Aw, the little libertarian is sad because he can't mooch off society without his fair share. Tell you what- pay back ever cent you've ever used from society, including a complete amnesia of everything taught in government school, give away anything that was made by a person or company that received any government benefits or services ever and move to somewhere where you'll never do either of those things again, and we'll stop taxing you. Until then, grow up and handle your responsibilities to society like a fucking adult, not an 8 year old crying because he has to do his chores.
No, one doesn't need to eventually take off. It could just be that people actually don't want it. There's lots of ideas that have been rehashed repeatedly and fail in the market each time.
Even as a gamer, I have 0 interest in VR. I don't want to wear something on my face, I'm far from convinced having a screen that close to my eyes is good for them, and generally I want to be able to look around my apartment when gaming- hell I usually have the TV in on the background and glance at it on occassion, or tab over to a brower (or have one on monitor 2). You can build the perfect VR machine and I just don't want it. And I think the market is showing the majority are with me.
Because I *like* clean air, clean water, regulated food and drug supplies, the elderly not dying because they can't afford their medications, the schools in poor states getting enough money to run, help for those who've lost their jobs, ensuring children don't starve, etc. The states are unable to do those jobs, and leaving it to 50 different governments to do them would leave many states doing them far more poorly.
In other words, I'm *NOT* a sociopath like you are. And you can still shut the fuck up about the MTA taxes.
If you wanted to not pay the MTA taxes and not get any tax money from NYC for any service you use (including roads, schools, police, fire, etc), I'm sure the city residents would be happy to approve it. NYC pays far more in taxes than it gets in.
But until you're willing to do that, you get to shut the fuck up about the MTA taxes.
They aren't in San Francisco. They're in Menlo Park. Some of their property may even be over the line in East Palo Alto. It isn't the city they need to convince, its the suburbs.
Which may actually be harder. The city is very pro low income housing, so long as its built in another neighborhood. The suburbs not so much. Google tried and failed at this in Mountain View a few years back.
I can't imagine any engineer who would work for 75k/yr. That's what I made out of college 17 years ago. But ignoring that- have you considered offering substantial (partner level) equity? It's more or less the same thing as you'd get by raising capital with a vc, but you get an engaged senior level employee out of it.
The auto complete thing depends on keyboard. Its a common way of doing it, but there's 0 enforcement. Keyboards on Android don't even share dictionaries, so there's no way they could enforce it.
And this is what the local lawyer consults. The lawyer doesn't guess at it, the legislature defines what it is. This is part of that definition process.
I just got my yellow fever vaccination for a trip to South America a month ago. Vaccines are a necessity that save thousands of lives, and parents who do not get their children vaccinated should have them taken away.
Vitamins are a scam. The whole vitamin thing started because Linus Pauling basically went a little insane in his last few years and started pushing massive dosages of Vitamin C as a cure for cancer (and everything else). While there are a few exceptions (for example iron for anemics) vitamins aren't needed and confer no benefits for anyone without a severe medical condition, and some of them are actively harmful (there's a reason why the recommended daily allowance is where it is and not at 10x what it is).
And how do you define grooming and solicitation? Is just a message to one on a social media site enough? A series? Laws like this are how you define what's punishable and what isn't. If you left it at only the laws from the 80s (or whenever last defined it), you could end up with a situation where by the letter of the law only a telephone call counts, but websites and text messages don't (because they didn't exist at the time and the letter of the law isn't wide enough to include them). Its not just "well this seems like grooming to me", that isn't an enforceable statute.
Something narrower- say making it illegal for them to send direct or group messages to a minor, or to make friend requests/add them to groups would seem to be a reasonable law. Barring them altogether prevents them from interactions with adults. And then we get into the whole question of what counts as social media (would a website with a forum be social media? The comments page on a newspaper article? Again this could be very broad).
They're vitamins- an almost entirely unregulated market offering a product that has no health benefits for the vast, vast majority of people. Its modern day snake oil to begin with. How the hell do you counterfeit what's already fake?
