Very different, actually, and it's a matter of degree. What google glass introduces is a constant surveillance, eerily close to the third episode of Black Mirror.
That said, I'd love it if everyone stopped permanently carrying cameras (this includes smartphones) with themselves, although I may be relatively alone about that.
Some corporations (for example Blackwater, now known as Academi) do have access to military weapons. And sufficiently wealthy corporations (including the military ones) do have the de facto ability to write laws via lobbying, and have done so for a long time.
I don't know about the others, but for me, it's like muscle memory after a few years of C++.
First, you have to take into account that not everything that accepts "++" is a number. It may be anything, and in particular it may be an iterator, which is very common.
Now, you have to consider that "++variable" is not the same as "variable++"; they are two distinct operations with their own behaviour. So, "++variable" increments in-place, but "variable++" returns an anonymous copy of "variable" and then increments "variable". It doesn't seem like a big deal when you're doing a standalone increment (i.e., not assigning "++variable" or "variable++" to a result, which has different behaviours because the result won't be incremented in the second case), and indeed the result is the same, but the preincrement doesn't create a copy, while the postincrement does. So, preincrement is more efficient (especially if the copy is not trivial, if it's inside a loop, or both. The second case is the most frequent). It's a micro-optimization (which means that you won't speed up your code by 200% by doing this) and many compilers will probably do the fastest thing if you use postincrement and do not assign the result, but it doesn't have any downside. And, like I said in the first sentence, it becomes muscle memory quickly. I've ended up doing it in all C-like languages, but I'm not sure if there are differences in anything that isn't C++. I certainly hope there isn't any downside.
Wrong. You destroy businesses by destroying their customer base, which you attain by ridiculous race-to-the-bottom labour laws that erase their purchasing power. We've seen it first hand, here in southern Europe.
There is a heavy demand problem, and you won't solve it by worsening workers' conditions.
Not really, Unity it's more like a compromise between desktop and touch. The problem is that it's optimal for none of them: it's too touch-y for desktop, and too desktop-y for touch, so I'd prefer a more 100% desktop oriented for my desktop, and the same for touch interfaces. I understand the appealing of having a common "universal" interface, but I still prefer a specialization, using the best tool for each machine.
Still far better than the Win8 approach of trying to push a heavily touch-center UI for desktops (even if the desktop UI is still present).
You are missing a huge point. It's not that users don't want to get rid of XP, it's that they don't want to get rid of the XP UI. Make it so newer systems look identical to Windows XP and people will happily upgrade (by the way, Classic Shell is not identical enough for a lot of people), but start changing things and users will start to get pissed off about changing their workflow, re-learning where to find whatever they need and having to get accustomed to the new look of certain components. I know a few cases of people with dual boot that still use Win7 only when strictly needed (in most cases, because of compatibility problems), going back to XP for the everyday use. Some of them are actual power users (baking their own Windows install CDs with their own preferred bundle of applications and preset configuration, for example).
Changes in UI are a big point of friction, probably even more than susceptibility to malware, performance problems or even compatilbility (with both software and hardware, although this last one is sometimes a good reason to keep your old OS). Well-known example: for a lot of people, and this one includes me, Windows 7's Start Menu was already a step in the wrong direction, and many of us still think so. Go figure.
I wish I could mod you up. Your last sentence is so absolutely essential to a healthy work-life balance that I'm surprised so many people don't follow it.
I don't like smartphones and I like to erect a metaphorical concrete wall between my job and my life. So obviously I hope this idea doesn't get far, and in fact I cannot see how could any employee like it.
I'd go as far as not to let my employer know my phone number, so they can't call me: after all, if it's worktime, I'm at the office, so no phone call needed. Do you want to call me on a weekend because something happened to the server? I won't even try to charge a million, I just won't do it.
So true.
I'm a software developer, but I spend my evenings studying to get a degree in Maths. I wonder if that'll make me one of the wizards or one or the burnouts.
I once worked on a place with such "mind control" (I would have put it as "emotional blackmail"). Oooh, free food! Oooh, videogames to play after lunch -there is a one hour mandated break, although most people will be done by 15-30 minutes-! Ooooh, free pizza&beer every Friday! Oooh, lots of parties on weekends! Yeah, well, I got fired because of the mortal sin of going home at about 7-7:30pm despite having been told that I had very good technical capabilities, so I wouldn't say it was a good job.
