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Please let them avoid emojis and caps lock.
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They can start with Giese 710, since it will be in the vicinity of the solar system in a million years.
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Are they sending a Message In A Bottle?
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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I don't know what is worst... the idea of being alone in the universe or discovering that we are not...
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?
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The blog wait but why had a great article on fermis paradox. Made me think that we should be really careful with how we proceed as a species.
But to ease my mind I came up with my own answer to it. Any sufficiently advanced species will develop AIs that's either take over or blurs the line between biological intelligence and artificial.
As they develop and explore they will inevitably come to the conclusion that any other advanced species will go down the same route and come to the same conclusions as they and that as a civilization they only need to expand enough that they wont go extinct by sudden events as supernova or asteroid collisions etc. Because any sufficiently advanced spices will realise that they are "the same" in this regard they don't need to colonise that galaxy in order to protect from potential other civilizations and thus they don't.
Not the most promising in itself because it's also a little sad because it also implies that there isn't anything to do at that point for a civilization other than just existing.
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Interesting point of view... but the problem is... if they really are how you say so "similar" to us...
what happened with the aborigens in all places where the "civilized" man has come? America, South-America, Australia... They were almost destroyed.
What happens if the "new civilization" desperately needs resources that can be found here?
And if they even are pacific as you say, then the probability that we screw the situation up is so high...
sad but for now (an probably for a big while) we (as species) are such dumb... We fear what we don't understand, we hate what we fear and we try to destroy what we hate.
M.D.V.
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I think if two civilizations such as ours where to be close to each other (relatively) in distance then it would be a potential problem but if the distance is great enough between them then when they both have technology to expand outside the their solar system they will quickly reach the pacifist point.
I have no way to really back up my thoughts but I do think its one possible scenario that at least would explain why our galaxy seemingly isn't colonized by one single dominant civilization yet.
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Member 11683251 wrote: why our galaxy seemingly isn't colonized by one single dominant civilization yet.
that we know about yet
M.D.V.
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True, we might be in a rural area. 
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Words, words, words.
When have words ever made friendship grow quickly?
Send bacon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft’s Chris Capossela recently spoke about the future of Windows phone on an episode of Windows Weekly and, while not revealing any specific details, did confirm that Microsoft will be launching new devices in 2017 and heavily suggested that one of these devices would be the evolution of the company’s Windows phone devices. Instead of a convertible, they're going with a station wagon model.
Or maybe a cell phone with a rotary dial.
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A recent incident got me thinking about the old adage we hear so many times in security, the one that goes like this: "But we don't have anything of value on our site anyway" Unless your website is a place of ill repute
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In September and October, Oracle asked Java users to rank future Java EE enhancements by importance. Also: "Whatever they've added to C# lately"
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Although a trial-and-error approach can be rewarding, I’ve found that it can drain a lot of time and energy if it isn’t performed with focus. "There is no 'try'"
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Another stupid strawman article where the author redefines a bunch of words and then tries to sounds smart.
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More async support, more type-hinting power, more speed, and more efficient memory usage top a long list of useful additions to Python. The pythoniest Python to ever python a python (with lemon curry)
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Microsoft has often been criticized for how aggressive it was with the free Windows 10 upgrade offer, with some users complaining that the new operating system was installed on their computers even though they refused the upgrade. Admitting you have a problem is the first step in recovery
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Early in my career, actually my first "real" job, I worked for a guy named Mark. Mark was an amazingly smart and driven programmer and I learned a lot from him. Don't read while alone in the dark
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My first job out of college was for a manufacturing facility. We were tasked with moving a system from a PDP11 to a MicroVAX; both the old and new would be written in Fortran.
It wasn't particularly difficult; take the existing code and recreate it.. but with more flexibility in variable names, routine names, etc.
And, a naming convention for routines was established and agreed to.
From either the file name (9 characters - first 3 were the system name, next 6 the executable and routine) or the routine name, you could deduce its function.
For example, MCVDSWST1 - Mission Controller VAX, Double Switch, State 1
After successful implementation, I was put on another team to do the same type of rewrite for the automated warehouse.
The naming convention: file name (9 characters) must be the routine name, and routine names were cryptic. SRVCRNPSM - Storage Retrieval Vax Crane Primary State Machine.
Which is fine... but what if there were more than two states?
SRVCRNPSM, SRVCRNSSM (primary state machine, secondary state machine, etc.)
Since the PSM, SSM was the file AND routine name, I had to ask the developer what is stood for - because, of course, it wasn't actually documented anywhere....
And.. use non-standard Fortran features because they can be used, but don't actually leave comments as to what it is doing.
The Fortran manual, single copy, was in someone's office, so to look up a function, you had to invade personal space.
We've grown from there, and hopefully learned in the process.
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To paraphrase Daniel Webster (American Statesman, 1782-1852), “If all my developer skills were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of learning like a developer, for by it I would soon regain all the rest.” Gamma rays not needed
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Great quote... 
M.D.V.
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Boot camp grads lead college grads in practical programming skills, but lag in deeper understanding of systems and algorithms I don't know, but I've been told. I don't think I'm really sold.
On the idea that is. Didn't fit in the cadence.
I 3/4 expected to see at the end, "The author works at a boot camp." I'm surprised he doesn't.
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Well, based on your other recent news posts, boot camps will become irrelevant in the not too distant future as AI's start coming online to do the junior level programming. And one of the things an AI could probably be taught quite well how to do is basic algorithms and modular code. 
Marc
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I can't wait to see UIs designed by AIs.
I imagine they'll be even less user-friendly than the NI* UIs designed by ms, in recent history.
* Null Intelligence
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The Boot campers seem to fit the mold of the classic Web Designer/Web Master. I'd think most of them would end up being freelancers or work for small companies; if they found jobs. The college grad seems to be more of the Application Developer type, that might end up working in a Fortune 500 company and working on large systems.
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