The problem is that the Google deal was coming up for renewal, and Google has the absolute lion's share in mobile, as well as people being so used to using it that they no longer need to pay Firefox to be the preferred search engine (never heard anyone say "Just Yahoo It!").
So either Firefox continues to make it dead easy to change the default search engine to Google, or people will dump Firefox.
Be easier to just allow municipalities to roll out their own internet services, same as water, fire, police, etc. Of course, that means the lobbyists will continue to grease the skids under that idea...
They're going to drop anyway, because there's lots more to be auctioned off in the next few months. FTFA:
Including 144,336 Bitcoin found on computer hardware belonging to Ulbricht, the government has recovered 173,991 Bitcoins. A spokeswoman for the Marshals Service, Lynzey Donahue, said in an email that the agency anticipated selling the remaining Bitcoins "in the coming months," but that "no exact dates have been determined."
So, less than a third are going to be dumped on the market now, with other big chunks in the future. Anyone with insider knowledge of the dates of the auctions could sell before the auction date is announced, and buy back at a lower price after, when the influx lowers the price.
... and punched tape... and acoustic modems... and lubricated ball joints and tie-rods... inner tubes for cars... black-and-white tvs... ghetto blasters...
I still like dead tree books, papers, etc. But... they're an archaism. Harder to search than a digital library. Uses more resources. A PITA to store and move. A lot harder to recycle than a bunch of bits on a usb key. Restricted to static content. Needs yet another separate print edition for people with moderate visual handicaps (which, in practical terms, mostly means "forget it" or being stuck using an audio format).
Digital isn't "the way of the future" any more. In another generation or two "bookshelf" won't mean the same thing it does to us - if it has any meaning. Kind of like "don't touch that dial", "rabbit-ears", "video tape", "floppy disk", "record player", "cassette recorder", "telephone operator", "game cartridge", "daisy wheel printer", "typewriter", "telex", "serial mouse", "parallel port printer", "TV tube", "touch tone service" (as opposed to "rotary dial service"), "DOS" are terms that refer to things and phrases that many younger people have never seen or heard.
Most people can't be arsed (using the Brit term seeing as your subscription prices are quoted in GBP) to cancel a subscription - the real "rubber hits the road" question is renewal rates, which will lead to the churn rate, cost of acquisition per new reader, etc.
You may be right, but the odds, sadly, are against it. Add to that the extra costs of maintaining both an e-Zine format and a print format (with higher production and distribution costs, even though you charge more for the print edition, it's probably less profitable)... and that linux today is not seen as being "new, the underdog, exciting", but just infrastructure, just another OS with some "nice to have" and some "real PITA" features, and too many distractions (systemd anyone?)
The criticisms are a bit over the top. However, the real issue is "why?"
Back in the days of dial-up internet, linux magazines came with cover disks. It's how I got old versions of Mandrake, Suse, etc.
Now? High-speed internet killed the cover cds and the later cover dvds. The articles? Reviews are a dime a dozen on the internet (and new ones at that). Example: Review: FreeBSD 10.0. 10.1 has already been released and reviewed elsewhere. Tutorials on vim and grep? Build dynamic web pages? Why? Tis is available all over the place, in as little or as much depth as you can manage.
E-zines are the online equivalent of dead tree magazines, and subject to the same problems that are killing the paper publishing industry. If I'm looking for information about something, I'll search for it, and probably come up with something very specific in the first page of results, rather than an e-Zine article that deals in generalities. Sorry, but the online version is just another linux website, except with older - and non-interactive - content.
At the dinner, Michael expressed outrage at Lacy’s column and said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. He said that he thought Lacy should be held "personally responsible" for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted.
Then he returned to the opposition research plan. Uber’s dirt-diggers, Michael said, could expose Lacy. They could, in particular, prove a particular and very specific claim about her personal life.
According to Buzzfeed, Michael said Uber should spend “a million dollars” on a smear campaign that would hire opposition researchers and journalists to dig up dirt on journalists, researchers who would look into the personal lives of those critical to the company. In particular, Michael wished to target Pando founder Sarah Lacy after her publication’s repeated attacks against Uber.
On Monday Michael’s tone changed. He was apparently just really frustrated and all that stuff he said about digging up personal details about those in the media didn’t actually reflect his views on the matter. In response to the Buzzfeed piece, Michael issued the following statement:
"The remarks attributed to me at a private dinner – borne out of frustration during an informal debate over what I feel is sensationalistic media coverage of the company I am proud to work for – do not reflect my actual views and have no relation to the company’s views or approach. They were wrong no matter the circumstance and I regret them."