I'll take owning my time over such "perks" any day, and I wish there were more CEOs like this guy.
I work, I go home when I've done my 8 hours, I get paid. Simple. Why is this so difficult to grasp?
And then there are Windows+E, Windows+R, Windows+F, Windows+Pause, Windows+D and a lot more. The Windows key already had a lot of power for those of us who always preferred the keyboard's speed to the mouse's ease of use (check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ph/windows7/keyboard-shortcuts, under "Windows logo key keyboard shortcuts").
We don't need Win8 in order to have a keyboard-oriented interface (in fact, that's definitely NOT the UI paradigm Win8 is trying to push). Ten years ago, still using win98, I spent a whole summer without a mouse, and I only missed it in certain program whose crappy UI didn't have key bindings.
Also, some countries provide national identity documents to their citizens, although that strikes some people in the US as fascism for reasons I don't yet fully understand.
I think that, given the nature of internet, is far easier to provide a website than a domestic gaming system or a telecommunications infrastructure. Although you may be right when it comes to very big sites.
That's right! I always feel the (childish, I guess) need to make the distinction, because I still feel a little uneasy with that ambiguity. In Spanish, people from the USA are called "estadounidenses" (which obviously comes from the "United States", not from "of America"), so there is no confusion; plus, a lot of Latin American (i.e., Spanish speaking) people complain if we conflate the two meanings of "American", so there is a little cultural pressure. I've talked with some American friends of mine, and it seems that there is a cultural difference that makes us think of the USA as if the name of the country is just "United States", and "of America" is just referenced officialy, just like Spain is always called España and not "Reino de España", which is the full official name of the country. In fact, in Spain we call the USA just "EE.UU.", that is, Estados Unidos. Funnily, there is also a difference on how we distinguish the continents (North America and South America vs. just America).
Well, you probably already knew most of that, but I wanted to justify myself...
Yeah, there were pages that forced you to go to another (usually ad-flooded) page to "vote" and such. Like ten years ago. They disappeared as soon as there were better (i.e., less time-consuming, no ad-forcing) alternatives.
Nobody would. Any webpage trying to make people accept that kind of shit, even gradually, is going to lose users over time. There will always be another place with similar content and no bullshit like that.
Every tool for the job, to be sure, but I just happen to think there are far fewer problems that nosql style systems solve than some like to think.
I strongly agree with this, and because of that I've been severely chastised by quite a few kool-aid drinkers. On my current job we have a NoSQL database (a MongoDB one, actually) and we indeed have had to reinvent some SQL here and there, including a few manual joins. The job would just have been far smoother (and faster to develop), and surely more performant, if we used a well-established SQL database, but someone decided that it wasn't buzzwordy enough.
It got modded insightful because any born and raised American knows that Far-Leftists here are closet Communists. Our counter-culture of the 60s equates to an American version of the "cultural revolution". All of those free radical types then are now running our universities (educational system) and as politicians in office. The chickens have come home to roost. And they have for a long time now. THAT is why this got modded up.
You know, when we Europeans read this kind of comments we're not sure if thery're serious or not, and I'm positive that most people from the right think about the same. No wonder Poe's law exists.
I honestly believe, as smug as I might seem, that the average European is a lot more knowledgeable about politics than the average American (American as in someone from the USA, not from the American continent). This is caused by the extremely bipartisan American political system; most European systems allow for a far greater range of political formations to enter office, by lowering the barriers required to get some degree of control (in the USA you need to get the majority in a full state, and then you get all the seats; European countries usually rely on d'Hont's system for a proportional distribution of the power inside each region). This doesn't mean we cannot have de facto bipartisan systems in Europe (we've suffered it for a lot of years in Spain, although it seems to be receding a little; and even so, we always had a minimum of about 7 or 8 different parties with small representativeness in the congress), but they're usually more fragile, which may incentivize parties to invest a little more effort into preventing their voters to flee to another party, i.e., not hearing exclusively to lobbies. All this means that we're usually exposed to a lot more different ideas and reasonings.
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Very different, actually, and it's a matter of degree. What google glass introduces is a constant surveillance, eerily close to the third episode of Black Mirror.
That said, I'd love it if everyone stopped permanently carrying cameras (this includes smartphones) with themselves, although I may be relatively alone about that.
Some corporations (for example Blackwater, now known as Academi) do have access to military weapons. And sufficiently wealthy corporations (including the military ones) do have the de facto ability to write laws via lobbying, and have done so for a long time.
