And guess what? The Nazis perverted the Swastika. It was an ancient Indian religious symbol before Hitler picked up on it. Out of your own mouth you prove yourself wrong.
I'm a c# programmer and when I program for fun at home, I use the most convenient language. Which automatically eliminates Perl, but then there are still a lot of choices.
Yep. And then we end up with crap like the MS ribbon UI. Or the way system administration moves from place to place in Windows, apparently at random.
No, users do NOT want a "modern UI". They want something that is simple, functional, obvious. When you change the UI, you need to be able to clearly justify the changes... not just "ooooooo shiny!".
People hate useless change. People hate change that makes their lives harder. People hate "here's a new UI, take time off from the work you need to get done in order to learn it".
I think I could write that AI. Train it by feeding it a few Slashdot summaries so it can learn which buzzwords indicate BS by the company that is marketing something, and voila, productivity increases by ignoring such crap.
I don't think it is accurate at all. The guy spouting hype is the CEO of Textio, which is selling the very thing he is hyping. If any of this was actually happening at scale, productivity growth would be soaring. It is not. It is stagnating.
When I read the summary my first thought was "this has to be an ad for some product of the author's company".
Unlike the British and the French, who carved up the Middle East and Africa into colonial empires with no regard for the local population. They did just fine and bear no responsibility for anything.
Well, one source would be trump's approval rating, which is going down quite steadily. Obviously people who voted for trump because he's such a "straight talker" are being turned off by the constant stream of lies, lies that are incredibly obvious. If you've got even a remotely open mind, the question has to occur to you: if he's doing such obvious, easy to catch lies, what else is he lying about?
There were clearly a lot of disaffected people who fell for trump's "take a chance... how much worse could it be" line. And now they are finding out EXACTLY how much worse it gets.
Exploring space is a great goal. And we've been doing it... orbiters around planets, rovers, comet landings, probes into interstellar space. We're out there... just not wasting money trying to put people where machines do a better job.
Moon space tourism, though... that's pretty amazing.
No, trump just needs a distraction so he's tossing out a "hey lets go to Mars" statement right now. He's not spending a bunch of money on it. In fact he's cutting money across the board for things like health care so he can waste money on a military buildup. It's just a distraction. And you fell for it.
I use my desktop system when I work from home. Since I develop in Visual Studio, amazingly enough Windows is the best environment for me. The other things I want to do like gaming also are simple and easy on Windows, no need to locate packages or deal with conflicts. I've loaded up Ubuntu under a VM a couple of times, both to play around with and to set up an alternate dev environment when doing RoR. Personally didn't find it easier or more friendly that Windows, but as you say, YMMV.
And yes, if you read the posts on slashdot, few of them talk about ease of use, they are all about that "debble M$$$". It sure sounds like religious zealotry.
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And guess what? The Nazis perverted the Swastika. It was an ancient Indian religious symbol before Hitler picked up on it. Out of your own mouth you prove yourself wrong.
Why? Did she turn Pepe into a hate symbol?
I'm a c# programmer and when I program for fun at home, I use the most convenient language. Which automatically eliminates Perl, but then there are still a lot of choices.
If you know how to program in C, you don't run into the those bugs. And guess what, in managed languages you still run into null reference exceptions.
Yep. And then we end up with crap like the MS ribbon UI. Or the way system administration moves from place to place in Windows, apparently at random.
No, users do NOT want a "modern UI". They want something that is simple, functional, obvious. When you change the UI, you need to be able to clearly justify the changes... not just "ooooooo shiny!".
People hate useless change. People hate change that makes their lives harder. People hate "here's a new UI, take time off from the work you need to get done in order to learn it".
If you are so smart, fund your next startup without those "greedy" venture capitalists who actually want some return on their $$$
Companies actually have a lot of choices in insurance, and negotiating power. So no, the plans are not "arbitrary".
I think I could write that AI. Train it by feeding it a few Slashdot summaries so it can learn which buzzwords indicate BS by the company that is marketing something, and voila, productivity increases by ignoring such crap.
I don't think it is accurate at all. The guy spouting hype is the CEO of Textio, which is selling the very thing he is hyping. If any of this was actually happening at scale, productivity growth would be soaring. It is not. It is stagnating.
When I read the summary my first thought was "this has to be an ad for some product of the author's company".
somebody mod the parent up.
Not really. My bank doesn't screw me. Obviously you are dealing with the wrong banks.
because god forbid a MAN would actually take on family responsibility as well as employment.
Yes, we all know that women and blacks are inferior, why should the government look into it if a company refuses to hire them?
(YES I'm being sarcastic, ok?)
Unlike the British and the French, who carved up the Middle East and Africa into colonial empires with no regard for the local population. They did just fine and bear no responsibility for anything.
Nice straw man rant.
Fine, as long as people with Aspergers don't want to interact with other people or hold down jobs, not a problem.
but by the time it "gets there" the desktop will have moved on. Hard for the phone to hit a moving target.
Well, one source would be trump's approval rating, which is going down quite steadily. Obviously people who voted for trump because he's such a "straight talker" are being turned off by the constant stream of lies, lies that are incredibly obvious. If you've got even a remotely open mind, the question has to occur to you: if he's doing such obvious, easy to catch lies, what else is he lying about?
Have you seen any news in the last two months?
There were clearly a lot of disaffected people who fell for trump's "take a chance... how much worse could it be" line. And now they are finding out EXACTLY how much worse it gets.
Exploring space is a great goal. And we've been doing it... orbiters around planets, rovers, comet landings, probes into interstellar space. We're out there... just not wasting money trying to put people where machines do a better job.
Moon space tourism, though... that's pretty amazing.
Trump? Selfless? Seriously?
No, trump just needs a distraction so he's tossing out a "hey lets go to Mars" statement right now. He's not spending a bunch of money on it. In fact he's cutting money across the board for things like health care so he can waste money on a military buildup. It's just a distraction. And you fell for it.
No. Obama actually made health care available to millions of people. drumpf is saying someone, someday in the future, should go to Mars.
I use my desktop system when I work from home. Since I develop in Visual Studio, amazingly enough Windows is the best environment for me. The other things I want to do like gaming also are simple and easy on Windows, no need to locate packages or deal with conflicts. I've loaded up Ubuntu under a VM a couple of times, both to play around with and to set up an alternate dev environment when doing RoR. Personally didn't find it easier or more friendly that Windows, but as you say, YMMV.
And yes, if you read the posts on slashdot, few of them talk about ease of use, they are all about that "debble M$$$". It sure sounds like religious zealotry.