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Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will. You can do your shopping at home or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam.
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Our users have often told us that they would like to do even more with their Chromebooks -- run more apps, use Office files more easily, connect with a variety of apps, and do more when they’re offline. So we're bringing Google Play to Chromebooks. (the newer ones, at least. maybe you should buy a new one *wink wink*)
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One of the things you may not realize is that Uber can tell when your phone battery is about to die. In an episode of NPR’s The Hidden Brain, Uber’s head of economic research Keith Chen says when you hit accept to download, you give Uber the permission to know this in order to tell when to switch to low-power mode. Alcohol declined to comment.
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The new store, which opens this Saturday, includes 42-foot sliding glass doors that double as two-story windows, a 6K video screen on the second floor, and living trees lining its new customer support section. Bigger, shinier, and more pretentious.
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The typical solar PV power installation requires access to a private roof and a big budget. However, wouldn't it be possible to get around these obstacles by installing small solar panels on window sills and balconies, connected to a low-voltage direct current (DC) distribution network? Author decided to power Low-tech Magazine's home office in Spain with solar energy, and write articles off the grid.
modified 20-May-16 14:34pm.
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Alphabet CEO Larry Page testified in federal court this morning, saying that he never considered getting permission to use Java APIs, because they were "free and open." "It was established industry practice," says Page, as Oracle v. Google nears end.
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At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Brought to you by people who went so you don't have to
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We started a stealthy project at Google several years ago to see what we could accomplish with our own custom accelerators for machine learning applications. My TPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer.
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I want to talk about practical, everyday things that people who aren't deeply technical can do to better protect themselves. I better go home and delete the "my secret online identity" textfile on my desktop.
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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-based) and stateless (fingerprinting-based) tracking, the effect of browser privacy tools, and "cookie syncing". Could there be an ocean too deep?
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Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is now working hard to catch up. Today, the company announced a new video calling app called Duo — a high-definition app for Android and iOS devices. 5 years later, Google answers
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A Kurdish region of Syria that borders territory held by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has received an $11,000 donation in allegedly stolen bitcoin from a vigilante hacker. Pretty sure Robin Hood gave to the poor and not militant groups, but I get where they're going with the analogy.
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A brief history of a dominant Google's soul-searching competition battle in the EU. Ivan vs. Goliath
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We’ve heard a lot about Uber’s plans to create its own self-driving vehicle, but we’ve always been curious to see what it would look like. Today, Uber gave us a glimpse of its current self-driving car. Spoiler alert: It's Navy Blue. Wait. Black? Wait.
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Tesla Motors Inc. said it will sell about $1.4 billion in stock to help pay for an expansion that includes its forthcoming Model 3 electric car and boosting annual production to 500,000 vehicles in 2018. More cars, more batteries.
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Talk about charging forward.
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Netflix really wants to show you how fast (or slow) your Internet connection is, and to do so it has launched a new website at Fast.com that conveys the real-time speed of your connection to the Web. AKA "Please stop filing your complaints to Netflix about speed issues and start filing them with your ISP."
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Never before has a skill been mythicized to such an extent: You not only need to have talent, you also need to be passionate to be able to become a good programmer. I'm just gonna slowly back away from this one ...
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All depends on what level of success you want.
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Maybe I would hire some without talent, but without passion to the job...
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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{TODO: Insert humorous comparison to QA here...}
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You do need talent and some passion, but not to such ludicrous extents as wanted in today's world. You don't need to have God-like knowledge of all platforms nor do you need to live, eat, and breathe programming passion. A working knowledge of the basics and a willingness to learn new things will get you farther than knowing everything about each system and language (and compiler, runtime, standard library, API, and so on).
Programmers that hold themselves to such high standards scare off people who seriously want to become a developer. There are examples on every site, here on CP, on StackOverflow, and many other places. Some sites are working on keeping such things to a minimum, and others aren't really doing anything.
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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Agreed, there's such a thing as too much. And no matter what that thing is, the "too much" makes it a bad thing.
However, I see the "passion" for programming as the "want" of learning something more. The "passionless" only ever want to learn as much as needed so they don't get fired, and that is not a good idea.
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Living life well requires talent and passion. Programming is no exception. If you are the exception, then you're dead.
Marc
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