Exactly. I program all day building a new data management system I invented. My PC is 7 years old with an i7-3700K with 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. I keep wondering if I should upgrade (I am waiting for the new third-generation AMD chips to come out this summer), but even if I drool over a screaming new system, my current one still does just fine. I could probably go another 5 years on it.
I've got news for you. Just like gun laws, there are NO laws that will stop robocalls. The scammers/spammers will ignore anything on the books. The ONLY way to stop them is to hit them in the pocketbook. It has to cost more than a few pennies to call a million people. As long as their computer can call people and their call center people only have to talk to a tiny fraction of those who are likely to fall for their scam, the rest of us will have to endure it. I for one am doing my part. EVERY time I get a robocall, I press 1 to be connected to a real person. The second that happens, the meter is running for the guy calling you. They have to pay someone real money to talk to you. About half the time, I don't even engage them. I just say "WHAT?" a couple of times to make them repeat their script. If I'm not doing anything but watching TV, I will play with them awhile. I pretend I am getting my credit card. I ask them silly questions. I pretend I am old and can't hear. Etc. etc... If everybody did this, the robocalls would stop tomorrow!!!
I think it is more like "and if you don't like it and refuse to pay me anything for fixing it, then do it yourself". If you are one of those highly-skilled developers who knows how to code something that a whole lot of people would benefit from, why are you considered greedy if you want to actually get paid something for your expertise and hard work?
It just sounds like a typical 'open source whiner'. "I want all my software for free. I refuse to pay for proprietary software no matter how good it is. There is no way I will spend my evenings and weekends building and contributing open source myself, but I expect someone else to do it. Gee, I wonder why nobody has already built what I need/want?"
"On the top of the list is actually a lack of an Official Open Source Good quality GUI tool to manage it."
What is stopping you from creating one? Go ahead and build it and then let everyone use it for free instead of complaining. Let me guess, if some enterprising individual (or company) decided to spend the couple thousand hours it might take to actually build one, and then tried to sell you a license for $10 or $20 that you would reject it.
I worked for a company back in the early 90s. Most of my fellow programmers were male, but a few of them were female. One of the ladies on my team decided that she wanted to get laid off for a severance check since she didn't really want to work anymore. She tried everything to be a part of the next round of 'reduction in force'. She came in late every day and went home early. She played games on her computer. She was behind on nearly all of her tasks. At the next 2 layoffs she was not among those picked to leave. Finally, she just quit without any severance because all her attempts failed. If I had tried even a tenth of the stunts she pulled, I would have been out on the street in a New York Minute.
So unless a company has already received enough funding to have all the bells and whistles implemented and a professional website that caters to your every whim; then you can't be bothered for longer than 30 seconds to figure out if it truly does something novel or not? Thank you for proving my point.
Rrrriiiiiiiight. After all, if your data set is not big and complicated enough to require a cluster of servers in the cloud and a dozen 'data scientists' from MIT to set up and process; then it can't be worth worrying about. There is simply no market for a product that will take a moderately sized table (e.g. 10 million rows, 50 columns) and let someone without a ton of database expertise do some simple analytics on it, right?
It definitely does some things 10x better/faster than existing systems (I guess I should have lead with that), but for a well established market like RDBMS where products like Postgres or SQL Server have been around for decades; I thought 2x in the general case was a pretty high bar to clear.
Foolish startups that have people throwing millions (or billions) of dollars at them while other good startups can't get the funding they need. I have a startup that has built a new kind of data management system. It is twice as fast as the big database management systems and does things thousands of times faster than file systems. It is the kind of thing that can radically change how data is managed on a global scale; yet I can't seem to attract even a few $100K from investors even though I have a working system with a few customers already. It's all 'who you know' instead of 'what you know'.
I am sure that some company out there is building something great that will eat Facebook's lunch. They will release a great social app that is free for all to use and they won't sell advertising at all. They won't collect personal information on any of their users and will make their terms of service easy to read and understand. Of course, once they are wildly successful, they won't sell out to the highest bidder who will come in and change everything in order to 'monetize' the product. I'm sure this (as yet unknown) company is full of ideological people who work for free and love to serve people for nothing. They are undoubtedly funded by a rich philanthropist who happily pays all the costs needed to build and service this vast network of services. I can't wait for them to announce their product to the market!
