Google seems to have a tendency to shut down things we depend on and liked (Reader, Talk), of course there's lots of annoyance in the direction of Google now.
Google Glass seems to be somewhat depending on "the cloud". They'll shut down those services too eventually.
(Beside the obvious privacy and photos-on-the-internet-forever issues.)
m/s would be a slightly more convenient unit at the speeds a car normally travel. It would even work at well at 5 m/s-intervals: 10,15,20,25,30,35 m/s for 36,54,72,90,108,126 km/h or 22,33,45,56,67,78 mph.
Wait, lisp *and* be usable for writing OS kernels?
Unless you're talking about these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine I find it hard that that type of language (high level, functional) will ever be useful for writing kernels.
1. "perks" - but I wouldn't want to call it perks. It's efficiency benefits. Coders and other creative people work better if you make sure they (we?) have everything they need. Coffee, snacks, soda, bananas... that extra half hour of effective coding a day pays off _quickly_.
But it's really the same with things you wouldn't consider "perks" - computers and OSes that helps efficiency, ergonomic chairs and keyboards, silent enough environments, few enough meetings... everyone can probably easily make up their own list of what *they* need to be an efficient and creative at the workplace. Those needs should be grouped with the soda.
Personally, I rather have a creative and happy workplace than higher salary. But then again, I like to spend my work-time creative and happy.
2. The other thing the article is talking about is the warning sign. If things like free soda gets pulled - which doesn't cost much - much bigger things are on the horizon. Update your linkedin profile. Start looking for a new place... This is absolutely true. (GM pulled the free coffee - a little later they sold the office, and a little later went economically haywire. Most people had left just a little after the coffee incident.)
Other warning signs includes phrases like "business as usual".
(Right now I wouldn't want to work at Google, for instance.)
That said, my office doesn't have free soda. But the work is very creative and full of freedom and I'm quite happy anyway.:)
Are there any talk-solutions I can take home? Distributed, like mail? That I can get my friends to run?
If not, are there any talk solutions that doesn't seem to die the corporate death? My default right now would be MSN, and I'm not too happy about that (and it probably has a limited lifespan as well, with Skype and all).
I'm starting to believe that I should cancel everything I have on/with Google and move it home.
I use(d) Google Talk a lot. I use(d) Google Reader a lot, especially the sharing feature. I don't use Google Mail a lot, but I'll move that home as well now.
I never used Google Office (whatever it's called), but now I never will. Seriously.
And I think I'll try to switch search engine. Any tips? (Might as well get used to the search engine going away as well.)
I almost only used Potlach 2, which uses the approved - I hope! - Bing background, plus a lot of traces. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if anyone discovers copies copyrighted material, the user would have been contacted, shouted at, warned and/or banned?
I'm pretty sure it was a combination with well-meant that's-not-how-I-think-it-should-be-done fixes and clumsy data-destroying checkins from other tools.
But it can easily (well, not code-wise) be fixed by better communication; comments on changes, comments on items, and a good messaging system that can use these.
Add to that a good, standard way of marking up things that makes sense, instead of what seemed to be a jumble of ideas on how to mark up things that covers some cases, some cases aren't covered well (trees kept for parks in a city environment was an eternal discussion, for instance - it was only clear on how to mark single trees, forest for harvesting wood and ancient preserved forests), and some are heavily debated. I actually think a dictator making things up from scratch again, and converting the entire OSM to that standard would help A LOT.
--> If people agree on how it should be done already before it's done, it's somewhat better...
I would really like to see something like Waze based on OSM as well. It really motivates people to update the map.
My problem and the main reason that I stopped editing OSM is related to this - I used to spend 4-8 hours a week on it.
A lot of my changes would get reversed for some reason, and I had no idea why. A lot of my changes simply vanished. I suspect some of this is due to people clumsily committing changes they did in JOSM and other off-line editors. Or it's database problems.
A lot of my changes would be reverted to people with different ideas on how to tag things, without comments or corrections.
In the end, seeing a majority of my work vanishing after a few months, I just gave up. (I have the feeling wikipedia is suffering from the same; lot of people rather correcting mistakes than creating content.)
