... where you didn't need to know how to connect or adjust a monitor. A big win for non-experts. Nice move. I didn't get it back then as much as I get it now. Unpack, turn on, works.... By and large Apple deserves all the billions it can make.
Disclaimer: I've worked myself into GDPR details to shape my employer up for it.
GP is a little off on some details.
You have to *name* a Data Protectoin Officer. This can be anybody empowered to check compliance. Usually this is done by some administrative or IT specialist. Germany has had this for decades. No need for an extra hire.
You don't have to spend thousands or millions. You just need to have a proper setup and due diligence in place. The new thing is that you need to document procedures in a standardized manner. The big difference between the law that come in on 25.4.2018 is that someone could only sue you if he was damaged and only if he could prove a data breach of critical personal data. The fines up to this point also were laughable.
Now anyone involved, including customers, can ask how data is handled and the authorities and others have the right to review documentation of your SOPs for data protection. Also you're in for big trouble with massive fines (up to 4% of global anual revenue) if you're careless with data and aren't willing to comply with the GDPR.
In short: If you have your IT in order GDPR compliance isn't that much of a big deal. Documentation is, but compliance is not.
If however your IT is shit, then you're in for trouble if they come for you. Big time. Since they *will* eventually come for you *and* most companies (online *and* brick and mortar) IT setups are somewhere between disorganized shite and abysmal, companies would rather opt out than go through the hassle of complying. Which means only companies with proper procedures and due diligence in their IT will remain doing business in the EU.... Can't really complain about that actually.
Thus endeth some real-world details on GDPR. You're welcome.
If all goes well, we'll be skipping the cyberpunk age pretty quickly and move into diamond age style post scarcity. No need for too many jobs then anymore.
15 hours per week and person would do perfectly fine already. All over the planet.
15 years ago a buddy told me "you have nothing lost here in Germany, you should go check out Silicon Valley". For just about 2 decades I've dealt with plain and utter idiiots when it comes to IT and the Web and professional work in those fields and it's slowly dawning on me: The places where I can meet people who understand me are very rare and one of those places where I would be in my waters professionally is Silicon Valley and the bay area.
At a certain point it becomes more and more difficult to even move on. I've still go some much to learn and still haven't found a single web agency that has a professional pipeline. For my recent job I'm biulding one now and it's going better than ever, but I still get the feeling that this can't be all.
The Valley is to IT what Paris is to fashion and Buenos Aires to Tango: other places simply can't compare because they are so far ahead. So, yeah, I get it. SF and the valley is where it's at.
... is why we still haven't seen modders, foss developers and artists get together to build their own games. Big style. Where are the awesome arena shooters from back then? Where are the mech games and foss games with own IP? Wesnoth and Xonotic can't be the end of it, no?
Is overwatch really the last answer to this?
Xonotic should have some foundation organizing events, leagues and prizes or something. It's not like the enthusiasts community can't do their own games today.
Under-representation is a problem because there are people that currently feel excluded from OSS, and they feel excluded partly because of the bad behaviour of some people in the OSS community, and also because after years of not being encouraged to be around, some people have decided that it would be nice to throw some encouragement to those under-represented groups.
Nope. Wrong to the nth degree.
Wanna code? Get a laptop, hook it to the next internet outlet and get going. Nobody is stoping you. It's easyer than ever, even for poor fat black lesbian girls. And - pro tip - on the internet nobody gives a flying f*ck about your race, gender or your sexual interest. And most people don't even know. Guess why so many weirdos are into coding? If however you have a neat project going, people will come, pull your code and eventually contribute. And if your a good coder and manager - even if you're at times a douche in the real world (Linus Torwalds comes to mind) - your project will fly. Wether you're a women or a black guy - nobody effing cares. Seriously. Angela Merkel is an old lady. If someone gets in her way, she squishes them like a bug and she actually does the hours it takes to be a chancellor. Nobody cares wether she's a woman or not. Not these days. 200 years ago maybe. But not today and shure as f*ck not on the intarweb.
