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Google has announced that it will provide up to $50 million for organizations that can help encourage more girls to take an interest in computer science at an early age. Encouraging the other half of the next generation of coders
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Kent Sharkey wrote: encourage more girls to take an interest in computer scientists
would be OK too.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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We need a website for that!
TTFN - Kent
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With reactions like that, no wonder there are no women in the field.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Well it is a total sausage fest in here.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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The Supreme Court ruled in a closely watched patent case that has implications for U.S. innovation and, especially, for the technology sector. "On a computer" isn't grounds for a patent. Hopefully they can get rid of software patents in general.
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The web is a rich computing platform with unparalleled reach. In recent years, mobile devices have brought the web to billions of new users and introduced many new device capabilities, screen sizes, input methods, and more. To help developers navigate this brave new world, we built Web Fundamentals, a curated source for modern best practices. Today, we’re making it even easier to build multi-device experiences with the Beta release of the Web Starter Kit. I dunno. Do you think this web thing will take off?
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Naw it's just a fad. Give it a while and all those crazy kids will be using Rolodexs and that fancy Dewey Decimal System again.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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When the D-Wave 2 was first released last year, it was accompanied by a tidal wave of hype. The machine was a self-proclaimed quantum computer, commercially available to anyone with $15 million to spend, and attracting the attention of everyone from NASA to the NSA. The cat died
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The cat died
Sounds like an outstanding success to me. Let's put in more cats.
Kent Sharkey wrote: everyone from NASA to the NSA
Seems a fairly narrow band.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Quantum is come from the Latin quantus - 'how much', and has nothing qualitas - quality!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The project also got a crucial assist from Microsoft Research, which tested out the classical simulations on its high-powered computer clusters
Hmmm, I smell a Wumpus. 
Marc
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Ever wanted to put your phone in your pocket and have it charge? Well, those with compatible wireless devices will soon have the means to fulfill their dreams thanks to British designer Adrien Sauvage. Sauvage has partnered with Microsoft to create a pair of trousers that can wirelessly charge compatible mobile devices. Are you happy to see me, or are you just charging your iPad?
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Wasn't there an article the other day about the danger of carrying your cell phone in your trousers pocket?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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And a load into your bollocks (or a zap anyway)
TTFN - Kent
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How Your Contributions to the F# Language, Compiler and Core Library Are Delivered Cross-Platform. You don't get your name on the box though
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The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for "Recommendation" status, perhaps by year's end. Then we can expect full browser support by decade's end
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Let make it clear. On the 17th W3C made the last call upon HTML5, that means that only one month left for bug reports (no feature request anymore), and then it will be out within few months, depending on the amount of the work the team have to do...
BUT!!! And this is a very huge but! It's only about the real HTML part of the HTML5 concept. It does not contain the over 200 JavaScript libraries proposed with HTML5...I believe that support for the new HTML features - as long as it concerns new tags - is here for most of the browsers (OK not for IE), but that's the easy part! So, end of decade? Sounds too optimistic...
(By the way, on the same day work started on HTML5.1!)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Then we can expect full browser support by decade's end
And another decade after that for market share of Legacy IE versions that don't support all of it to fade away enough we can stop caring about them. 
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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Today we are happy to announce the release of Go 1.3. This release comes six months after our last major release and provides better performance, improved tools, support for running Go in new environments, and more. Now with that vital - and missed - support for Plan 9
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Microsoft is adopting new philosophies as it develops a strategy to compete with Amazon and Google in the market for cloud computing. "Embrace, extend, extinguish"
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It's not exactly a new direction - they've been embracing open source in dev div for several years now - Gigaom only just noticed?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah, it takes time for news to filter down to the bottom feeders. It's probably at least one more year before some of the most worthless bits of insider filler catch on.
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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I suspect it's because he (The Gu) was just at their 'conference' getting interviewed.
TTFN - Kent
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