OSM isn't the only one suffering from demotivating "fixes" to the map - Waze is suffering even more, since you get points from poking around everywhere.
((If you feel like commenting that I shouldn't add stuff to the map that suck that much, you're doing the same thing again, demotivating me from commenting on Slashdot. Maybe that's what you want...))
I thought the _whole point_ of some or all of these browsers - like Opera Mini - was that they went through the browsers proxy, minimizing the traffic to the phone.
This isn't security research, it's reading the brochure of the product you are using.
(What I would like to know is why every time I set up a new phone or pad to use 3g, I get a proxy setting forced on me in the _network_ setup...)
"There's a cutover point, around six weeks in, where you start using the new things more than the things you're familiar with."
That's a lot longer than it takes for people to get used to *emacs*.
I never heard anyone "getting used to" iOS or even "getting used to" Android.
Although I have heard people taking time "getting used to" windows 3.0, unix shell, emacs, and gnome 3.
I believe when something takes any noticeable time getting used to, and it's post 1995, there's a very serious user interface design problem.
(That said, I could probably get used to Windows 8, if it decided it wanted to be windows 8 all the time and not pretend to be windows 7 when someone didn't want to redesign something.)
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about the US... Especially the border controls. I keep hearing horror stories from friends and colleagues.
I sampled Italy in August (driving from Austria down to Florence, stopping on the way) - everyone seems to be ignoring the government, including traffic rules. But it all works, it's a cooperative ignoring. I think even the police and the military ignores a lot, just to make things work...
I thought all the developers more or less stopped using GNOME after about 2.
It doesn't matter how good a platform is - I think there were already a conclusion here on Slashdot that if you can't make your stuff compatible, you'll lose developers.
This is the biggest threat to Linux.
Maybe I'm wrong and 3.6 is really compatible all the way to GNOME/GTK2?
I'm not sure what you're looking for. I thought it would be a quite normal thing to utilize 4g and similar while on the road, whether for work, on vacation or telecommuting (which invariably happens to me on vacation). But all you need for that is a cell phone, and possibly a small directional antenna. The RV solution shouldn't have an impact?
Working on satellite antennas for moving vehicles, I can confirm those solutions exist as well... but probably a little price-y as well as physically heavy for single user use. But if you *really* need internet while driving somewhere extremely rural...
I do believe that one of the biggest problems with Linux is that new APIs keep popping up, because apparantly the old ones aren't good enough.
This will break code.
Developers don't like to see their code broken. They/we much rather develop on a system that doesn't break their code after a short while.
Whether it means that the developers are moving to iPhone programming, or that the developers stick to old stdout/stdin programming, or that the developers just give up and write their own OS doesn't matter -
what matters here is that Linux desktop is shrugging away developers because the API isn't perceived as stable.
(It's not the only enironment that shrugs away developers. Come on, not even _autoconf_ managed to stay backwards compatible... and Windows _traditionally_ isn't a stable environment, there used to be a new VCRUN every year or what...?)
The problem with email is that you only get an answer to one of your questions in the email. I'm not really sure why, but I've had hundreds of emails going like this:
> Are you the right person to ask about blah? If I blah the blah, will it blah? Also, I will need to gah the blah, will that work?
I thought one of the major points of live chat was that the *support staff* could multitask and have several live chats at once, while waiting for the users to type.
Are you saying you only have one chat running at a time?
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Google seems to have a tendency to shut down things we depend on and liked (Reader, Talk),
of course there's lots of annoyance in the direction of Google now.
Google Glass seems to be somewhat depending on "the cloud". They'll shut down those services too eventually.
(Beside the obvious privacy and photos-on-the-internet-forever issues.)
I would really like to see some forensics on failure as big as this.
What went wrong?
Time estimates were too narrow? Testing failed or didn't exist? Project management? Bad programmers? Bad code?
Changing targets?
Noone speaking up when they noticed things going bad, for years? (It seems ridiculously common.)
