Big Data is a nice word. The fact that the concept if it is useful for roughly 5 ginormous global internet companies and beyond pointless for everybody else is probably something that 99.9% of all people making the final decisions on which technologie stack is used have zero clue about. They haven't got the faintes what big data actually means and what problems with it solutions like hadoop actually address.
I'd bet money that 99 of 100 scenarios in which hadoop would even run better with some unspectacular type-a round-robin master-slave loadbalanced mysql setup or something.... Of course then you couldn't use that nice word "Big Data".
Buddies of mine are bulding a business in Germany offering multiplayer experiences in VR. They tested all and Vive beat them all. Which is no real surprise, since it is the most sophisticsted system. The others are at least two generations behind.
What the internet and the modern world definitely do is level the playing field. Big time. Basically everybody can have professional tools at their hand. For free. You can grap a guitar and spend the next three years flat, 8 hours a day, surfing youtube and learning how to play it and become an expert without ever setting foot into a classic music school.
Same goes for digital fine art. There is an abundance of digital painters out there that are at the level of the grand masters of old and perhaps even beyond. Because they have an abundance of paint and canvas. And many of them are still students and do art in their spare time.
You can go online and find videos of dancers no one has ever heard of and yet they belong to the best in the world because they've spend the last 4 years practicing in their parents garage in their spare time.
You find films that would've cashed an arthouse award on the spot 30 years ago but today barely get a few thousand views - because equipment is basically free and the entire world is making films.
What the internet does is take away the cultural hegemony of the academic field. It's not that the academic field is yelled at it's more like it's simply ignored and completely steamrolled without academic smart-alecs ever knowing what hit them. A university professor of music that merely focuses on classic and maybe two pieces of John Cage today would either have to admit that he doesn't really know that much about the world of music world today or risk being called out as being silly, stupid and ignorant. Old-school media critics know zilch about videogames and are so disconnected from what's actually happening they couldn't even form a useful opinion - allthough they sometimes do try.
An academic definition of science-fiction literarture I found in a school book two years ago is so stupid, you wouldn't even believe it.
Another very good example of this is the demo scene. They've been doing the worlds best multimedia artpieces for decades but are basically completely ignored by the academic world. Yet no one in their right mind would say that what the demoscene does does not constitute fine art in its highest form.
Bottom line: Art is doing great. Better than ever. The concept of what constitutes 'real' art and who gets to decide about it gets shattered to bits and pieces every day though. And that is a good thing.
... you know, that crazy super-rich silicon valley guy that made obscene amounts of money by investing in Facebook and such things.
He is quoted saying about the first internet bubble burst back in 2001 that the money that was lost didn't go away but moved into real estate. The bubble that burst there in 2008 proved his observation right. Since then he's been saying that the excess money that was in housing didn't go away but now moved into higher education an that we are now in a serious higher education bubble(!!). He does such things as rewarding students to quit university and get into startups ASAP and is pretty outspoken about asking people to stay away from college these days - at least in the US.
I don't know about you folks, but IMHO this Peter Thiel nutbag generally seems to be pretty spot on with his predictions - his bazillions of dollars seems to prove that aswell. I for my part basically second what he says am very careful about betting any sort of career on higher education and will only move into college on the side here in Germany because I want to learn the tough parts of CS and can do it for free. Or actually less money, counting the benefits I get as an enrolled student in Germany.
There is no effing way that I would go to college in the US these days - not if I can only move out with 30 000$+ in debt.
Too much Fa(r)cebook. Seriously, the number of people who spend all their relaxation time buried in that pile of steaming shite and ignoring their partner is just astounding, no wonder no intimacy happens...
Especially, I have to say it sorry, women. Many seem to spend much of their lives following all the other women they know, and thinking that everyone else lives a better life than them (while also themselves only posting the highlights of their own lives there, as glamorized as possible..).
