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Even if you really wanted to buy a Windows phone, Microsoft has run out of Windows Phone devices to sell to you. They're now collector's items?
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finally after all these year..nutella can now rest.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre. This type of model can shed light on how the human brain may be performing the same tasks. "Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk"
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EarthNow's satellite network will let you view the whole planet in real time. Because the cameras must be ... oh. dang.
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"He sees you when you're sleeping" [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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SKYNET in 10,9...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Want to join the 27 million open-source programmers who develop on GitHub? Here's how to get your start. So you too can enjoy merge resolution
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The UW team's low-power prototype can stream 720p HD videos at 10 frames per second to a device, like a laptop, up to 14 feet away. Because the cameras must be everywhere!
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10 frames per second - that's truly appalling.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: 10 frames per second - that's truly appalling.
...and seizure inducing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Last year, a company that was interested in hiring me as a software developer asked me to build a food delivery application for a fictional restaurant, as a way to test my coding abilities. "You better take care of your homework fella. If you don't somebody will"
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If I want to do someone's homework I'll look at QA.
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Last year I was tasked with an Automatic Teller Machine application, an eCommerce translation, and my favorite the law firm that wanted an application to scrape data from a third party case management database.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011. "Flash, ah, savior of the universe"
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I’ve never seen a tech company give up on a project so quickly since Microsoft bet big on the Kin, but Intel may have taken the cake as it announces the closure of the division responsible for its intriguing Vaunt smart glasses. Are they trying to compete with Google for cancelling projects now?
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MySQL 8.0 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database with improvements across the board. Make it YourSQL
Or stick with MariaDB/PostgreSQL, that works too. Maybe even that one... what creative name does Microsoft use for their SQL server again?
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Microsoft has updated Blazor -- for full-stack Web apps coded in C# -- with new features including the ability to create reusable component libraries. Sorry, I can't think of anything funnier than a product named Blazor
It's a bad 90s cartoon come to life
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Joining Apple, Google, Amazon, and other tech giants in becoming more self-reliant So they can hardware-accelerate the privacy invasion?
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The don't want to be held hostage by those Ruffles and Doritos people.
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Bwahahaha!   for that zinger Kent! The dry humor in the Daily News subtitles is much appreciated.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it’s investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed by third-party JavaScript trackers embedded on websites using Login With Facebook. "Move fast and break things"
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The desktop release includes autoplaying content muted by default, security improvements, and new developer features. I'm sure they'll find a new way to irritate us soon
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Employees must first be trained to spot a phishing scheme before they can prevent it. Keep the users off the network?
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Using the same kind of electrodes as found in a TENS machine, they have created a method to generate physical forces while keeping the users’ hands free to interact unencumbered—not only with virtual objects but also with physical objects, such as props and appliances. Beware the virtual 20-tonne weight
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As .NET Core 2.1 is in its final stages of being released, I thought it would be a good time to have some fun and take a tour through some of the myriad of performance improvements that have found their way into this release. I hear it's good to keep your core improved
Or should I have gone with a quote from the movie The Core? Or has no one seen that one? (I know I actively missed it).
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