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Think about it; and think about it carefully. Nothing happens in our society without software. Nothing. "With great power comes great responsibility"
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Interesting reading with some very good points. In fact something that should be thinked about very slowly.
Thanks
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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Very nice. However, I take offense with this statement:
Our software will be well-written for it's purpose and lifetime.
Everyone knows it should read:
Our software will be well-written for its purpose and lifetime.
/ravi
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Uncle Bob wrote: We write the rules. We hold the strings. Now we have to decide what to do with them.
Hum. Let's not abuse them.
Wonde Tadesse
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He makes some good points, but there are some massively hubristic claims there. Programmers don't rule the world (at least no more than any other relatively useful profession such as surgeons or automotive engineers).
The idea that we could all unite and hold the world to ransom is ludicrous.
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Without software: Phones don't ring. Cars don't start. Planes don't fly. Bombs don't explode. Ships don't sail. Ovens don't bake. Garage doors don't open. Money doesn't change hands. Electricity doesn't get generated. And we can't find our way to the store.
You know, all that worked before software, before transistors, and money certainly changed hands even before electricity. As to finding our way to the store, there's this archaic concept of actually communicating with your fellow man and asking directions.
And when the earth gets a direct hit from a sufficiently powerful CME (which is inevitable) will all discover again how to ask directions, grow our own food, and spin wool.
Marc
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The spacecraft managed to send back scientific data before it shut down. "Good night sweet prince: and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
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Agile is the ultimate bureaucracy buster -- and has already been proven in the software space. Time to spread the gospel. Agile all the things!
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Just over 18 months ago Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he found having to talk to Google Glass out loud “the weirdest thing” and admitted that there would be “places where Google Glass are inappropriate.” People don't want to wear silly looking glasses? Wha?
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Not news. It's already been posted.
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Visual Studio 2015 wrote: This release is unsupported and are not intended for use on production computers
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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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If were wondering what useful object you could actually print with that much-hyped 3D printer you bought, or just fancy making your own laptop computer but are not sure where to start, the Pi-Top is an exciting proposition.
An open source project to create a Raspberry Pi Laptop, complete with keyboard, screen, and case.
(link)[^]
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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..which is not 3D printing a laptop, but simply printing yet another case for the pi.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Oh yeah, you know you want to chat with every keystroke visible to the other person in almost real-time, because you know you'll never want to take back what you said: [^].
«At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is
...
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance»
T.S. Elliot, The Four Quartets: "Burnt Norton"/xml>
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I don't consider it a threat to my privacy if I have a choice to use it or not. I'll choose not.
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Like Google Wave?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's not really new...Windows used to have this 'Windows Chat' or WinChat[^] utility I used all the time in my chattier days.
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Bill, look at the bright side - more Darwin Award contenders will meet their demise as they use Beam Messenger while driving. 
/ravi
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That's so '80s. 
PHONE on VMS is still that way.
And there's a scene in "Pretty in Pink" that involves that kind of thing -- though of course it's bogus.
And maybe in "Jumpin' Jack Flash" -- also bogus I'm sure.
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