Seriously. Is there an art (performing art in particular) where you say "OMG that is so awesome, I wish I could do that."? Study/train that. Obviously there are limits. If you're in a wheelchair doing ballet won't work. But perhaps music, singing, acting is something that would be an interesting challenge. I have a diploma in performing arts and even though I've never done anything remotely like that in the last 2 decades (except being quite good at social dancing (Argentine Tango)), the experience was like nothing else. It does help me do presentations, that's obvious, but I've also learned about styles and aesthetics, art history and how to move gracefully. It helps me with GUI design and understanding emotional aspects of the user experience.
Imagine getting a Chello and learning that. Your horizon will expand into a universe you couldn't dream of knowing doing IT/Software every day for the rest of your life. You probably have IT pretty much down and getting into some newfangled technology or PL is a walk in the park once you've got a broader perspective on life in general.
Art most likely won't earn you big bucks but from what I get that's not what you need right now anyway. Note that fine art is closer to programming as an art than performing arts, so I strongly suggest performing arts, but perhaps you do want to get into drawing or painting or illustraiont or - an intersection with IT - 3D/VR and stuff - then fine art might be a neat alternative.
But generally rest asured, if you move away from IT and into an art, your life in general will improve for the better. Especially with your life right now having you struggling for sense and meaning. If only art becomes an enriching addition to your life as an IT expert right now, that will spill over into your IT career and have measurable positive effects. Promise.
This is just some bizarre move to get stack overflow known to the general public. Everyone who has ever used stack overflow knows that nobody knows your gender, sexual orientation or color there and - most importantly - nobody cares. Really, absolutely no one.
Making such starements as attention grabbers is wholely irresponsible IMHO. It discredits both worthwhile effects on the social justice space and solidifies a common notion that nerds and the kind that associare are insensitive jerks. A stupid cliche that could use some social justice work of of very own.
This is the problem with current day "Gender Studies" feminisim. Unlike "classic" feminism they completely disregard actual differences between men and women. You know, the actual reasone we call men men and women women?
A-Level Hollywood directing is competitive at a level most humans can't even comprehend. You need every edge you can get to succeed and you have to be so convinced about your vision that you will squish anyone questioning it on sight and inmediately. Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Luc Besson, George Lucas, JJ Abrahams, Steven Spielberg and the likes are extremely competetive vision-driven super-nerds that mostly got into total- all-out filmmaking in their early teens. Look at the hours Cameron puts into his projects. It's basically insane.
Have a whomb and some hormones that curb that insanity and have you tend to direct a part of your passion and love to little humans you squeeze out (in general a more sound perspective on life IMHO) and you're just about out of the game. The only two women in that lineup I listed above are Kathreen Bigelow and Leni Reifenstahl (yeah, the 'Nazi Movie Chick'), and both were fighters, total non-prissies. Riefenstahl was avantgarde, spend weeks sleeping on the cutting room floor and had a fan in Hitler and bigelow carved herself out a niche of compareatively cheap quasi-independant formats and acutally does seem to know that filmmaking is 99.5% planing and.5% execution. And she only does a film every few years.
The truth is quite simple: At the very very top in every field the environment is so extremely competitive that simply having a whomb is a measurable disadvantage. Steve Jobs said it pretty clearly to Bill Gates in their last long talk: Without our wives we'd probably would've gone insance. Yeah, you have women like Bigelow, Bettencourt or Madama Curie you are up there along with the extreme boys, but the truth is that the extreme are made up of boys so much because they feel the competitive pressure way stronger than the ladies and have on average more of the motivation to walk over dead bodies if the need be.
I do think we need more women in art and especially more women getting a hold on shaping it and I'm also pretty shure their share will increase. But there are aspects of current day art production that have demands that - at the very top - favour every advantage. And that is also having traits generally regardes as male.
Call that conscious "discrimination" and I call bullshit.
You know, whenever anybody asked me what I thought the biggest thing holding back the Go language was, the first thing that came to mind was the logo.
