Israeli warplanes on Sunday dawn fired two F16 airstrikes on “Hamas sites” east of Rafah, southern Gaza strip.
Spokesman of the Israeli army claimed that “Israeli jets launched raids on the strip in response to a rocket fired on Friday, adding that the situation is likely to escalate.
No injuries were reported. However, the airstrikes destroyed the area.
Manchester City is set to meet Barcelona asking price for defender Samuel Umtiti, according to reports.
The Sun reports that Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is set to offer £50 million January bid for the France international.
Guardiola wants to add the defender to the Manchester City squad as he targets the unprecedented Quadruple in the new year.
Umtiti, 24, has the £50m release clause in his Nou Camp contract Manchester United is also craving for the signature of the former Lyon centre back.
The centre-back is refusing to consider new contract talks at Barcelona, despite their desperation to hike up his escape clause.
Arsenal have reportedly launched a surprise move for Chelsea defender David Luiz who may have fallen out of favour with Antonio Conte.
The Express say Arsenal who have had concerns about their central defence all season are exploring the prospect bringing Luiz across town in January.
The Brazilian was dropped by Antonio Conte at the end of October but then picked up a knee injury which he is now back in training after recovering from.
The Blues believe he will be back to fitness in time for next week’s FA Cup third round tie against Norwich City but he still faces an uncertain future.
It remains to be seen if Chelsea would be willing to sell him to a Premier League rival in which case it could open up a switch to Italian giants Juventus.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool will need to assess the fitness of Mohamed Salah after he sustained a knock during his match-winning performance against Wilfred Ndidi’s Leicester City on Saturday.
Salah grabbed a brace as Liverpool came from behind to beat the Foxes 2-1 at Anfield in their final game of 2017 for his goal No.23 of the season.
Klopp revealed during his his post-match press conference that Salah was limping as he left the field as an 83rd-minute substitute and he will need to be checked by the club’s medical team to see if he can be involved against Burnley in less than 48 hours’ time.
“I don’t know in this moment exactly [what it is], but he was limping. That’s never a good sign, to be honest.
“We have to see what his problem was. We will see what he can do for the next game.” Klopp told the Reds’ official website
Salah’s double against Leicester took his tally to 23 goals in all competitions so far this season, a figure reached in just 29 appearances.
The year 2017 was full of up and downs for Super Eagles defender, Kenneth Omeruo but he ended it in style; quitting bachelorhood to marry to his heartthrob, Chioma Nnamani, in Enugu state on Saturday.
It is understood that Omeruo, who is a Chelsea defender but currently on loan at Turkish club Kasimpasa, proposed to Chioma in September.
I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero downsides. There are absolutely occupational hazards of being a programmer, and one of my favorite programming quotes is an allusion to one of them:
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Donald Trump is basically a comment section running for president
Which is troubling because technically, technically, I run a company that builds comment sections.
Here at the tail end of 2017, from where I sit neither of these jokes seem particularly funny to me any more. Perhaps I have lost the capacity to feel joy as a human being? Haha just kidding!... kinda.
Remember in 2011 when Marc Andreeseen said that "Software is eating the world?"
That used to sound all hip and cool and inspirational, like "Wow! We software developers really are making a difference in the world!" and now for the life of me I can't read it as anything other than an ominous warning that we just weren't smart enough to translate properly at the time. But maybe now we are.
I've said many, many times that the key to becoming an experienced software developer is to understand that you are, at all times, your own worst enemy. I don't mean this in a negative way – you have to constantly plan for and design around your inevitable human mistakes and fallibility. It's fundamental to good software engineering because, well, we're all human. The good-slash-bad news is that you're only accidentally out to get yourself. But what happens when we're infinitely connected and software is suddenly everywhere, in everyone's pockets every moment of the day, starting to approximate a natural extension of our bodies? All of a sudden those little collective social software accidents become considerably more dangerous:
The issue is bigger than any single scandal, I told him. As headlines have exposed the troubling inner workings of company after company, startup culture no longer feels like fodder for gentle parodies about ping pong and hoodies. It feels ugly and rotten. Facebook, the greatest startup success story of this era, isn’t a merry band of hackers building cutesy tools that allow you to digitally Poke your friends. It’s a powerful and potentially sinister collector of personal data, a propaganda partner to government censors, and an enabler of discriminatory advertising.
I'm reminded of a particular Mitchell and Webb skit: "Are we the baddies?"
On the topic of unanticipated downsides to technology, there is no show more essential than Black Mirror. If you haven't watched Black Mirror yet, do not pass go, do not collect $200, go immediately to Netflix and watch it. Go on! Go ahead!
