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Researchers from Allen Institute for AI have built a computer system capable of teaching itself many facets of broad concepts by scouring and analyzing search engines using natural language processing and computer vision techniques. It just Googles everything (like the rest of us)
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I hope it bumps into "urban dictionary" as part of its learning process. Could make things more interesting 
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One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy. But...I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can learn in 21 days
Of course, 21 day in each month in the next 12 years...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yup, that is definitely closer to the real number.
TTFN - Kent
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There are those with title "Learn C++ in 24 hrs"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
I gave up when I read this essay by Peter Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years[^].
From the text:
"Researchers (Bloom (1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes (1989), Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success, Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967."
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So your CIO thinks that cloud, BYOD and big data are all passé and now has declared The Next Big Thing in the IT department will be DevOps — and hey, even worse, he or she used the Google and has seen that Big Vendor X and Big Vendor Y offer 'DevOps-ready products' so all that it's going to take is picking up a bunch of overpriced automation tools. "Chances are, you're going to need a stiff drink at some point."
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Who told CIO has anything with development methods? His job is goals!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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This week's IBM Edge2014 infrastructure event hinted at how the company plans to use experience to its advantage. Far from burning out or fading away like an aging rock star, IBM intends to join today's young rockers on stage -- and steal the show. Sprinkle some octothorpes around. I hear the kids love them.
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We really want you to fill out our new survey. It is short and focuses on your C++ development experience including Android and iOS. C++ developer? Microsoft would like to hear from you.
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Titled Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication and edited by SETI Director of Interstellar Message Composition Douglas Vakoch, the document draws on "issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology" to prepare us "for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come." Best read it, before you need it
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Does the book comes with an alien to help me practice?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Bob's just up there ^, maybe try talking with him?
TTFN - Kent
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I tried to tell Bob that I'm a friendly human, but he turned green...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Best read it, before you need it
A new object to add to the list of "better to have and not to need, than to need and not to have" (i.e. Condoms, umbrella and/or jacket in spring/autum...)
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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The company clarified on Friday that it is planning a new version of Windows — Windows 8.1 with Bing — to target low-cost computers and tablets. That version, as the name implies, comes with the Bing search engine as the default within the Internet Explorer browser. They didn't learn from the last 'bundling' incident?
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The last bundling incident was closely tied to the fact that they sold it. Not sure if that fine they had to pay is applicable on free stuff...
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
The console is a black place [taken from Q&A]
How to ask a question
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When mobiles phone where new - and expensive - dealers added all kind of 'gifts' to persuade one to buy. When my dad decided at last to buy one he got - between other things - a kind of wallet that had a special section for the phone. Only that the wallet was two size bigger then the phone...
(If you missed: phone===bing, wallet===windows 8)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The tablets could be ready before Google's developer conference in late June, the WSJ reports The tablet is going to look silly in those 3D glasses
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Microsoft has been gathering information about malware infection rates on Windows PCs for some time now, thanks to data from its Microsoft Security Essentials program as well as Windows Defender for Windows 8. This week, the company released the malware encounter and infection rates for 2013, including the top 10 countries for both sets of info. Way to go, Pakistan!
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Is it true that more developers means more complexity? Is there an ideal number of developers for a team? What can we learn from this? Let’s find out! Team sizes > 0 have much better code quality
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Bigger teams require better management. And here in most cases is where everything fails.
Most managers can't even manage themselves so nothing good can be expected out of there.
If you have a good project and team manager you'll have more rules, better and well implemented code quality check tools and better and more automated processes. Overall a better structure to comply to, resulting on an implicitly enforced coding standards.
For project management, the more monkeys you have the better you have to break tasks and plan dependencies.
And always:
- never build a team of geniuses or nothing ever will be finished
- never build a team of freshly out of school people or nothing will ever work
Always try to build an heterogeneous team with a couple of creative people not more, experienced people that deliver and fresh meat to just type text.
Cheers! 
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Life is all about share and care...
public class Life : ICareable,IShareable
{
// implements yours...
}
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