Bingo! I totally second that. Had precisely that experience with my last attempt to build a feasible relationship. People need a basic ettiquette when it comes to social media and smartphones. Smartphone, tablet and laptop off when you're having quality time with your SO is my rule.
Facebook is not a social network, it's a global mental illness.
The OS then would be the specific featureset. Stuff like this happens already. In professional web development it's almost academic which OS you use on your desktop for development. Apart from some neat platform specific tools like Kaleidoscope, CodeKit, etc. that might tender to specific preferences of certain developers it's just about of nil significance which OS you use.
macOS has a neat for-money FTP client called Transmit, Linux usually has it integrated into the Filemanager.
But Atom, Geany, NetBeans, PhpStorm and so forth including local AMP or other devstacks Stacks run just about the same on all desktop OSes.... OK, BSD might have some trouble getting some to run.
The OS is all about what you prefer at certain fringes of your work. If that's the case, that is a good reason to move to a FOSS OS btw. Which is why I moved from macOS back to Linux after 12 years and got a new 300 Euro netbook rather than the new 2300 Euro MB Pro - although I do like the massive trackpad and the keyboard - neat hardware from apple once again - no doubt.
If you're an expert pianist, you ought to be able to reproduce a simple tune on the piano, by ear and blindfolded. If you're an expert skier, you can ski backward and ski on one ski. If you're an expert chess player, you should be able to memorize any chess board at a glance. If you're an expert mathematician, you should be able to do simple integrals without reference tables. Those are not skills that you need, they are skills experts simply can't avoid acquiring as part of working in a field for many years.
Likewise, if you're an expert programmer, you should be able to write bubble sort on the whiteboard without a web search. If you're an expert Python programmer, you should have worked enough with strings so that you don't need to look up trivial functions anymore. Those skills are indicators of your experience, not specific job requirements.
Plain and utter nonsense. All the skills you mentioned above are acquired by repeatedly doing a move or a task over and over again. Programming is doing the exact opposite and having the machine do the repeating - if you are a good programmer. Memorizing bubble sort is beyond pointless for a seasoned programmer. To the contrary, if you can still recall bubble-sort, you're probably not that seasoned yet.
If you test problem solving in a job interview for programmers, you're good. If you're testing for by-heart reference knowledge, you're being silly. Perhaps the nearest equivalent would be to test how fast a programmer navigates his favorite development environment. That might actually be a useful test, vis-a-vis asking for him/her to recall bubble-sort in PL X,Y or Z.
Bottom line: You got it totally wrong and missed the core and prime difference of programming to performing arts, sports and whatnot.
I like physical keyboards and it would be nice if Blackberry could continue producing them. The Keyone has me curious and an updated Passport with Android as OS would be interesting too.
Blackberry deserves to live on at least as much as Apple does.
And throughout the years their phones have gotten less uglier too. I remember my 8130 and 8310. Both very ugly and cheapy plastic all over. Not nice. If they continue to build good phones with good keyboards, I'll always look into BlackBerry aswell when a new phone is due.
I see a similar effect in my life and the society I live in (Germany, NRW State Capital of Duesseldorf, Germany).
I earn a neat salary for working part-time as sole web developmer in an agency, but I can only live comfortably and feel safe with a small 1-room apartment. Given, I have a daughter I support, but the truth is, jobs in IT and in these times are just to precarious and unstable to rely on steady income. That reflects on the size of the footprint I choose my every-day life to have. Basically I'm living like a well situated student, ready to move somewhere else in the republic on relatively short notice, should the need to take up a job 700km away arise.
I presume that this sort of lifestyle will only become more and more common in the future. The only people I see escaping it are my peers and friends basically going all-out alternative and setting up microhouses and organic farming collectives somewhere in cheap communities in easter Germany. Parallel to that, cultural borders are in full tilt, from vertical to horizontal, mingling and mixing in the ever growing mega-cities of the world.
