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Jeff Bezos has been one of the world's wealthiest people for a while, but he's now set a new record: he's the wealthiest person in recent history. When asked to comment he dove into a swimming pool filled with doubloons
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When a journalist asked him how it feels to be the richest person he said "It feels Amazon"...
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We’re excited to report that the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension has been updated to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code. And what if I like "half-spaces, half-tabs"?
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I honestly don't know why anyone wasted their time on creating tools to minify javascript, when you can just write your code like that from the get go. Creates job security.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And what if I like "half-spaces, half-tabs"?
If you could make a tool that can do tabs for block indenting, spaces for within the block and get it running in all major editors I'd call you a hero.
More seriously though, I suspect the union of teams who think automagically figuring out coding style rules is a good idea and teams whose code is consistent enough to get a good rule set by doing so is an empty set.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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System lets researchers explore phase transitions in a quantum system. "She's a model and she's looking good"
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Quote: While the individual magnetic bits in a D-wave system are largely in a single plane, it's possible to control the connections among them so that the system accurately simulates the behavior of a three-dimensional lattice. On the current generation of systems, the largest lattice that will fit in the processor is one that's a cube with eight magnets on a side.
Getting an answer is not exactly groundbreaking work. "An 8 x 8 x 8 lattice is state of the art for 1990 computer models," said Richard Harris, a D-Wave scientist who was lead author on the research paper. But for the company, the work represents significant progress. "It's the first time the respectable competition has to be a multicore server, as opposed to something like a pencil," Harris told Ars.
When their flippin' magnets flip a burger, give me a call.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Windows is finally going to catch up to a 40-year-old Unix feature. Oh, emoji support. Finally!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: emoji support
You just know that some marketing idjit decided that was a 'thing'. The phrase "kill it before it grows" comes to mind.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Python is booming in popularity. It is used in DevOps, Data Science, Web Development and Security.
It does not, however, win any medals for speed. No legs?
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"Why is a language that defers 90% of the intelligence a programmer should have put in the code to runtime slower than proper languages?" and other 99 insightful questions.
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
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It may run your apps slower, but that's made up 100-fold by how much faster the app can be developed!
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To help us grok the immensity of the cosmos, the European Space Agency has released a remarkable image of space in which every point is an entire galaxy. Your Astronomy Photo for All Days
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Those appear far, far away and they emitted their light a long time ago,
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It turns out that a rude email's reach extends further than the recipients in the message's "To" field. "Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
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The mad rush to Prime Day was held up a bit after Amazon's web site stumbled out of the gate. They should have primed the servers?
MOAR HAMSTERS! Need more hamsters!
modified 16-Jul-18 16:20pm.
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I noticed it. I tried around 320pm EST and the page would not show any deals. Just a main header.
It not good. They no haz da codz. 
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Kind of makes you wonder how much of the website traffic to Amazon was from legitimate shoppers and how much was from DDoS attacks.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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 I'm tired of looking at the dog images "Sorry! something when wrong!" No kidding !!!
Bryian Tan
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Yeah, the additionally interesting thing is that I ended up buying non-prime-day products.
Wait... maybe that was their plan?!? 
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raddevus wrote: Yeah, the additionally interesting thing is that I ended up buying non-prime-day products.
Wait... maybe that was their plan?!?
 maybe? 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's not the greatest advert for AWS.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It's not the greatest advert for AWS.
My thoughts exactly. But then again, what company uses its own technology?
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So you want parralel processors or what?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Academics say they've mounted a successful GPS spoofing attack against road navigation systems that can trick humans into driving to incorrect locations. When they tell you to, "get lost", they mean it
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