanwhile Johnson is compiling, will his code work on the first try?
Color guy: If it does Smith is done for!
Sounds exciting indeed...
Well, I guess this could actually work!
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Commentator: Johnson presses Run...
Color guy: There's a buzz from the crowd.
Commentator: And now a fizz. Another two buzzes...
Color guy: Can Johnson go all the way?
Commentator: A fizz!
Color guy: Johnson has done it!
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Welcome to the 5 'o clock news.
A series of riots broke out yesterday in Silicon Valley after Johnson beat Smith in a programming competition.
Outraged fans of Smith went out on the streets and left a trail of destruction.
Cars were burned and windows were smashed, the damage is said to be in the millions.
Five people have been arrested of which two were released this morning.
This has been the third incident related to programming competitions.
Organizations such as IETF, W3C and IEEE and companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together with the police to prevent such incidents in the future.
Today protesters have been handing out pamphlets saying "F5 - crash software, not streets".
These protesters say the police isn't doing enough to solve these 'real life bugs' and they've had it with these coding hooligans.
We tried to reach a police spokesperson, but no one was available for further comments.
In other news...
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Maybe they could get it televised on The Ocho.
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Oh, and...
Eggheads
In a world where intelligence takes precedence over athletics, Quinn replaces his double who is in hiding and competes as the captain of team in a sport named "Mindgame" which implements rugby-style activity with answering high caliber questions. Quinn discovers that his double was targeted by thugs who want him to throw the game to satisfy his gambling debts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702728/?ref_=ttep_ep6[^]
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Researchers at Google DeepMind ratchet up the performance of its self-learning AI to let it best humans in an even wider range of games. But it still has trouble with Ms Pacman. I was never very good at Asteroid either
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Asteroids
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You play the video games you want, I'll play the ones I want
TTFN - Kent
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