I heard that FB internally estimates that any given social service has 7 years of usable life. So they always look for the next thing that they could move their enormous horde of users to. So far the next thing seems to be group chat. I'm sure they'll come up with something â" there's way too much money riding on this
I wish people here wouldn't poop on a product they haven't even tried. For me Nest thermostat paid for itself in the first year. I have a large house. Nest lets me trivially not heat the (or cool) house when I'm not there, yet also turn on the heating it when I'm heading home from work. It's objectively a great product. The "learning" functionality is a bit of a crapshoot, but you don't really have to use it, and schedule set-up is pretty slick, much more so than in the honeywell thermostate the Nest replaced. For one thing, the schedule can be arbitrarily complex, and its complexity can vary by day. I also optimized the schedule so that the rooms are pretty breezy deep at night in the winter (between 2am and 5am). That to saved quite a bit of money, and you also sleep better in a colder room.
With vim, there's actually a reason for it. Those "obscure" commands are COMPOSABLE: http://stackoverflow.com/quest.... You physically can't be more productive with a GUI. And then there's the fact that I can log in to any server, pull a git repo with my vim config, and voila, I have a pretty serviceable development environment, even if I'm connected through a shitty internet connection from halfway across the globe. Your GUI can't do that.
I worked at MS in early 00s. We didn't use VS to write code. We used a stripped down version of VS or even WinDbg to debug. Nowadays I use Vim and YouCompleteMe (on Linux) and it just works. Zero dollars, easy to set up.
Trump is not going to get Vladimir Vladimirovich do the things he doesn't want to do. Russia was a shrewd choice on Snowden's part. In the Soviet times, the most important retort to anything the West did well was "they lynch the negroes". This is basically the same thing, but about privacy. Now Putin can sort of have the moral high ground when implementing his own surveillance and repression apparatus. "You see, our 'partners', they spy on everybody, including foreign heads of state like Merkel. Surely our own modest surveillance measures are not as scary as that."
Trump got $2B worth of press coverage with his "crazy" statements and being a "demagogue", and did it in a way that doesn't necessarily legally bind him to anything he said, because anyone with half a brain understands why he does what he does, and the rest just like the craziness. He's much smarter than people give him credit for.
I'm more curious what he does after he gets the nomination. I think he will continue to troll the (mostly liberal-controlled) press to get 24x7 coverage for free, but I also think he will tone things down considerably, and he will become a lot less "off the cuff", letting experts come up with strategy and talking points instead of making shit up as he goes along. Going against Hillary will be like shooting fish in a barrel for him.
No, the last one in Snowden's case will be "then you go to the federal, pound me in the ass prison for the rest of your life", if he's stupid enough to come back. But I think he's more than smart enough to see that himself.
As I've discovered recently, there really is no better alternative for the educational market, and certainly not for middle school. Those kids are merciless when it comes to hardware and software, and they will most certainly fuck it up even if it's locked down tight. To give you an example, my kid has found a bug in Windows 7 whereby you could make Windows treat _any_ file (even *.exe) as if it was a text file and open it in Notepad. Laptop was locked down with administrative policy, so this is not something I could fix. If he had a Chromebook, it literally wouldn't even be possible to have this problem.
Shows created specifically for women are disliked by men. News at 11. Da fuq? Couple this with societal pressure on boys and young men to not like anything "girly", and explain me again how is this not an expected outcome? Besides, the shows are mostly shit anyway. You can't expect me to care about "relationships" and all, unless there's fucking involved.
A "screwup" is when you try hard, but something doesn't work and you can't deliver. What we see here is a deliberate embezzlement, which should be a crime, and for which the perp should compensate the backers (by e.g. being forced to sell the house he built with this money).
It's not "his own" party. He doesn't really subscribe to much of their ideology. In fact it's difficult to say which ideology he subscribes to, since being in a very difficult PR position, all he's done so far is promised everything to everyone and trolled the media throughout the primaries to get airtime. If he didn't do that the "free press" would shut him out, as they've tried to do early on. Thanks to trolling, you can't ignore the guy anymore. Since he's basically the nominee now, he doesn't really need to troll anymore, so I think we're going to see a more measured and serious Trump between now and the election. Another alternative is that what we've seen is not a calculated trolling campaign, and it _was_ the real Donald, in which case I don't think he'd win even if the other candidate was Lucifer. I'm betting he's not dumb, though. You don't make billions of dollars and get an MBA from Wharton by being dumb.
Now watch Trump air Hillary's dirty laundry 24x7 all the way until the election. I would not be that she would win, especially if he starts acting more "presidential" so to speak. There are a shit ton of very bad skeletons in her closet, some of them chucked there by her husband.
What would help diversity (among other things) is not extorting a multimillion dollar settlement out of your employer by filing a lawsuit about things you've made up.
Not at Google, Microsoft, FB, Amazon and other top tier companies. They hire so much, they can't afford to age-discriminate even if they wanted to. Which they don't.
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I heard that FB internally estimates that any given social service has 7 years of usable life. So they always look for the next thing that they could move their enormous horde of users to. So far the next thing seems to be group chat. I'm sure they'll come up with something â" there's way too much money riding on this
I wish people here wouldn't poop on a product they haven't even tried. For me Nest thermostat paid for itself in the first year. I have a large house. Nest lets me trivially not heat the (or cool) house when I'm not there, yet also turn on the heating it when I'm heading home from work. It's objectively a great product. The "learning" functionality is a bit of a crapshoot, but you don't really have to use it, and schedule set-up is pretty slick, much more so than in the honeywell thermostate the Nest replaced. For one thing, the schedule can be arbitrarily complex, and its complexity can vary by day. I also optimized the schedule so that the rooms are pretty breezy deep at night in the winter (between 2am and 5am). That to saved quite a bit of money, and you also sleep better in a colder room.
