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Scene: Two developer arguing vehemently in hallway about algorithm.
Manager: Well, it's code... who can really say. It's all the same just mixed around a bit, right?
First Developer (pauses arugment): "Yes, you are right. So, we'll use Fred's code..."
Second Developer (Fred): Smiling....
First Developer : Uh, you're on call when your W#$%&*! hits the fan -- erm... your code goes into production.
Who can really say? 
Edit This little dramatization has been in support of your list of items. 
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article wrote: nominally
If s/he were SERIOUSLY / EXTREMELY / ABSOLUTELY above developers then there'd be no argument.
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Allo, the standalone messaging app that Google announced back in May, is now available to the masses — and probably smarter than any messaging app you’ve ever used. Just in case you were looking for a messaging app. They're pretty rare.
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I want a counter bot messaging app. It will do nothing extra when a human written message comes in. But when it detects a sunshine is trying to use a bot to fake interacting with me, it'll send a reply using its own bot. It will then put the original offending message and its reply into my trash folder so I never see either of them.
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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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “unlock human potential and promote equality,” today announced “Chan Zuckerberg Science,” a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.” Yeah, that should just about cover the cost
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Oh, I thought it was $3 is what they're giving each diseased kid, all billion of them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “unlock human potential and promote equality,” today announced “Chan Zuckerberg Science,” a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.” dodge taxes Yeah, that should just about cover the cost
FTFY 
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A Cisco bug report addressing “partial data traffic loss” on the company’s ASR 9000 Series routers contends that a “possible trigger is cosmic radiation causing SEU soft errors.” I now have an explanation for all future bugs
It definitely beats, "My dog ate my data"
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Reminds me of Don Lemon on CNN postulating whether black holes were responsible for that Malaysian plane.
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"Could be network issues due to cosmic radiation" sure beats troubleshooting your servers. This is irresponsible to post on a forum with server admins.
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The competitor to Salesforce Lightning lets citizen developers create apps out of pre-built components Just so you know what you'll need to replace/fix next quarter
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"Visual Code" - gosh, there's an original name.
However, darn it, I was so lookin' forward to having my eyes closed while I code.
You know, just like these Jr. developers we recently hired seem to be doing.
Come to think of it, the developers before me seem to have coded the same way.
Glad this faulty DNA missed my generation of coders. 
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Apple, the tech company, is negotiating with McLaren, the car manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. Shiny? check. Impractical? check. Expensive? check and double check. It's a perfect fit.
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TLDR, but why would the amazing McLaren company want to acquire a losing proposition such as Apple?
[update] OK, finally read it and saw this update: Quote: McLaren: "We can confirm McLaren is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment"
So McLaren have obviously come to their senses and decided not to buy Apple after all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lol... I thought it was the way around, apple trying to buy McClaren
In which case, you message would have been...
"so McClaren have obviously been damm lucky scaping from the acquisition by Apple"
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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Nokia Bell Labs says it has achieved terabit fibre internet speeds in ‘real world conditions’. It's only 'real world conditions' if it's hooked up to my house. Try again.
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Our modern environment is saturated with wireless signals, a consequence of our insatiable desire to transmit data seamlessly and efficiently. A new device developed by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can use these ubiquitous signals to detect our inner emotional states. I already know, thanks
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NYT 09/20/16: "Approve or Reject: Can You Moderate Five New York Times Comments?" [^].
Bold added to quote by moi:
"The New York Times is partnering with Google Jigsaw to create a new moderation system that will help us review incoming comments based on decisions our moderators have made in the past. Our moderators will continue to protect these discussions, but once this new system is launched, we will have robot helpers.
Comments on Times stories are moderated by a team of 14 people known as the community desk. Together, they review around 11,000 comments each day for the approximately 10 percent of Times articles that are open to reader comment."
I'd predict, in addition to the usual chaos, the future will see 14 people looking for another job.
I have written to the NYTimes suggesting their comment review work-load could be much easier if they simply reject any comment that has any one of these terms: FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Clinton, Trump, Musk, Gates, Cook, Larry, Sergei, Putin, Obama, sex, iPhone, iPad, PC, Gaga, Angelina, Brad, Brittney, Kardashian, Drudge.
«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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I welcome the NYT's new robot overlords...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'd predict, in addition to the usual chaos, the future will see 14 people looking for another job.
No, i see 126 people not hired as they could expand the number of open articles without overloading their current resources. Maybe a couple of layoffs in terms of people going out for the usual reasons and no turnover.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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BillWoodruff wrote: the future will see 14 people looking for another job.
A new job that will require brain work and not put them to sleep. I see no downside. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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oops - pre-coffee I mixed the lounge and the newsagent. Apologies.
modified 21-Sep-16 4:58am.
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I feel for you, but I fail to see how this is news. 
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According to a new report from SOASTA, 85% of respondents found third-party features annoying, and three in four respondents preferred unpleasant activities over third-party features. Yup. (Once I figured out what third-party features were)
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