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Since the beginning of the consumer tech industry, there’s really only been one business model for hardware startups: build a product and hope people buy it.
That’s starting to change - the hardware market is now starting to look more and more like the software business and several Canadian startups are starting to take advantage of this new market. Well that's a mouthful.
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One man's journey learning Clojure. Embrace the parentheses.
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Quote: Perhaps the next thing that hits you, coming from a background in Java, is the lack of static type checking. (
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On the other hand, it’s a bit like ‘Holy-cow, I’m just receiving a map as an argument to my function! What the hell has it got in it?’ Err, yeah, your guess is as good as mine4.
But if you can live without the typing of Java, then Clojure is remarkably productive.
I think I'll pass.
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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Sounds like JavaScript.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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Apache Spark is quickly becoming a core technology for big data analytics in a surprisingly short period of time. Reason 1: It's too early to call
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I found myself in somewhat of a unique position last week: I’d made the Ashley Madison data searchable for verified subscribers of Have I been pwned? (HIBP) and now – perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect – I was being inundated with email. I mean hundreds of emails every day with people asking questions about the data. Not just asking questions, but often giving me their life stories as well. In the words of Shaggy: "It wasn't me."
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I'm not. I've never gone wrong betting on human stupidity.
... and now back to reveling in schadenfreude over the fiasco. 
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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New research from data security solutions vendor Imperva sheds new light into directed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against businesses, showing not only are attack volumes increasing – attacks are lasting longer as well.. Harder, better, faster, stronger.
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Google has secretly hidden a tool inside its search results that recruits talented new programmers for the company. Searching for some complex programming terms can lead to access to a series of online puzzles. Solving the puzzles can lead to a job. Guess my searches for cat videos didn't grab Sergey's or Larry's attention.
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This is actually part of Google's super secret recruiting tool. Congrats on the interview!
(Doh!  )
Kevin Priddle
Editor and Special Projects Manager - CodeProject
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Yet another reason to block Google in your firewall.
Nice way for them to see what you're working on and steal your ideas....
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Evasive tactics:
1. Distribute your searches over multiple search engines
2. Cloak you searches by searching for a lot of different useless terms as well
3. Further pad the searches with Cat Video searches
4. DO NOT SEARCH FOR BACON - the immediate give away.
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Facebook has unveiled a new service that can suggest gifts and restaurants at your request - and then buy stuff and make reservations on your behalf.
Facebook M is a personal digital assistant – like Apple's Siri, Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana – that will become part of Facebook's standalone Messenger app. Judi Dench is that you?
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Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination.
One day, University of Wyoming AI researcher Jeff Clune plans to build this kind of artificially intelligent agent, and he already has the blueprints. Teaching Skynet Jr. to think outside the box.
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And as in another message some days (or maybe a pair of weeks) ago...
I hope not to see it. It won't be nice if they manage to be successful
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This score is kind of insane.
Tesla Motors Inc.’s all-wheel-drive version of the battery-powered Model S, the P85D, earned a 103 out of a possible 100 in an evaluation by Consumer Reports magazine.
The combination of power and efficiency was so off-the-chart that the group had to recalibrate its ratings methods “to account for the car’s exceptionally strong performance,” according to a statement. Ultimately, the car was given a score of 100 that set a new standard for perfection. At $105,000 a pop, it will also literally break your wallet.
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In announcing its latest app initiative Wednesday, Amazon put an italicized emphasis on the fact that apps and games in the new "Amazon Underground" section are "actually free" for Android devices. That means users can go on an in-app purchase shopping spree for all of the chapters, items, options, and "energy" they want, while developers get pennies on the hour in exchange for giving up their beloved monetization plan. Penny for your thoughts?
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Globally, the report notes that AT&T, Bell Canada, Bharti Airtel, Cricket, Telefonica de España, Verizon, Viettel Peru S.a.c., Vodafone NL, and Vodafone Spain are all now using stealth headers. In many of these instances there's no opt-out mechanisms in place for users, or the opt-in mechanisms that exist don't actually work. Where's Rick Grimes when you need him?
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It's that time of year again. Apple's next iPhone event will take place on September 9th at 10AM PT, live at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. This is expected to be the unveiling of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, which are reported to have animated wallpapers, 4K video capabilities, upgraded 12-megapixel cameras and front-facing flash, among other new features. We may even see something about force-touch iPhones. Let me guess, it will be the same phone with slightly different features...or it will be the iPhone 7, which in that case it will be the same phone only slightly bigger.
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Google is taking its recruiting efforts to its search engine, looking for programmers who search for particular programming terms. When Max Rosett, an aspiring computer engineer, took to Google search to get help on his project, he found himself on the other side of a two-sided mirror being cross-examined by Google without even knowing it. If only it was always this easy. What if I Google "Hey, give me a job!"
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They obviously hired Leslie[^] as well. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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