By approving to only 20 states, do they really think the mosquitoes will not cross state lines? Or jump to Mexico or Canada?
What if a country like N.Korea starts designing and releasing their own organisms in a "F the world" gesture - then will it be seen as a problem?
My guess is they need nudes of people in large masses for some big data/advertising angle and this is just a cover story to get people to send them in.
I know FB mentioned getting into medical related topics at one point, so that could be it.
I can't believe how much disdain they seem to have for their userbase.
"Some people are good at writing code. Some people are good at finding errors."
And what drives people is different. Some people get a thrill out of trying to break someone else's code or driving it to its performance limits. Other people like implementing new features. Or maintaining a codebase.
While I agree QA shouldn't be done exclusively by Devs, QA and Dev really need to work together and Dev needs to avoid a "throw it over the wall" culture. Help guide QA to write tests that provide optimal coverage of the feature.
If Google wants to make America great again, why don't they stop fucking around with advertising technology and focus on things that will improve the world? I mean, training AI to better monetize their users is so last decade, and you can only squeeze more money out of people if they have more money, and those people still need to get money somewhere.
If what Google says is true - that the files were accidentally marked as malware, phishing, or spam - then they were giving users a pretty terrible error message saying user documents violated the TOS.
Why not spell it out - hey, we flagged this file for malware, phishing, or spam. At least then the user doesn't think that *they* did something bad by violating the TOS.
I don't know, I think usability research is important. Remember when Microsoft used to do it? Seems they must have stopped at some point, given that Windows 8 was ever conceived.
Sure to be sure, do you know whether "pushing a button" was just one of Microsoft's XBox platform requirements? I recall they had some inane requirement that a game couldn't load instantly - there was some minimum delay you had to implement before the game could become playable. Unfortunately I can't find a link to support that at the moment.
Should that even be a desired title - richest person of the world? Gates (and dozens of other billionaires) is giving away much of his fortune to charity. I hope Bezos does the same.
I have 1 browser with an ad-blocker and 1 without. I use the no-blocker browser when I want to be signed in to Google and rate or comment on YouTube videos. I don't mind getting a 5 second YT ad or one I can skip after 5 seconds with that browser, but when it gets too long I switch back to my other browser (with blocking). I don't have the time or inclination to put up with 30 second ads, sorry Google. That's why I don't listen to radio or subscribe to cable. Even commercial skipping pisses me off.
So the long and the short of it is: keep the ads very short or I will just block all of them.
Call me a luddite, but after trying them a number of times I'm now avoiding self-checkout lines. Two reasons: 1) poor experience. No greeting, no thank you, no human interaction, and patronizing repetitive instructions. 2) They're going to put people out of work. These are important jobs for many people and to have them eliminated or largely reduced would affect a lot of people negatively.
I never noticed that game before. It looks friggen awesome! I'm going to have to look for it in the discount rack. Darth Vader vs. Emperor dance off - priceless!
Kinect was superior over Nintendo's and Sony's offerings (I've used them all in the XBox 360 era).
My complain also rests on the game side of things - some were too Kinect-reliant - eg. navigating menus only with Kinect when using D-pad would be a lot more efficient. But as a technology I thought Kinect was great. Zumba World Party - lots of fun.
But why would they do that and put themselves at a competitive disadvantage to other corporations? Unless touting this as a feature to customers would outweigh the cost. Really I think the government should step in and make bulk data collection/tracking illegal. But again, why would the government do that unless it was to their advantage to lose access to all the data that corporations collect?
I'm always curious to see what the computer generates - the language seems to flow well but the meaning is so bizarre. Good for a laugh or maybe even generate ideas.
Here are some more: http://lewisandquark.tumblr.co...
Sometimes I actually miss the complexity of assembler. Or maybe I just hate the 12 layers of abstraction that encompasses so many things these days. In a way it's not complexity of assembler I miss: it's the simplicity of knowing exactly what the computer is going to do.
Well, maybe we can't kill online advertising, but we can at least kill all the advertising that tracks everything we do.
I have no problem clicking someone's Amazon affiliate link to help them earn some cash. There are honest ways to support websites.
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Hospital wait times and walk-in clinic wait times would be fabulous.
Sounds good on paper. Let's watch and see.
By approving to only 20 states, do they really think the mosquitoes will not cross state lines? Or jump to Mexico or Canada? What if a country like N.Korea starts designing and releasing their own organisms in a "F the world" gesture - then will it be seen as a problem?