⚠ Fair warning: please DO NOT start with season 1 episode 1 of Black Mirror! Start with season 3, and go forward. If you like those, dip into season 2 and the just-released season 4, then the rest. But humor me and please at least watch the first episode of season 3.
The technology described in Black Mirror can be fanciful at times, but several episodes portray disturbingly plausible scenarios with today's science and tech, much less what we'll have 20 to 50 years from now. These are very real cautionary tales, and some of this stuff is well on its way toward being realized.
Programmers don't think of themselves as people with the power to change the world. Most programmers I know, including myself, grew up as nerds, geeks, social outcasts. Did I ever tell you about the time I wrote a self-destructing Apple // boot disk program to let a girl in middle school know that I liked her? I was (and still am) a terrible programmer, but oh man did I ever test the heck out of that code before copying on to her school floppy disc. But I digress. What do you do when you wake up one day and software has kind of eaten the world, and it is no longer clear if software is in fact an unambiguously good thing, like we thought, like everyone told us … like we wanted it to be?
I recently recieved a complimentary copy of the book in the mail. I paged to my short interview, alongside the very cool Kiki Prottsman. I had no real recollection of the interview questions after the months of lead time it takes to print a physical book, but reading the printed page, I suddenly hit myself over the head with the very answer I had been searching my soul for these past 6 months:
In attempting to simplify my answers for an audience of kids, I had concisely articulated the one thing that keeps me coming back to software: to serve man. Not on a platter, for bullshit monetization – but software that helps people be the best version of themselves.
And you know why I do it? I need that help, too. I get tired, angry, upset, emotional, cranky, irritable, frustrated and I need to be reminded from time to time to choose to be the better version of myself. I don't always succeed. But I want to. And I believe everyone else – for some reasonable statistical value of everyone else – fundamentally does, too.
That was the not-so-secret design philosophy behind Stack Overflow, that by helping others become better programmers, you too would become a better programmer. It's unavoidable. And, even better, if we leave enough helpful breadcrumbs behind for those that follow us, we collectively advance the whole of programming for everyone.
I apologize for not blogging much in 2017. I've certainly been busy with Discourse which is actually going great; we grew to 21 people and gave $55,000 back this year to the open source ecosystem we build on. But that's no excuse. The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy. I'm ashamed of much that happened, and I think one of the first and most important steps we can take is to embrace explicit codes of conduct throughout our industry. I also continue to believe, if we start to think more holistically about what our software can do to serve all people, not just ourselves personally (or, even worse, the company we work for) — that software can and should be part of the solution.
I tried to amplify on these thoughts in recent podcasts:
Software is easy to change, but people ... aren't. So in the new year, as software developers, let's make a resolution to focus on the part we can change, and keep asking ourselves one very important question: how can our software help people become the best version of themselves?
Nigerian stocks are expected to keep rising in 2018, fuelled by hopes that lower interest rates and a stable currency will help corporate profits, but traders say gains might be short-lived. The all-share index crossed 38,000 points on Friday, with stocks climbing 42 percent for 2017 – its biggest gain since 2013. Traders foresee another 10…
Super Eagles World Cup opponent in Group D, Croatia will play five-time world champions Brazil in a friendly match in England according to reports.
According to Novilist claims that the Croatian national team will play World Cup favorite Brazil date and venue are yet to be fixed for the game lined up to prepare the team ahead Mundial in Russia.
The organisers are also looking at the possibility of having the game either Chelsea’s home ground Stamford Bridge or Liverpool’s Anfield in the running to host the match.
The Eastern European side will tackle Peru in Miami and Mexico in Dallas on March 23 and March 27 respectively. While Super Eagles will take on Poland March 23 at Municipal Stadium in Wrocław.
Nigeria will open their 2018 World Cup at Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad on June 16 before the battle with Iceland and Argentina in Russia.
While there are insinuations that all is not perfectly right in the relationship between PSG teammates, Edison Cavani and Brazillian superstar, Neymar, the former has claimed otherwise.
The searchlights have been on Cavani’s relationship with Neymar especially after the pair were embroiled in an on-pitch row over penalty-taking duties during PSG’s 2-0 win over Lyon in September, but the Uruguayan said there are no ill feelings between them as the episode has since been put behind.
“We have a great relationship,” Cavani said in an interview with The Telegraph.
“We are very professional and our goal is teamwork and the club. Everyone was really happy when he [Neymar] signed because he’s such a great player and so it was a good thing for the club, for the team. It was incredibly exciting for all of us.
“The problem is that many people are not given the correct information and there is a lot of misunderstanding.”
Indeed, Cavani is not allowing himself to be distracted by off-the-pitch talks as he presently tops the Ligue 1 goalscoring charts with 19 as PSG enjoy a nine-point lead atop the table during the mid-season break.
