So now I need a distro that's "focused on things like audio". LOL. It's a fucking headphone. Having a totally broken BlueTooth configuration out of the box is not something I want to spend more time on than grabbing the headphone cable or something that I would expect Debian to be exceptionally bad in. I've used many distros over the 20 years that I have exclusively used Linux and apart from support for proprietary software there's really no reason whatsoever to expect or accept Debian to perform sub-par on support for anything.
Probably a conspiracy involving the Debian maintainers, pulseaudio and bluez or whatever it is called. They managed to introduce a 1 second delay by default and forgot to implement an Alsa driver as well as any sort of an attempt to remember my settings while switing between headphones and speakers.
Anyway, if "who configured the system" is the answer to my BlueTooth headphones not working properly out of the box on a rather mint Debian install, Linux clearly still isn't ready for the desktop. And it's not like in the old days, when that was because of proprietary hardware crap. No, they managed to badly fuck up regular open standard BlueTooth audio. Applause!
So I got myself a nice expensive BlueTooth headphone. Awesome. Then I wanted to use it on my Linux computer. Well lucky me, the headphones came with a nice expensive cable...
I think our branch has grown tremendously, pretty much diluting the older programmers into invisibility. Obviously, many have ascended into management and the more years pass, the more opportunities there are to go do something else entirely (you might too). Also, many if not most older programmers started out in another profession and are therefore more likely to switch again.
As of may 2018, in Europe the General Data Protection Regulation will come into effect. This effectively makes consumers owners of their data again. That includes requirements for explicit consent for very specific reasons as well as an explicit requirement for those processing such data to enable the consumer to download that data in an open and computer-readable format. Fines for non-compliance reach as high as 20 million euro or 4% of worldwide revenue, whichever is higher.
I'm not familiar with the local law, but I don't think it's a crime unless they refuse to give it back. Where I live that would be the default lawful way to go. The article isn't really clear on this, but it doesn't sound like they asked them to give the stuff back at all. Instead, they went to the police and had them arrested for theft, which it obviously wasn't since the so called victim shipped the goods to them.
Where I live (the Netherlands), the law is very clear on this: this would definitely not be theft, it wouldn't even be a crime. They would, however, be required to give back the goods since it's an obvious error in the system (as opposed to a not-so-obvious error like a ridiculous but not implausible discount, in which case they'd get to keep the stuff).
I suggest they counter-sue for damages of, say, $258,068.01 plus legal costs.
Spotify and Apple aren't really competitors to soundcloud. I only listen to soundcloud, simply because the others don't have the content. Soundcloud is full of livesets, podcasts, other longer playing content and remixes and stuff not released on regular labels. And it just works. Compared to soundcloud, Spotify and the likes are a boring desert of mediocrity and outdatedness. Soundcloud is more of a publishers medium (like radio) with channels and programmes while Spotify is trying to be a library.
Intel has always been doing this. However, I'm not so sure the upgrade problem is that much of a problem in real life.
I always build my own PCs and typically go for the best performance-per-euro solution. I have often looked into upgrades, but hardly ever were such impossible-due-to-socket-changes-upgrades really worth it from a performance-per-euro point of view. It's almost always a better idea to save your money and buy a new cpu+ram+mobo combo a year later than to upgrade now.
Upgrading might be interesting if you bought crap in the first place (e.g. Celeron or Pentium) but you should not buy these things to begin with.
I do often upgrade, though, but that's invariably through recombining second hand hardware. Otherwise it's just not worth the trouble.
Proper open solutions always take years longer than proprietary crap. That's because they're here to stay. And I'll happily wait those years. I've waited years for browsers to gain Flash features natively. I've waited years for Real Video to die. I've waited years for the browser wars to cease. I'm still happily waiting for GIMP to gain proper color depth precision. And I'll happily wait for Android to gain a proper Camera API while I'm waiting for native mobile apps to die in favor of mobile web applications.
Also I know a bit about photography and can only conclude that Vic Gundotra does not.
For 100 bucks I can get a 50 watt panel. But that's still ridiculously expensive. The first hit on Google Shopping goes for $0.60 per watt. Your example is... not a good exapmle.
It's not stupid; there's plenty of room for everything and there will always be. However, humans and their infrastructure are very slow to move. That's what the whole climate change problem is about: the climate is changing faster than normal human society (and nature for that matter) can adapt. It's all about the speed of things.