How easy is it to use Python and Pandas to do these kinds of analytics? I have been exploring the Chicago crime data set as an example (see: https://www.kaggle.com/boldy71...) and I am interested to know how much expertise and time does it take to do something like this.
I am building a data analytics tool that will allow non-programmers the ability to do simple analysis of large data sets using a point-and-click interface. I use this crime data set to test things out, but I want to explore more in-depth analysis to see if it can help even more than it already does.
A 4 minute video demonstrates our tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The problem with email spammers is the same one as with robocallers. It costs nothing to send email or call a million people. If the email providers and phone companies simply charged people for every call they make or email they send over some minimum (e.g. 100 per month) it would put and end to it almost immediately. It wouldn't even take much. Just a penny or two per message would stop the mass mailers and callers in their tracks. For the rest of us, it would rarely affect our costs. Even in months where you go over the limit, it would only cost you a couple bucks at most.
I guess this is what you get. It sounds like everything was stored on a laptop as well, so even if he didn't die but just had the laptop lost/stolen/destroyed/etc. then the data was gone too. Since crypto-currency is nothing but data, poof goes your equity. Assuming of course that this whole story isn't just about a scam where he didn't really die but is on a yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean instead.
My comment was meant to be a bit 'tongue and cheek'. I was not offended at all by your comment. I have played with a number of languages over the years (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, Pascal, Lua, Python, Modula-2) but for me, I have always gravitated back to C++ because I enjoy low-level data management programming (file systems, databases, etc.) I don't mind that others go for the new fangled web technologies. More power to them. It just is not for me.
Yes, C/C++ does give you plenty of rope to hang yourself, so you have to be more careful than with some other 'managed' code. But like the nuclear power plant example, if you want good, optimal base-line power then it can be a good choice. I guess some of the other scripting languages are like wind or solar power...really cool technology but leaves you wondering why your stuff won't work after dark or when the wind doesn't blow.
The assembly bit was just a joke. Although I did a bunch of assembly programming in the 80s, I only use that knowledge now when I am debugging and sometimes stepping through some disassembly code.
As I continue to develop my new data management system in that archaic language C++. I am one of those Luddites who believes that 'scripts' are for doing once-in-a-while tasks that need to be written quickly or updated often. Real programs are written in Assembly or the next best thing...C or C++. Of course, all the young programmers can't believe the demo when my system can do something in half a second that usually takes 10 times longer using something else.
Is this anything like building a panel with hundreds of tiny magnifying glasses on it so that it is cheaper to build? The energy for every square inch of panel is focused into tiny areas that can more cheaply convert the concentrated solar energy into electrical energy. In other words, today it costs X dollars to build a panel with Y sq. ft. that produces Z watts peak. With this technology you can build the same Y and Z for a cheaper X? Or you can build a bigger Y and Z for the same X?
When people of modest means could start a successful software company with a great idea. All you needed to get version 1.0 out was something that kind of worked better than everything else. You could get enough revenues to support the development of improved versions and grow into a booming company. Today, you need massive amounts of cash to develop because every customer demands features A to Z, enterprise scalability, and rock solid testing before they will even look at it. It has turned into a game that only the big boys can play.
Kind of like how the phone companies will do nothing to stop all the Robocalls, spam calls, and scammers from faking their caller ID. They don't want to hurt the revenue coming from those sources. Who cares about their regular subscribers. At least with Facebook, you are not paying for anything (unless you are stupid enough to give them your credit card info). I log on to Facebook about twice a year. I can't go that long without using my phone.
Remember to also have very strong passwords for all those sites that make you sign up just to download some trial software or to read an article! I am terrified that someone might guess my '1234' password to that site I visited 5 years ago (and will probably never visit again) and gave them a bogus email address (sorry bob@nowhere.com if you are getting lots of spam) because they could log on as me and steal....er, well nothing. Never mind.