How does a library help to define whether something should be a property of a tag or data held within it (not discussing embedded tags, but embedded strings/numbers/values). XML has 2 disjoint ways to embed data, with no real reason to have two or to use one over the other. Json doesn't. That's the property/data issue, and its a major usability issue with XML.
ANd no, XML is nowhere near as tight. Comparing properly printed and spaced xml and json, json is always more readable. XML is overly verbose and harder to see the structure. Particularly its harder to find arrays.
Its less verbose, more easily human readable, and doesn't have the "is this a property of the tag, or data inside the tag" problem. Its a better solution all around. I wouldn't create anything new in xml, but I wouldn't race to remove it in existing apps/protocols unless I'm doing a total v2.
If they make another hit, I'd bet on AR/VR. Its close enough to be reasonable (unlike self driving cars which are at least a decade out of commercial), and the nerd stigma is the perfect thing for them to overcome- smartphones existed before the iphone (windows mobile, symbian), but were considered a nerd toy ay best.
Its complex. And its fun. Part of the reason its fun is that it is complex- if it was easy there'd be no challenge to it. If you don't find the challenge fun, you're in the wrong profession and will be happier elsewhere.
Every company I've ever worked at with car charge ports, they were free. So yeah, makes sense to assume it will continue. And since like most people I go to the most convenient gas station rather than drive looking for 2 cents cheaper, yes I'd pay for it anyway
Why would I charge at home at night? If I share at work, my job may pay for it. And really, I'm just going to charge whenever I'm near a plug, because I don't want to run out (can't just go to a gas station). The idea that people will charge when convenient for the network vs when convenient for them is a bit silly
Except a good number of those are just not true. Especially "it just works", which is really "it usually works, but if it doesn't you're absolutely fucked. And by usually, we mean about 60% of the time". I've had far more problems with Apple software than MS.
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Aw, the little libertarian is sad because he can't mooch off society without his fair share. Tell you what- pay back ever cent you've ever used from society, including a complete amnesia of everything taught in government school, give away anything that was made by a person or company that received any government benefits or services ever and move to somewhere where you'll never do either of those things again, and we'll stop taxing you. Until then, grow up and handle your responsibilities to society like a fucking adult, not an 8 year old crying because he has to do his chores.
No, one doesn't need to eventually take off. It could just be that people actually don't want it. There's lots of ideas that have been rehashed repeatedly and fail in the market each time.
Even as a gamer, I have 0 interest in VR. I don't want to wear something on my face, I'm far from convinced having a screen that close to my eyes is good for them, and generally I want to be able to look around my apartment when gaming- hell I usually have the TV in on the background and glance at it on occassion, or tab over to a brower (or have one on monitor 2). You can build the perfect VR machine and I just don't want it. And I think the market is showing the majority are with me.
Because I *like* clean air, clean water, regulated food and drug supplies, the elderly not dying because they can't afford their medications, the schools in poor states getting enough money to run, help for those who've lost their jobs, ensuring children don't starve, etc. The states are unable to do those jobs, and leaving it to 50 different governments to do them would leave many states doing them far more poorly.
In other words, I'm *NOT* a sociopath like you are. And you can still shut the fuck up about the MTA taxes.
If you wanted to not pay the MTA taxes and not get any tax money from NYC for any service you use (including roads, schools, police, fire, etc), I'm sure the city residents would be happy to approve it. NYC pays far more in taxes than it gets in.
But until you're willing to do that, you get to shut the fuck up about the MTA taxes.
They aren't in San Francisco. They're in Menlo Park. Some of their property may even be over the line in East Palo Alto. It isn't the city they need to convince, its the suburbs.
Which may actually be harder. The city is very pro low income housing, so long as its built in another neighborhood. The suburbs not so much. Google tried and failed at this in Mountain View a few years back.
I can't imagine any engineer who would work for 75k/yr. That's what I made out of college 17 years ago. But ignoring that- have you considered offering substantial (partner level) equity? It's more or less the same thing as you'd get by raising capital with a vc, but you get an engaged senior level employee out of it.
