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I have always been interested in computer graphics and I still am. The new ray tracing stuff holds a lot of interest for me. I attended Nvidia's GTC last week and it renewed my interest. Especially after I saw the UE4 demo video. WOW!
My current interest and the reason for attending GTC is GPU programming with CUDA. Several months ago I had an idea of how to apply it at work and it was approved so now I'm working on an R&D project involving HPC with GPUs. They bought me a new machine for this and it is really amazing.
This has prompted my bosses to start brain-storming and they are considering diverting me off to something very closely related but with likely a better ROI. I guess I won't be too disappointed but I would like to stay on this.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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really doing something related (beyond reading the insider news or similar)... in none of them
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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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Augmented and Virtual Reality - Okay, some cool stuff happening there but it's a long way from what I do, so no direct interest.
Blockchain - a fundamentally flawed concept that costs more electricity than a reasonably sized country.
Big Data - scary, scary, scary.
Quantum Computing - say this quietly: "it doesn't exist!"
The Internet of Things - or the art of the clockwork orange. A toaster does not and will not ever need to talk to the internet.
Machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation - some interest there, I like heuristics and such but I'll only believe in AI should I ever witness human intelligence.
Smart Hackable homes - no thanks, when I'm feeling too lazy to press a light-switch, I'll sit in the dark.
Voice activated digital assistants - nay, nay, nay and thrice nay, my house is my home not a broadcasting tower.
Security - yes, would be a great idea and maybe one that we should all be working on very hard before we even begin to contemplate most of the above.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Blockchain --- depends on which implementation of governance you implement e.g. POW, POS, DPOS, and whatever other methods they dream up!
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It may not sound exciting to most, but it's good steady work that won't go away anytime soon. I feel IOT is something a few levels up on the stack.
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The verb in the question title is "interest", but in the subtext it says "terrify". Those two words are nearly opposite, in my book.
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As has already been pointed out, terrify is next week, but as a sideline things can interest you and terrify you at the same time.
In real life, there are certainly things that terrify me and interest me at the same time. Wild roller coasters and other theme park rides comes to mind.
In tech, the same applies. I am extremely interested in Artificial Intelligence and all it's sub technologies, but at the same time terrified of the prospect of actually achieving it in my lifetime...
My reasoning is simple. If it becomes intelligent enough that most would consider it to be on human level intelligence, it would recognize that probably 70% of the earth's population are easily replaceable by machines and just a waste of the planets resources.
Without the emotional attachment to human life we ALL MOST of us share, it can come to no other logical conclusion but to get rid of that waste. As such, I believe before we try and go down the road of artificial intelligence researchers should instead be focusing on Artificial Empathy first before we invent ourselves into annihilation.
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I do wonder how "Programmer" morphed into "developer", "software engineer" and "systems architect".
"Newer" is rarely better. It's just different.
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And currently, those are none of the above (save for security, which is and always has been an issue).
My employer is focusing on the cloud and that's why our customers hire us.
Many of our customers are migrating to the cloud or need new software and want it to be "cloud native".
So Azure and PaaS services currently have my full attention.
The fun thing is that my employer had separate teams on blockchain and machine learning last year, but there wasn't a single one of our clients that wanted or needed any of that.
Our clients are some of the biggest "enterprise" businesses in the Netherlands, especially in the financial sector and government.
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Sander Rossel wrote: The fun thing is that my employer had separate teams on blockchain and machine learning last year, but there wasn't a single one of our clients that wanted or needed any of that.
They probably do need it, they just don't know they need it until after they talk to the sales guys.
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Sander Rossel wrote: My employer is focusing on the cloud and that's why our customers hire us . . . Our clients are some of the biggest "enterprise" businesses in the Netherlands,
At first, I was going to be critical of using the Cloud as a solution to anything.
However, after some deep and enlightened thought, I realized that in the Netherlands it makes sense for data protection . . . in case that little boy pulls his "thumb out of the dyke" and the whole place is flooded.
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It makes sense if you don't want to spend €1000's on infrastructure and administrators and if you need dynamic scaling and more.
I absolutely see the added value of the cloud.
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Now that's some serious cool tech!
Missing items that actually interest me are:
robotics
anything to do with NASA, space probes, and astronomy
doing stuff that works with real hardware (I guess that goes with the first two items)
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: CListCtrl
You and your fancy CListCtrl! When I was building Win UIs, I had to #include <commctrl.h> and SendMessage(LVM_INSERTITEM)s till the cows came home. In binary. And I didn't have one's and zeroes - just zeroes. Uppercase and lowercase zeroes. 
/ravi
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...where someone writes code that's maintained by someone else who doesn't understand it, so they rewrite it before moving onto another project so the code can be inherited by someone else who doesn't understand it. Rinse and repeat.
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Welcome to my nightmare.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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...but not AI, etc. Unnecessary stuff that will lead to the end of civilisation as we know it. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Stable software that is, as close as possible, intuitive to the user.
Stable - so it need not be updated constantly so I can get on to other things.
Intuitive - so they don't bother me while I work on those things.
For myself - I like it to be as abstract (extensible in situ) as possible so that when needs and requirements change it it really doesn't care and keeps on working with the new requirements and no intervention.
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That use to be my reality. Now it is a fading memory. I am still kicking though.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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...Seriously, I'm just trying to make it through to retirement!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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wow such a huge list and not a single item i'd choose. It's an almost perfect list of my "no-go"'s ...
Nope. No interest in any of these.
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sticking with what works. And using the right tool for the job.
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