It would be interesting to know if there's a good method to detect early warning signs of a failing project.
m/s would be a slightly more convenient unit at the speeds a car normally travel. It would even work at well at 5 m/s-intervals: 10,15,20,25,30,35 m/s for 36,54,72,90,108,126 km/h or 22,33,45,56,67,78 mph.
I found one statement interesting in the description of the language:
"Dart compiles to JavaScript"
How many other high-level languages do that?
Wait, lisp *and* be usable for writing OS kernels?
Unless you're talking about these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
I find it hard that that type of language (high level, functional) will ever be useful for writing kernels.
There's two things to this story.
1. "perks" - but I wouldn't want to call it perks. It's efficiency benefits. Coders and other creative people work better if you make sure they (we?) have everything they need. Coffee, snacks, soda, bananas... that extra half hour of effective coding a day pays off _quickly_.
But it's really the same with things you wouldn't consider "perks" - computers and OSes that helps efficiency, ergonomic chairs and keyboards, silent enough environments, few enough meetings... everyone can probably easily make up their own list of what *they* need to be an efficient and creative at the workplace. Those needs should be grouped with the soda.
Personally, I rather have a creative and happy workplace than higher salary. But then again, I like to spend my work-time creative and happy.
2. The other thing the article is talking about is the warning sign. If things like free soda gets pulled - which doesn't cost much - much bigger things are on the horizon. Update your linkedin profile. Start looking for a new place... This is absolutely true.
(GM pulled the free coffee - a little later they sold the office, and a little later went economically haywire. Most people had left just a little after the coffee incident.)
Other warning signs includes phrases like "business as usual".
(Right now I wouldn't want to work at Google, for instance.)
That said, my office doesn't have free soda. But the work is very creative and full of freedom and I'm quite happy anyway. :)
Wait, what?
You rather have say $100 more a year than free soda, free snacks, access to training facilities, etc?
How much more wages would you like to have to bring your own computer and chair and be without the air condition and free parking?
Are there any talk-solutions I can take home?
Distributed, like mail? That I can get my friends to run?
If not, are there any talk solutions that doesn't seem to die the corporate death?
My default right now would be MSN, and I'm not too happy about that (and it probably has a limited lifespan as well, with Skype and all).
I'm starting to believe that I should cancel everything I have on/with Google and move it home.
I use(d) Google Talk a lot. I use(d) Google Reader a lot, especially the sharing feature.
I don't use Google Mail a lot, but I'll move that home as well now.
I never used Google Office (whatever it's called), but now I never will. Seriously.
And I think I'll try to switch search engine. Any tips? (Might as well get used to the search engine going away as well.)
Maybe they can make the first smartphone that I can be admin on without hacking my own hardware?
Then I could really imagine buying one just because of that.
I find this the best idea in this thread.
It shouldn't be possible - it's ridiculous that it is possible to steal an identity by using public information.
I almost only used Potlach 2, which uses the approved - I hope! - Bing background, plus a lot of traces. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if anyone discovers copies copyrighted material, the user would have been contacted, shouted at, warned and/or banned?
Oh, that's interesting. Around early spring 2012 I think.
I'm pretty sure it was a combination with well-meant that's-not-how-I-think-it-should-be-done fixes and clumsy data-destroying checkins from other tools.
But it can easily (well, not code-wise) be fixed by better communication; comments on changes, comments on items, and a good messaging system that can use these.
Add to that a good, standard way of marking up things that makes sense, instead of what seemed to be a jumble of ideas on how to mark up things that covers some cases, some cases aren't covered well (trees kept for parks in a city environment was an eternal discussion, for instance - it was only clear on how to mark single trees, forest for harvesting wood and ancient preserved forests), and some are heavily debated. I actually think a dictator making things up from scratch again, and converting the entire OSM to that standard would help A LOT.
--> If people agree on how it should be done already before it's done, it's somewhat better...
I would really like to see something like Waze based on OSM as well. It really motivates people to update the map.
My problem and the main reason that I stopped editing OSM is related to this - I used to spend 4-8 hours a week on it.
A lot of my changes would get reversed for some reason, and I had no idea why. A lot of my changes simply vanished.
