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If a rewrite can vastly improve R's dismal performance, why not?
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Humans will be taken care of like pets should robots take over because AI will want to preserve us as part of nature. Who's a good boy? Are you a good boy? Such a GOOD boy!
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Sounds good to me. First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans, but after that, I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet. Somebody has to come in and do some "pest" management, after all.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans
By most, of course, you don't mean me. You, perhaps, but not me. 
Marc Clifton wrote: I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet.
Doesn't all this depend upon how we program them? All of this apocalyptic robots taking over world depends on them not having any fail-safes that stop them from exterminating us, otherwise we might as well just call them Daleks.
BTW, what would be wrong with the 3 laws? it was only the introduction of the zeroeth law that caused the problems, as I recall.
Exterminate, exterminate!
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What are they going to be programmed in JavaScript? Wait, I already get treated like a pet. No, a lab rat!
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Why would robots want to preserve us as a part of nature?
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Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emailed the troops as the company comes to the end of the fiscal year, revealing that "Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" is the new official mission statement, and going on to lay out a worldview, strategies and ambitions, and culture for the company moving forward. "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
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Wow, it's amazing what passes for journalism nowadays.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is shotty journalism but awesome click-bait.
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Microsoft is clearly moving in the direction of one OS for every form factor.
How a journalist can get from that to 'no phones' is beyond me.
That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem - development environment, desktop, laptop, the whole thing. It would be the straw that broke this camel's back.
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MehGerbil wrote: That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem
Funny, it was the push to Metro in Windows 8 that encouraged me to move to Mac.
I think Microsoft are very confused over what they should be doing, and which direction they should be heading in at the moment.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yahoo has cut a deal with Oracle to promote Yahoo alongside its Java technology Because they didn't learn from the Ask Toolbar fiasco?
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Oracle, Java, Yahoo!
Seems like a good match.
All 2nd choices. 
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Today we're proud to announce Atom 1.0. It's amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000 monthly active users. STOP THE PRESSES: text editor released!
I'm sorry. I'm done. There can be no bigger news in the history of mankind. I must go somewhere and weep.
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 We need a Federal Department of Text Editors to tell us all which underpowered text editor to use. 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I saw the announcement on twitter and thought along the same lines.
"Yes! Another text editor. I haven't slept in quite some time, just contemplating all night when the next text editor would release."
Huge news. Huge.
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Can everyone gather round and give Kent a hug and/or a stiff drink.
It's been a rough day on the press floor.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Gets my sympathy vote 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Just like with Swift, what is Atom? 
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Its the text editor. For MS developer's, it may be best known as the editor they chose to base the new cross platform text editor Visual Studio Code.
The Next Web[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's alright, I was only being sarcastic. But thanks for the clarification.
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Mobile app development (and the changes that it brings to the table) are influencing mobile platform architecture in a major way. At present, mobile app development is taking a new route owing to the changes in technology. How is this going to modify mobile platform architecture in the near future? Let us find out by going through six crucial design considerations that will be the torchbearers of the next-gen mobile platform architecture. Smartphones, tablets, phablets, wearables, oh my!
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For some reason, I find phrases like .."allow users to make the most of various mobile platforms." irritating. It is utter, meaningless fluff. A waste of good oxygen.
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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Doesn't really say anything about the next generation of mobile architecture at all. It tells us what we have now, and simply tells us that we need more of the same.
There was no real insight or predictions being made.
"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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