I know you're trying to make a joke, but you actually hit the nail on the head. Go's branding was shite and actually *was* the biggest caveat holding it back. I bet dollars to donuts that usage of Go will rise measurably after this. Seriously. Not joking.
They mixed Roboto and Product Sans? Someone needs to get smacked and learn some design basics before being let go on UX... That's like doing speed critical coding in Ruby and front-end in C. In the same app. If you mix fonts (which you really shouldn't!), then there should
be a very significant difference between them, like sans and serif. Or fine and Ultrabold. That would be some trash-grundgy post modern thing which will probably be out of style again next year, but you could do it if you know what you are doing.
Unless you really know what you're doing, don't mix fonts. Do the variations in weight, nothing else.
You do care about fonts. You do notice shitty layout and crappy fonts and lettering. Maybe only subconsciously, but you do care.
There's a reason why well designed products get more attention and get used more often. Yes, also by you.
Try this: Sit in front of an iMac with retina display and work for a few weeks. Then go back to some regular screen resolution. Even you will notice the difference. Promise.
I don't get it. Cyrillic is awkward to learn if you're used to Latin script. I did this the past two years when visiting Moscow. It was quite fun. Spelling through and finally recognising "Starbucks"written in Cyrillic is funny. And fun. Also getting around the metro without a dictionary. Fun, challenging and still easily done because you have to be a moron not to understand Moscows metro layout.
But as for the script itself: it has different glyphs and some switched out meanings, but it's trivially easy to learn and usually totally in sync with spoken language, much like German or the scandic languages. Moving to Latin is a total waste of time and the citizens are rightfully pissed IMHO.
Now if the Japanese or Chinese would switch - that I would totally get. It takes years to learn even the most basic Chinese or Japanese script. They're totally inefficient. Cyrillic otoh is very effective, perhaps even more than Latin script. Definitely way more efficient than English writing.
Bottom line: This makes no sense what so ever. Stupid.
Disclaimer: I've used and developed for both Drupal and WP professionally, for a living. A good living.
Like most PHP systems Drupal is built by monkeys on crack with zero clue about proper software architecture. Unlike WordPress though it doesn't have a 140 million+ installbase and an army of people messing around with it every day and patching holes as they pop up just about instantly. This is a problem. Add to that the fact that while both WP and Drupal are built by people who didn't know squat what they were doing when they started out, WP actually makes it somewhat easy to code around it's mess, just using a few utility functions from WP core to latch on to the DB and the user management and stearing clear of the rest of the mess, getting to doing real work roughly 10 minutes in to your first WP plugin. Drupal OTOH is a mess through and through *and* forces you to follow along, making development much more difficult. Which is why the installbase is 'only' a few million which AFAICT isn't enough to compensate for crappy webapps built by n00bs in PHP. I expect Drupal holes like this one to be much more of a problem vis-a-vis WPs holes, simply because the userbase is orders of magnitude smaller than of WP.
Treating sites like channels has happened in the past already, but I expect alternative services to pop up once the douchebags take over the web.... Ok, they alreay have, but I mean once they prevent normal people from doing their thing with the web. As soon as that happens there will be a move away from the web. And it will happen fast. That's what I expect anyway.
How about just funding some useful FOSS project for an open standard mesh-networked E-Mail/Usenet replacement with proper FOSS clients for all major OSes including Linux and BSD, to get the opinion leaders (us) on board. That would rid us of Facebook and other product along those lines.
But I guess that would involve actcual investment and provide actual results in short time, rather than just getting some PR with an inflated press release.
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... where you didn't need to know how to connect or adjust a monitor. A big win for non-experts. Nice move. I didn't get it back then as much as I get it now. Unpack, turn on, works. ... By and large Apple deserves all the billions it can make.
Disclaimer: I've worked myself into GDPR details to shape my employer up for it.
GP is a little off on some details.
You have to *name* a Data Protectoin Officer. This can be anybody empowered to check compliance. Usually this is done by some administrative or IT specialist. Germany has had this for decades. No need for an extra hire.
