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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Current laws make the driver of a car responsible for any mayhem caused by that vehicle. But what happens when there is no driver? This article argues that the dream of a self-driving car is futile since the law requires that the driver is responsible for the operation of the vehicle. Therefore, even if a car is self-driving, you as the driver must stay alert and pay attention. No texting, no reading, no snoozing. So what's the point of a self-driving car if you can't relax or do something else while "driving"?
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theodp writes:
If he'd had his druthers, Bill Gates told a Harvard audience, Ctrl+Alt+Del would never have seen the light of day. However, an IBM keyboard designer didn’t want to give Microsoft a single button to start things up, and thus the iconic three-finger-salute was born.
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debingjos writes:
Our management seems to thing that our devs can get extra work done if they work extra long days. However, as one of the devs in question I don't agree. When I've been coding for 8 hours my pool of concentration is exhausted and working overtime does not get a lot of work done or the quality is very bad.
What is this communities oppinion on this?
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occidental writes:
Sanders Kleinfeld writes: In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing industry. Revolution #3 isn’t really defined by a new piece of hardware, software product, or platform. Instead, it’s really marked by a dramatic paradigm change among authors and publishers, who are shifting their toolsets away from legacy word processing and desktop publishing suites, and toward HTML5 and tools built on the Open Web Platform.