According to Crash and Eddie, the secret to happiness is to be very very stupid. That might be the reason why we here in Europe are so tremendously happy...
Ã'm not going to comment on the flawed statistics that underly many conclusions, but let's focus on one quote:
the work environment at many open source projects is not comfortable for women, with some going so far as to call it "toxic."
I think the "toxic" qualification is quite true in several projects. It's not that strange either; we're dealing with mostly volunteers here, people that feel very strongly about what they have created and that have an above average incidence of struggling with social interaction. However, it has nothing to do with being male or female. Nevertheless, the author choose to include the "Fig2. - Negative behavior in open source" graph. There's nothing scientific about this article, it's not "stuff that matters".
You clearly have never heard of Norway, which produces 95% of its electricity using hydropower. Obviously not all countries have the capacity to do this, but Swiss definitely isn't one of them. Also, any electricity grid could achieve a reliable base load by simply introducing storage.
So I no longer need to struggle with C/C++ because I need consistently reliable sub-2ms response times and any auto-vectorization I can get. That's awesome! But... what exactly is the alternative supposed to be?
Also, all these people are talking about languages, not jobs. They appear not to understand that programmers can switch to other languages relatively easy and probably already use many languages.
The administrative overhead UBI would save is much smaller than the deficit the existing solutions will ultimately develop. If we want an UBI that does not make us go bankrupt (though by then we'll have great discussions about whether it was UBI or the robots that destroyed us:p), we need to find sustainable financing. And I believe we should look for that in taxing the use of our planet. Land ownership, CO2 exhaust, mining. We could easily make that work (according to my spreadsheet). So, instead of UBI, I'd rather talk about making everybody a shareholder of the planet.
Switching to UBI would change human behavior. For example, I'd probably not have gotten a job after graduating. However, in the long run I'd probably have contributed much more than I'd have cost (and than I contribute now to the local minimum that's called small business).
Also note that the welfare systems (and in the case of the Netherlands especially the retirement-"welfare" (AOW) are increasingly becoming much more difficult to finance due to the aging population. This has in fact caused the government to raise the retirement-age. The system might very well break down anyway.
So I believe your argument won't hold; the existing system is way too expensive already. Instead, if we'd want to introduce UBI, we need to find a way to finance it in a stable manner. I believe that's possible. And I believe the "it's just an alternative for existing solutions"-approach would only take us further away from a stable solution.
(...) with women holding just 17 percent of technical roles (...)
That percentage of women is well above what I'm used to encountering. It apparently is on par with the number of female CS students in the US (17%) but the number of female software engineers is much lower (12%). Therefore, they can probably only achieve a 17% female technical workforce if they're hiring less qualified women; there simply aren't enough of them. Also, in my experience (which may not be representative), women in CS tend to be promoted to non-technical jobs (managers, sales) more often than their male counterparts or choose to go do something completely different after several years, making the average female software engineer younger (and thus less experienced) than their male counterparts. Given these numbers, a higher percentage of rejected code is exactly what I'd expect.
The question is not why their code is rejected; the question that really matters is what it is that makes women leave their jobs. If it's just what they want, that's great. If they're somehow scared away, we should look into that.
Also, you're talking about "automatic answering systems". I haven't encountered these for ages; in my experience they have all been replaced with online self-service, which I prefer vastly over humans on a phone line. In the future I'm talking about, I expect these kinds of interactions to be fully automated in B2B environments.
Nevertheless, when looking at employment opportunities (in my country -.nl), they do actually show a clear trend that in part confirms your story. Employment opportunities in all sectors have been falling for ages (my spreadsheet goes back 35 years), with the notable exception of jobs related to care, hospitality and entertainment (and recycling and ICT). In fact I believe an entire separate economy is appearing, one that's about humans, craftmanship and art. About hand-made furniture, biological small farming, concerts, craft beer, small authentic restaurants and all kinds of (other) art. But also about kickstarter.com and small scale manufacturing capabilities. I believe (and hope) this will be our future; we will work on human things, keeping each other busy, while the machines take care of the rest. The only thing we still need to fix is who owns the production capacity. If we don't fix that, we will end up in some horrible kinds of aristocracy, if we're not there already...
