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"Smartphones are becoming smarter, and will be smarter than you by 2017," says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. "If there is heavy traffic, it will wake you up early for a meeting with your boss, or simply send an apology if it is a meeting with your colleague. The smartphone will gather contextual information from its calendar, its sensors, the user's location and personal data". Yeah? Let's see if Mr. Smartypants can stop me from removing the battery. Oh. drat.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If there is heavy traffic, it will wake you up early for a meeting with your boss
One needs not be smart to do so; just check the amount of traffic, check the calendar and check the current time. Can be described in a few lines of pseudo-code.
Kent Sharkey wrote: or simply send an apology if it is a meeting with your colleague.
Yesyes, the boss is more important than a collegue in your little world, so it can indeed automate that decision.
Kent Sharkey wrote: The smartphone will gather contextual information from its calendar, its sensors, the user's location and personal data
Yeh, we call that "gathering data". When is the part coming where it's becoming "smart"?
The only thing I can see here that's "smart", is the explicit mention of the users' location. A non-engineer would not call the GPS a sensor.
Kent Sharkey wrote: research vice president at Gartner.
Isn't it ironic? 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Poor old Kent gets a lot of stick there, where in fact he's quoting some douche at Gartner.
(I blame the "quote" system, not you)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You're right, and I usually replace the "quoted by" text; should've done that here too, ofc.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yeah, I was originally going to use the blurb, "Oh, it's 2017 already?"
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Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile their code once to run on any hardware platform and embed their PNaCl application in any website. Stop me if you're heard this one before
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Microsoft-centric languages C#, Transact-SQL, and Visual Basic.Net see a boost, but last month's surge for Groovy now cited as a glitch From the department of, "Yes, we are mostly guessing about this, why do you ask?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: From the department of, "Yes, we are mostly guessing about this, why do you ask?"
If you know Tiobe's rankings are a fresh steaming pile of elephant droppings; why do you continue to legitimize them by reporting them in any fashion at all?
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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Dan Neely wrote: If you know Tiobe's rankings are a fresh steaming pile of elephant droppings; why do you continue to legitimize them by reporting them in any fashion at all?
/shrug I really admit I haven't a clue. Maybe just blind hope that maybe this time they'll be legitimate. Or maybe just for the people who's epeen is tied up in seeing their programming language high in any ranking.
Loved the bit about Groovy though, "It's high score: that was a bug." That should be the title of the Tiobe report.
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First Floor Software, makers of XAML Spy, is now offering a free version of their flagship product. Known as XAML Spy Express, this product allows developers to browse the visual tree of a running application. Unlike its open source competitor, Snoop, XAML Spy supports Silverlight, Windows Store, and Windows Phone in addition to WPF. Note that examining Silverlight 3/4 apps requires having Silverlight 5 installed. That's 'free' as in 'no cost', not 'subject to a despotic government'
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Interested in learning the basics of C++? Become one of those wise C++ devs. Long grey beard available separately.
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Google's Motorola Mobility division has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a "system and method" to tattoo a mobile-device microphone with lie-detector circuitry onto your throat. "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
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So who wears this? The CEO's? They typically get the best gadgets
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It would be going off like a fire alarm if that were the case.
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well, we wouldn't be surprised then won't we!? 
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Now if we can just pass a law that this device would be required on all (alive) past, current & future politicians...
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That would really only affect the half that answer questions. The other half won't answer anything you ask them.
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Netflix and YouTube together make up half of peak Internet traffic in North America while their main rivals barely register, a study says. At the same time, file sharing is a sliver of its former self. That's a lot of cat videos
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After more than two years on the market, Chromebooks appear to be suffering from the same malaise as netbooks. The latest figures from IDC show that only Samsung has been able to ship more than "tiny volumes" of Chromebooks, and most sales have been in the K-12 education market, not to consumers. 'Almost but not quite laptops' fail when compared against laptops. News at 11.
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Microsoft issued an e-mail to Windows Phone 7 and Zune users over the weekend, saying that Xbox Video content they currently own will no longer be accessible on their devices starting in late February. I suppose all good things (or bad things) must come to an end.
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British neuroscientist David Nutt says his substitute booze would still be relaxing, but without the negative side effects. How is it with a little tonic water?
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I think in honor of the inventor the first concoction should be called the Nutt Job.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Android developers can choose to have their apps translated and deployed all the way from Albania to Zimbabwe. Of course, they're just using Google translate, so it might not be helpful
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