With vim, there's actually a reason for it. Those "obscure" commands are COMPOSABLE: http://stackoverflow.com/quest.... You physically can't be more productive with a GUI. And then there's the fact that I can log in to any server, pull a git repo with my vim config, and voila, I have a pretty serviceable development environment, even if I'm connected through a shitty internet connection from halfway across the globe. Your GUI can't do that.
Actually, come to think of it, that's may be why they aren't implementing 64 bit. Maybe they still don't use it themselves.
I worked at MS in early 00s. We didn't use VS to write code. We used a stripped down version of VS or even WinDbg to debug. Nowadays I use Vim and YouCompleteMe (on Linux) and it just works. Zero dollars, easy to set up.
One in a million chance that Musk is not jacked up on amphetamines. Have you seen him lately? Dude looks _really_ worn out.
Looking at the inconsistent mess that is Google software, good help us all, then.
When you get paid as much as Mary, there's a natural tendency to embellish the language. :-) Extra points if you're so weird no one understands you.
Trump is not going to get Vladimir Vladimirovich do the things he doesn't want to do. Russia was a shrewd choice on Snowden's part. In the Soviet times, the most important retort to anything the West did well was "they lynch the negroes". This is basically the same thing, but about privacy. Now Putin can sort of have the moral high ground when implementing his own surveillance and repression apparatus. "You see, our 'partners', they spy on everybody, including foreign heads of state like Merkel. Surely our own modest surveillance measures are not as scary as that."
Trump got $2B worth of press coverage with his "crazy" statements and being a "demagogue", and did it in a way that doesn't necessarily legally bind him to anything he said, because anyone with half a brain understands why he does what he does, and the rest just like the craziness. He's much smarter than people give him credit for.
I'm more curious what he does after he gets the nomination. I think he will continue to troll the (mostly liberal-controlled) press to get 24x7 coverage for free, but I also think he will tone things down considerably, and he will become a lot less "off the cuff", letting experts come up with strategy and talking points instead of making shit up as he goes along. Going against Hillary will be like shooting fish in a barrel for him.
No, the last one in Snowden's case will be "then you go to the federal, pound me in the ass prison for the rest of your life", if he's stupid enough to come back. But I think he's more than smart enough to see that himself.
"Those damn engineers cost too damn much, I'd like it if they worked for one third of what they cost now, and if we could abuse the heck out of them."
That's what you get if you compete on price. Lower revenues.
Apple doesn't allow apps to see your battery status.
As I've discovered recently, there really is no better alternative for the educational market, and certainly not for middle school. Those kids are merciless when it comes to hardware and software, and they will most certainly fuck it up even if it's locked down tight. To give you an example, my kid has found a bug in Windows 7 whereby you could make Windows treat _any_ file (even *.exe) as if it was a text file and open it in Notepad. Laptop was locked down with administrative policy, so this is not something I could fix. If he had a Chromebook, it literally wouldn't even be possible to have this problem.
Shows created specifically for women are disliked by men. News at 11. Da fuq? Couple this with societal pressure on boys and young men to not like anything "girly", and explain me again how is this not an expected outcome? Besides, the shows are mostly shit anyway. You can't expect me to care about "relationships" and all, unless there's fucking involved.
A "screwup" is when you try hard, but something doesn't work and you can't deliver. What we see here is a deliberate embezzlement, which should be a crime, and for which the perp should compensate the backers (by e.g. being forced to sell the house he built with this money).
Meh, I'll wait until it's injectable into eyeballs.
But that's expected, since it's basically a nerd friendly front end for Bing.
It's not "his own" party. He doesn't really subscribe to much of their ideology. In fact it's difficult to say which ideology he subscribes to, since being in a very difficult PR position, all he's done so far is promised everything to everyone and trolled the media throughout the primaries to get airtime. If he didn't do that the "free press" would shut him out, as they've tried to do early on. Thanks to trolling, you can't ignore the guy anymore. Since he's basically the nominee now, he doesn't really need to troll anymore, so I think we're going to see a more measured and serious Trump between now and the election. Another alternative is that what we've seen is not a calculated trolling campaign, and it _was_ the real Donald, in which case I don't think he'd win even if the other candidate was Lucifer. I'm betting he's not dumb, though. You don't make billions of dollars and get an MBA from Wharton by being dumb.
Now watch Trump air Hillary's dirty laundry 24x7 all the way until the election. I would not be that she would win, especially if he starts acting more "presidential" so to speak. There are a shit ton of very bad skeletons in her closet, some of them chucked there by her husband.
What would help diversity (among other things) is not extorting a multimillion dollar settlement out of your employer by filing a lawsuit about things you've made up.
Not at Google, Microsoft, FB, Amazon and other top tier companies. They hire so much, they can't afford to age-discriminate even if they wanted to. Which they don't.
If it was, it would offer some theories that, you know, predict stuff reliably, and we wouldn't have one crisis after another.
Ding, ding, ding! We got a winner over here. Moral of the story, kids: FINISH THE FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL.