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Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think Mr. Musk is baiting us.

So it is much more a problem of AI getting into the wrong hands than AI itself. Which raises the prospect that it may get used prematurely and with weaknesses. This reduces very mu…

SSH is calling a shell. If it is bash and the vulnerability test is positive http://fedoramagazine.org/shellshock-how-does-it-actually-wo... then your VPS is vulnerable and you bet…

Bezos is finally overreaching.

This is fabulous. It makes me speechless as to why this true and not surprising at all. My quick theory is that deep down we are social animals and a lot of our 'management' decisi…

Why not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all. Cost is low and it is a rea…

True, and they have been surging again after the chinese government eased monetary conditions after the financial crisis in 2009 (remember). But to Xi Jinpings credit -and I do not…

Very true. I think it is precisely the not-fitting in which makes cultural mixture very very productive. Or in other words, cultural homogeneity is stagnation and unproductive. Bes…

Well, in the first place I cannot. I take the thing as it is. This is the risk-taking part. But, I guess, that is why I have to move from correlation to causation or rather embed t…

I have been privately lumping causation and correlation together for decades now. It freed my thinking. While the two are certainly different, it is also true that causation does n…

Just a very delightful quote from the link above: To me, however, a programmer is who I'm looking for, while a resume full of revenue increases and cost reductions sounds like an "…

Well, what if being a "Programmer/Analyst II" is precisely what you want? In my case it is absolutely true, both of it. For once, I would love to see those despisers of hands-on-te…

From 2011, this article is just the usual business trash talk. Contrary to the article, one does not succeed in business by adding value whichever way. Clearly, it is optimal adapt…

Honestly, any manager who does not have a hands-on approach is a waste (20 years business/it experience). That said, there is what I call management-craftsmanship, i.e. knowing how…

Again (same article, same question) from a 2 weeks ago. Well, and then it is go from google, also known as golang.

Well, you are right it reminded me of method overloading. Otherwise I think time will tell. In the end generics are just types with parameters, for creating typed permutations _at_…

That's probably more a matter of taste. Go has a reflect package which allows the programmer to determine type at runtime, making generics unnecessary. It may not be as convenient …

go (golang, google language) is pretty cool too. They are pulling a lot of good things together from other languages (c++, java) but leave out the useless/once fashionable/error pr…

Kudos to this very, very good article. Let me add a couple of facets. - Walter Euckens 'ordoliberalism' which laid the foundation for the postwar German 'economic miracle' was a di…

How about math? Being a programmer helped my get up to speed on math. And there are so many wonderful resources out there. My advice, do not buy a textbook and try to kind of linea…

A very good thing is the minus sign in google search. It allows you to exclude keywords and sites. They should expand that. My searchbar gets very crowded at times.

Coldtea has a point. 'Too big to fail' banks, coercive patent litigation and so on, indicates to me that 'free markets' are nothing but an ideological cover up for coercive powers …

Glad that the fogbeam guy asked. Me always thought that Google was 'better' than, say, Microsoft and if google were to become just another 'evil' organisation, that would be troubl…