You don't have to spend thousands or millions. You just need to have a proper setup and due diligence in place. The new thing is that you need to document procedures in a standardized manner. The big difference between the law that come in on 25.4.2018 is that someone could only sue you if he was damaged and only if he could prove a data breach of critical personal data. The fines up to this point also were laughable.
Now anyone involved, including customers, can ask how data is handled and the authorities and others have the right to review documentation of your SOPs for data protection. Also you're in for big trouble with massive fines (up to 4% of global anual revenue) if you're careless with data and aren't willing to comply with the GDPR.
In short: If you have your IT in order GDPR compliance isn't that much of a big deal.
Documentation is, but compliance is not.
If however your IT is shit, then you're in for trouble if they come for you. Big time. ... Can't really complain about that actually.
Since they *will* eventually come for you *and* most companies (online *and* brick and mortar) IT setups are somewhere between disorganized shite and abysmal, companies would rather opt out than go through the hassle of complying. Which means only companies with proper procedures and due diligence in their IT will remain doing business in the EU.
Thus endeth some real-world details on GDPR.
You're welcome.
... that's for sure.
https://youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0
If all goes well, we'll be skipping the cyberpunk age pretty quickly and move into diamond age style post scarcity. No need for too many jobs then anymore.
15 hours per week and person would do perfectly fine already. All over the planet.
15 years ago a buddy told me "you have nothing lost here in Germany, you should go check out Silicon Valley". For just about 2 decades I've dealt with plain and utter idiiots when it comes to IT and the Web and professional work in those fields and it's slowly dawning on me: The places where I can meet people who understand me are very rare and one of those places where I would be in my waters professionally is Silicon Valley and the bay area.
At a certain point it becomes more and more difficult to even move on. I've still go some much to learn and still haven't found a single web agency that has a professional pipeline. For my recent job I'm biulding one now and it's going better than ever, but I still get the feeling that this can't be all.
The Valley is to IT what Paris is to fashion and Buenos Aires to Tango: other places simply can't compare because they are so far ahead. So, yeah, I get it. SF and the valley is where it's at.
... three years ago. Never looked back since. So yeah, I guess we can.
*Tatum*crash*thud*
Thank you, thank you I'm here all week.
... is why we still haven't seen modders, foss developers and artists get together to build their own games. Big style. Where are the awesome arena shooters from back then? Where are the mech games and foss games with own IP? Wesnoth and Xonotic can't be the end of it, no?
Is overwatch really the last answer to this?
Xonotic should have some foundation organizing events, leagues and prizes or something. It's not like the enthusiasts community can't do their own games today.
My 2 cents.
You're looking at this wrong.
Under-representation is a problem because there are people that currently feel excluded from OSS, and they feel excluded partly because of the bad behaviour of some people in the OSS community, and also because after years of not being encouraged to be around, some people have decided that it would be nice to throw some encouragement to those under-represented groups.
Nope. Wrong to the nth degree.
Wanna code? Get a laptop, hook it to the next internet outlet and get going. Nobody is stoping you. It's easyer than ever, even for poor fat black lesbian girls. And - pro tip - on the internet nobody gives a flying f*ck about your race, gender or your sexual interest. And most people don't even know. Guess why so many weirdos are into coding? If however you have a neat project going, people will come, pull your code and eventually contribute. And if your a good coder and manager - even if you're at times a douche in the real world (Linus Torwalds comes to mind) - your project will fly. Wether you're a women or a black guy - nobody effing cares. Seriously. Angela Merkel is an old lady. If someone gets in her way, she squishes them like a bug and she actually does the hours it takes to be a chancellor. Nobody cares wether she's a woman or not. Not these days. 200 years ago maybe. But not today and shure as f*ck not on the intarweb.
You're welcome.
Study art. Better yet: *Train* for an art.
