"couch"

$400 per hour is insane. It's about time AI drove these prices down. I bet you're going to see a ton of complaining in the future: "how am I supposed to live with less than $400/hour? Who's going to pay for my Porsche?".

are obsolete now?

Hold on, I just need to wipe the dust off of this LHC I keep in my garage and then we can try to replicate their findings.

saying: "All your base are belong to us!" (in Simplified Chinese chars, which apparently got ignored by Slashdot) :/

So far, when all previous articles had "skynet" tags, I was thinking: "yeah, but it's not that close to being true". Now, this article, on the other hand, is getting CLOSE. I mean, holy crap close! I am hereby tagging this article with SKYNET and WHATCOULDPOSSIBLYGOWRONG.

Also, phantomfive, what the hell are you talking about? Do you really need examples of things people invented that were a proof-of-concept at first and then got perfected so much that they went far and beyond what the initial prototype was able to do? You do, huh? Ok, so, off the top of my head: airplanes, computers, weapons and ... let me think here.. yeah.. uhm, robots!
Now put airplanes+computers+weapons+robots together and you get: SKYNET.

I'm not panicking, I'm saying that as a software developer, I know the purpose of a proof of concept. It's to build the REAL thing. So, you know what, I won't have to wake you up when they find camouflaged tanks in the forest, because flying american drones will wake you up, saying: "!"

Because only the application knows how to split its own inputs so that multiple worker threads can each work independently on an input chunk. The job of the OS is to figure out how much CPU time each worker gets, based on a variety of factors (such as thread and process priority/nice-ness). If you have multiple CPUs and they're not at 100% usage, this results in parallel processing of those inputs.

Prove it.

All languages are syntactic sugar for the IR code that gets generated. Fundamentally, all compilers translate from a Source language to a Target language (machine language in a lot of cases).

Whether the compiler checks that the types match, that there will be overflow, that you're doing signed vs unsigned comparison - it's up to the compiler and its developers. Clearly, one compiler can have more features than the other one. To access those new features, the compiler needs to see syntactic constructs in the source code. If you can't extend Javascript (or it's not feasible, or you just don't want) to incorporate those syntax changes, you can always develop a new language, such as Dash (or Dart?), with the risk that it will fail, but with the opportunity of fixing the bad things in Javascript and add the features that you want.

This is just a natural way of language evolution (in the broad scope of translating source code to machine code). You can't anticipate all the requirements of the future, so you design a language that solves all previous problems (or a relevant subset) and the current ones. In time, it will become obsolete, as people will build on top of your language to solve the problems they'll face at that point in time.

Obviously, everyone hates change. I say: Give it a shot! At least don't dismiss it till you've looked at it and figured out how it may or may not help you. If it doesn't, stick with what works for you. If it does, hey, you're now better off. Chances are, people aren't wasting their time to develop a new language, unless it solves someone's problem (their problem, your problem, everyone's problem - depends on the goals of that language).

I, for one, always welcome a new programming language, just to see what it brings to the table.

in my country:

• - we bribe the doctors. If you don't bribe them, they don't treat you and most won't even diagnose you. It's because "their salaries are low".
• - most doctors drink their way through medical school.
• - many doctors fail their exams again and again and attempt to buy the medical degree (and those who have enough money succeed in buying it).
• - lie their asses off to get your money and then prescribe a ton of drugs, more than you need, just to make the pharmacies happy.
• - do _not_ stay up to date with the latest in medical research.
• - there are a handful of good, honest doctors who want to treat people and are forced to do magic with the few antiquated tools they have. Access to the only MRI scanner in the country, which also happens to be the most advanced piece of medical technology we have, is controlled by the private clinic that owns it and ... no, you're not getting scanned unless you're the president's son or you're filthy rich.

I'll take Watson's diagnosis any day of the week!

for fragmentation. ffs.

what's wrong with ":tabe /path/to/file" then pressing "gt" or "gT" to go forward/backward between tabs?

There is no such thing as bad publicity