If I right now had to move to some super-expensive globalized alphacity to get a job, I'd probably live in a coffin hotel or something - Neuromancer-style. Just to be able to save and have some leeway if things turn south. We're seeing what William Gibson and Neal Stephenson describe in their novels happening all over the place.
We're moving into the Age of Cyberpunk, plain and simple.
I've got two spoof accounts on Facebook, one for work - we're an agency selling Social Media Marketing among other things,so it's more or less expected of me - and one I established roughly 7 years ago when i started social dancing and constantly meeting people who asked me if I was on Facebook. I looked at Twitter a few months after it came out, thought "wtf?" after 3 minutes and have used it since maybe 4 times or so. No inroads at all with instagram, whatscrap and other data hogs.
Long story short, even though I'm your Type A 80ies computerkid who has never had less than 5 email accounts in the last 2 decades and who was on Fidonet back in the day posting every day, I see a significant difference between me and many many other people. Today *I* am the one who's more away from electronic media than the average - a thing quite unthinkable back in the 90ies. Even though I haven't changed my habits that much.
Facebook I consider particularly evil, as it is a funnel of constant superficial vanity-induced anti-social behaviour that, as far as I can tell, has a significant impact on the general social skills of people growing up with it. Facebook here being a synonym for anything "social" media these days. A fascinating look into someone from this social media native generation is Essena O'Neills account on why she quit her life as an instagram "professional". Yes, you can shake your head in disbelief about the naivity and the obviousness of what she finally realised, but don't forget: these are people who grew up with this - they never knew anyhting else - which makes her account ever more honest, poignant and impressive.
Conclusion: I see the signs left, right and center: Social media has a significant negative impact on the general publics mental health. To put it in other words: FB is not a social network, it's basically a global mental illness.
... that can turn the harebrained buzzword/bullshit-laden confused and convoluted descriptions ("specs") of my marketing crew into a working product. No freakin' way. The AI would probably have a meltdown.
My job will remain for a loooong time. If the rest of the population were able to formulate what they actually want, I'd be out of a job 10 years ago, with CASE tools taking my job. But that didn't happen. However, I might be the one discussion the new software with the AI. Looking forward to that. But then again, research shows that talking uses something like 80% of our brain while writing uses 25%.
So some sort of coding via type, even if it is to talk to an "AI", will probably always remain.
Isn't sinking 100s of millions into construction of a new corporate headquarters one the Fucked Company(tm) 6 common signs that a company is about to implode?
No.
Not if those 5 Billion come from the 240 billion in cash that you have accumulated in earnings but selling product with revenues up to north of 30% (iPhone raw earnings are between 200$ and 250$ per device. Which is why Huawei, Google and Co. cry themselves to sleep at night.). Then 5 Billion for an attempt to build the worlds best office building is a nice neat little extra for the crew.
If you're a startup running on high burnrate spending other peoples money with no income to show for though, that's an entirely different story. Then building a flashy new building is usually a sign that things are going to turn south soon after. I just finished reading "Boo Hoo", a first hand account of the 'rise' and fall of boo.com of the hayday of Dotbomb times. That is a prime example of what your talking about. Apple is just about the exact opposite of that.
You can deduct a *lot* from tracking a user these days. Especially with all the data smartphone apps offer up to their suppliers. You basically have a more complete and trustworthy personal profile of a person than the person could probably even willingly give themselves. Sleeping habits, areas of interest, modes of transport, typing speed, wording/education, interests, income, temper, sexual preferences, political affiliation, religious beliefs... the data hog megacorps of today know *everything* about you.
Having a large set of algorithms chose your partner for you based on such data is most likely to be a better choice than most humans could ever hope to make. The computer already knows much more about both mates than each could know about each other in years. And bring people together who would've never come together under regular circumstances.
Finding a fitting mate would actually be one of the better reasons for me to offer my data up to some app.
