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The best part about statistics is that there are so many of them. The article below this one states that there were 2.8bn internet users in 2014 and the total is growing at 8%/year; which gives a 2015 number of only 3 billion.
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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Mary Meeker, a longtime Internet analyst and current partner at prominent VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, dropped her annual information bomb on the crowd at the Code Conference here today. You are here
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil has made headlines with his provocative yet often accurate predictions, like that a computer would beat a human in chess (already happened) or that self-driving cars would take us everywhere (starting to happen). "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
OK, the headline is pretty (I hate the term) click-baity, and it's Kurzweil's usual schtick, but here you go.
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I'm still waiting for this[^]! We've passed the year 2000 a while ago, we should have that by now!
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The problem with his predicition is that he assumes we can continue our "business as usual" despite the fact that our current lifestyle is everything but sustainable. We're already exploiting the planet more than it can stand, and there is no sign of slowing down. Therefore, I think by the middle of the 21st century, we will have done so much damage to our ecosphere that we finally start to know the consequences of our malpractice, and the bottlenecks we faced but always ignored and denied will eventually become a serious threat to civilisation and our species overall: The end of the oil age and the lack of mature alternatives in place to cover our ever growing hunger for energy because we bet on fossile fuels for too long, overcrowding of the planet, climate change and eco-refugees, deplation of resources that lead to a beginning phosphor crisis... the list goes on. And this guy has nothing better to do than maundering about AI supplanting human intelligence... but given all these facts, what intelligence exactly?
As if we had no problems that are more severe.
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It’s been 14 years since a group of software developers put their heads together and came up with a manifesto that took the IT world by storm. We asked Agile Manifesto co-author Brian Marick what remains of the original ideas today. I can honestly say it means as much to me as it ever has
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It means all the money that was once wasted on failed or delayed software projects is now wasted on consultants and workshops... so you are right: net zero
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The funniest part is the graphic in the top right corner, which shows Google auto-suggest results when you type in "agile is".
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This public preview gives an early look into many of the capabilities in the release and allows early adopters to get engaged by testing the preview in their environments or via a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. The greatest database preview (released - so far - today)!
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Google v. Oracle: Unlicensed use of APIs might be a fair use, US says. This blurb is (c) 2015, CodeProject
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I may want to use the word "blurb" in a conversation - I have a lot of experience of using words that start with "b" in a conversation - so please cease and desist using that word or I may be forced to sue for infringement of a patent on a word that starts with "b".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Blasphemy! Blurb belongs broadly! Bring battle, Bubbah!
TTFN - Kent
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U.S. and Chinese researchers have developed semiconductor chips that are nearly entirely made out of wood-derived material. Gonna go whittle me a new computer!
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Now we have more than one type of bug to worry about.
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A recently discovered bug in Apple’s mobile OS means that anyone can effectively crash another individual’s iPhone, or send it into Safe Mode if jailbroken, by simply sending a SMS or iMessage containing a specific set of non-Latin characters. Remember: with great power comes great responibility
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Kent Sharkey wrote: great responibility
What is the meaning of this?! 
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If I didn't make mistakes, how would you lot know I was working?
TTFN - Kent
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So it was no bot work!
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A programmer walks into a job interview and is asked to write the most efficient program to output the first five primes. To the whiteboard!
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its a one-liner:
print("2, 3, 5, 7, 13");
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: its a one-liner:
Ingenious! Because I thought the same thing.
We are geniuses.
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Already posted (see eighth post below this one).
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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One of the most common questions we receive is if Microsoft is going to charge for updates to Windows 10. 100% guaranteed. Maybe. Ask again later.
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The astronauts on NASA’s Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 paved the way for a pivotal moment in human history, but in the process, introduced an entirely new kind of space exploration mystery. "To boldly go..."
Ah, the romance of space travel
modified 26-May-15 22:20pm.
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