Come on Emil Michael, tel us how you REALLY feel. Oh, you already did. Oops.
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless coders working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
Here, let me fix that for you...
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless managers working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
Worked for Microsoft for decades. Patch Tuesday, anyone?
So it's yet another slashvertisement. The wayback machine says they've been doing this for at least 2-1/2 years, maybe more, and they still have less than 80 clients?
True, but if you're just starting out with javascript, you're starting out with a huge tech debt. (And I put it at 5 years instead of 2 because I didn't want to be accused of being too pessimistic).
You're completely right: the web is just a fad, JavaScript is going away soon and there will be no more jobs for JavaScript programmers in a few years.
Nice way to ignore the fact that people are switching from browsers to apps, and that the IoT won't require web monkeys to enable device-to-device communications, or their interfaces with humans.
an analysis of Pentagon data shows that the Department of Defense uses numbers that may underestimate its suicide rate. A different methodology, like one employed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would result in a military rate equivalent to or above the comparable civilian rate, experts say.
Bob Anderson, head statistician for mortality statistics at the C.D.C., said the Pentagon’s approach resulted in a suicide rate that “will be lower than it should be.”
“It will underestimate the mortality rate,” he said
... and...
But over the years, senior military officials have regularly used suicide rates in testimony before Congress, medical journals and other public pronouncements to underscore the relative resiliency of the military population.
A result may have been to play down the problem, some experts say.
Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a psychiatrist and retired Army colonel who was once a senior Pentagon adviser on mental health issues, said that when she raised concerns about suicide in 2005, senior military officers did not consider the problem significant partly because the suicide rate seemed lower than for civilians.
Dr. Ritchie said she believed that the military is moving more aggressively now to stem the problem. But the prevailing attitude at the time, she said, “was kind of like, ‘This just isn’t a big problem.’ ”
Self-taught programmers are motivated by curiosity; webmonkeys are motivated by "oh shiny" - which is why they concentrate so much on "oh shiny". And when they get stuck because they're way out of their depth, who do you think they call... (hint - not another web monkey).
Of course, we never recognize paradigm shifts until they're almost over. People still think of "The Internet" as what you see in a web browser, even though that's less and less true every day.
In fact, it's worth noting that 76.83 percent of Facebook's total monthly user base now accesses the service from a mobile device. With both daily numbers available now, we can calculate the percentage of Facebook's total daily user base that accesses the service from a mobile device: 73.44 percent.
People are moving away from browsers without even noticing it. Wikipedia? "There's an app for that." Banking? "There's an app for that." News? "There's an app for that." Slashdot? "There's an app for that." Bus schedules? "There's an app for that." Mobile (phone, tablet, notebooks) is where it's at, and more and more, even on notebooks and smart TVs, "there's an app for that."
It'll be worse with the IoT (Internet of Things), since those devices won't use a browser to communicate with each other, or with the user. So all those web monkeys are going to become redundant within the next few years.
So, what are they going to do? Take another boot camp to learn XCode? Java? C/C++ (yes, back-end services use c and c++).
The real problem is there's less and less opportunity to have a lifetime career. So accumulating debt to get one, then finding that career is now dying, and you have to accumulate more debt to get another one, is the way it is for many people.
This applies just as much to boot camps. You get a very limited knowledge base, and because they're pumping them out so fast, more competition for each position. You're even more fungible than someone who did a 4-year program. So be ready to change careers every 5 years.
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The problem is that the Google deal was coming up for renewal, and Google has the absolute lion's share in mobile, as well as people being so used to using it that they no longer need to pay Firefox to be the preferred search engine (never heard anyone say "Just Yahoo It!").
So either Firefox continues to make it dead easy to change the default search engine to Google, or people will dump Firefox.
Companies don't have "moral compasses" - the people working in them do.
If you have a moral compass that works, are you willing to toss your morals aside, or work for/with people who do not possess the same values?
If the answer is no to the first part, then you don't need to answer the second part.
If the answer is yes to the second part, then you're just negotiating the price at which you are willing to prostitute your "morals."
Or use the current method ... "Kill them all and let $DIETY sort it out."
Be easier to just allow municipalities to roll out their own internet services, same as water, fire, police, etc. Of course, that means the lobbyists will continue to grease the skids under that idea ...