... whatever that may be in specific cases. Every person needs to feel loved and needs to feel competent, preferably by doing useful work they can handle and is thankfully recieved by their community while being and feeling mentally and physically healthy. With food, shelter, security, fulfilment and good regular sex at the foundation. Aside from that, hardly anyone really cares how rich the next guys is vis-a-vis himself.
If I can have all that, I seriously couldn't care less if everyone else was a billionaire but me. And I suspect it's like that for most people.
Bottom line: Equality != Quality of life inside a society.
They find something new or something they need and bolt it on. Just like that. End of story. A vote on the core team, a little coding and *BAM* PHP has a new inner API function with what has to be the most over-the-top all-out-PHP-style name for an inner API function ever - sodium_crypto_box_keypair_from_secretkey_and_publickey($ecdh_secret, $ecdh_public); (seriously, this is no joke).
Totally LOL. Takes the cake for inner function names ten times over, even by PHP standards, which is quite a stunt. And right away PHP has up-to-date hard crypto that even a simpleton can use.
You have to hand it to the PHP crew - they actually get shit done, no matter what.:-)
They are ASTRONAUTS. Flying and operating insanely expensive equipment on massive insanely expensive missions where just about every move has critical consequences. It's the same reason you can't have angry outbursts on the Spaceshuttle. These people a cool. Like, seriously and certified cool.
Of *course* they're not allowed to get drunk.
Yes, russian cosmonauts were/are allowed to have a shot of Vodka after long tricky EVAs and similar big events. They're russians, what do you expect? The closest to getting drunk in space was when the crew on the Mir decided to access their Vodka supplies of schedule. Vodka supplies being two or three smaller flasks. There are reports of some smaller "parties" on the Mir towards its EOL. But that's about it.
No fucking way. This has got to be some kind of alt-right/4chan/cuck joke parody, right? Woman convinces beta male to have "open relationship" so she can fuck alphas on the side, SHOCKING beta with no game can't score, harasses actually capable women and helps ruin otherwise successful company.
"Sluts and cucks ruin everything for everyone." This has to be a joke, right?
No, it's reality.
And right here you have the *only* good or at least moderately useful thing about abrahamic revelation cults (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as a primitive operating system of society: Executed well, they keep the sexual imbalance in check with sexual moral codes, see that every pot has a lid and prevent an all-out anarchic fight over women in which a few men get most of the women. A circumstance hat usually eventually gives rise to fanatism and degeneration/destruction.
"Girls, kiss the fascists where ever you find them!" - Kurt Tucholsky Smart man.
So this guy is harassing someone as to have sex with her. How is this sexism? Apart from the word being similar that is? Did he claim she is a lesser person because she is a woman? Or should spread her legs on demand because she is a woman and he is a man?
What really annoys me that all over the world in this debate people confuse inappropriate behavior with sexism. This implies that it would be less of an inappropriate behavior if the was bugging me (a man) for sex. And I seriously beg to differ. If the man would be bugging another man for sex in the same manner it would be just as annoying.
I really wish people and especially the press wouldn't constantly mix this up, so we'd have a chance to actually solve true sexism.
The HTC Desire was my first touchscreen smartphone, and for more than a year it was the best device on the planet and way ahead of anything else, including the iPhones of that time. The Flyer Tablet was a seriously impressive device, topping the iPad of the day in every aspect.
Now roughly 6 years later HTC is barely recognizable. A bloated and jumbled lineup of smartphones with nothing clearly sticking out. I'd cut 80% of the devices offered and focus on building the best smarrtphones available again.
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Sorry for the typos - using a tablet just now. :-)
Big Data is a nice word. The fact that the concept if it is useful for roughly 5 ginormous global internet companies and beyond pointless for everybody else is probably something that 99.9% of all people making the final decisions on which technologie stack is used have zero clue about. They haven't got the faintes what big data actually means and what problems with it solutions like hadoop actually address.