I don't know about the others, but for me, it's like muscle memory after a few years of C++.
First, you have to take into account that not everything that accepts "++" is a number. It may be anything, and in particular it may be an iterator, which is very common.
Now, you have to consider that "++variable" is not the same as "variable++"; they are two distinct operations with their own behaviour. So, "++variable" increments in-place, but "variable++" returns an anonymous copy of "variable" and then increments "variable". It doesn't seem like a big deal when you're doing a standalone increment (i.e., not assigning "++variable" or "variable++" to a result, which has different behaviours because the result won't be incremented in the second case), and indeed the result is the same, but the preincrement doesn't create a copy, while the postincrement does. So, preincrement is more efficient (especially if the copy is not trivial, if it's inside a loop, or both. The second case is the most frequent). It's a micro-optimization (which means that you won't speed up your code by 200% by doing this) and many compilers will probably do the fastest thing if you use postincrement and do not assign the result, but it doesn't have any downside. And, like I said in the first sentence, it becomes muscle memory quickly. I've ended up doing it in all C-like languages, but I'm not sure if there are differences in anything that isn't C++. I certainly hope there isn't any downside.
Of course! This is because of prior art. Your so-called 'x' is nothing but a 45 rotation of MY patented '+' symbol for addition.
Wrong. You destroy businesses by destroying their customer base, which you attain by ridiculous race-to-the-bottom labour laws that erase their purchasing power. We've seen it first hand, here in southern Europe.
There is a heavy demand problem, and you won't solve it by worsening workers' conditions.
I have to wonder where that "it is impossible to let go of somebody in europe" mem comes from.
Just typical employers' whining, don't pay much attention unless they get too close to lawmakers (they have in Spain. Look at the results).
Not really, Unity it's more like a compromise between desktop and touch. The problem is that it's optimal for none of them: it's too touch-y for desktop, and too desktop-y for touch, so I'd prefer a more 100% desktop oriented for my desktop, and the same for touch interfaces. I understand the appealing of having a common "universal" interface, but I still prefer a specialization, using the best tool for each machine.
Still far better than the Win8 approach of trying to push a heavily touch-center UI for desktops (even if the desktop UI is still present).
You are missing a huge point. It's not that users don't want to get rid of XP, it's that they don't want to get rid of the XP UI. Make it so newer systems look identical to Windows XP and people will happily upgrade (by the way, Classic Shell is not identical enough for a lot of people), but start changing things and users will start to get pissed off about changing their workflow, re-learning where to find whatever they need and having to get accustomed to the new look of certain components. I know a few cases of people with dual boot that still use Win7 only when strictly needed (in most cases, because of compatibility problems), going back to XP for the everyday use. Some of them are actual power users (baking their own Windows install CDs with their own preferred bundle of applications and preset configuration, for example).
Changes in UI are a big point of friction, probably even more than susceptibility to malware, performance problems or even compatilbility (with both software and hardware, although this last one is sometimes a good reason to keep your old OS). Well-known example: for a lot of people, and this one includes me, Windows 7's Start Menu was already a step in the wrong direction, and many of us still think so. Go figure.
I mean, surely megaupload was closed, but there are hundreds of different file hosting services where you can download RemoveWAT from.
Nope, it's us who got separated from the ice age. The'yre still there (insert drum roll here).
More seriously, the very similar-sounding aíta means father in Basque. Probably a coincidence, though.
"Chichi" is also one of the million terms for female genitalia in Spanish.
Facebook [..] Lets You Pester Friends.
Wasn't that already its primary use?
I wish I could mod you up. Your last sentence is so absolutely essential to a healthy work-life balance that I'm surprised so many people don't follow it.
I don't like smartphones and I like to erect a metaphorical concrete wall between my job and my life. So obviously I hope this idea doesn't get far, and in fact I cannot see how could any employee like it.
I'd go as far as not to let my employer know my phone number, so they can't call me: after all, if it's worktime, I'm at the office, so no phone call needed. Do you want to call me on a weekend because something happened to the server? I won't even try to charge a million, I just won't do it.
So true. I'm a software developer, but I spend my evenings studying to get a degree in Maths. I wonder if that'll make me one of the wizards or one or the burnouts.
