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Think of DeepDream x 1000. First, start with self-driving cars and semis cutting out taxi and freight services. Then, move on to musicians and composers no longer being hired to do…

Not that I'm a futurist, but I predict that 2020 will be the decade where AI becomes unsettling (beyond image recognition, which is already becoming unsettling), and that 2030 will…

The largest problem that I see with the militarization of the local police is that they will increasingly start to view themselves as soldiers. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St…

These rotating circles that are referenced by the article will forever remain a cautionary tale for me: http://blog.matthen.com/post/42112703604/the-smooth-motion-o... In pre-Coper…

> Tablets were never intended to be the next generation of word processing devices. sigh If only that we're true. iWork for iPad was announced at the first iPad announcement.

Not all code is server-side code that can be addressed by elastic computing. Most C++ programmers work on desktop, mobile, and embedded programs. In such a domain, it is very likel…

Arguably, the patent system is about execution, not ideas. Science fiction authors have been providing cool ideas for free for some time now.

Security theater. sigh If the government was actually serious about protecting women and children from people with malicious intent, terrorists would be toward the bottom of the li…

I'm not sure I'd care to code with this: http://i.imgur.com/Pu4FHi4.png I like to code with about a 9 point font, in order to maximize the amount of code per screen without going t…

True enough. It has only become schizophrenic lately because it is now eavesdropping on domestic communication as well.

The NSA is a schizophrenic organization. It is tasked with two opposing goals: - To eavesdrop on the communications of foreign entities. - To protect our own government from foreig…

> Why would anyone trust one of them going forward? The same reason people trust the Dollar as a reserve currency. Yeah, it sucks, but better than any of the alternatives. Fortunat…

I can't count the number of times my coworkers have said something along the lines of, "What are you talking about? I never saw anything about... oh, wait... I didn't realize it wa…

I find it telling that not so long ago, "Human Resources" used to be called "Personnel". I'm still curious as to what caused the change from persons to resources...

I do agree that that form of leadership is necessary. I was inferring a more literal interpretation of leadership, though, considering the associated word, "potential".

> [he] believes every phase of the process needs to be meticulously designed to drill deep into skill sets, ... and leadership potential Ugh. I hate this. For a technical interview…

> While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. Please, no, do not fall for this …

> Further, what if you prefer 2 or 3 space indentation? This, alone, is why I always use tabs, no matter what any style guide says. People have different tastes. Using tabs allows …

Heh. Reminds me of the days when I used to run a Z-code interpreter on my Palm V.

Regarding the title of his article, as a someone who routinely uses TCP/IP for tasks other than transmitting HTML, I find his concept of "internet" to be rather myopic.

I've beat this drum before, and I'll beat it again here. The build configuration for every large project eventually becomes turing complete (requiring loops, conditionals, subrouti…

Celery is brittle. If you stop a celery service, odds are, it will either not stop at all or leave stray child processes running. It is not transactional, at least not with a Mongo…

Agreed. Since 1995, I've been hearing wild-eyed "visionaries" predict that the internet will bring about equality and the Age of Aquarius. They seem to forget that the same sort of…

> It's hard(er) to create new content on a tablet, and I don't really want that becoming the default computer for any generation. At the risk of using yet another car analogy, I se…