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So now I need a distro that's "focused on things like audio". LOL. It's a fucking headphone. Having a totally broken BlueTooth configuration out of the box is not something I want to spend more time on than grabbing the headphone cable or something that I would expect Debian to be exceptionally bad in. I've used many distros over the 20 years that I have exclusively used Linux and apart from support for proprietary software there's really no reason whatsoever to expect or accept Debian to perform sub-par on support for anything.
Probably a conspiracy involving the Debian maintainers, pulseaudio and bluez or whatever it is called. They managed to introduce a 1 second delay by default and forgot to implement an Alsa driver as well as any sort of an attempt to remember my settings while switing between headphones and speakers.
Anyway, if "who configured the system" is the answer to my BlueTooth headphones not working properly out of the box on a rather mint Debian install, Linux clearly still isn't ready for the desktop. And it's not like in the old days, when that was because of proprietary hardware crap. No, they managed to badly fuck up regular open standard BlueTooth audio. Applause!
So I got myself a nice expensive BlueTooth headphone. Awesome. Then I wanted to use it on my Linux computer. Well lucky me, the headphones came with a nice expensive cable...
I think our branch has grown tremendously, pretty much diluting the older programmers into invisibility. Obviously, many have ascended into management and the more years pass, the more opportunities there are to go do something else entirely (you might too). Also, many if not most older programmers started out in another profession and are therefore more likely to switch again.
As of may 2018, in Europe the General Data Protection Regulation will come into effect. This effectively makes consumers owners of their data again. That includes requirements for explicit consent for very specific reasons as well as an explicit requirement for those processing such data to enable the consumer to download that data in an open and computer-readable format. Fines for non-compliance reach as high as 20 million euro or 4% of worldwide revenue, whichever is higher.
I'm not familiar with the local law, but I don't think it's a crime unless they refuse to give it back. Where I live that would be the default lawful way to go. The article isn't really clear on this, but it doesn't sound like they asked them to give the stuff back at all. Instead, they went to the police and had them arrested for theft, which it obviously wasn't since the so called victim shipped the goods to them.
Where I live (the Netherlands), the law is very clear on this: this would definitely not be theft, it wouldn't even be a crime. They would, however, be required to give back the goods since it's an obvious error in the system (as opposed to a not-so-obvious error like a ridiculous but not implausible discount, in which case they'd get to keep the stuff).
I suggest they counter-sue for damages of, say, $258,068.01 plus legal costs.
Spotify and Apple aren't really competitors to soundcloud. I only listen to soundcloud, simply because the others don't have the content. Soundcloud is full of livesets, podcasts, other longer playing content and remixes and stuff not released on regular labels. And it just works. Compared to soundcloud, Spotify and the likes are a boring desert of mediocrity and outdatedness. Soundcloud is more of a publishers medium (like radio) with channels and programmes while Spotify is trying to be a library.
Intel has always been doing this. However, I'm not so sure the upgrade problem is that much of a problem in real life.
I always build my own PCs and typically go for the best performance-per-euro solution. I have often looked into upgrades, but hardly ever were such impossible-due-to-socket-changes-upgrades really worth it from a performance-per-euro point of view. It's almost always a better idea to save your money and buy a new cpu+ram+mobo combo a year later than to upgrade now.
Upgrading might be interesting if you bought crap in the first place (e.g. Celeron or Pentium) but you should not buy these things to begin with.
I do often upgrade, though, but that's invariably through recombining second hand hardware. Otherwise it's just not worth the trouble.
My browser already supports push notifications if I'm not mistaken.
Why would you install a LinkedIn App? Is your browser retarded?
That can take YEARS.
Proper open solutions always take years longer than proprietary crap. That's because they're here to stay. And I'll happily wait those years. I've waited years for browsers to gain Flash features natively. I've waited years for Real Video to die. I've waited years for the browser wars to cease. I'm still happily waiting for GIMP to gain proper color depth precision. And I'll happily wait for Android to gain a proper Camera API while I'm waiting for native mobile apps to die in favor of mobile web applications.
Also I know a bit about photography and can only conclude that Vic Gundotra does not.
For 100 bucks I can get a 50 watt panel. But that's still ridiculously expensive. The first hit on Google Shopping goes for $0.60 per watt. Your example is... not a good exapmle.
It really cannot be that difficult to make the checkout systems simply recognize unpacked food using computer vision....
It's not stupid; there's plenty of room for everything and there will always be. However, humans and their infrastructure are very slow to move. That's what the whole climate change problem is about: the climate is changing faster than normal human society (and nature for that matter) can adapt. It's all about the speed of things.