Except for when it comes to dictionary usage, apparently.
Oh yeah, Vitamin Brand A has the best placebos!
The auto complete thing depends on keyboard. Its a common way of doing it, but there's 0 enforcement. Keyboards on Android don't even share dictionaries, so there's no way they could enforce it.
And this is what the local lawyer consults. The lawyer doesn't guess at it, the legislature defines what it is. This is part of that definition process.
I just got my yellow fever vaccination for a trip to South America a month ago. Vaccines are a necessity that save thousands of lives, and parents who do not get their children vaccinated should have them taken away.
Vitamins are a scam. The whole vitamin thing started because Linus Pauling basically went a little insane in his last few years and started pushing massive dosages of Vitamin C as a cure for cancer (and everything else). While there are a few exceptions (for example iron for anemics) vitamins aren't needed and confer no benefits for anyone without a severe medical condition, and some of them are actively harmful (there's a reason why the recommended daily allowance is where it is and not at 10x what it is).
And how do you define grooming and solicitation? Is just a message to one on a social media site enough? A series? Laws like this are how you define what's punishable and what isn't. If you left it at only the laws from the 80s (or whenever last defined it), you could end up with a situation where by the letter of the law only a telephone call counts, but websites and text messages don't (because they didn't exist at the time and the letter of the law isn't wide enough to include them). Its not just "well this seems like grooming to me", that isn't an enforceable statute.
Something narrower- say making it illegal for them to send direct or group messages to a minor, or to make friend requests/add them to groups would seem to be a reasonable law. Barring them altogether prevents them from interactions with adults. And then we get into the whole question of what counts as social media (would a website with a forum be social media? The comments page on a newspaper article? Again this could be very broad).
They're vitamins- an almost entirely unregulated market offering a product that has no health benefits for the vast, vast majority of people. Its modern day snake oil to begin with. How the hell do you counterfeit what's already fake?
All those Director of Innovation titles were bullshit marketing. They don't actually do any work at the company, they're a spokesman.
Not true- many of their deals with channel providers require per subscriber fees.
How does a library help to define whether something should be a property of a tag or data held within it (not discussing embedded tags, but embedded strings/numbers/values). XML has 2 disjoint ways to embed data, with no real reason to have two or to use one over the other. Json doesn't. That's the property/data issue, and its a major usability issue with XML.
ANd no, XML is nowhere near as tight. Comparing properly printed and spaced xml and json, json is always more readable. XML is overly verbose and harder to see the structure. Particularly its harder to find arrays.
Its less verbose, more easily human readable, and doesn't have the "is this a property of the tag, or data inside the tag" problem. Its a better solution all around. I wouldn't create anything new in xml, but I wouldn't race to remove it in existing apps/protocols unless I'm doing a total v2.
If they make another hit, I'd bet on AR/VR. Its close enough to be reasonable (unlike self driving cars which are at least a decade out of commercial), and the nerd stigma is the perfect thing for them to overcome- smartphones existed before the iphone (windows mobile, symbian), but were considered a nerd toy ay best.
Its complex. And its fun. Part of the reason its fun is that it is complex- if it was easy there'd be no challenge to it. If you don't find the challenge fun, you're in the wrong profession and will be happier elsewhere.
If you're using tablets for reading instead of lights, you're most likely spending more and harming your eyes.
Every company I've ever worked at with car charge ports, they were free. So yeah, makes sense to assume it will continue. And since like most people I go to the most convenient gas station rather than drive looking for 2 cents cheaper, yes I'd pay for it anyway
Why would I charge at home at night? If I share at work, my job may pay for it. And really, I'm just going to charge whenever I'm near a plug, because I don't want to run out (can't just go to a gas station). The idea that people will charge when convenient for the network vs when convenient for them is a bit silly
And still doesn't come anywhere close to C or C++.
Except a good number of those are just not true. Especially "it just works", which is really "it usually works, but if it doesn't you're absolutely fucked. And by usually, we mean about 60% of the time". I've had far more problems with Apple software than MS.