Seriously. Is there an art (performing art in particular) where you say "OMG that is so awesome, I wish I could do that."? Study/train that. Obviously there are limits. If you're in a wheelchair doing ballet won't work. But perhaps music, singing, acting is something that would be an interesting challenge. I have a diploma in performing arts and even though I've never done anything remotely like that in the last 2 decades (except being quite good at social dancing (Argentine Tango)), the experience was like nothing else. It does help me do presentations, that's obvious, but I've also learned about styles and aesthetics, art history and how to move gracefully. It helps me with GUI design and understanding emotional aspects of the user experience.
Imagine getting a Chello and learning that. Your horizon will expand into a universe you couldn't dream of knowing doing IT/Software every day for the rest of your life. You probably have IT pretty much down and getting into some newfangled technology or PL is a walk in the park once you've got a broader perspective on life in general.
Art most likely won't earn you big bucks but from what I get that's not what you need right now anyway. Note that fine art is closer to programming as an art than performing arts, so I strongly suggest performing arts, but perhaps you do want to get into drawing or painting or illustraiont or - an intersection with IT - 3D/VR and stuff - then fine art might be a neat alternative.
But generally rest asured, if you move away from IT and into an art, your life in general will improve for the better. Especially with your life right now having you struggling for sense and meaning. If only art becomes an enriching addition to your life as an IT expert right now, that will spill over into your IT career and have measurable positive effects. Promise.
My 2 cents.
EOM
I distinctly remember that Telegram's encryption sucks.
If it's good enough to piss of iranian and russian gouvernment it should be good enough for most people.
Sorry about the typos.
This is just some bizarre move to get stack overflow known to the general public. Everyone who has ever used stack overflow knows that nobody knows your gender, sexual orientation or color there and - most importantly - nobody cares. Really, absolutely no one.
Making such starements as attention grabbers is wholely irresponsible IMHO. It discredits both worthwhile effects on the social justice space and solidifies a common notion that nerds and the kind that associare are insensitive jerks. A stupid cliche that could use some social justice work of of very own.
Captain Obvious strikes again!
This is the problem with current day "Gender Studies" feminisim. Unlike "classic" feminism they completely disregard actual differences between men and women. You know, the actual reasone we call men men and women women?
A-Level Hollywood directing is competitive at a level most humans can't even comprehend. You need every edge you can get to succeed and you have to be so convinced about your vision that you will squish anyone questioning it on sight and inmediately. Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Luc Besson, George Lucas, JJ Abrahams, Steven Spielberg and the likes are extremely competetive vision-driven super-nerds that mostly got into total- all-out filmmaking in their early teens. Look at the hours Cameron puts into his projects. It's basically insane.
Have a whomb and some hormones that curb that insanity and have you tend to direct a part of your passion and love to little humans you squeeze out (in general a more sound perspective on life IMHO) and you're just about out of the game. The only two women in that lineup I listed above are Kathreen Bigelow and Leni Reifenstahl (yeah, the 'Nazi Movie Chick'), and both were fighters, total non-prissies. Riefenstahl was avantgarde, spend weeks sleeping on the cutting room floor and had a fan in Hitler and bigelow carved herself out a niche of compareatively cheap quasi-independant formats and acutally does seem to know that filmmaking is 99.5% planing and .5% execution. And she only does a film every few years.
The truth is quite simple: At the very very top in every field the environment is so extremely competitive that simply having a whomb is a measurable disadvantage. Steve Jobs said it pretty clearly to Bill Gates in their last long talk: Without our wives we'd probably would've gone insance. Yeah, you have women like Bigelow, Bettencourt or Madama Curie you are up there along with the extreme boys, but the truth is that the extreme are made up of boys so much because they feel the competitive pressure way stronger than the ladies and have on average more of the motivation to walk over dead bodies if the need be.
I do think we need more women in art and especially more women getting a hold on shaping it and I'm also pretty shure their share will increase. But there are aspects of current day art production that have demands that - at the very top - favour every advantage. And that is also having traits generally regardes as male.
Call that conscious "discrimination" and I call bullshit.
My 2 cents.
You know, whenever anybody asked me what I thought the biggest thing holding back the Go language was, the first thing that came to mind was the logo.
