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As CEO Satya Nadella outlined at Build 2016, the company envisions a day when natural language and machine intelligence will combine to enhance productivity and allow its customers to “get more done and have more fun.” Pardon me while I grimace (as a platform)
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The problem with moving faster than most companies is that Facebook was plagued by delays whenever it had to outsource prototyping and testing of its gadgets and gizmos. With so much hardware on its 10-year roadmap, and quarter after quarter of profits stacking up, it made sense to build a dedicated laboratory within its Menlo Park headquarters. Solid aluminum Like buttons!
Or 'aluminium' if you're of that sort.
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Don't let the millennial buzz fool you. Older workers handle and adapt to new systems better than younger people. “Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill”
I have met a few people this applies to, but the majority of 50+ folk I know bust this myth regularly.
I don't think they struggle with the new technology as much as they aren't impressed. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: don't think they struggle with the new technology as much as they aren't impressed.
for instance this new thing called the cloud?? I try to tell people that we had all of this 20, 30 years ago. nothing really new but rather a new cool name. 
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Like that - exactly! 
TTFN - Kent
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they just aren't into "oooo shiny" like the younger generation. I keep getting AARP literature, must mean I'm an older worker.
Charlie Gilley
Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Kent Sharkey wrote: aren't impressed
Yep, that's me.
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Agreed. I won't be in the 50+ club for a few more years, but have learned not to chase every new technology as I have other things in life more important. When I do decide to learn something new, I tend to realize it is just a rework or rebranding of a previous technology and I pick it up pretty quick.
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Given that most of us older folks can recall many of these shiny new ideas under different names in the past, I think that we have good reason not to be impressed with modern technology. The exceptions are ideas that were before their time (e.g. the hardware/software was not up to supporting it then), but can now be implemented properly.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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.NET Framework 4.6.2 contains dozens of bug fixes and improvements. No more 260 character PATH restriction! Party time!
Oh, and some other stuff. I guess.
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In a paper published as the cover story in Nature on August 4, researchers introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module. Programmable ions? I used to love that band!
Before they sold out to Big Quantum, that is
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The threat of ransomware is becoming widespread among corporations, with almost half of U.S. businesses suffering an attack from the nasty form of malware recently, according to a new survey. sEnd 3 uNMarkEd bi7C01N 70 rEad 7h1s 8lur8
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Spaceflight venture Moon Express wants to be the first private company ever to land on the Moon in 2017 — and now the company has been granted approval by the United States government to launch to the lunar surface. "Not because it is easy, but because it is hard"
(slightly paraphrased there as they're not doing 'the other things')
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Approach exploits how HTTPS responses are delivered over transmission control protocol. Another day, another attempt plot to suck the joy out of life
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Contrary to what you've been told, frequent changes can be counterproductive. If 123456 was good enough for Grandma, it's good enough for me
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Quote: By studying the data, the researchers identified common techniques account holders used when they were required to change passwords. ...
"The UNC researchers said if people have to change their passwords every 90 days, they tend to use a pattern and they do what we call a transformation," Cranor explained. "They take their old passwords, they change it in some small way, and they come up with a new password."
So true. Everyone I know does this and it's the same for the 100's of websites people use.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Seriously, everyone does it. so true and so bad.
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It's also been found that writing down your passwords is more secure since you tend to create more complicated passwords. (Since I started using passpack.com years ago, my passwords have definitely gotten more complicated.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: passpack.com
looks interesting
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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 just write them down on a piece of paper like everyone else at work and put it under my keyboard. No one will ever think to look there.
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Google wants every mobile website to move incredibly fast — and play by its rules. Remember when we had that standard HTML? Yeah, good times.
Yes, I am imagining a time where there was "standard HTML". Right after I saw that unicorn kitten.
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I first read that as "Google's speedy mobile phishing tool..."
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Researchers discover that ultrasonic vibrations reduce friction on flat screens by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air. Can it do anything about greasy fingerprints?
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"Discover"? - what exactly were they doing when they chanced on this discovery?
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