Pretty disgusting, but not all that surprising. Ever had a dog hump your leg? Or heard of these idiots having sex with a porcupine? Or a moose trying to get it on with a lawn ornament? And lots of stories of moose in love with cows. And dogs mating with cats ...
Now that we've solved the problem of feeding seals, let's tag those seals so that polar bears (who are in serious decline) can get their share.
Systemd works OK in Fedora
In the same way as ketchup works ok on dinner.
With some dinners (eg: liver) ketchup is mandatory to kill the gross taste. For others, not.
Prediction: The *BSDs are going to receive more interest. No ketchup required.
1. Mexico City (pop. 8.5 million)
2 New York (8.4 million)
3 Los Angeles (3.8 million).
4 Toronto (2.8 million)
Chicago is 5th,
San Francisco at 36th and Detroit at 53rd, both fall behind Canadian cities Montreal (9th), Calgary (22nd), Ottawa (32nd), Edmonton (33rd)
Mississauga (49th), and just ahead of Winnipeg (55th) beat out Washington (60th), which is just ahead of Vancouver (63rd)
Las Vegas, with a population of 583,736, doesn't make the list.
Including 144,336 Bitcoin found on computer hardware belonging to Ulbricht, the government has recovered 173,991 Bitcoins. A spokeswoman for the Marshals Service, Lynzey Donahue, said in an email that the agency anticipated selling the remaining Bitcoins "in the coming months," but that "no exact dates have been determined."
So, less than a third are going to be dumped on the market now, with other big chunks in the future. Anyone with insider knowledge of the dates of the auctions could sell before the auction date is announced, and buy back at a lower price after, when the influx lowers the price.
... and punched tape ... and acoustic modems ... and lubricated ball joints and tie-rods ... inner tubes for cars ... black-and-white tvs ... ghetto blasters ...
I still like dead tree books, papers, etc. But ... they're an archaism. Harder to search than a digital library. Uses more resources. A PITA to store and move. A lot harder to recycle than a bunch of bits on a usb key. Restricted to static content. Needs yet another separate print edition for people with moderate visual handicaps (which, in practical terms, mostly means "forget it" or being stuck using an audio format).
Digital isn't "the way of the future" any more. In another generation or two "bookshelf" won't mean the same thing it does to us - if it has any meaning. Kind of like "don't touch that dial", "rabbit-ears", "video tape", "floppy disk", "record player", "cassette recorder", "telephone operator", "game cartridge", "daisy wheel printer", "typewriter", "telex", "serial mouse", "parallel port printer", "TV tube", "touch tone service" (as opposed to "rotary dial service"), "DOS" are terms that refer to things and phrases that many younger people have never seen or heard.
Most people can't be arsed (using the Brit term seeing as your subscription prices are quoted in GBP) to cancel a subscription - the real "rubber hits the road" question is renewal rates, which will lead to the churn rate, cost of acquisition per new reader, etc.
You may be right, but the odds, sadly, are against it. Add to that the extra costs of maintaining both an e-Zine format and a print format (with higher production and distribution costs, even though you charge more for the print edition, it's probably less profitable) ... and that linux today is not seen as being "new, the underdog, exciting", but just infrastructure, just another OS with some "nice to have" and some "real PITA" features, and too many distractions (systemd anyone?)
The criticisms are a bit over the top. However, the real issue is "why?"
Back in the days of dial-up internet, linux magazines came with cover disks. It's how I got old versions of Mandrake, Suse, etc.
Now? High-speed internet killed the cover cds and the later cover dvds. The articles? Reviews are a dime a dozen on the internet (and new ones at that). Example: Review: FreeBSD 10.0. 10.1 has already been released and reviewed elsewhere. Tutorials on vim and grep? Build dynamic web pages? Why? Tis is available all over the place, in as little or as much depth as you can manage.
E-zines are the online equivalent of dead tree magazines, and subject to the same problems that are killing the paper publishing industry. If I'm looking for information about something, I'll search for it, and probably come up with something very specific in the first page of results, rather than an e-Zine article that deals in generalities. Sorry, but the online version is just another linux website, except with older - and non-interactive - content.
At the dinner, Michael expressed outrage at Lacy’s column and said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. He said that he thought Lacy should be held "personally responsible" for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted.
Then he returned to the opposition research plan. Uber’s dirt-diggers, Michael said, could expose Lacy. They could, in particular, prove a particular and very specific claim about her personal life.