I'd bet money that 99 of 100 scenarios in which hadoop would even run better with some unspectacular type-a round-robin master-slave loadbalanced mysql setup or something. ... Of course then you couldn't use that nice word "Big Data".
Buddies of mine are bulding a business in Germany offering multiplayer experiences in VR. They tested all and Vive beat them all. Which is no real surprise, since it is the most sophisticsted system. The others are at least two generations behind.
As far as evolutionary theory goes, this is about as "Captain Obvious" you can get, imho.
What the internet and the modern world definitely do is level the playing field. Big time. Basically everybody can have professional tools at their hand. For free.
You can grap a guitar and spend the next three years flat, 8 hours a day, surfing youtube and learning how to play it and become an expert without ever setting foot into a classic music school.
Same goes for digital fine art. There is an abundance of digital painters out there that are at the level of the grand masters of old and perhaps even beyond. Because they have an abundance of paint and canvas. And many of them are still students and do art in their spare time.
You can go online and find videos of dancers no one has ever heard of and yet they belong to the best in the world because they've spend the last 4 years practicing in their parents garage in their spare time.
You find films that would've cashed an arthouse award on the spot 30 years ago but today barely get a few thousand views - because equipment is basically free and the entire world is making films.
What the internet does is take away the cultural hegemony of the academic field. It's not that the academic field is yelled at it's more like it's simply ignored and completely steamrolled without academic smart-alecs ever knowing what hit them. A university professor of music that merely focuses on classic and maybe two pieces of John Cage today would either have to admit that he doesn't really know that much about the world of music world today or risk being called out as being silly, stupid and ignorant. Old-school media critics know zilch about videogames and are so disconnected from what's actually happening they couldn't even form a useful opinion - allthough they sometimes do try.
An academic definition of science-fiction literarture I found in a school book two years ago is so stupid, you wouldn't even believe it.
Another very good example of this is the demo scene. They've been doing the worlds best multimedia artpieces for decades but are basically completely ignored by the academic world. Yet no one in their right mind would say that what the demoscene does does not constitute fine art in its highest form.
Bottom line:
Art is doing great. Better than ever. The concept of what constitutes 'real' art and who gets to decide about it gets shattered to bits and pieces every day though. And that is a good thing.
... you know, that crazy super-rich silicon valley guy that made obscene amounts of money by investing in Facebook and such things.
He is quoted saying about the first internet bubble burst back in 2001 that the money that was lost didn't go away but moved into real estate. The bubble that burst there in 2008 proved his observation right. Since then he's been saying that the excess money that was in housing didn't go away but now moved into higher education an that we are now in a serious higher education bubble(!!). He does such things as rewarding students to quit university and get into startups ASAP and is pretty outspoken about asking people to stay away from college these days - at least in the US.
I don't know about you folks, but IMHO this Peter Thiel nutbag generally seems to be pretty spot on with his predictions - his bazillions of dollars seems to prove that aswell. I for my part basically second what he says am very careful about betting any sort of career on higher education and will only move into college on the side here in Germany because I want to learn the tough parts of CS and can do it for free. Or actually less money, counting the benefits I get as an enrolled student in Germany.
There is no effing way that I would go to college in the US these days - not if I can only move out with 30 000$+ in debt.
My 2 Eurocents.
... or California is going to be the first place to make a huge technological leap.
I'm sort of hoping for the second option.
If it really would cost measurably less for women to do the equal work of men, men would be out of jobs by now.
That's pure economics.
The gender pay-gap is either fiction or there are reasons for it (risk of pregnancy factored into salary perhaps) that aren't accounted for.
I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week).
Lucky bastard. ... Good for you.
Too much Fa(r)cebook. ...
Seriously, the number of people who spend all their relaxation time buried in that pile of steaming shite
and ignoring their partner is just astounding, no wonder no intimacy happens
Especially, I have to say it sorry, women. Many seem to spend much of their lives following all the other
women they know, and thinking that everyone else lives a better life than them (while also themselves
only posting the highlights of their own lives there, as glamorized as possible..).