I suspect some of this is due to people clumsily committing changes they did in JOSM and other off-line editors. Or it's database problems.
A lot of my changes would be reverted to people with different ideas on how to tag things, without comments or corrections.
In the end, seeing a majority of my work vanishing after a few months, I just gave up. (I have the feeling wikipedia is suffering from the same; lot of people rather correcting mistakes than creating content.)
OSM isn't the only one suffering from demotivating "fixes" to the map - Waze is suffering even more, since you get points from poking around everywhere.
((If you feel like commenting that I shouldn't add stuff to the map that suck that much, you're doing the same thing again, demotivating me from commenting on Slashdot. Maybe that's what you want...))
All that's missing now is deciding on how things should be marked up, once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL! :)
I thought the _whole point_ of some or all of these browsers - like Opera Mini - was that they went through the browsers proxy, minimizing the traffic to the phone.
This isn't security research, it's reading the brochure of the product you are using.
(What I would like to know is why every time I set up a new phone or pad to use 3g, I get a proxy setting forced on me in the _network_ setup...)
"Getting used to"?
"There's a cutover point, around six weeks in, where you start using the new things more than the things you're familiar with."
That's a lot longer than it takes for people to get used to *emacs*.
I never heard anyone "getting used to" iOS or even "getting used to" Android.
Although I have heard people taking time "getting used to" windows 3.0, unix shell, emacs, and gnome 3.
I believe when something takes any noticeable time getting used to, and it's post 1995, there's a very serious user interface design problem.
(That said, I could probably get used to Windows 8, if it decided it wanted to be windows 8 all the time and not pretend to be windows 7 when someone didn't want to redesign something.)
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about the US... Especially the border controls. I keep hearing horror stories from friends and colleagues.
I sampled Italy in August (driving from Austria down to Florence, stopping on the way) - everyone seems to be ignoring the government, including traffic rules. But it all works, it's a cooperative ignoring. I think even the police and the military ignores a lot, just to make things work...
I thought all the developers more or less stopped using GNOME after about 2.
It doesn't matter how good a platform is - I think there were already a conclusion here on Slashdot that if you can't make your stuff compatible, you'll lose developers.
This is the biggest threat to Linux.
Maybe I'm wrong and 3.6 is really compatible all the way to GNOME/GTK2?
I'm not sure what you're looking for. I thought it would be a quite normal thing to utilize 4g and similar while on the road, whether for work, on vacation or telecommuting (which invariably happens to me on vacation).
But all you need for that is a cell phone, and possibly a small directional antenna. The RV solution shouldn't have an impact?
Working on satellite antennas for moving vehicles, I can confirm those solutions exist as well... but probably a little price-y as well as physically heavy for single user use. But if you *really* need internet while driving somewhere extremely rural...
I do believe that one of the biggest problems with Linux is that new APIs keep popping up, because apparantly the old ones aren't good enough.
This will break code.
Developers don't like to see their code broken. They/we much rather develop on a system that doesn't break their code after a short while.
Whether it means that the developers are moving to iPhone programming, or that the developers stick to old stdout/stdin programming, or that the developers just give up and write their own OS doesn't matter -
what matters here is that Linux desktop is shrugging away developers because the API isn't perceived as stable.
(It's not the only enironment that shrugs away developers. Come on, not even _autoconf_ managed to stay backwards compatible... and Windows _traditionally_ isn't a stable environment, there used to be a new VCRUN every year or what...?)
This puzzle,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9359579/Worlds-hardest-sudoku-can-you-crack-it.html
will have you 'guess' no less than 10 times. I don't see right now how it measures in the 'richter' scale in the original article.
The problem with email is that you only get an answer to one of your questions in the email. I'm not really sure why, but I've had hundreds of emails going like this:
> Are you the right person to ask about blah? If I blah the blah, will it blah? Also, I will need to gah the blah, will that work?
Yes, I'm the one to ask about Blah.
sincerely
Blah blah
I thought one of the major points of live chat was that the *support staff* could multitask and have several live chats at once, while waiting for the users to type.
Are you saying you only have one chat running at a time?