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Dominic Burford wrote: Why is "Copying and pasting off the Internet" not the number one skill
Because this[^] is the number one skill. 
/ravi
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I saw that previously but it's still funny 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Yup, no Full Stackoverflow developers desk is complete without that one.
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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SFW&C: [^]. The quoted comment is at the very end of the video.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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This surprised me. It's almost out of the uncanny valley. My guess would be that these are still pre-programmed phrases just for show. Usually these quite good looking androids lack neural networks and are just better ELIZA program with voice recognition software-wise.
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Quite probable the interchange between Hanson and "Sophie" was a joke.
Also quite possible that if Hanson had said "Do you want to destroy banana splits ?," that Sophie would have said: "Okay, I will destroy banana splits."
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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No, I do understand it was a planned joke. That's my point. It would be harder for a neural network driven AI to plan (pre-program) these. I'm just commenting that higher level of realistic face/body in these robots/androids usually means less sophisticated software.
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Smart K8 wrote: higher level of realistic face/body in these robots/androids usually means less sophisticated software
And your evidence for this is ?Smart K8 wrote: It would be harder for a neural network driven AI to plan (pre-program) these
I could easily program a voice-recognition facility to respond to a specific phrase, and I suspect that is what was done here.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Exactly. That's voice recognition and reply implies Speech-to-Text => programming => Text-to-Speech. That's less sophisticated for me than Speech => (deep) neural network => Speech. The observation is just from my experience. Usually deep neural networks don't even have robot and are just software. More sophisticated robots use programs with expert systems or lower grade neural networks (not RNN, etc.). These best looking are usually so concentrated on realistic face gestures, skin texture, hair, teeth. But they usually lack more sophisticated software. Just my comment, no need to treat it like a statement of a fact. There're of course exceptions, but it was just my general observation. But I'll sit in the corner if my opinion was too much. 
modified 17-Mar-16 10:16am.
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Opinion: It can stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. Right. Like that's ever going to happen. Their legal department has to sue someone - how else can they justify their existence?
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Here's the general rule for patent, trademark and copyright infringement cases.
1) Is the company actually making something?
2) If No, they are just out for money
3) If Yes, they are trying to get rights to a patent, trademark or copyright.
This isn't about Android patents, but Microsoft trying to get some concessions out of Google. It's rather ironic that Google threw a fit about Chrome on Windows and yet blocks Microsoft on Android. Both need to be slapped around a bit, told to say "sorry" and make up. Then kill Apple together.
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Electronic clocks automatically reset the time—a subtle convenience made possible by the rise of the global Internet, a network of real-life atomic clocks, and a physicist who has spent decades finding smarter ways to distribute time. A man with one clock knows the time, a man with two clocks is never sure
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Some people frequently check and re-check their mobile phones. Once this impulse is triggered, it may be more a question of not being able to leave the device alone than actually hoping to gain some reward from it. "But every junkie's like a settin' sun"
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"If you pick your phone because you think it says something about your personality, you have a mental defect not a personality" -- some random internet snarker somewhere.
/trollface
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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It lacks the discipline to be a serious software engineering language, thanks to loose typing and freewheeling coercions, and their wildly inconsistent semantics. So, let's do everything in it!
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Medium: It lacks the discipline to be a serious software engineering language ...
Very true. Let's not mention the number of js frameworks[^] bred everywhere.
modified 17-Mar-16 8:13am.
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Its horses for courses.
It is like saying an F1 car is useless because there is no room for child seats.
Or that a small family car is useless because it cannot go at 250MPH.
Use the right tool for the job.
There are some jobs where JavaScript is a perfectly adequate tool and others where assembler is a better tool. There are other languages as well (apparently).
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Have you ever read(include understanding) the Article ? Or you just come and jump to comment here ?
What a useless analogy ! And who said js useless. It doesn't say that.
Please read the article including the comments.No need to start tedious thread here. It's sufficlent enough to tell you what it lacks to be a disciplined serious software engineering.If you don't know software engineering then that another story.
Quote: Use the right tool for the job.
I'm querying my database to expose the data to the world ![^]
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Although security breach stories regularly make the headlines, a new survey shows that the biggest worry IT teams have with current security solutions is that they slow down the system. "You can have it cheap, fast or good. Pick any two"
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After months of anticipation and a mix of official and internally communicated delays, Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows 10 Mobile upgrade is on the eve of being deployed. Hopefully not just in time to get cancelled
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The new version due later this year will feature parallel algorithms, but Concepts, modules, and co-routines will have to wait for a future upgrade. "Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
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Kent Sharkey Bjarne Stroustrup wrote:
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
It's not doing a very good job of it at the moment though, they keep adding features, rarely deprecate things, and fail to deliver the two features that may help manage the complexity (concepts and modules).
Concepts, alone, have been under the standardisation process for around 20 years. For a feature that may finally make error messages grokkable, that's a hell of a long time. Modules have been desirable as long as C++ has existed.
"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've no problem with punting concepts, modules and co-routines down the road since all three are half-baked right now. However, I would have liked to have seen a genuine effort to get networking into c++17. Beefing up synchronization would have also helped (adding semaphores and events.)
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If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. It's completely a coincidence that they're trying to push AMP
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I'll tell you why rumors of Perl's death have been greatly exaggerated. It just deserves to be
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