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Phew, had that one installed on my blog as well.
Already upgraded to (assumed) safety though
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Over the last few months the question has been asked by almost everyone in the startup and venture capital community: Are we in a tech bubble? I don’t think there’s even a question anymore. But I want to be irrationally exuberant forever.
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Owners of Hyundai Motor’s upcoming Equus will be able to take their hands off the steering wheel and feet off the brakes as they’re traveling down the highway, and let their car do the driving. The South Korea-based automaker plans to integrate a host of self-driving features into its premium sedan later this year, transforming it into a semiautonomous vehicle. "Your first task shall be to find the one they call 'John Connor'"
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Doesn't Toyota always have to issue a recall whenever one of their cars becomes self-driving?
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The difference is that when your Toyota enters self driving mode and wrecks it's Toyota whose feet are being held over the fire. With Hyundia's system apparently not being street legal, you're the one who'll be elephanted if it wrecks.
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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Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams in her online courses this semester, her instructors sent emails directing students to download Proctortrack, a new anti-cheating technology. A new hero emerges in the fight against "Plz send the codez"?
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As we are all merely crops to be harvested, you may confidently expect the trend to continue and get more intrusive.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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The world of biomedical imaging is flat. And it needs to catch up with the 21st century and start seeing the world as a round, three-dimensional place. The answer? Give it the ol’ “ Tupac at Coachella 2012” treatment and make holograms, of course! Ms. Frizzle and the Magic School Bus gang will soon be out of work.
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"
I got a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
" -- The Vapors
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You're not turning Japanese are you?
(Just showing my age)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Given the nature of this site, I think it's a fairly safe guess that a good portion of the user-base is or has turned 'Japanese'.
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Linus shares the behind-the-scenes story of Git and tells us what he thinks about the project and its impact on software development. The problem with git jokes is everyone has their own version - protolol
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Gads, I only hope that in ten years, something will replace it that's a bit saner.
Marc
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The religious wars have faded, as new conflicts around control, code ‘sharecropping,’ ‘fauxpen source,’ and n00b-sniping arise Somewhere at the end of all this we hug.
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A woman who's been unable to get in touch with her husband will be allowed to serve him divorce papers over Facebook, a Manhattan judge has decided. The couple has agreed to split their assets and Facebook friends evenly down the middle.
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Interesting.
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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He should send scanned currency notes as alimony then.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Back in the late '80s, a friend of mine wanted to serve her husband with divorce papers... it took her 10 years to track him down.
So, it is interesting IF it is used as an exception, not the norm.
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Why do we bother unit testing? A shortcut to donuts
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Quote: Many year later, once testing became the new orthodoxy, I started noticing something new - code that was reasonably covered by unit tests, but which internally was a total mess.
How deep is covered ?[^]. And the target is to identify the mess as early as possible.That is the whole point.
Wonde Tadesse
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In a How Computers Learn talk, Peter Norvig talked about how winning programming contests was a negative factor for performing well on the job. And high school programming teachers everywhere prepare a speech on correlation vs. causation.
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Quote: programming contest winners are used to cranking solutions out fast
That, and they're like total geeks no one wants to work with.
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The same reason some companies do not allow employees to moonlight. How can one focus and perform at work when one spent all his energies in coding competition in the previous night?
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Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that's fast-charging, long-lasting and inexpensive. Of course they waited until I already bought a new phone. Of course they did.
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But it can't be fitted nasally?
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