According to Crash and Eddie, the secret to happiness is to be very very stupid. That might be the reason why we here in Europe are so tremendously happy...
Ã'm not going to comment on the flawed statistics that underly many conclusions, but let's focus on one quote:
the work environment at many open source projects is not comfortable for women, with some going so far as to call it "toxic."
I think the "toxic" qualification is quite true in several projects. It's not that strange either; we're dealing with mostly volunteers here, people that feel very strongly about what they have created and that have an above average incidence of struggling with social interaction. However, it has nothing to do with being male or female. Nevertheless, the author choose to include the "Fig2. - Negative behavior in open source" graph. There's nothing scientific about this article, it's not "stuff that matters".
Start a laptop rental business.
You clearly have never heard of Norway, which produces 95% of its electricity using hydropower. Obviously not all countries have the capacity to do this, but Swiss definitely isn't one of them. Also, any electricity grid could achieve a reliable base load by simply introducing storage.
So I no longer need to struggle with C/C++ because I need consistently reliable sub-2ms response times and any auto-vectorization I can get. That's awesome! But... what exactly is the alternative supposed to be?
Also, all these people are talking about languages, not jobs. They appear not to understand that programmers can switch to other languages relatively easy and probably already use many languages.
All space stations have real gravity. /dot
The administrative overhead UBI would save is much smaller than the deficit the existing solutions will ultimately develop. If we want an UBI that does not make us go bankrupt (though by then we'll have great discussions about whether it was UBI or the robots that destroyed us:p), we need to find sustainable financing. And I believe we should look for that in taxing the use of our planet. Land ownership, CO2 exhaust, mining. We could easily make that work (according to my spreadsheet). So, instead of UBI, I'd rather talk about making everybody a shareholder of the planet.
Switching to UBI would change human behavior. For example, I'd probably not have gotten a job after graduating. However, in the long run I'd probably have contributed much more than I'd have cost (and than I contribute now to the local minimum that's called small business).
Also note that the welfare systems (and in the case of the Netherlands especially the retirement-"welfare" (AOW) are increasingly becoming much more difficult to finance due to the aging population. This has in fact caused the government to raise the retirement-age. The system might very well break down anyway.
So I believe your argument won't hold; the existing system is way too expensive already. Instead, if we'd want to introduce UBI, we need to find a way to finance it in a stable manner. I believe that's possible. And I believe the "it's just an alternative for existing solutions"-approach would only take us further away from a stable solution.
(...) with women holding just 17 percent of technical roles (...)
That percentage of women is well above what I'm used to encountering. It apparently is on par with the number of female CS students in the US (17%) but the number of female software engineers is much lower (12%). Therefore, they can probably only achieve a 17% female technical workforce if they're hiring less qualified women; there simply aren't enough of them.
Also, in my experience (which may not be representative), women in CS tend to be promoted to non-technical jobs (managers, sales) more often than their male counterparts or choose to go do something completely different after several years, making the average female software engineer younger (and thus less experienced) than their male counterparts. Given these numbers, a higher percentage of rejected code is exactly what I'd expect.
The question is not why their code is rejected; the question that really matters is what it is that makes women leave their jobs. If it's just what they want, that's great. If they're somehow scared away, we should look into that.
So either you have a super deal on electricity or you need a better solar panel supplier. Or your spreadsheet has a bug:p
Also, you're talking about "automatic answering systems". I haven't encountered these for ages; in my experience they have all been replaced with online self-service, which I prefer vastly over humans on a phone line. In the future I'm talking about, I expect these kinds of interactions to be fully automated in B2B environments.
Nevertheless, when looking at employment opportunities (in my country - .nl), they do actually show a clear trend that in part confirms your story. Employment opportunities in all sectors have been falling for ages (my spreadsheet goes back 35 years), with the notable exception of jobs related to care, hospitality and entertainment (and recycling and ICT). In fact I believe an entire separate economy is appearing, one that's about humans, craftmanship and art. About hand-made furniture, biological small farming, concerts, craft beer, small authentic restaurants and all kinds of (other) art. But also about kickstarter.com and small scale manufacturing capabilities. I believe (and hope) this will be our future; we will work on human things, keeping each other busy, while the machines take care of the rest. The only thing we still need to fix is who owns the production capacity. If we don't fix that, we will end up in some horrible kinds of aristocracy, if we're not there already...