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Heather Knight has a friend named Data who performs standup comedy. She actually taught Data everything he knows. She programmed him. Data is a robot, a very funny robot, and part of Knight’s Marilyn Monrobot Labs in New York City. Knight has been working in robotics for just over a decade and is specifically interested in developing new ways for robots to interact with and help humans, to help us “flourish” as she puts it. Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
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https://www.coursera.org/[^]
Tapas Shome
System Software Engineer
Keen Computer Solutions
1408 Erin Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3E 2S8
http://www.keencomputer.com
www.ias-research.com/blog
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Google has bought startup VirusTotal, picking up a fledgling but widely used cybersecurity player in a move that could beef up protection for its internet services.
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Google previewed the new version Android 4.1 is nicknamed Jelly Bean.
The new OS facilitates faster ways to search content on the Internet, share photos between two phones and more has been promised as a part of the next version of Google's Android operating system for mobile devices.
Here are the highlights of the new android 4.1 Jelly Bean:[^]
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Hardly news. This post is more than 2 months old. 
/ravi
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If you work from home, you've probably gotten an eye roll or two from your office-bound friends. But as consultant Scott Edinger explains, working from home or in a remote office can lead to increased productivity, more effective communication, and better teamwork.
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That is not my experience.
Edit: Oh, wait, it says "or in a remote office" -- that I have experienced, but after they kicked me out of the remote office and made me work from home I got hardly anything done.
modified 7-Sep-12 14:31pm.
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lifehacker quote: working from home or in a remote office can lead to increased
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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Right, home or remote, I worked well remote, but not at home.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: work from home I got hardly anything done.
Inability to divorce oneself from the comforts and distractions at home. Not something I ever suffered from and I was always more productive working from home.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I am inherently lazy. That's why I became a developer. 
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Thats the one - least amount of work for the most amount of money and keep the content interesting!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: keep the content interesting
Right, never the same the same thing day after day. 
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I found it cut both ways, if you have all of the resources you need, work will get done faster without distractions. There are a ton of benefits for the employer, but consider all of the benefits the potential benefits and drawbacks for yourself.
I have worked:
- 45 minutes away from my office:
Driving the 1.5 hours a day felt like a waste of time.
- Split between work and home
This was great, however I replaced that extra 1.5 hours working to get more done.
- Exclusively at home
This was fantastic at first. However the lines blurred between work and home. I found I felt like I always needed to be at my computer just in case... Also, isolation started to set in.
- 2 minutes away from home
This felt like a great improvement over working exclusively at home. Very convenient, had this position for 6 years. I didn't realize the drawbacks until I switched to my current job.
- Now I have a 15 minute commute.
Something magical happens on my short drive home... my mind shifts from the problems I was solving that day to how I will enjoy my time at home. When I was working from home, or just next to my office, I never was able to disconnect and isolate the two places.
I appreciate having the capability to login remotely in the evenings so I only have to spend 8 hours a day in the office and if extra time is required, I can do it at leisure at home.
I don't think I will ever accept a job where I work exclusively from home again.
All of my software is powered by a single Watt.
modified 8-Sep-12 10:36am.
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"This was fantastic at first. However the lines blurred between work and home"
> Can't agree more!
dev
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but how would an employer determine if the remote worker is not just surfing pron?
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In my personal opinion, the employee is trustworthy. That's rule #1. On the other hand, if the jobs are not getting done, it's going to show quite quickly.
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Corporations are people too, my friend. [ITworld]
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Speaking at Nokia's launch of their Windows 8-powered Lumia 820 and 920, Steve Ballmer gets numeric with prediction. [ITworld]
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If anyone needs proof that Ballmer is deluded, this speech is it.
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That's a lot of stock left sitting in the warehouses.
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A tweet from MG Siegler says no more updates for the soon-to-be orphaned Twitter for Mac. [ITworld]
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couldn't anyone just write a client which scrapes the web page? not as clean as calling an API but wouldn't that avoid restrictions from Twitter?
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