Bingo!
I totally second that. Had precisely that experience with my last attempt to build a feasible relationship.
People need a basic ettiquette when it comes to social media and smartphones. Smartphone, tablet and laptop off when you're having quality time with your SO is my rule.
Facebook is not a social network, it's a global mental illness.
Captain Obvious strikes again?
The OS then would be the specific featureset. Stuff like this happens already. In professional web development it's almost academic which OS you use on your desktop for development. Apart from some neat platform specific tools like Kaleidoscope, CodeKit, etc. that might tender to specific preferences of certain developers it's just about of nil significance which OS you use.
macOS has a neat for-money FTP client called Transmit, Linux usually has it integrated into the Filemanager.
But Atom, Geany, NetBeans, PhpStorm and so forth including local AMP or other devstacks Stacks run just about the same on all desktop OSes. ... OK, BSD might have some trouble getting some to run.
The OS is all about what you prefer at certain fringes of your work. If that's the case, that is a good reason to move to a FOSS OS btw. Which is why I moved from macOS back to Linux after 12 years and got a new 300 Euro netbook rather than the new 2300 Euro MB Pro - although I do like the massive trackpad and the keyboard - neat hardware from apple once again - no doubt.
My 2 cents.
If you're an expert pianist, you ought to be able to reproduce a simple tune on the piano, by ear and blindfolded. If you're an expert skier, you can ski backward and ski on one ski. If you're an expert chess player, you should be able to memorize any chess board at a glance. If you're an expert mathematician, you should be able to do simple integrals without reference tables. Those are not skills that you need, they are skills experts simply can't avoid acquiring as part of working in a field for many years.
Likewise, if you're an expert programmer, you should be able to write bubble sort on the whiteboard without a web search. If you're an expert Python programmer, you should have worked enough with strings so that you don't need to look up trivial functions anymore. Those skills are indicators of your experience, not specific job requirements.
Plain and utter nonsense. All the skills you mentioned above are acquired by repeatedly doing a move or a task over and over again. Programming is doing the exact opposite and having the machine do the repeating - if you are a good programmer. Memorizing bubble sort is beyond pointless for a seasoned programmer. To the contrary, if you can still recall bubble-sort, you're probably not that seasoned yet.
If you test problem solving in a job interview for programmers, you're good. If you're testing for by-heart reference knowledge, you're being silly. Perhaps the nearest equivalent would be to test how fast a programmer navigates his favorite development environment. That might actually be a useful test, vis-a-vis asking for him/her to recall bubble-sort in PL X,Y or Z.
Bottom line:
You got it totally wrong and missed the core and prime difference of programming to performing arts, sports and whatnot.
... when totally clueless people try to be smart?
I like physical keyboards and it would be nice if Blackberry could continue producing them. The Keyone has me curious and an updated Passport with Android as OS would be interesting too.
Blackberry deserves to live on at least as much as Apple does.
And throughout the years their phones have gotten less uglier too. I remember my 8130 and 8310. Both very ugly and cheapy plastic all over. Not nice.
If they continue to build good phones with good keyboards, I'll always look into BlackBerry aswell when a new phone is due.
My 2 cents.
I see a similar effect in my life and the society I live in (Germany, NRW State Capital of Duesseldorf, Germany).
I earn a neat salary for working part-time as sole web developmer in an agency, but I can only live comfortably and feel safe with a small 1-room apartment. Given, I have a daughter I support, but the truth is, jobs in IT and in these times are just to precarious and unstable to rely on steady income. That reflects on the size of the footprint I choose my every-day life to have. Basically I'm living like a well situated student, ready to move somewhere else in the republic on relatively short notice, should the need to take up a job 700km away arise.
I presume that this sort of lifestyle will only become more and more common in the future. The only people I see escaping it are my peers and friends basically going all-out alternative and setting up microhouses and organic farming collectives somewhere in cheap communities in easter Germany. Parallel to that, cultural borders are in full tilt, from vertical to horizontal, mingling and mixing in the ever growing mega-cities of the world.
