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Google said today it has created a new company called Calico to make improvements in human health and well-being. Longer life to view more adverts
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Longer life to view more adverts
[Spock] Live long for adverts! [/Spock]
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Page and Brin, billionaires forever. Good for them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google said today it has created a new company called Calico to make improvements in human health and well-being.
Ah.. they're gonna distribute free healthy food and clean drinkwater in Africa?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You can enjoy immortality and eternal bliss in just three easy steps!
1) Go to the Google medical center
2) Sign the service agreement*
3) Upload your brain to the cloud
*All the information in your brain, past, present and virtual future, belongs to Google and they may use it in any way they see fit. Pretty standard stuff.
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Want a really easy orchestration tool for Ubuntu on Microsoft's Azure cloud? It's here now with Ubuntu Juju. "Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft": is it feeling a little cold in here?
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New study suggests a real impact on the business when developers and operations people put their heads together. "Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony"
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While Windows 8.1 is a free update for Windows 8 users, those running older versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system will have to purchase an upgrade to the latest edition. It's not just for upgrades anymore
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Microsoft is investigating a new remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer and preparing a security update for all supported versions of its browser. In related news: it's a week day ending in 'y'
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There's a strain of thought that because of the way Internet culture has changed the way we work and play, we're now a different people, neurologically. We don't just behave differently because of the Internet; we think differently, too. What an elephanting stupid item. Really, who's the moron that picked this?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: who's the moron that picked this?
Hey Sunshine, it's your own fault for reading it. There is no reason to blame...oh, wait. Never mind. 
All this talk about anger makes me SoMad. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Hey sunshine!!!! Putting obscure lounge memes in a mailing list that mostly goes to people who aren't master debaters is an elephanting stupid idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111oneone11!1eleventyone
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
modified 18-Sep-13 8:56am.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has spent nearly two years trying to standardize and implement Do Not Track — an HTTP header that tells advertisers and other third parties not to follow you around the internet — and the many delays and roadblocks that have cropped up since are starting to make it look like its efforts will be futile. "No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind"
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What do a McLaren Supercar, a refrigerator, a camera, a washing machine, and a cellphone have to do with open source? They're all examples of how a good pile of code can take on a new life when it's set free with an open source license. The envelope, please
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It seems that with every passing week we discover new ways that digital encryption and security is being subverted by government agencies [1] domestic and abroad. It stands to reason that encryption can no longer be trusted if the master keys for that encryption become known to others. It's far, far easier to get the keys than it is to crack the encryption, after all. "Are you the Key master?"
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The greater truth to all of this is that “hard” development skills only take you so far. You can be the greatest pure coder in the world, but if you can’t get along with people, you’re not going to get far. You need to have the people skills to get your point across while preserving and building relationships. In an instant, you can do something to lose all the credibility you’re ever had with someone, and that’s often impossible to recover from. "You have a nice personality, but not for a human being."
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Before launching into some philosophical musings about what programmers‘ crack addiction to code completion means, a few observations. "Code completion is to IDEs as Outlook is to the PC"
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I am pleased to announce that we released the Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) 1.8 today. This is the fourth update to the SDK since we first released it commercially one and a half years ago. Since then, we’ve seen numerous companies using Kinect for Windows worldwide, and more than 700,000 downloads of our SDK. Kinect-enabled Web pages?! Minority Report time!
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Many people forget that Emacs Lisp was once one of the most used open source programming languages. Viva la revolución
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If they're deluded or oblivious enough not to realize that C and C++ were major influences on Java why should I give any credit to the rest of the graphic?
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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Microsoft keeps getting its timing wrong on mobile strategy, and it's costing it market share. "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em"
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At Bing, we understand that search is more than simply finding information, it’s about taking action and gaining knowledge. Since Bing’s launch, we’ve talked about doing instead of searching, and how the web has changed from a collection of documents to a constantly growing digital version of life as we know it. At the same time, the devices and scenarios through which people experience the web are morphing at an accelerating rate. We no longer think about search as simply a box that people type into. We ‘search’ on maps using our fingers, ask our devices questions using our voice, use our social networks to figure out what’s happening, and even use our phone’s ‘eyes’ to navigate foreign cities. Search has never been asked to do so many things in so many different ways across so many devices. It’s time to change. Oh, a new logo. Yes, that's why no one was using Bing.
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modern.ie is Microsoft’s offering of tools to test your sites in different browsers; not only old IEs, but also mobile ones. No, that's not a contradiction in terms
I'm sure I (and the others) have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating (regularly)
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If you want to test a page in IE6 you don't need something like that, just use the IE6ify[^] bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){var%20i=0,r=function(n){return%20Math.floor(Math.random()*n)},f=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].getElementsByTagName('*'),o=function(e){return%20typeof(e.style)=='object'&&e.tagName!='SCRIPT'},s=function(){while(!o(e=f[r(f.length)])){}return%20e.style};while(i++<5){s().display=r(2)?'block':'inline';s().position=r(2)?'absolute':'relative';s().margin=r(2)?'0':'1em';s().padding=r(2)?'0':'1em';s().width=r(2)?'':'auto';}})();
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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Brilliant. Works especially well after the third (or so) click.
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TTFN - Kent
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