I once worked on a place with such "mind control" (I would have put it as "emotional blackmail"). Oooh, free food! Oooh, videogames to play after lunch -there is a one hour mandated break, although most people will be done by 15-30 minutes-! Ooooh, free pizza&beer every Friday! Oooh, lots of parties on weekends! Yeah, well, I got fired because of the mortal sin of going home at about 7-7:30pm despite having been told that I had very good technical capabilities, so I wouldn't say it was a good job.
I'll take owning my time over such "perks" any day, and I wish there were more CEOs like this guy.
I work, I go home when I've done my 8 hours, I get paid. Simple. Why is this so difficult to grasp?
And then there are Windows+E, Windows+R, Windows+F, Windows+Pause, Windows+D and a lot more. The Windows key already had a lot of power for those of us who always preferred the keyboard's speed to the mouse's ease of use (check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ph/windows7/keyboard-shortcuts, under "Windows logo key keyboard shortcuts").
We don't need Win8 in order to have a keyboard-oriented interface (in fact, that's definitely NOT the UI paradigm Win8 is trying to push). Ten years ago, still using win98, I spent a whole summer without a mouse, and I only missed it in certain program whose crappy UI didn't have key bindings.
Also, some countries provide national identity documents to their citizens, although that strikes some people in the US as fascism for reasons I don't yet fully understand.
I think that, given the nature of internet, is far easier to provide a website than a domestic gaming system or a telecommunications infrastructure. Although you may be right when it comes to very big sites.
That's right! I always feel the (childish, I guess) need to make the distinction, because I still feel a little uneasy with that ambiguity. In Spanish, people from the USA are called "estadounidenses" (which obviously comes from the "United States", not from "of America"), so there is no confusion; plus, a lot of Latin American (i.e., Spanish speaking) people complain if we conflate the two meanings of "American", so there is a little cultural pressure. I've talked with some American friends of mine, and it seems that there is a cultural difference that makes us think of the USA as if the name of the country is just "United States", and "of America" is just referenced officialy, just like Spain is always called España and not "Reino de España", which is the full official name of the country. In fact, in Spain we call the USA just "EE.UU.", that is, Estados Unidos. Funnily, there is also a difference on how we distinguish the continents (North America and South America vs. just America).
Well, you probably already knew most of that, but I wanted to justify myself...
Yeah, there were pages that forced you to go to another (usually ad-flooded) page to "vote" and such. Like ten years ago. They disappeared as soon as there were better (i.e., less time-consuming, no ad-forcing) alternatives.
Nobody would. Any webpage trying to make people accept that kind of shit, even gradually, is going to lose users over time. There will always be another place with similar content and no bullshit like that.
Every tool for the job, to be sure, but I just happen to think there are far fewer problems that nosql style systems solve than some like to think.
I strongly agree with this, and because of that I've been severely chastised by quite a few kool-aid drinkers. On my current job we have a NoSQL database (a MongoDB one, actually) and we indeed have had to reinvent some SQL here and there, including a few manual joins. The job would just have been far smoother (and faster to develop), and surely more performant, if we used a well-established SQL database, but someone decided that it wasn't buzzwordy enough.
On the other hand, if everyone is already getting all the benefits available, is there room for improvement?
It got modded insightful because any born and raised American knows that Far-Leftists here are closet Communists. Our counter-culture of the 60s equates to an American version of the "cultural revolution". All of those free radical types then are now running our universities (educational system) and as politicians in office. The chickens have come home to roost. And they have for a long time now. THAT is why this got modded up.
You know, when we Europeans read this kind of comments we're not sure if thery're serious or not, and I'm positive that most people from the right think about the same. No wonder Poe's law exists.
I honestly believe, as smug as I might seem, that the average European is a lot more knowledgeable about politics than the average American (American as in someone from the USA, not from the American continent). This is caused by the extremely bipartisan American political system; most European systems allow for a far greater range of political formations to enter office, by lowering the barriers required to get some degree of control (in the USA you need to get the majority in a full state, and then you get all the seats; European countries usually rely on d'Hont's system for a proportional distribution of the power inside each region). This doesn't mean we cannot have de facto bipartisan systems in Europe (we've suffered it for a lot of years in Spain, although it seems to be receding a little; and even so, we always had a minimum of about 7 or 8 different parties with small representativeness in the congress), but they're usually more fragile, which may incentivize parties to invest a little more effort into preventing their voters to flee to another party, i.e., not hearing exclusively to lobbies. All this means that we're usually exposed to a lot more different ideas and reasonings.