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The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc ..and so the IoT remained a hyped dream, without much useful applications other than tracking and hacking people.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's a multi-billion dollar industry...
...for the trash collectors. 
More IoT garbage thrown away, more trash work.
I'm investing in garbage this year...
...and not indirectly, like I did last year by buying into Apple.
This year I'm investing in WasteManagement Systems.
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For-profit intensive engineering academies have become prevalent, but some graduates find themselves in debt and unprepared for tech jobs. You mean you can't learn why manhole covers are round at a boot camp?
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Well, that's where you're going wrong - manhole covers aren't round, they're triangular. Unless of course - we're talking about very different things...
40 pts to the first person that correctly identifies what I speak of
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It would have to be in the soapbox.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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The correct answer needs no such location.
Perhaps I should rescind the offer and remove my mention of it.
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Perhaps you were right? While I assert the answer to be fine here, but I'll be damned if I'd explain why it was the right answer, here.
Answer: [^]
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The answer was obvious which explains my response.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 11-Dec-16 19:20pm.
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Yep, I thought so. Then again - the tag "Do not iron this garment while wearing" is yet another reminder that not all that seems to be, actually is.
Here, take yer 40 and if you'll excuse me, I've got a gutter to get back to.
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I don't think I've seen any of those but Wikipedia has some. 1 was a water valve cover.
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It all comes down to the interpretation...
Here's the one I was thinking of: [^]
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It's a shame. I see people everyday fall for this or for-profit so called college/universities and end up right back at the retail or fast food joint with 5 to 6 figures in student loan debt; which they will never pay back. I feel for them, because they are not losers, they were conned. These schools need to be banned or at least not be allowed to accept student loans as payment.
Some kids start programming when they're young, or even in their teens and can probably run circles around 90% of the IT work force; they're a few here. But for everyone else, life is a long process and taking short-cuts typically gets no where fast in any facet of one's life.
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jgakenhe wrote: ome kids start programming when they're young, or even in their teens and can probably run circles around 90% of the IT work force; they're a few here. But for everyone else, life is a long process and taking short-cuts typically gets no where fast in any facet of one's life.
That's a great summary of the situation.
Those schools try to feed off people's desire to get tech skills quick. Sad.
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This isn't exclusive to for-profit schools; government run schools have serious issues and a failure rate far higher than many are willing to admit.
As a side note, the local university my kids have all gone to at one time or another is generally very good and I've been impressed with their CS graduates, though I felt they were weak in unmanaged languages. Regardless, through my kids' experiences, I learned that they've made it very difficult for true novices to start a major in computer science. I don't think this was done on purpose, but was an outcome of catering so heavily to those kids who'd started programming in high school or before.
This and other experiences have convinced me that computer programming isn't taught very well at most places.
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Interesting article, especially:
Bloomberg article said: The BPPE cited numerous violations of California law, including making false statements. On its website, the school advertised a 95 percent hiring rate within two months of graduation from the academy, but the BPPE said that only 57 of 70 graduates had reported employment and salary information. The bootcamp lists 21 companies in its “Where Our Graduates Work Now” section. But the BPPE said its review of Coding House’s data showed only two graduates were hired by any of the 21.
I checked out the site and the list of companies is still there. 
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A project sponsored in part by Google aims to allow algorithms to be optimized to get the most out of whatever hardware it runs on. Will it run on all my light bulbs?
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It's Chrome, it needs all the bits of RAM it can scrap.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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As long as the door it opens is the pod bay door, we should be OK.
*daisy, daisy, give me your answer do..*
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Lift is meant to work around all this. In language-hacker terms, Lift is what's called an "intermediate language," or IL.
Gee, I guess we need a new language to create IL. 
Marc
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Millions of people visiting mainstream websites over the past two months have been exposed to a novel form of malicious ads that embed attack code in individual pixels of the banners. Steganography for the win!
The good news: it only worked against unpatched IE and Flash bugs. So, "no one" would likely be affected.
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Using Ad-block is somehow self-defense. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Ad-Block and No-Flash are lifesavers. Not only weba navigation is 10 times faster, but there are no unwanted sounds coming off your speakers while the browser is unresponsive thanks to a thousand Flash stains on a single tab.
Just with those two plugins antivirusses becomes largely superfluous.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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Still enjoying tremendous demand for their skills, mobile coders and Big Data specialists are set to command the highest developer-related salaries next year, according to a new report from careers firm Robert Half Technology. Sessile big data devs less so
That's a coelenterate joke. Never enough of them.
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In June, Microsoft became the first tech giant to take the leap into legal weed. Hmmm. To make a joke about Windows 10, or The Cloud. Oh, decisions.
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It's all starting to make sense.
Jeremy Falcon
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