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Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

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'mostly software engineering'

.. mostly *polishing*, surely ?

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In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

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Re: Do...While

AARRRRR !!!

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.1/topics/ifelse

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Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

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You're holding it(her) wrong

He acknowledged that he *had* a daughter ... +1 over Steve J.

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Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

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Re: What's Wrong With a Loop?

The Tomorrow People nicked 'jaunting' from an earlier Alfred Bester novel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination

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Take my advice and stop using Rubik's Cubes to prove your intelligence

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Re: ICL - It Can't Last

but .. It Could Linger

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Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive

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Re: Obligatory

The British IBM was ICL ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited

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Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

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Re: Ancient assembler code checked out

Indeed .. my first commercial code from 1983 runs happily in BeebEm:

http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/

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Not auf wiedersehen – yet! The Berlin scene tempting Brexit tech

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Re: Privacy

No, they're not.

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Re: There are more levels than that

@big_D .. a bit of Googling provides the real numbers:

Last counted population of Munich (City) in March 2017 is: 1545405

(Aktueller Bevölkerungsbestand zum 31. März 2017: 1 545 105 Personen)

The larger urban zone (outskirts) brings has over 2.5 million and the metropolitan area around 6 million.

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Need the toilet? Wanna watch a video ad about erectile dysfunction?

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STERCULIUS

Is the god you're looking for. Terda was a heroic attempt, though.

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HMRC beer duty bungle leaves breweries struggling to pay online

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FAIL

Not Beer !

The article's title picture is of a litre (eine Maß ..) of Bavarian Bier (lager)

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Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future

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Re: Automation

Upvote for 'Tractors' ...

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Obi Worldphone MV1: It's striking, it's solid. Aaaand... we've run out of nice things to say

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Coat

This is not the droid you're looking for.

That is all.

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The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined

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Happy

Peace in our time.

There is not a single downvote for any comment on this article yet ...

Is this a first at The Register ?

Raspberry Pi unites commentards in ways previously unthinkable.

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Subaru Outback Lineartronic: The thinking person’s 4x4

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Headmaster

Re: I have

Erm ... Audi is not Bavarian.

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Swordfish fatally stabs man after man stabs, fatally, swordfish

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Headmaster

Re: Cool title

Hmm. Maybe. The article's title is a word unit palindromic sentence.

True palindromic sentences have mirrored letters, not words.

E.g."Live on, Time; emit no evil"

(one for Google ?)

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The Apple Watch: Throbbing strap-on with a knurled knob

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Boffin

But what we really need to know ...

.. is "Does it Blend?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8sxwK2pJI4

Yes, it blends.

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Google gets my data, I get search and email and that. Help help, I'm being REPRESSED!

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Coding Prowess

I've met Jaron Lanier.

Tim's assumption that his coding expertise exceeds his economic understanding is very, very wrong.

Tramp icon for obvious reasons.

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UFOs in the '50s skies? CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'

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Re: The Welsh

blwyddyn newydd dda

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We are never getting back to... Samsung's baking Apple's 14nm 'A9' chips?

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Re: Who made Who ... ?

I think you'll be a bit surprised if you actually do what you suggest and look up the history of ARM.

Apple (much as I personally dislike them) were instrumental in the formation of ARM from of the wreckage of Acorn, primarily to use the processor in the Apple Newton.

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Archaeologists and robots on hunt for more Antikythera pieces

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I’m doing Science and I’m still alive.

Am I the only one who read GlaDos for the yacht ... ?

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Brit kids match 45-year-old fogies' tech skill level by the age of 6

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Re: I call bollocks.

When I started my undergraduate course at the University of Manchester Computer Science department in 1986, they had just switched the teaching facilities from a large mainframe to a shiny new network of Sun 3/50 workstations and were actually keen that students learn the GUI principles of the future ...

Doh!

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It's Google's no-wheel car. OMG... there aren't any BRAKES

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Re: It begins!

Yup.

"They've taken care of everything, the words you hear, the songs you sing .."

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A premium smartie lump: Oppo N1 CyanogenMod Edition

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WTF?

Someone's having a laugh with that price.

Check this out for 200 squid

Full HD screen ... check (bigger at 6.4 inches)

8 core 1.7GHz cpu ... yes, 8!

13mp camera ... check

Card slot .... check

Removable battery ... check

http://www.comebuy.com/handys-android-smartphone-om32308.html

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Honeybee boffin stings own wedding tackle... for science

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Re: Only 382 ... ?

According to the following link, Jake has posted nearly 6400 times.

Assuming at least one "boast per post" 382 skills is a criminal underestimate

of his preternatural prowess.

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/user/4800/

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IT'S ALIVE! China's Jade Rabbit rover RETURNS from the DEAD

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Re: Still Alive

But there's no sense crying over every mistake.

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

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How STEVE JOBS saved Apple's bacon with an outstretched ARM

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Named:

ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber

[made link text shorter to avoid forum breakage - mod]

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Re: Mangled history

Detail is here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech_arm_creators_sophie_wilson_and_steve_furber/

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You're more likely to get a job if you study 'social' sciences, say fuzzy-studies profs

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Holmes

"I better stop working as an engineer then - I must have just been winging it for the last 17 years."

--> Resignation accepted. Clear your desk.

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Now that's real science: CYBORG MONKEYS with PROSTHETIC ARMS

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Re: Pictures

I'd settle for playmobil cyborg monkeys

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Ex-Valve engineers raise begging bowl for 3D holographic-like goggles

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Re: humph

Some of us did this in 1991 ... better. (yawn)

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/virtuality.html

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Brew me up, bro: 11-year-old plans to make BEER IN SPACE

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Stop

Headline fail !

Surely this should read:

"11-year-old plans to make BEER IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!"

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Samsung stakes claim to smartwatch market with Galaxy Gear

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.. is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet ..

.. whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?

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FAIL

I miss Eadon

That's all.

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