Might be hard to source components in Mexico. Or at least the supply chain is more complicated than it would be in China.
Luckily there are loop holes and we can happily ship containers full of components from China to Mexico, then assemble in Mexico and call it Hecho en México.
I wonder how far the loop holes can be pushed. Can China ship a nearly complete "electronics module" and in Mexico screw a plastic housing on it and stick it in some retail packaging? Is this a ban that doesn't hurt China at all, only makes stuff more expensive in the US?
I should write a book on how to get fired from an office job. Or maybe a few real "war stories" from silicon valley of the weird ass shit that people did at work. It's amazing how some people don't even get fired immediately for some really twisted and unprofessional behavior at work. Everything from fist fights between engineers in a director's office, to locking the office door in order to sit at his computer naked at the same time every day, to triggering clauses in employee promissory notes when the stock went underwater. (you're fired and you owe us $60k. Why? because we can turn a $40k profit by firing you)
No more #MeToo suits as that no one will be together for passes to be made, and no troublesome office romances.
Anthony Weiner famously sent dick pics to women. We truly live in amazing times when you can sexually harass people in the comfort of your own home. And by comfort I mean without pants.
As far as I know, MSN and AIM are gone, and IRC is still around.
I think a few things works against IRC. * IRC is somewhat technical. or at least the learning curve is tough. * IRC doesn't work that great on a mobile device. it prefers 100% connectivity. * and most importantly, it's difficult to monetize IRC with market research and advertisements.
In terms of technical challenges. IRC, Jabber/XMPP, etc are pretty similar to what Slack does. Architecturally it is different in details, but functionally it is similar. So why the bloat? Also I see no reason to believe that Slack is going to stick around any longer than AIM. Might as well set Slack's death clock for 10 years, they can hope that someone will buy them out and shutter the user base for no good reason. Isn't that how these cloud unicorns work?
But, seriously, let's not start pretending like this is on the same level as the lifetime of commitment that actual Olympic athletes have put in to get where they are.
Being a paid gamer seems more efficient than physical training. Wouldn't that mean gamers are better at making life choices than Olympians?
I'm sorry the little nerdlings won't get to compete in the Olympics, but in no way do I think playing a video game is on par with the actual athletes competing in the Olympics.
smells a bit of a No True Scotsman argument. What is an "actual athlete" ? We always run into these pointless discussions when it comes to bowling, golf, chess, figure skating, etc. All we can agree on is that we can add "gaming" to your list of triggers.
Having actually wired up core memory from a rather extravagant HP calculator as my final project, I am going to say you're full of shit. (also I never said I was a grey beard, although age and genetics have given me quite a few white hairs)
The trick used on some systems was after a reset you could toggle in a quick dump routine from the front panel. Rather than the usual boot sequence. Then the system would begin printing out on paper tape. If you knew a range of addresses you could save yourself some time and paper but potentially miss something important. If you were quick to read it as it was coming out you could stop it and save some paper.
Slack is a 50MB download when I last checked. Slack is barely more than an IRC or Jabber client. I won't deny that people seem to love it, but it is bloated. I don't recall AIM or MSN being a 50 MB download, or even a 15 MB download.
DLL hell is a real world problem if you have a complex application that needs a lot of support libraries. A chat program that display images inline? I'd argue that's maybe not so complicated to need a lot of DLLs.
Sadly Windows is terrible at handling shared libraries. And Linux is terrible at backward compatibility at the binary level. And finally, OSX is terrible at allowing developers to maintain versions of their software for older OS releases. Each platform sucks in some way, computers have become rather unsatisfying.
Ugh, too much sunshine. And who wants to have top universities? Not in my back yard! And so what if California has the most national parks in the US (tied with Alaska).
Number one reason to move to California: a good paying job Number one reason to leave California: can't find a good paying job
Some folks make it here. A few make it big. And the rest just fade away.
Is this really about an ethnic group or is it about one big government versus another big government? I like to think that superpower politics are more subtle than race.
Huawei has a big office in Santa Clara, CA. They're so damn secretive over there most employees don't know what projects are done in their own building.
Oh it has to be a CEO and not one of the dozens of students that have been arrested this decade? I guess you win. We should roll over until things escalate to some imaginary line you have drawn.
The attempts by China to silence American citizens by imprisoning family members in interment camps is well known
Ah, I use a shopping cart to carry things. Also I can carry four 12 packs of beer (2 per hand) and still have have 2 fingers free for operating door handles. (my doors don't self-open)
My bike doesn't have a key. You open the petcock, set the choke, pull the decompression lever, turn it over 7 times, release the decompression lever, set the bike to "on", pull in the clutch lever, set the kick lever to top dead center, kick a 600 cc single hard like you mean it.
I'm more worried that someone might roll my bike aware than I am that they'll figure out how to start it. Even with my directions above it's hard to have a feel for starting it.
Perhaps design a key fob that doesn't constantly broadcast, it would be harder to intercept and perhaps save battery life. This revolutionary keyfob design could have a set of buttons to unlock your doors, start the car, maybe open the trunk, or set an alarm mode.
I should patent that idea before anyone else! Ladies and gentlemen, we may have solved this key fob hacking trick and added a whole suite of features in the process. Well done!
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Might be hard to source components in Mexico. Or at least the supply chain is more complicated than it would be in China.
Luckily there are loop holes and we can happily ship containers full of components from China to Mexico, then assemble in Mexico and call it Hecho en México.
I wonder how far the loop holes can be pushed. Can China ship a nearly complete "electronics module" and in Mexico screw a plastic housing on it and stick it in some retail packaging? Is this a ban that doesn't hurt China at all, only makes stuff more expensive in the US?
