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Money that exists in a solid form such as gold or paper 
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The "money" of the Yap islanders, "rai," was gigantic stones which could weigh over 8k pounds: too heavy to be moved, records of ownership were maintained in oral histories.Quote from Wikipedia: The extrinsic (perceived) value of a specific stone is based not only on its size and craftsmanship, but also on its history. If many people—or no one at all—died when the specific stone was transported, or a famous sailor brought it in, the value of the rai stone increases by reason of its anecdotal heft.
For centuries in S.E. Asia, cowrie shells were "money."
"Money" is what people believe has value, what people act as if has value: i.e., it's a cultural construct often loosely coupled to goods (objects, people, land, animals, etc.), and services. Of course rare goods are often a basis for money, as with: gold, jewels, virgins, etc.
imho ... 
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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BillWoodruff wrote: What money is not vapor ?
Yes, but cryptocurrency is the distilled vapor of swamp vapor.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yes, but cryptocurrency is the distilled vapor of swamp vapor.
Too heady a stuff for me, for sure. Living long-term in Asia, I've come to put my faith in physical gold, and edible food
cheers, Bill
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Ethereum, the red-hot rival to bitcoin, has been on a tear, but one of its founders said the latest trend in the cryptocurrency space may not be as good for the cryptocurrency as some might think. "People are blinded by fast and easy money." Really?
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According to a new study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a deep-learning AI algorithm called "Pic2Recipe" is able to retrieve the likely ingredients of a meal based on just a picture. How hard is it to identify bacon and whisky?
OK, and a bit of sugar.
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I think the term AI is getting way watered down. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Exactly! Sounds to me that is not much more than a simple query and some software to identify a picture, that acts as the parameter for the query.
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How memorizing over one million recipes makes you intelligent? AI became the label for any code with more then 10 levels of if-then-else... When I was young, such code got ZERO points...
(And I would like to test it with one of my meatballs)
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Must have some gotos in there to be truly useful. At least two per level. 
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That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Starting today, you can now explore the International Space Station in Street View in Google Maps. But y'all can't get theh from heah
Unless you have a rocket handy, of course.
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Two of the largest dark web marketplaces have been shut down following a "landmark" international law enforcement investigation. You couldn't go with "Illegal web markets go dark"? Come on, headline writers!
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50 shades darker? 
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It's one thing to write it because you're trying to win the IOCCC or you're writing a puzzle, but in both cases, you know that you're doing something bizarre. 'Clever' code usually isn't
I'm excited to find a headline that breaks Betteridge's Law.
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Usually with a grimace. 
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I currently have to deal with a coworker who does the opposite.
His code is so friggin long and stretched with all kind of useless things (and lots of if-elses) that no one could possibly decipher what that code is doing exactly.
Like creating "helper" classes that create an object and set one property.
From the top of my head.
[ThisIsNecessaryForMef("SOME_CODE", typeof(MyHelper))]
public class MyHelper
{
public IMyObject CreateObject(Input input)
{
IMyObject obj = SomeWeirdMefDiSolution.CreateObject<IMyObject>();
obj.Id = input.Id;
return obj;
}
}I should mention that MEF is NOT a DI container, but that's how we use it.
IMyObject is only used to pass some data, it has only properties and never any functions (and never more than one implementation), so why use DI in the first place?
Wait, I'm forgetting something, IMyObject HAS two functions, Serialize and Deserialize (do you see the problem with deserializing an object using the object before it's deserialized? ).
And why create a complete helper object just to set a single property? 
You may be thinking this is handy when the creation logic changes (which it never does), but this is used in just one place only.
To make things worse, even the helper class is instantiated using MEF/DI.
Probably in a function of 1000 lines of code.
Here's the worst part, when you don't do exactly this he labels your code as "quick and dirty".
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Always look at the bright side of ... code:
you won't need an obfuscator to protect it.
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Yeah, but do de-obfuscators exist? 
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Enjoyed reading it. I met several guys who believe that the number of lines of code is proportional to execution time, writing single line statements proves smartness of the developer, can't imagine that compiler can optimize (though even the first Fortran compiler developed by Backus 1957 did), he the actual control-flow thru side effects, ...
The most complicated thing in software development is writing easily readable code - but that does not look smart at all.
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It's pretty much known to anyone in the programming world that Java is one of the hardest languages to learn right off the bat; that is if you've never written a line of code in your life. The mad news is that they've switch to JavaScript
Edit: This just in (di-di-dit di-di-dit, etc.)
Apparently, this might not actually be the whole story. It seems they just added an intro course (an experimental alternative) in JavaScript, but did not cancel the Java class.
We now return you to your regular dose of non-news.
modified 21-Jul-17 13:29pm.
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They entire miss the point; an introductory language must also teach computer concepts. I believe procedural C++ is a better approach, though having a class which covers computer concepts well could be sufficient.
(I saw this with my youngest son; his introductory programming course at college used C#, but dove straight in without covering many of the basics. He switched to a different introductory course which spent half the semester just teaching basic concepts, such as memory, bytes, bits and all that stuff and only then started with C#.)
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Can you really say Java is one of the hardest to learn as a beginner when so many others are the same or worse? C/C++ comes to mind. In fact just lump any non-managed language in there. Getting rid of the classic pointer greatly simplifies a language for teaching.
Javascript also has it's own unique quirks that aren't exactly the best thing for beginners such as prototype-based inheritance, function-scoping, duck typing, etc etc. In fact, can you imagine explaining why you need to do the following to a new student? And loops are a basic structure.
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
(function (i) {
setTimeout(function () {console.log(i);}, 100 * i);
})(i);
}
I suppose you could gloss over the issue and just say "use let", but you still need to explain the difference between let and var.
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The last I knew, MIT used Python, they even had a free online series of classes on it.
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As a moderately paid software developer, it kind of annoys me that some highly-paid academic types (who have probably never written a single line of code in anger) can be so completely and utterly crap as to think that Javascript is actually a programming language.
This is a gold-plated argument for the value of apprenticeships over college courses.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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