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Exactly. I program all day building a new data management system I invented. My PC is 7 years old with an i7-3700K with 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. I keep wondering if I should upgrade (I am waiting for the new third-generation AMD chips to come out this summer), but even if I drool over a screaming new system, my current one still does just fine. I could probably go another 5 years on it.
I've got news for you. Just like gun laws, there are NO laws that will stop robocalls. The scammers/spammers will ignore anything on the books. The ONLY way to stop them is to hit them in the pocketbook. It has to cost more than a few pennies to call a million people. As long as their computer can call people and their call center people only have to talk to a tiny fraction of those who are likely to fall for their scam, the rest of us will have to endure it. I for one am doing my part. EVERY time I get a robocall, I press 1 to be connected to a real person. The second that happens, the meter is running for the guy calling you. They have to pay someone real money to talk to you. About half the time, I don't even engage them. I just say "WHAT?" a couple of times to make them repeat their script. If I'm not doing anything but watching TV, I will play with them awhile. I pretend I am getting my credit card. I ask them silly questions. I pretend I am old and can't hear. Etc. etc... If everybody did this, the robocalls would stop tomorrow!!!
I think it is more like "and if you don't like it and refuse to pay me anything for fixing it, then do it yourself". If you are one of those highly-skilled developers who knows how to code something that a whole lot of people would benefit from, why are you considered greedy if you want to actually get paid something for your expertise and hard work?
It just sounds like a typical 'open source whiner'. "I want all my software for free. I refuse to pay for proprietary software no matter how good it is. There is no way I will spend my evenings and weekends building and contributing open source myself, but I expect someone else to do it. Gee, I wonder why nobody has already built what I need/want?"
"On the top of the list is actually a lack of an Official Open Source Good quality GUI tool to manage it." What is stopping you from creating one? Go ahead and build it and then let everyone use it for free instead of complaining. Let me guess, if some enterprising individual (or company) decided to spend the couple thousand hours it might take to actually build one, and then tried to sell you a license for $10 or $20 that you would reject it.
I worked for a company back in the early 90s. Most of my fellow programmers were male, but a few of them were female. One of the ladies on my team decided that she wanted to get laid off for a severance check since she didn't really want to work anymore. She tried everything to be a part of the next round of 'reduction in force'. She came in late every day and went home early. She played games on her computer. She was behind on nearly all of her tasks. At the next 2 layoffs she was not among those picked to leave. Finally, she just quit without any severance because all her attempts failed. If I had tried even a tenth of the stunts she pulled, I would have been out on the street in a New York Minute.
So unless a company has already received enough funding to have all the bells and whistles implemented and a professional website that caters to your every whim; then you can't be bothered for longer than 30 seconds to figure out if it truly does something novel or not? Thank you for proving my point.
Rrrriiiiiiiight. After all, if your data set is not big and complicated enough to require a cluster of servers in the cloud and a dozen 'data scientists' from MIT to set up and process; then it can't be worth worrying about. There is simply no market for a product that will take a moderately sized table (e.g. 10 million rows, 50 columns) and let someone without a ton of database expertise do some simple analytics on it, right?
It definitely does some things 10x better/faster than existing systems (I guess I should have lead with that), but for a well established market like RDBMS where products like Postgres or SQL Server have been around for decades; I thought 2x in the general case was a pretty high bar to clear.
www.Didgets.io is the company web page (first cut). Latest demo video (4 min) is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Foolish startups that have people throwing millions (or billions) of dollars at them while other good startups can't get the funding they need. I have a startup that has built a new kind of data management system. It is twice as fast as the big database management systems and does things thousands of times faster than file systems. It is the kind of thing that can radically change how data is managed on a global scale; yet I can't seem to attract even a few $100K from investors even though I have a working system with a few customers already. It's all 'who you know' instead of 'what you know'.
I am sure that some company out there is building something great that will eat Facebook's lunch. They will release a great social app that is free for all to use and they won't sell advertising at all. They won't collect personal information on any of their users and will make their terms of service easy to read and understand. Of course, once they are wildly successful, they won't sell out to the highest bidder who will come in and change everything in order to 'monetize' the product. I'm sure this (as yet unknown) company is full of ideological people who work for free and love to serve people for nothing. They are undoubtedly funded by a rich philanthropist who happily pays all the costs needed to build and service this vast network of services. I can't wait for them to announce their product to the market!