If I right now had to move to some super-expensive globalized alphacity to get a job, I'd probably live in a coffin hotel or something - Neuromancer-style. Just to be able to save and have some leeway if things turn south. We're seeing what William Gibson and Neal Stephenson describe in their novels happening all over the place.
We're moving into the Age of Cyberpunk, plain and simple.
I've got two spoof accounts on Facebook, one for work - we're an agency selling Social Media Marketing among other things,so it's more or less expected of me - and one I established roughly 7 years ago when i started social dancing and constantly meeting people who asked me if I was on Facebook. I looked at Twitter a few months after it came out, thought "wtf?" after 3 minutes and have used it since maybe 4 times or so. No inroads at all with instagram, whatscrap and other data hogs.
Long story short, even though I'm your Type A 80ies computerkid who has never had less than 5 email accounts in the last 2 decades and who was on Fidonet back in the day posting every day, I see a significant difference between me and many many other people. Today *I* am the one who's more away from electronic media than the average - a thing quite unthinkable back in the 90ies. Even though I haven't changed my habits that much.
Facebook I consider particularly evil, as it is a funnel of constant superficial vanity-induced anti-social behaviour that, as far as I can tell, has a significant impact on the general social skills of people growing up with it. Facebook here being a synonym for anything "social" media these days. A fascinating look into someone from this social media native generation is Essena O'Neills account on why she quit her life as an instagram "professional". Yes, you can shake your head in disbelief about the naivity and the obviousness of what she finally realised, but don't forget: these are people who grew up with this - they never knew anyhting else - which makes her account ever more honest, poignant and impressive.
Conclusion:
I see the signs left, right and center: Social media has a significant negative impact on the general publics mental health. To put it in other words: FB is not a social network, it's basically a global mental illness.
My 2 cents.
... that can turn the harebrained buzzword/bullshit-laden confused and convoluted descriptions ("specs") of my marketing crew into a working product.
No freakin' way. The AI would probably have a meltdown.
My job will remain for a loooong time. If the rest of the population were able to formulate what they actually want, I'd be out of a job 10 years ago, with CASE tools taking my job. But that didn't happen. However, I might be the one discussion the new software with the AI. Looking forward to that. But then again, research shows that talking uses something like 80% of our brain while writing uses 25%.
So some sort of coding via type, even if it is to talk to an "AI", will probably always remain.
My 2 cents.
Isn't sinking 100s of millions into construction of a new corporate headquarters one the Fucked Company(tm) 6 common signs that a company is about to implode?
No.
Not if those 5 Billion come from the 240 billion in cash that you have accumulated in earnings but selling product with revenues up to north of 30% (iPhone raw earnings are between 200$ and 250$ per device. Which is why Huawei, Google and Co. cry themselves to sleep at night.). Then 5 Billion for an attempt to build the worlds best office building is a nice neat little extra for the crew.
If you're a startup running on high burnrate spending other peoples money with no income to show for though, that's an entirely different story.
Then building a flashy new building is usually a sign that things are going to turn south soon after. I just finished reading "Boo Hoo", a first hand account of the 'rise' and fall of boo.com of the hayday of Dotbomb times. That is a prime example of what your talking about. Apple is just about the exact opposite of that.
You can deduct a *lot* from tracking a user these days. Especially with all the data smartphone apps offer up to their suppliers. You basically have a more complete and trustworthy personal profile of a person than the person could probably even willingly give themselves. Sleeping habits, areas of interest, modes of transport, typing speed, wording/education, interests, income, temper, sexual preferences, political affiliation, religious beliefs ... the data hog megacorps of today know *everything* about you.
Having a large set of algorithms chose your partner for you based on such data is most likely to be a better choice than most humans could ever hope to make. The computer already knows much more about both mates than each could know about each other in years. And bring people together who would've never come together under regular circumstances.
