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Atlassian today announced that it has acquired project management service Trello for $425 million. For that price, you'd think I'd be able to come up with something funny to say (but no)
$425 million for Pinterest crossed with a todo list? (OK, Kanban cards, w00). I wonder how much they'd pay for a battle-hardened developer forum site?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder how much they'd pay for a battle-hardened developer forum site?
My offer is 2.5 billion.
Don't tell, but I'll go as high as 3.2 trillion.
Not dollars, of course. 
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 <-- My face when a company/website I've never heard of sells for 400+ million.
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Using Python to Code by Voice - YouTube[^]
TLDW; Dragon Naturally Speaking is scriptable via python and is flexable enough to drive coding in an editor like emacs or vim without using a keyboard.
A friend sent me this over the weekend. It's a neat demo and looks like could be helpful for anyone struggling with RSI problems.
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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Dragon NS is probably the BEST speech recognition program available. I used it to great success in school.
I didn't realize it was scriptable, though. Quite cool.
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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“I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse,’” said Patton.
As soon as Patton said that, viewers all over San Diego started complaining their echo devices had tried to order doll houses.
Just let Echo listen to the news and be surprised by what is ordered.
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Is an IoT enabled bread toaster. You know you need it: Smart toasters are here | TechCrunch[^]
I tell you it's a bargain for $99 especially given that you could control the toaster from your smart phone app! 
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Quote: after sliced bread
Toasted up, butter up, jam it up and you know what you do next, Right?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere
- Albert Einstein.
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I know, I know!
Build a smart, IoT enabled plate to keep this jam sandwich on, so that the plate can send real-time updates to my smart phone on how much bread is remaining, and if the bread needs a little more jam, etc.
Right? Riiight?
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It should also sense my appetite, any remaining ingredients too. Right?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere
- Albert Einstein.
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The Russians have already hacked it--the heating coils, when a small current is applied, vibrate to air pressure waves, allowing them to listen in on any conversations within a 6 foot radius of the toaster. 
Marc
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Indeed, some people might deny it though. That's the problem. 
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Amazon Echo already has that covered 
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They're way too late. I first saw The Object-Oriented Toaster in 1998 (or thereabouts).
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 saw what I think is the same version of this (except for the processor version cited) in the 1980s, and I believe it originated within Digital Equipment Corporation ("DEC"). It was in an email message that came from TURTLE::STAN, who I think was Stan Rabinowitz. If it didn't come from his keyboard, it at least passed through his disk space.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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You are probably correct. I first saw this in a dump of alleged humour sent to me by an ex-DEC employee.
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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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: from your smart phone
And can you put the slices in too via that app?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Does it allow you to load the bread a week in advance and monitor it to warn me if it's going green, so I can load it in advance so I don't have to get out of bed until it's ready?
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Comes with free membership of a botnet, I suspect.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When it comes to programming languages, Smalltalk is about as old as it gets: It was first developed in 1969, with the first stable release coming out by 1980 Doesn't a renaissance require it to have been something before?
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Smalltalk was the best choice of language at the time when it was introduced, If fact it was very popular when MVC was introduced at the part of GUI developemnt. But then getting quickly died and swallowed by Java and .Net languages. Being expense has also add factor for being failed.
So should it worth to renaissance again?
I don't think so, the competition is so high right now with languages such as
Java, .Net. Javascript,... being multiple platforms, Web... would add more factor too.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere
- Albert Einstein.
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Well, there's always Essence# A Smalltalk-based Language for .NET
And like Smalltalk, it appears, well, dead.
Marc
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Let it die, let it die,... 
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Microsoft has introduced a new show to its Channel 9 video platform aimed at teaching and showing off Microsoft’s products and services. The new show is called .Game and aims to teach people how to develop games using .NET. .Not .a .fan .of .that .branding
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