Of course, once the turd hit the fan, the guy fesses up - "sort of"
According to Buzzfeed, Michael said Uber should spend “a million dollars” on a smear campaign that would hire opposition researchers and journalists to dig up dirt on journalists, researchers who would look into the personal lives of those critical to the company. In particular, Michael wished to target Pando founder Sarah Lacy after her publication’s repeated attacks against Uber.
On Monday Michael’s tone changed. He was apparently just really frustrated and all that stuff he said about digging up personal details about those in the media didn’t actually reflect his views on the matter. In response to the Buzzfeed piece, Michael issued the following statement:
"The remarks attributed to me at a private dinner – borne out of frustration during an informal debate over what I feel is sensationalistic media coverage of the company I am proud to work for – do not reflect my actual views and have no relation to the company’s views or approach. They were wrong no matter the circumstance and I regret them."
Come on Emil Michael, tel us how you REALLY feel. Oh, you already did. Oops.
So the best way to counter-act that is to be completely transparent about your own life, so that there's nothing for leverage.
Despite capitalist pop-philosophy, humans are not inherently selfish. Nor are they inherently altriustic.
Some are selfish, some are not. It also depends on the situation and the stakes / risks.
Love it :-)
For those who don't get it, Layne Cobain.
'cuz there's no rockstar like a dead rockstar.
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless coders working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
Here, let me fix that for you ...
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless managers working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
Worked for Microsoft for decades. Patch Tuesday, anyone?
So it's yet another slashvertisement. The wayback machine says they've been doing this for at least 2-1/2 years, maybe more, and they still have less than 80 clients?
True, but if you're just starting out with javascript, you're starting out with a huge tech debt. (And I put it at 5 years instead of 2 because I didn't want to be accused of being too pessimistic).
You're completely right: the web is just a fad, JavaScript is going away soon and there will be no more jobs for JavaScript programmers in a few years.
Nice way to ignore the fact that people are switching from browsers to apps, and that the IoT won't require web monkeys to enable device-to-device communications, or their interfaces with humans.
an analysis of Pentagon data shows that the Department of Defense uses numbers that may underestimate its suicide rate. A different methodology, like one employed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would result in a military rate equivalent to or above the comparable civilian rate, experts say.
Bob Anderson, head statistician for mortality statistics at the C.D.C., said the Pentagon’s approach resulted in a suicide rate that “will be lower than it should be.”
“It will underestimate the mortality rate,” he said
... and ...
But over the years, senior military officials have regularly used suicide rates in testimony before Congress, medical journals and other public pronouncements to underscore the relative resiliency of the military population.
A result may have been to play down the problem, some experts say.
Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a psychiatrist and retired Army colonel who was once a senior Pentagon adviser on mental health issues, said that when she raised concerns about suicide in 2005, senior military officers did not consider the problem significant partly because the suicide rate seemed lower than for civilians.
Dr. Ritchie said she believed that the military is moving more aggressively now to stem the problem. But the prevailing attitude at the time, she said, “was kind of like, ‘This just isn’t a big problem.’ ”
“They really did not focus on suicide,” she said.
So, still the same.
Self-taught programmers are motivated by curiosity; webmonkeys are motivated by "oh shiny" - which is why they concentrate so much on "oh shiny". And when they get stuck because they're way out of their depth, who do you think they call ... (hint - not another web monkey).
Of course, we never recognize paradigm shifts until they're almost over. People still think of "The Internet" as what you see in a web browser, even though that's less and less true every day.
In fact, it's worth noting that 76.83 percent of Facebook's total monthly user base now accesses the service from a mobile device. With both daily numbers available now, we can calculate the percentage of Facebook's total daily user base that accesses the service from a mobile device: 73.44 percent.
People are moving away from browsers without even noticing it. Wikipedia? "There's an app for that." Banking? "There's an app for that." News? "There's an app for that." Slashdot? "There's an app for that." Bus schedules? "There's an app for that." Mobile (phone, tablet, notebooks) is where it's at, and more and more, even on notebooks and smart TVs, "there's an app for that."
It'll be worse with the IoT (Internet of Things), since those devices won't use a browser to communicate with each other, or with the user. So all those web monkeys are going to become redundant within the next few years.
So, what are they going to do? Take another boot camp to learn XCode? Java? C/C++ (yes, back-end services use c and c++).
This applies just as much to boot camps. You get a very limited knowledge base, and because they're pumping them out so fast, more competition for each position. You're even more fungible than someone who did a 4-year program. So be ready to change careers every 5 years.