How easy is it to use Python and Pandas to do these kinds of analytics? I have been exploring the Chicago crime data set as an example (see: https://www.kaggle.com/boldy71...) and I am interested to know how much expertise and time does it take to do something like this. I am building a data analytics tool that will allow non-programmers the ability to do simple analysis of large data sets using a point-and-click interface. I use this crime data set to test things out, but I want to explore more in-depth analysis to see if it can help even more than it already does. A 4 minute video demonstrates our tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's like the homeless guy who complains about the food at the soup kitchen because it is not on par with the finest restaurant.
The problem with email spammers is the same one as with robocallers. It costs nothing to send email or call a million people. If the email providers and phone companies simply charged people for every call they make or email they send over some minimum (e.g. 100 per month) it would put and end to it almost immediately. It wouldn't even take much. Just a penny or two per message would stop the mass mailers and callers in their tracks. For the rest of us, it would rarely affect our costs. Even in months where you go over the limit, it would only cost you a couple bucks at most.
I guess this is what you get. It sounds like everything was stored on a laptop as well, so even if he didn't die but just had the laptop lost/stolen/destroyed/etc. then the data was gone too. Since crypto-currency is nothing but data, poof goes your equity. Assuming of course that this whole story isn't just about a scam where he didn't really die but is on a yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean instead.
My comment was meant to be a bit 'tongue and cheek'. I was not offended at all by your comment. I have played with a number of languages over the years (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, Pascal, Lua, Python, Modula-2) but for me, I have always gravitated back to C++ because I enjoy low-level data management programming (file systems, databases, etc.) I don't mind that others go for the new fangled web technologies. More power to them. It just is not for me.
Yes, C/C++ does give you plenty of rope to hang yourself, so you have to be more careful than with some other 'managed' code. But like the nuclear power plant example, if you want good, optimal base-line power then it can be a good choice. I guess some of the other scripting languages are like wind or solar power...really cool technology but leaves you wondering why your stuff won't work after dark or when the wind doesn't blow.
Sure. It might be 'done', but it would probably run much slower than it does now. Since speed is one of my key selling points, that would not be good.
The assembly bit was just a joke. Although I did a bunch of assembly programming in the 80s, I only use that knowledge now when I am debugging and sometimes stepping through some disassembly code.
As I continue to develop my new data management system in that archaic language C++. I am one of those Luddites who believes that 'scripts' are for doing once-in-a-while tasks that need to be written quickly or updated often. Real programs are written in Assembly or the next best thing...C or C++. Of course, all the young programmers can't believe the demo when my system can do something in half a second that usually takes 10 times longer using something else.
Is this anything like building a panel with hundreds of tiny magnifying glasses on it so that it is cheaper to build? The energy for every square inch of panel is focused into tiny areas that can more cheaply convert the concentrated solar energy into electrical energy. In other words, today it costs X dollars to build a panel with Y sq. ft. that produces Z watts peak. With this technology you can build the same Y and Z for a cheaper X? Or you can build a bigger Y and Z for the same X?
When people of modest means could start a successful software company with a great idea. All you needed to get version 1.0 out was something that kind of worked better than everything else. You could get enough revenues to support the development of improved versions and grow into a booming company. Today, you need massive amounts of cash to develop because every customer demands features A to Z, enterprise scalability, and rock solid testing before they will even look at it. It has turned into a game that only the big boys can play.
Kind of like how the phone companies will do nothing to stop all the Robocalls, spam calls, and scammers from faking their caller ID. They don't want to hurt the revenue coming from those sources. Who cares about their regular subscribers. At least with Facebook, you are not paying for anything (unless you are stupid enough to give them your credit card info). I log on to Facebook about twice a year. I can't go that long without using my phone.
Remember to also have very strong passwords for all those sites that make you sign up just to download some trial software or to read an article! I am terrified that someone might guess my '1234' password to that site I visited 5 years ago (and will probably never visit again) and gave them a bogus email address (sorry bob@nowhere.com if you are getting lots of spam) because they could log on as me and steal....er, well nothing. Never mind.