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I "love" articles like this; the hidden gem is that to make the chip where it "could" run off a AA battery they took it from "1.78 trillion instructions per second" to "115 billion instructions per second." In other words, they reinvented SingleStep.
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ECMAScript 2016 has limited new features due to the new philosophy of providing smaller, more frequent updates. Now ready for your cross-browser workarounds
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Using a power efficient browser is one of the best ways to get more out of your PC or tablet – whether you’re checking email, shopping online, playing games, or watching movies. Because that's definitely what I look for in a browser
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"There is no U.S.-made system that comes close to the performance of China's new system, the Sunway TaihuLight. Its theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops, according to the latest biannual release today of the world's Top500 supercomputers. It is the first system to exceed 100 petaflops. A petaflop equals one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second."
"TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise." [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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GnuCOBOL, which was initially released as OpenCOBOL in 2002. In 2013, version 1.1 was renamed to GnuCOBOL, and version 2 is, according to the core development team, "on its way to pre-release." Meet the GNU boss...
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Is it compatible with COBOL.NET?! 
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Bloomberg reports a Beijing Intellectual Property Office ruling that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus violate the design patent of a Chinese phone, and that Apple must cease sales of both models within the city. They copied their copy?
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 Who come out first win. It is stupid world!!
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Blue Origin has successfully completed the fourth launch and landing of their New Shepard rocket and crew capsule. "And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'til touchdown brings me 'round again"
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I'm continually amazed by the camera tracking capability. Very impressive (and the rocket too!)
Marc
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In the wake of last year’s downsizing in Oracle’s Java evangelism as well as their earlier announcement that they would be suspending future major releases of GlassFish server and limiting support, a group of Java standard bearers calling themselves the Java EE Guardians formulated a charter declaring their intent to come to the rescue of Java EE. "Avengers Assemble!"
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Are you a good programmer? Are you above average as a software developer? I’m almost sure that your answer is yes. Most programmers feel like that. But, of course, if most programmers think they are above average, many of them are wrong… The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is that you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger club
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There are very few really good programmers, and the worst of the bad programmers are very bad indeed -- so perhaps the average isn't where you think it is?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
There are very few really good programmers, and the worst of the bad programmers are very bad indeed
Yeah, I'm starting to think that the 10x developer is a myth, but the 0.1x developer is real (and really common).
TTFN - Kent
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The "10x programmer" is a myth, but the hero programmer is real (i.e. someone who thinks they are a 10x programmer)
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ed welch wrote: hero programmer ... thinks
LOL. Yes, I've met a few of these guys -- very dangerous, very political and can talk up a storm. Often they have good ideas, just can't really execute, but usually can obfuscate that fact until it's too late...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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I don't think the 10x programmer is real, or he/she is an extremely rare beast. But the 3x or 4x programmer is more common, I've met a few. And no, I don't think I'm one. I think I'm good, maybe above average, but not 3x or 4x.
It's also possible that good programmers have a 10x "moment".
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Downloads and installs clean copy of OS; scrubs all software not bundled with 10 Does it uninstall Windows 10?
{Ba dum pum - just pointing out again that I'm happy with Win 10. I've only had to reset it from scratch once.  }
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I didn't realize the windows OS allowed recursion.
I new it allowed re-cursing.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The official uninstallers that Adobe supplied for those wishing to remove the Flash plugin from their Windows installation have for some time been supplying hackers with a ‘privilege escalation’ attack vector. "If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double"
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Quote: Kanthak first reported the vulnerability to Adobe in March, and the company’s first patch for the exploit was issued the following month. However the patched version contained the same vulnerability, but simply loaded different DLLs.
What...?
EPIC FAIL, ADOBE!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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How is this even remotely possible?
I'm not talking about the bug. I'm talking about the complete debacle that is Flash. It has one job to do: play a flash movie. That's it. Except for years, and years and years it's been the but of all security jokes because they can't do that one simple thing without exposing the entire PC to every nasty under the sun.
It's so bad that browser manufacturers are actively blocking it[^]. Yet even with that it's still a hole ridden mess.
They made 4.759 billion last year. BILLION. Yet they couldn't find the cash to - I dunno - rewrite the whole damn mess properly?
And now they can't even uninstall it without exposing us to rancidware.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Because it's not just a video player; even if that's 99% of what it's still used for.
The cluster elephant is a full fledged language runtime like VB6 or javascript. 
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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Chris Maunder wrote: It's so bad that browser manufacturers are actively blocking it[^].
Well, I've been doing that for years now. I don't have flash installed except as a browser plugin. And every browser that has a flash plugin installed is configured to "click to play". I haven't installed the JRE either... And haven't missed it so far.
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