I know you're trying to make a joke, but you actually hit the nail on the head. Go's branding was shite and actually *was* the biggest caveat holding it back. I bet dollars to donuts that usage of Go will rise measurably after this. Seriously. Not joking.
It's that simple.
Especially if you're enemy no1 and show that you're ready to use them.
I'm looking at you, Ukraine.
Or you think Putin would've pulled off his little stunt if the Ukraine were still armed with ICBMs?
They mixed Roboto and Product Sans? Someone needs to get smacked and learn some design basics before being let go on UX... That's like doing speed critical coding in Ruby and front-end in C. In the same app.
If you mix fonts (which you really shouldn't!), then there should
be a very significant difference between them, like sans and serif. Or fine and Ultrabold.
That would be some trash-grundgy post modern thing which will probably be out of style again next year, but you could do it if you know what you are doing.
Unless you really know what you're doing, don't mix fonts. Do the variations in weight, nothing else.
You do care about fonts.
You do notice shitty layout and crappy fonts and lettering.
Maybe only subconsciously, but you do care.
There's a reason why well designed products get more attention and get used more often.
Yes, also by you.
Try this: Sit in front of an iMac with retina display and work for a few weeks.
Then go back to some regular screen resolution.
Even you will notice the difference. Promise.
I don't get it. Cyrillic is awkward to learn if you're used to Latin script. I did this the past two years when visiting Moscow. It was quite fun. Spelling through and finally recognising "Starbucks"written in Cyrillic is funny. And fun. Also getting around the metro without a dictionary. Fun, challenging and still easily done because you have to be a moron not to understand Moscows metro layout.
But as for the script itself: it has different glyphs and some switched out meanings, but it's trivially easy to learn and usually totally in sync with spoken language, much like German or the scandic languages. Moving to Latin is a total waste of time and the citizens are rightfully pissed IMHO.
Now if the Japanese or Chinese would switch - that I would totally get. It takes years to learn even the most basic Chinese or Japanese script. They're totally inefficient. Cyrillic otoh is very effective, perhaps even more than Latin script. Definitely way more efficient than English writing.
Bottom line: This makes no sense what so ever. Stupid.
... the "back than all was fine eventually and so it will be this time" shtick, I recommend you watch this.
Disclaimer: I've used and developed for both Drupal and WP professionally, for a living. A good living.
Like most PHP systems Drupal is built by monkeys on crack with zero clue about proper software architecture. Unlike WordPress though it doesn't have a 140 million+ installbase and an army of people messing around with it every day and patching holes as they pop up just about instantly. This is a problem. Add to that the fact that while both WP and Drupal are built by people who didn't know squat what they were doing when they started out, WP actually makes it somewhat easy to code around it's mess, just using a few utility functions from WP core to latch on to the DB and the user management and stearing clear of the rest of the mess, getting to doing real work roughly 10 minutes in to your first WP plugin.
Drupal OTOH is a mess through and through *and* forces you to follow along, making development much more difficult. Which is why the installbase is 'only' a few million which AFAICT isn't enough to compensate for crappy webapps built by n00bs in PHP. I expect Drupal holes like this one to be much more of a problem vis-a-vis WPs holes, simply because the userbase is orders of magnitude smaller than of WP.
My 2 cents.
Treating sites like channels has happened in the past already, but I expect alternative services to pop up once the douchebags take over the web. ... Ok, they alreay have, but I mean once they prevent normal people from doing their thing with the web. As soon as that happens there will be a move away from the web. And it will happen fast. That's what I expect anyway.
... take Captain Obvious off the slashdot editor's board? This is slashdot, news for nerds, not The Daily Sun, news for idiots.
Thank you.
How about just funding some useful FOSS project for an open standard mesh-networked E-Mail/Usenet replacement with proper FOSS clients for all major OSes including Linux and BSD, to get the opinion leaders (us) on board. That would rid us of Facebook and other product along those lines.
But I guess that would involve actcual investment and provide actual results in short time, rather than just getting some PR with an inflated press release.