Skip the middle increments and go straight to 640 characters.
My guess is they need nudes of people in large masses for some big data/advertising angle and this is just a cover story to get people to send them in. I know FB mentioned getting into medical related topics at one point, so that could be it. I can't believe how much disdain they seem to have for their userbase.
Have you ever lived in a rural area? Not everyone wants to live like a sardine in a can.
Don't forget to bounce the CD laser through a hall of mirrors first, for optimum quality.
"Some people are good at writing code. Some people are good at finding errors."
And what drives people is different. Some people get a thrill out of trying to break someone else's code or driving it to its performance limits. Other people like implementing new features. Or maintaining a codebase.
While I agree QA shouldn't be done exclusively by Devs, QA and Dev really need to work together and Dev needs to avoid a "throw it over the wall" culture. Help guide QA to write tests that provide optimal coverage of the feature.
If Google wants to make America great again, why don't they stop fucking around with advertising technology and focus on things that will improve the world? I mean, training AI to better monetize their users is so last decade, and you can only squeeze more money out of people if they have more money, and those people still need to get money somewhere.
If what Google says is true - that the files were accidentally marked as malware, phishing, or spam - then they were giving users a pretty terrible error message saying user documents violated the TOS. Why not spell it out - hey, we flagged this file for malware, phishing, or spam. At least then the user doesn't think that *they* did something bad by violating the TOS.
I don't know, I think usability research is important. Remember when Microsoft used to do it? Seems they must have stopped at some point, given that Windows 8 was ever conceived.
Thanks for letting us know. I can't imagine such a vast trove of information being wholesale blocked by a modern country.
Reminds me of the kind of paranoia ancient kings used to have, thinking everyone was out to get them.
Sure to be sure, do you know whether "pushing a button" was just one of Microsoft's XBox platform requirements? I recall they had some inane requirement that a game couldn't load instantly - there was some minimum delay you had to implement before the game could become playable. Unfortunately I can't find a link to support that at the moment.
Should that even be a desired title - richest person of the world? Gates (and dozens of other billionaires) is giving away much of his fortune to charity. I hope Bezos does the same.
I have 1 browser with an ad-blocker and 1 without. I use the no-blocker browser when I want to be signed in to Google and rate or comment on YouTube videos. I don't mind getting a 5 second YT ad or one I can skip after 5 seconds with that browser, but when it gets too long I switch back to my other browser (with blocking). I don't have the time or inclination to put up with 30 second ads, sorry Google. That's why I don't listen to radio or subscribe to cable. Even commercial skipping pisses me off. So the long and the short of it is: keep the ads very short or I will just block all of them.
Call me a luddite, but after trying them a number of times I'm now avoiding self-checkout lines. Two reasons: 1) poor experience. No greeting, no thank you, no human interaction, and patronizing repetitive instructions. 2) They're going to put people out of work. These are important jobs for many people and to have them eliminated or largely reduced would affect a lot of people negatively.
I never noticed that game before. It looks friggen awesome! I'm going to have to look for it in the discount rack. Darth Vader vs. Emperor dance off - priceless!
Kinect was superior over Nintendo's and Sony's offerings (I've used them all in the XBox 360 era). My complain also rests on the game side of things - some were too Kinect-reliant - eg. navigating menus only with Kinect when using D-pad would be a lot more efficient. But as a technology I thought Kinect was great. Zumba World Party - lots of fun.
But why would they do that and put themselves at a competitive disadvantage to other corporations? Unless touting this as a feature to customers would outweigh the cost. Really I think the government should step in and make bulk data collection/tracking illegal. But again, why would the government do that unless it was to their advantage to lose access to all the data that corporations collect?
I'm always curious to see what the computer generates - the language seems to flow well but the meaning is so bizarre. Good for a laugh or maybe even generate ideas. Here are some more: http://lewisandquark.tumblr.co...
There's a link to the source code provided in the summary. In my very brief look at the code, what I saw was commented.
"One does not simply reboot" - Boromir
Sometimes I actually miss the complexity of assembler. Or maybe I just hate the 12 layers of abstraction that encompasses so many things these days. In a way it's not complexity of assembler I miss: it's the simplicity of knowing exactly what the computer is going to do.
Well, maybe we can't kill online advertising, but we can at least kill all the advertising that tracks everything we do. I have no problem clicking someone's Amazon affiliate link to help them earn some cash. There are honest ways to support websites.
A few you forgot: