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Learning to code in APL will eventually will be as readable as Ancient Greek.
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What do you mean, "eventually"? It's already the premier write-only language.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I know someone who proved that he is able to read APL.
A bit of a useless skill, but a skill nonetheless.
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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Lawmakers have been examining whether so-called loot boxes should be subject to the same rules as casinos. Daddy needs a new Vorpal Sword!
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It's Vorpal Blade! 
(Read your Jabberwocky!)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If the definition of gambling is buying something not knowing what you are going to get, then lets go after:
Pokemon cards
Engagement Ring sellers(will she say yes, or will she say no?)
"Fresh" produce at the grocery store.
feel free to add to that list...
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j snooze wrote: If the definition of gambling is buying something not knowing what you are going to get
Marriage. Well, I guess I'd phrase it "buying into something" unless you peruse those Russian bride sites. But "engagement ring" fits the original phrasing. 
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Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a microscopic data recorder, laying the groundwork for a new class of technologies that use bacterial cells for everything from disease diagnosis to environmental monitoring. Does it work in my 8-track?
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Right now the test is only in beta-max, and if that doesn't work you can cassette good-bye.
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Different types of alcoholic drink change and shape your mood in different ways, says a study into drinking and emotions. Friday night in The Lounge, explained
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I suspect they have their cause and effect backward.
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It has been exactly two months since the release of Java 9, so as per the new schedule, the next release of Java is now only four months away. Coming to a computer near you, sometime in the next decade or so
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US academics find words such as ‘airlock’ and ‘antigravity’ are cues for test subjects to assume a story isn’t worth a careful read. "Ninety percent of everything is crap"
Technically not in our bailiwick, but I figure the Venn diagram of SF and devs has enough overlap. Or maybe it's just me.
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Passed this along to some of my SF-writing friends.
Can't wait to hear from them.
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Can the explosion be seen from Low Earth Orbit?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I note you had to include an emoji because the use of sci-fi terminology meant that your readers would be unable to infer the emotional reaction intended.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Perhaps they should test the percentage of subjects that find that the phrase 'US academics' is a cue to assume that an article is nonsense.
(They can then go on to test similar phrase for other nationalities. That should keep them out of mischief for a while.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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US academics find words such as ‘airlock’ and ‘antigravity’ are cues for test subjects to assume a story isn’t worth a careful read.
Funny, for me those words are triggers for "ooh, sounds like a cool story, gotta read it!"
Academics. Perhaps they should add "ivory tower" to their list of "isn't worth a careful read." 
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Recruiting and retaining top UK tech developer talent is becoming more challenging – especially for non-tech organisations.
UK-centric (it is US Turkey day afterall), but I suspect the trend is broader
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There are places where you get more pay and respect, you can actually afford a house, and your children don't get brainwashed in the school.
The UK - driving home-grown developers away since Tony B. Liar first got elected.
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Its teamup with "Have I been Pwned" should wake up breached companies. All of them?
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This is actually a good idea.
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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The maintainer of the Linux manual program man has scrapped an "Easter egg" after it broke a user's automatic code tests. "Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away"
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What I mean by The New Microsoft is that Amazon is starting to act a lot like the old Microsoft of the 1990s. You remember -- the Bad Microsoft. Just without an operating system. Or word processor. Or IDE.
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Yeah, turns out they're releasing a rainforest now.
Jeremy Falcon
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