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Developers, who had previously been expendable, became indispensable. Charged with creating the code that would underpin businesses’ newfound success, they became royalty. "It's good to be the king."
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I am surprised the author of this puffery didn't claim that DevOps+Cloud (from his company, Accenture) would make the blind see, and bring about world-peace 
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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On Monday, the Microsoft founder and co-chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted an "AMA," or "ask me anything," session on Reddit, during which a participant inquired, "If you could give 19-year-old Bill Gates some advice, what would it be?" Invest in Apple stock?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Invest in Apple stock?
I think you'll find he did.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Computers running artificial intelligence programs will exceed human intelligence within three decades, Masayoshi Son, founder of the Japanese technology and telecommunications conglomerate SoftBank Group, said on Monday. I think some people decided to get there early
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The only thing computers are good at is concentrating.
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I, for one, welcome our digital masters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They're already smarter than clickbait authoring "journalists". 
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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Individuals would fly a week-long mission in a “long loop” around the Moon and back. Aren't Norton and Alice a little too old for that now?
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The question should be: Why not on the Moon? What is there that keeps their palms sweaty?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Not having a Big Falcon Rocket ready to fly in the near future is probably the biggest challenge for an actual manned landing. F9H just doesn't have the throw weight for that.
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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Well, the set the built to fake the moon landings has been sitting idle for a long, long time, and they need to recover at least some of the investment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A week after finding a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10,
Google Project Zero is reporting on another flaw,
this time in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. [^WinBuzzer]
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Well, if you set yourself up by continually spamming "safest windows ever" bull, someone is bound to knock you down.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mozilla has acquired Pocket, a kind of DVR for the internet, for an undisclosed sum. To be filed under, "Hunh?
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It's one of the stupid icons in firefox that you promptly remove from your URL bar less it give your browser cancer. I'd assumed it was their dumpsterfire from the getgo.
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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Discussion at Mozilla:
"We're broke, let's buy something."
"How about a product everyone hates and turns off immediately?"
"Is Clippy for sale?"
"No, but Pocket is."
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Made for people who don't know how to use bookmarks and Save As commands, presumably -- and for those who have 3TB hard drives in their phones.
Needless to say, this will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, SHA-1 has been cracked, but that doesn't mean your code in Git repositories is in any real danger of being hacked. Just sagging a lot
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No real danger of being hacked? The brain trust at Yahoo now have a migration path from MD5.
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Does git use SHA-1 as more than a hash?
If you have enough access to commit a file with a bogus hash, you have enough access to simply commit junk (which is what most people commit anyway.)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you commit changes to git, with the same checksum - a collision - you could add malicious code and nobody would even realize it.
I guess that's the danger they speak of.
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With the Creators Update for Windows 10 scheduled to be released in April, Microsoft will soon be adding the ability to restrict the installation of legacy, x86 apps from any sources other than the Windows Store, something that may prove quite useful for novice users and organisations such as schools and businesses. Bolting down the setting (so you can only install approved apps) will come later
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