Finding a fitting mate would actually be one of the better reasons for me to offer my data up to some app.
My 2 cents.
... whatever that may be in specific cases.
Every person needs to feel loved and needs to feel competent, preferably by doing useful work they can handle and is thankfully recieved by their community while being and feeling mentally and physically healthy. With food, shelter, security, fulfilment and good regular sex at the foundation. Aside from that, hardly anyone really cares how rich the next guys is vis-a-vis himself.
If I can have all that, I seriously couldn't care less if everyone else was a billionaire but me. And I suspect it's like that for most people.
Bottom line:
Equality != Quality of life inside a society.
I'm smiling while I read this.
Every single bit of this news is sooo PHP and one of the reasons this awkward mess of a PL is so successful.
They find something new or something they need and bolt it on. Just like that. End of story. A vote on the core team, a little coding and *BAM* PHP has a new inner API function with what has to be the most over-the-top all-out-PHP-style name for an inner API function ever - sodium_crypto_box_keypair_from_secretkey_and_publickey($ecdh_secret, $ecdh_public); (seriously, this is no joke).
Totally LOL. Takes the cake for inner function names ten times over, even by PHP standards, which is quite a stunt. And right away PHP has up-to-date hard crypto that even a simpleton can use.
You have to hand it to the PHP crew - they actually get shit done, no matter what. :-)
What kind of a question is that?
They are ASTRONAUTS. Flying and operating insanely expensive equipment on massive insanely expensive missions where just about every move has critical consequences. It's the same reason you can't have angry outbursts on the Spaceshuttle. These people a cool. Like, seriously and certified cool.
Of *course* they're not allowed to get drunk.
Yes, russian cosmonauts were/are allowed to have a shot of Vodka after long tricky EVAs and similar big events. They're russians, what do you expect?
The closest to getting drunk in space was when the crew on the Mir decided to access their Vodka supplies of schedule. Vodka supplies being two or three smaller flasks. There are reports of some smaller "parties" on the Mir towards its EOL. But that's about it.
No fucking way. This has got to be some kind of alt-right/4chan/cuck joke parody, right? Woman convinces beta male to have "open relationship" so she can fuck alphas on the side, SHOCKING beta with no game can't score, harasses actually capable women and helps ruin otherwise successful company.
"Sluts and cucks ruin everything for everyone." This has to be a joke, right?
No, it's reality.
And right here you have the *only* good or at least moderately useful thing about abrahamic revelation cults (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as a primitive operating system of society: Executed well, they keep the sexual imbalance in check with sexual moral codes, see that every pot has a lid and prevent an all-out anarchic fight over women in which a few men get most of the women. A circumstance hat usually eventually gives rise to fanatism and degeneration/destruction.
"Girls, kiss the fascists where ever you find them!" - Kurt Tucholsky
Smart man.
So this guy is harassing someone as to have sex with her. How is this sexism? Apart from the word being similar that is? Did he claim she is a lesser person because she is a woman? Or should spread her legs on demand because she is a woman and he is a man?
What really annoys me that all over the world in this debate people confuse inappropriate behavior with sexism.
This implies that it would be less of an inappropriate behavior if the was bugging me (a man) for sex. And I seriously beg to differ. If the man would be bugging another man for sex in the same manner it would be just as annoying.
I really wish people and especially the press wouldn't constantly mix this up, so we'd have a chance to actually solve true sexism.
The HTC Desire was my first touchscreen smartphone, and for more than a year it was the best device on the planet and way ahead of anything else, including the iPhones of that time. The Flyer Tablet was a seriously impressive device, topping the iPad of the day in every aspect.
Now roughly 6 years later HTC is barely recognizable. A bloated and jumbled lineup of smartphones with nothing clearly sticking out. I'd cut 80% of the devices offered and focus on building the best smarrtphones available again.