And parenting will become more like programming ;P

I've never had a problem, but I typically am on my desktop. I do hate how they are riddled with ads though.

another one bites the dust.

SD Times[^]:

Boyd said he worked in medical technology for a year. While doing that, he said, “Everyone I worked with realized the implications when we got it wrong, that people’s lives were on the line. So, people are aware that this isn’t just ordering an airline ticket, that if you mistype an algorithm, if you do things sloppy, people can suffer or there can be bad outcomes.” Of course, no software is without bugs, but the ways defects are prioritized and impacts are assessed are fundamental decisions made on a daily basis. And today, Boyd said, “We’re using judgments; we don’t have norms.”

See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil...

Meant to put my Nutella comment here, Dang it! or should i say Noug-it!

I was really hoping for Nutella.

Tech Times[^]:

Google's intriguing and ambitious Project Tango is gaining ground, as a new partnership with Qualcomm aims to deliver more optimized, Tango-ready Snapdragon chips.

Google and Qualcomm...doing the tango.

SD Times[^]:

The need for speed is driving businesses into a digital revolution, with agile as the engine. As expectations for quality user experiences rise higher than ever before (be it with context-aware mobile apps, or websites with no room for performance mishaps), organizations are being forced to rethink the way their entire businesses operate. “The digital revolution is driving the demand for quality software at speed,” said Thomas Hooker, vice president and strategic market expert for CollabNet. “Software development and delivery is vital for all companies to deliver products and services. The methodologies and tools that help expedite the development and delivery of quality software at speed are more important than ever.”

A di-agile-tal transformation

Computerworld[^]:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has become the latest tech executive to have a social media account hacked, and the group responsible says more targets will follow. On Sunday, a group of hackers calling themselves OurMine briefly took over Pichai’s account on Quora, a question-and-answer site.

Watch out Satya Nadella...

SD Times[^]:

London-based Onux Technologies thinks it has the solution to JavaScript woes. The company announced today that it had released JS++, a type-safe version of JavaScript that it has created over the past few years. Roger Poon, founder of Onux, said, “The challenge with solving a problem of this magnitude is that there is just so much code and so much that has happened since JavaScript was first introduced in 1995. Secondly, it’s very difficult to analyze JavaScript without actually executing code, and the code can execute differently across web browsers and platforms. We’ve worked on this problem since 2011.

Because who doesn't love JavaScript?

SD Times[^]:

RethinkDB, an open-source database, wants to help developers prototype and build cross-platform, real-time Web, mobile and IoT apps. The company announced Horizon, a new open-source JavaScript platform, is coming out of a closed developer preview today.

You want to hear a JavaScript joke? I'll callback later...

The Next Web[^]:

When the USA Freedom Act passed last June, it put an end to the country’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance program in which it collected millions of phone records of citizens’ calls over 14 years. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes that isn’t enough to protect people’s privacy, because those records still exist in various NSA databases. The non-profit is calling on a secret court to consider ways to delete this trove of data without destroying evidence that proves the NSA snooped on citizens.

EFF: Protecting your past, present and future.

Haha, a free virtual reality lift

Wired[^]:

In a letter to be sent to Kickstarter backers on Tuesday, shared in advance with WIRED, Oculus said that any backer of the 2012 Kickstarter who pledged at the $275 level or above (that is, enough to get an Oculus development kit as a Kickstarter reward) would get a special Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda

SD Times[^]:

The release includes the first public preview of Hyper-V containers. Hyper-V containers are designed to provide an additional deployment option for scenarios that require high levels of isolation, and to give users expanded options when it comes to containers on Windows. The company previously announced a preview of Windows Server Containers and the Docker engine for Windows a few months ago.

Try to "contain" your excitement.

Docker Blog[^]:

In today’s world, we wanted to focus more on building. Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of the decade, so we chose to use that as our visual interface to Docker. Based on the customizable, scriptable Minecraft server, cuberite, we built our interface based around the metaphor of shipping containers and showed the Minecraft demo at DockerCon EU 2015.

Minecraft makes everything better.

Haha, I mean what is agile really anyway? Working together? Do we really need a methodology to tell us we should work together?

SD Times[^]:

Viewing agile as a business movement—not just a development movement—can influence improved alignment between development teams and key stakeholders such as sales, marketing and customer service. Adopting the agile mindset of team-based work and continual improvement in business functions could even improve basic processes such as customer service and support.

Duh, when will businesses get it?

Windows 10 in general, and I will take your word for it. You are the Great and Powerful Oz after all.

Microsoft Devices Blog[^]:

The submissions exceeded our expectations, not only in volume, but in the diversity of institutions and the quality of the proposals. We were blown away to observe such creative, compelling and promising academic applications for HoloLens across art, medicine, visualization, education and more. From leveraging HoloLens to correct for visual impairment to mobilizing mixed reality in the classroom for trade-based education, the submissions truly capture the spirit of the program and point to the scope of what’s possible with Microsoft HoloLens.

Some of the recipients submissions actually sound pretty interesting