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I will officially have "30 years experience" for all things iWhatever in a mere 7 months from now, for in 1987 I came up with the first i-naming convention for products and/or services provided by Apple.
iHug = internal (then, later, international) HyperCard User Group; a 'service' officially sponsored by Apple.
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Cool! It seems since the birth of the web, technology has been going through the vowels. Back in the 90's, everything started with an "e". I worked for a company called eLoyalty. You saw it everywhere. Apple has the "i", iPhone etc. I wonder when the letter "o" will get its chance. oMaps, oPhone, oMy! 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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oCrap! 
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Speaking[^] of which...
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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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And don't for get the x phase: xbox, XML, xxx...
Jeremy Falcon
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Not surprised. The budget for mobile apps is pretty low and new grads are cheaper than experienced programmers
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The open source Node.js community is "completely feral" and full of coders who "don't know what they're doing". But it is also an indicator of "what the next 15 years of development will be like". Presented without comment, but I'm sure others will have some
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"It's completely feral, lots and lots of people hacking infrastructure code without knowing what they're doing - there are plenty of people using their stuff and building APIs within their companies, and guess what - it works, despite the fact it's pretty crazy."
House of cards. The sooner we get AI's to write our programs, the better.
Marc
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Not if the AI's are created by the feral Node.js kiddies...
#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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Well It's definitely something that starts with a 'C' and an 'F' anyway. 
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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Various definitions of "feral cats" I found:
1. ... has been born into wildness or has not had human interaction for a significant period of time and is self-sufficient.
2. ... is unsocialized and tends to be fearful of people and keep a distance.
3. ... are the result of being abandoned or lost and left to fend for itself.
Apropos? I'm a (tangential) member of the node community, and at least #2 applies. 
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Researchers from Cambridge University have created a semiconductor assembly that blurs the line between electricity and light, and they think we can commercialize it to make optical spintronics — using electron spin in electronics — a reality. Like sunshine in a glass!
I'm pretty sure with all of that moderately high end physicspeak that it's not "5-10 years off"
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In other words, whether the glass has 1/2 liquid light or none at all, since the remainder is air light, the glass is always full!
Well, except when the glass is stored in the dark cupboard...
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Imagine the marketing possibilities, light beer, light martini, light daiquiri...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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a nanophotonic torque converter...polaritons...excitons..."
I feel like I'm listening to Geordi and Wesley talking to some alien about interdimensional travel.
Marc
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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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The space agency has launched a new portal for the public to access scientific data without parting with a penny. Still nothing about the aliens at Roswell
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That's because they're not in Roswell.
#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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Of course! Mystery solved!
TTFN - Kent
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Sales fall by 76% in the June quarter, says Gartner From zero to 'really zero'?
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Everything matches now!
Zero value.
Zero interest.
Zero sales.
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So that means all the crap Microsoft has spent money on in the last 10 years has come for naught, and now the desktop is stuck with an obscure and pointless touch-compatible forced-update interface that nobody (even mobile users) likes.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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