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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by bane on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:09PM (#14986118)
More than once I've seen "experienced senior developers" who write code in Microsoft Word and then don't understand why the smart quotes cause compiler errors on their string literals.
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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by smugworth on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:47AM (#14989582)
C'mon man, I hadn't had my coffee yet that morning.
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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by flamedoge on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:11AM (#14986714)
I hope this is a joke
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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by mvdwoord on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:43AM (#14987736)
Unfortunately, it is not. I heard about idiocy like this a long time ago from a developer friend of mine, I was also skeptical. Don't know why but have witnessed similar levels of stupidity too often to keep track. There literally is no bottom. None.
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