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Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM[^]
Yeah, more security holes. Just what we need.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We just released updates to the .NET Core SDK, .NET Native Tools and NuGet, all of which are included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. "Nothing endures but change."
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A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram. "Just remember that it's a Grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same. "
To modern physics levels of "substantial"
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Quote: A holographic universe, an idea first suggested in the 1990s, is one where all the information that makes up our 3-D 'reality' (plus time) is contained in a 2-D surface on its boundaries.
Atcherley, I "suggested" it in the late Seventies, but I couldn't get the numbers to work by the middle of the Eighties -- and a much simpler and more elegant possibility caught my eye, anyway.
<grump>So now I've got to go through it all again, to see what they found that I missed!</grump>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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partly responsible for the random black and white dots you see on an un-tuned TV
That certainly dates the audience of that article! 
This is a really cool and technically in depth article on the subject.
Marc
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So we're all in a Virtual Reality Simulation? Damn! Mine needs some adjustment!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just remember that it's a Grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same.
Kent boy, just how old are you? A Styx[^] reference  ?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Waaaaaaay too old for this s**t 
TTFN - Kent
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Aren't we all, brother; aren't we all.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Just remember that it's a Grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same. "
Kent, "why don't you come to your senses?"
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Modifying the “middle end” of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs. Let the compiler do it
Or: "Just replace your compiler, et voila!"
Or: Yeah, we did this with a language no one else uses. So?
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From what I've been dealing with, we clearly first have a long way to go in realm of optimizing the code that so-called programmers write.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: optimizing the code that so-called programmers write
Likely compilers are already better than many of those programmers. Some programmers use copy-paste in order to reduce function calls. Because a function call is expensive, that's decade old textbook knowledge. Well, current msbuild will do that for them even without the AggressiveInlining attribute (at least in Release mode), and we could write cleaner code instead of pseudo-optimized copy-paste...
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While compilers can improve the implementation of an algorithm, it is still the programmer's job to select the correct algorithm and/or data structure.
Sadly, few seem to understand the basics of this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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One does not preclude the other.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My crazies idea will be the moment I type the syntax convert to binaries and 0&1.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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Sure. Just ask the profiler first.
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Developers looking to retain their programming knowledge with minimal effort can use a new project called Code Cards, which uses spaced repetition. "Flash, aah, savior of the universe"
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A is for Aunt
B is for Bunt
C is... Hell, I could do this all day!
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New research shows that oxygen from Earth could be journeying all the way out to the Moon, where it then gets lodged inside the lunar soil. Breathe, breathe in the soil...
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Why is this surprising?
We know that the Earth's atmosphere disperses (by comparatively tiny amounts, but it happens), and the moon is a gravity well that's "right there", so to speak, so WTE did they expect to find?
Engage brain before requesting tax money.
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Dropbox’s software is similar to Google’s suite of workplace cloud apps. Paper — itself a minimal document editor and writing tool like Google Docs — is the focal point, while all of Dropbox’s other services and features now plug into and augment the experience. Because the world needed another cloud-attached word processor for the government to monitor
Yes, my tin-foil hat is comfortable.
Because Word, Pages, Libre Office, GDocs, Box Edit, Zoho just weren't enough. (There's probably a few dozen more that I don't know about).
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Meh - all we need is vim in the cloud.
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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A new edition of Windows 10, known currently as 'Windows 10 Cloud' may have little (if anything) to do with the cloud, but more to do with Chromebook competition. Because RT worked so well the first time
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