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what about a little Windows bashing 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That's no use. It needs to run on Windows 7 to gain widespread popularity! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In the braindamaged naming/functional conventions of X Windows, an XServer is the user facing part of a *nix GUI not the backend. At work I use a different Xserver application[^] to remote into the Alphabox managing an embedded system that runs a rack of *mumble*mumble*.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Linux has GUI apps? Dang, I better sudo apt-get upgrade!
Marc
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Nearly 50 percent of Node.js developers surveyed using container technology, strong growth emerges in cloud, front end, mobile and devices It also (shockingly) found that 96% of Node developers use JavaScript/Node.js for development
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It also (shockingly) found that 96% of Node developers use JavaScript/Node.js for development
Scary
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Take JavaScript, the messy-yet-buggy drivers library, and the fact is rather a toy than a reliable we bserver off from NodeJS, and probably you'll get a decent app...
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Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, ecommerce guidance, content, and interactive experiences through chatbots. Are chatbots the new black?
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I hope they got their tech from the Microsoft Tay bot...
Hogan
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The next generation of the Web standard is using a GitHub repo for feedback and suggestions In related news, I just had to use a table for layout because, "We need to support all browsers"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In related news, I just had to use a table for layout because, "We need to support all browsers"
Excellent, I'm going to make a new browser that supports an entirely unique sub/superset of HTML/CSS/JS just to make that easier 
(Edited, somehow forgot to include quote)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In related news, I just had to use a table for layout because, "We need to support all browsers"
... and HTML -3 if you're creating emails that need to look nice in Outlook's MS Word based HTML "rendering" engine. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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After four months, the certificate authority is ready to bring free encryption to even more webmasters. Let there be TLS!
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Google engineers want to connect USB devices to webpages to help hardware manufactures bypass the need to build native drivers. News from the future: New malware affects all USB devices from web page
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Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. In an interview with The Atlantic, Milner makes his case for star travel. "We've got to get ourselves back to the garden"
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Milner told me the probes will use a small laser to communicate with Earth
Communicate what? With what sensors? All of which need power to operate, power to stay warm, etc., making for a bigger payload than a "chip", adding to the mass. How does it orient itself to look at interesting things? Momentum wheels? Thrusters? Heck, how does it orient itself to even be able to point whatever microwatt laser is on the thing to phone home? 
And ok, you've accelerated this thing to 20% of C, now what? If the thing reaches the orbit of Pluto in one day, then at the other end, without decelerating, it's going to zip through the destination solar system might fast. Probably too fast to do any real science.
What ARE these people thinking?
Marc
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If this laser in space, the United States would never stop trying to make it point towards earth as weapon.
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Windows users will no longer be forced to manually Google error messages to figure out why their computer crashed, as development builds of Windows 10 now include a QR code on the Blue Screen of Death. Because nothing says "friendly" like a near-opaque blob of pixels
Now we can do Rorschach tests with our blue screens! It's a bunny! It's a butterfly!
"I'm not trapped in here with you... You're trapped in here with me"
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I'm waiting for the QR code with a "Jesus" or "Virgin Mary" image.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'm surprised it hasn't already happened. There was a salt lamp with JC on it around here about a month ago.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still waiting for the BSOD's with ads.
"Too bad your system went t's up. Time for a new Dell?"
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Quote: Subject: To make crashes 'friendlier,' Microsoft adds QR codes to Windows 10 BSOD
Yeah, now BSOD will be green, that make them more friendly. 
And all previous windows until 3.1 will receive a special correction that will nag to upgrade to W10 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Either I'm not using the hardware the cool kids are using, or I completely fail to understand why QR codes are ever used. My iPhone doesn't support them out of the box. My Mum would have no way in hell of trying to use a QR code to go to a webpage. Can they please just go away?
It's 2016. Why can't we just have the phone's camera automatically detect URLs in the picture, highlight them, and let us tap the highlighted URL in order to take us to the site?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Because for many of them, detecting and decoding a QR code is the most sensible option.
To try to decode text requires consideration of the following:
a) round-trips to home base with all of your images or slow search and decode times
b) an application that has limited font support or one which is quite large
QR does away with all of those limitations. A great solution? Nah. The least imperfect? I can't think of anything better off-hand.
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