Organizations and other social constructs by their very nature are geared towards stability and survivability. The larger they are, the more conservative they get. Large organizations are inherently hostile to radical thought and behavior which are necessary for innovation. Their best strategy is to use their endless resources to search and buy small start-ups rather than to futilely try to innovate in a self-defeating environment.
This is a good thing. Not because Apple is better than Microsoft but because the diversity of operating systems will lead to more portable designs of software which will eventually free us from specific OS dependency altogether.
You can't invent a technology to replace email/IM and not offer integration to those "legacy" technologies. There has to be a transition period and Google failed to provide the necessary means for people to transition smoothly. Add to that the slowness, instability, unintuitiveness, lack of development community, and the privacy issues, and it's only surprising Google didn't can it earlier.
The problem isn't that we need to forget, the problem is that we need to *forgive*.
People don't forgive because they become less sanctimonious or morally superior. They forgive as the memory of the offending event is slowly eroded with time and overwrited by new memories.
You can't forgive if you can't forget. You just can't. That's human nature and why "time heals all wounds", or at least healed in the past when forgetting was an option.
Rich Hickey talked about incidental complexity in his keynote talk at the JVM Languages Summit 2009:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
It's worth watching.
If Pike thinks the Go language solves anything, he should probably watch this talk too.
On the one hand, it's reported this is not rare. On the other hand, we've got plenty of sensationalistic language: "significantly more severe", "researchers at a loss", "collapse", "its magnitude shocked scientists".
So, is it the usual news cycle hype reporting on a puzzling phenomenon, or is there a reason to be alarmed?
Unaided computer program != computer AI.
Not even if you use Bayesian statistics. Leave the hyperbolic headlines to the common newspapers. After all, This Is Slashdot.
Just because it's labeled "culture" doesn't make it any less of an annoyance, if not to everyone then at least to international spectators at stadiums or at home.
South Africa should have taken a lesson from China. In preparation to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, China outlawed spitting in public. Spitting, clearly part of China's "culture", is considered an annoyance to international visitors. China considered these visitors their guests and appropriately catered to them.
The one legacy the vuvuzela will have after the World Cup is the future exclusion of South Africa from ever again hosting any international sporting event.
You're right about everything, but missed the key issue: adoption. It's not an issue with other protocols but it is with Wave. Extensions or notifications or any of that stuff isn't enough. Unless email integration (and for that matter IM integration) is native to wave people won't make the transition.
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Organizations and other social constructs by their very nature are geared towards stability and survivability. The larger they are, the more conservative they get.
Large organizations are inherently hostile to radical thought and behavior which are necessary for innovation. Their best strategy is to use their endless resources to search and buy small start-ups rather than to futilely try to innovate in a self-defeating environment.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant what's the next big problem in computer science.
Say this proof is correct, what are the implications and what is the next big problem?
Java?
This is a good thing. Not because Apple is better than Microsoft but because the diversity of operating systems will lead to more portable designs of software which will eventually free us from specific OS dependency altogether.
You can't invent a technology to replace email/IM and not offer integration to those "legacy" technologies. There has to be a transition period and Google failed to provide the necessary means for people to transition smoothly. Add to that the slowness, instability, unintuitiveness, lack of development community, and the privacy issues, and it's only surprising Google didn't can it earlier.
Don't forget the TVTropes page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnhanceButton Sorry.
People don't forgive because they become less sanctimonious or morally superior. They forgive as the memory of the offending event is slowly eroded with time and overwrited by new memories.
You can't forgive if you can't forget. You just can't. That's human nature and why "time heals all wounds", or at least healed in the past when forgetting was an option.
Rich Hickey talked about incidental complexity in his keynote talk at the JVM Languages Summit 2009: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
It's worth watching.
If Pike thinks the Go language solves anything, he should probably watch this talk too.
On the one hand, it's reported this is not rare. On the other hand, we've got plenty of sensationalistic language: "significantly more severe", "researchers at a loss", "collapse", "its magnitude shocked scientists".
So, is it the usual news cycle hype reporting on a puzzling phenomenon, or is there a reason to be alarmed?
You completely missed the point. It's about the social contract.
Giving money for finding bugs is counterproductive. Here's why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqtbPKjf6Q
Yes.
Ctrl-F vilification
Unaided computer program != computer AI. Not even if you use Bayesian statistics. Leave the hyperbolic headlines to the common newspapers. After all, This Is Slashdot.
I'm keeping with BitTorrent. It's fast, free, without ads, and has every conceivable show or film in a format displayable on every device/platform.
It's 2010 and Windows Messenger still doesn't support XMPP. What's up with that?
This feature already works.
Just because it's labeled "culture" doesn't make it any less of an annoyance, if not to everyone then at least to international spectators at stadiums or at home.
South Africa should have taken a lesson from China. In preparation to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, China outlawed spitting in public. Spitting, clearly part of China's "culture", is considered an annoyance to international visitors. China considered these visitors their guests and appropriately catered to them.
The one legacy the vuvuzela will have after the World Cup is the future exclusion of South Africa from ever again hosting any international sporting event.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You're right about everything, but missed the key issue: adoption. It's not an issue with other protocols but it is with Wave. Extensions or notifications or any of that stuff isn't enough. Unless email integration (and for that matter IM integration) is native to wave people won't make the transition.
It's their ship to launch. If they don't do it proper, no one else will care.
No email integration == no future for wave.
May God grant him mercy...because we certainly won't.
This method of selection is based entirely on the false assumption that competition brings out the best of people.