Undead vampires get stronger the older they become.
I said it was disposable!
I should write a book on how to get fired from an office job. Or maybe a few real "war stories" from silicon valley of the weird ass shit that people did at work. It's amazing how some people don't even get fired immediately for some really twisted and unprofessional behavior at work.
Everything from fist fights between engineers in a director's office, to locking the office door in order to sit at his computer naked at the same time every day, to triggering clauses in employee promissory notes when the stock went underwater. (you're fired and you owe us $60k. Why? because we can turn a $40k profit by firing you)
If it's a disposable cup you can save yourself a trip.
No more #MeToo suits as that no one will be together for passes to be made, and no troublesome office romances.
Anthony Weiner famously sent dick pics to women. We truly live in amazing times when you can sexually harass people in the comfort of your own home. And by comfort I mean without pants.
As far as I know, MSN and AIM are gone, and IRC is still around.
I think a few things works against IRC.
* IRC is somewhat technical. or at least the learning curve is tough.
* IRC doesn't work that great on a mobile device. it prefers 100% connectivity.
* and most importantly, it's difficult to monetize IRC with market research and advertisements.
In terms of technical challenges. IRC, Jabber/XMPP, etc are pretty similar to what Slack does. Architecturally it is different in details, but functionally it is similar. So why the bloat? Also I see no reason to believe that Slack is going to stick around any longer than AIM. Might as well set Slack's death clock for 10 years, they can hope that someone will buy them out and shutter the user base for no good reason. Isn't that how these cloud unicorns work?
But, seriously, let's not start pretending like this is on the same level as the lifetime of commitment that actual Olympic athletes have put in to get where they are.
Being a paid gamer seems more efficient than physical training. Wouldn't that mean gamers are better at making life choices than Olympians?
I'm sorry the little nerdlings won't get to compete in the Olympics, but in no way do I think playing a video game is on par with the actual athletes competing in the Olympics.
smells a bit of a No True Scotsman argument. What is an "actual athlete" ? We always run into these pointless discussions when it comes to bowling, golf, chess, figure skating, etc. All we can agree on is that we can add "gaming" to your list of triggers.
Having actually wired up core memory from a rather extravagant HP calculator as my final project, I am going to say you're full of shit. (also I never said I was a grey beard, although age and genetics have given me quite a few white hairs)
The trick used on some systems was after a reset you could toggle in a quick dump routine from the front panel. Rather than the usual boot sequence. Then the system would begin printing out on paper tape. If you knew a range of addresses you could save yourself some time and paper but potentially miss something important. If you were quick to read it as it was coming out you could stop it and save some paper.
Slack is a 50MB download when I last checked. Slack is barely more than an IRC or Jabber client. I won't deny that people seem to love it, but it is bloated. I don't recall AIM or MSN being a 50 MB download, or even a 15 MB download.
DLL hell is a real world problem if you have a complex application that needs a lot of support libraries. A chat program that display images inline? I'd argue that's maybe not so complicated to need a lot of DLLs.
Sadly Windows is terrible at handling shared libraries. And Linux is terrible at backward compatibility at the binary level. And finally, OSX is terrible at allowing developers to maintain versions of their software for older OS releases. Each platform sucks in some way, computers have become rather unsatisfying.
I call them object files and executables.
Oops, my system crashed! Time to access the magnetic core memory and take a core dump to see what went wrong.
node.js and Chromium are technically native apps. They toys that run under them are what is at play here.
You really should not be surprised. More songs have been written about California than about Toronto.
Should I stand up for the applause?
You lost all credibility with this one.
Ugh, too much sunshine. And who wants to have top universities? Not in my back yard! And so what if California has the most national parks in the US (tied with Alaska).
Number one reason to move to California: a good paying job
Number one reason to leave California: can't find a good paying job
Some folks make it here. A few make it big. And the rest just fade away.
Is this really about an ethnic group or is it about one big government versus another big government? I like to think that superpower politics are more subtle than race.
Huawei has a big office in Santa Clara, CA. They're so damn secretive over there most employees don't know what projects are done in their own building.
He can be right and a hypocrite at the same time.
It's both. The purposes are not mutually exclusive.
Our right to practice religion allows cults like Apple to legally operate.
Oh it has to be a CEO and not one of the dozens of students that have been arrested this decade? I guess you win. We should roll over until things escalate to some imaginary line you have drawn.
The attempts by China to silence American citizens by imprisoning family members in interment camps is well known
Sorry, why are you expecting Trump to have consistent behavior?
China arrests Americans all the time for much dumber reasons. Turnabout is fair play.
Ah, I use a shopping cart to carry things. Also I can carry four 12 packs of beer (2 per hand) and still have have 2 fingers free for operating door handles. (my doors don't self-open)
My bike doesn't have a key. You open the petcock, set the choke, pull the decompression lever, turn it over 7 times, release the decompression lever, set the bike to "on", pull in the clutch lever, set the kick lever to top dead center, kick a 600 cc single hard like you mean it.
I'm more worried that someone might roll my bike aware than I am that they'll figure out how to start it. Even with my directions above it's hard to have a feel for starting it.
Perhaps design a key fob that doesn't constantly broadcast, it would be harder to intercept and perhaps save battery life. This revolutionary keyfob design could have a set of buttons to unlock your doors, start the car, maybe open the trunk, or set an alarm mode.
I should patent that idea before anyone else! Ladies and gentlemen, we may have solved this key fob hacking trick and added a whole suite of features in the process. Well done!