More often than not you can't determine absolutely if a difficult problem has a solution. But for real-world development the issue usually isn't the lack of a solution as much as a poorly thought-out problem.
"Lets calibrate your experience. Have you, or people that you know, been admitted to, attend, or have attended PhD programs in technical subjects in top 25 universities?"
I see a circular argument forming just off the coast.
I thought this was a geek site. Since when did the appearance of a device become more important to geeks than its function? The most important function of a music player is playing music. The rest is just sugar.
People focus on what they want to. Rio made one of the first digital music players. If you think that you'd rather have an iPod that didn't play music than a Rio with an inferior UI, then I concede.
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If you were to compare Excel to Lotus 123, you might consider that being able to actually draw the cells of the spreadsheet is an improvement.
I don't suggest that MS is the king of innovation or invention, but yes, they have done both on occasion.
Your first list would be more understandable if you indicated which company went with each "first". It certainly can't all be Apple.
I also don't buy into weasel-qualifiers like "popular", "successful", etc. Nor do I give credit to a company's platform for "running" a program the company didn't create.
that environmental factors could lead to children who don't follow their societies' cultural expectations with respect to gender (e.g. girls play with dolls, boys don't).
If this were true in the more general case of cultural expectations being defied, it might lead to more individuals like RMS. He seems to defy cultural expectations in a number of ways.
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Why does MS have to be considered "cloning" Apple when Apple is never the first to implement anything? Doesn't Zune owe more to Rio than it does to Apple.? Doesn't Microsoft Store owe more to umm nearly everyone than it does to Apple? Wasn't Windows Mobile around long before the earliest iPhone rumors?
Apple has implemented existing ideas in an elegant way, but they're still "me too" products, not original ideas.
"I thought I already said it was a command line tool but that does not mean it is DOS based."
Well, there aren't that many commercial UNIX or VMS applications that jumped to Windows in that era, so I assumed it was DOS based.
"RCS was around in the 80s so maybe SourceSafe was an attempt to bring something like the UNIX RCS system to DOS"
Well, SS was designed to be a version control system as was RCS, but it used projects as an organizing abstraction rather than individual files. Also SS was designed (for Windows) to integrate functionality into a single tool rather than a set of disjoint tools like RCS uses.
So I don't think RCS was a particular influence beyond the fact that it was an early VC system.
"I don't know if Source Safe was originally DOS based.."
The first version used a command line so it probably started in DOS. By the time Microsoft bought One Tree Software (the original developer) it was Windows-based (Version 2).
Although SS's architecture didn't scale properly, it was a pretty nice tool for the era and environment it ran on (i.e. 1993, Windows 3.1).
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Sure, and the Newton clearly was not an iPhone.
So he didn't really earn the money. How is that different from most of the other billionaires?
That might be a convincing argument if Google (with an 80% market share) was doing it.
"It is a payment to gain a business advantage."
So basically anybody who has a job has been bribed.
More often than not you can't determine absolutely if a difficult problem has a solution. But for real-world development the issue usually isn't the lack of a solution as much as a poorly thought-out problem.
"I'm an ex-physicist turned finance quant."
Perhaps you should have stopped at physics. Saying you're a quant doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
"Hard problems, whose solution may not even exist."
If there's no solution, it doesn't much matter who works the problem.
If you really think that domain knowledge is key you should hire someone who has it. Any degree they have is a second-order factor at best.
Having said that, I think that domain knowledge is overrated unless the individual is the primary driver of requirements.
I don't know. Perhaps you ask an EE who has practical experience in FFT's that were barely mentioned in CS classes.
"There is a big difference between reading a book and having professors with years of experience teach you"
Of course you may have been taught by a graduate student that got his BS last year, but don't let that bother you.
"Lets calibrate your experience. Have you, or people that you know, been admitted to, attend, or have attended PhD programs in technical subjects in top 25 universities?"
I see a circular argument forming just off the coast.
Neither Microsoft or Apple come up with the idea but Microsoft implemented it before Apple.
I don't recall making any claims of market share or quality. The topic is who did it first.
"and officially ended on February 27, 1998" without a nPhone.
I thought this was a geek site. Since when did the appearance of a device become more important to geeks than its function? The most important function of a music player is playing music. The rest is just sugar.
People focus on what they want to. Rio made one of the first digital music players. If you think that you'd rather have an iPod that didn't play music than a Rio with an inferior UI, then I concede.
If you were to compare Excel to Lotus 123, you might consider that being able to actually draw the cells of the spreadsheet is an improvement.
I don't suggest that MS is the king of innovation or invention, but yes, they have done both on occasion.
Your first list would be more understandable if you indicated which company went with each "first". It certainly can't all be Apple.
I also don't buy into weasel-qualifiers like "popular", "successful", etc. Nor do I give credit to a company's platform for "running" a program the company didn't create.
In the future today's geeks will score higher on the Chuck Norris scale by comparison to younger non-geek males.
that environmental factors could lead to children who don't follow their societies' cultural expectations with respect to gender (e.g. girls play with dolls, boys don't).
If this were true in the more general case of cultural expectations being defied, it might lead to more individuals like RMS. He seems to defy cultural expectations in a number of ways.
Let's see:
Anti-SCO - check
Anti-MS - check
New entry Pro-Apple - check
Why does MS have to be considered "cloning" Apple when Apple is never the first to implement anything? Doesn't Zune owe more to Rio than it does to Apple.? Doesn't Microsoft Store owe more to umm nearly everyone than it does to Apple? Wasn't Windows Mobile around long before the earliest iPhone rumors?
Apple has implemented existing ideas in an elegant way, but they're still "me too" products, not original ideas.
"I thought I already said it was a command line tool but that does not mean it is DOS based."
Well, there aren't that many commercial UNIX or VMS applications that jumped to Windows in that era, so I assumed it was DOS based.
"RCS was around in the 80s so maybe SourceSafe was an attempt to bring something like the UNIX RCS system to DOS"
Well, SS was designed to be a version control system as was RCS, but it used projects as an organizing abstraction rather than individual files. Also SS was designed (for Windows) to integrate functionality into a single tool rather than a set of disjoint tools like RCS uses.
So I don't think RCS was a particular influence beyond the fact that it was an early VC system.
"I don't know if Source Safe was originally DOS based.."
The first version used a command line so it probably started in DOS. By the time Microsoft bought One Tree Software (the original developer) it was Windows-based (Version 2).
Although SS's architecture didn't scale properly, it was a pretty nice tool for the era and environment it ran on (i.e. 1993, Windows 3.1).
Dick still has some interdiction contacts in the CIA.
Perhaps Glenn's brain is being controlled by a wireless device. It would explain a lot.