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Whaaa? oooh, shiny linky...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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fyi: Carr's 2008 essay in The Atlantic, "Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?," is available on-line: [^].
While I am not a Carr "groupie," I find his writing often eloquent, and thought-provoking, even if he is, often, playing the same melody over-and-over. His blog is interesting: [^].
Yes, I am an internet addict, but my heart belongs to ... printed books.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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BillWoodruff wrote: Yes, I am an internet addict, but my heart belongs to ... printed books
Eloquently stated and exactly how I feel about it.
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UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem. Fine, but if you lot find a way to un-bacon ham and ruin my breakfast, I will be upset.
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Unboil me all the bacon and eggs you have.
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OTOH if you find a way to unburn bacon you might cause the biggest drop in the number of justifiable homicides world wide in living memory.
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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Blames size of code as it confirms it won't patch WebView component on 60% of Android hardware. Updating code is *hard*
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I'm going to start using this excuse.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Your code isn't big enough.
Wait, ... that's what she said.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's not the size of the code that counts... It's how it executes!
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Computerworld wrote: Blames size of code That's what she said.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Stress levels for IT workers are on the rise, according to a survey from Regus. "You got the pressure and that's a fact. I can tell by the way you act "
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You're harshing my mellow, man. Got any good news?
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We're not about to all be killed by a rogue asteroid?
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, sure, y'all up there in the Great White North with survive.
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I though this forum was to publish current things. What has that of new?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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NASA scientists will have good chance to study asteroid 2004 BL86 during flyby. Yes, you have to go in to work on Tuesday
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I wonder if it's big enough to affect the tides...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If your enterprise hasn’t already adopted a DevOps approach, there’s officially no excuse anymore. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"
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Microsoft is privately testing a public-facing version of its Cosmos big-data service, which features new analysis and storage engines, plus a new SQL-IP language. How many records does it support? "Billions and billions"
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One-quarter of the company could be let go in the next month. (Big) "Blue eyes cryin' in the rain"
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My first thought on seeing this headline in the Insider was, "I wonder what (professional IBM basher) Cringely" thinks about it. Then I clicked the link and saw that IT World had posted a dumbed down version of an article Cringely had written for Forbes[^] which in turn was a cleaned up version of a post he'd made to his blog[^].
TLDR Should've linked to either the original or to the cleaned up version on Forbes; not the crappy content regurgitater repost.
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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Fixed the caption for you.
Marc
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Last summer, Mozilla launched a very experimental version of Firefox with support for web-based virtual reality apps that could be experienced through the Oculus Rift. Earlier this week, support for WebVR also landed in Firefox’s Nightly and Developer Edition release channels. http://thanks_but_no_thanks.com
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