Bush/Hitler was a thing and Cheney being the evil one was too. Of course, Bush and Trump are very different presidents. Both are aweful in entirely their own ways like two crappy snowflakes.
They are right and it's called market power. ISP's should thank god Google and Netflix aren't charging ISP's yet for the privilege of having their service, as consumers would be happy to ditch any service that doesn't offer them.
Wow, are you a time traveler from 2010? Because that's when it became clear that China couldn't leverage the rare earth monopoly. Rare earths are everywhere, and the China/Japan rare earth embargo in 2010 was immediately overcome by Japan, it did zero damage. The two dollars worth of metals in a phone could double price and it wouldn't matter, not that they'd actually double as there are plenty of other suppliers. Now the actual chip & electronics manufacturing capabilities of China, combined with reasonable quality affordable staff, that's a lot harder to replace.
Lets be real, how many AI specialists do British startups really need? Tech giants that are developing sophisticated AI libraries and very rich audio, video and other data analysis software have a huge need for AI specialists, but most startups seem to just be applying those tools. Of course, some exist, but 1 in 7 sounds about right.
Only if by Franken algorithm they mean some doomsday device with autonomous killing robots that drive humans into extinction. Programmers may some day become obsolete, but the death of programmers will be nothing so vague as the article.
The whole thing is quickly becoming like Theranos and it's a complete and utter shame given what he is capable of.
Yep, it's exactly like Theranos if Theranos didn't commit fraud, delivered on their promised products, etc etc. In what sense are they even remotely alike? Both overvalued stocks? Elon is nothing like Holmes.
Aesthetics isn't that difficult and if someone doesn't care how a website looks they still have some work to before they can call themselves a professional webdev
Wow, you better make it into law that professional webdev is a protected title then and make sure that you are the gatekeeper. Because shockingly, right now anyone can call themselves a professional webdev without going through Qbertino (265505). In fact, the term professional web developer means that web development is your profession. Meaning that anyone working in it (even if they suck) should be called professional webdev. If you aren't aware of any webdev jobs that really don't require *any* aesthetic skills, you should look around any major organization.
Kind of sad that the whole premise for you swearing at a fellow Slashdotter are some false facts you could have Googled easily. Also, even if it wasn't established fact (like it is) that he did Talk with Stanton, how could you be so sure he didn't talk with anyone on site? You couldn't.
If you are so frustrated with PHP you should switch, perhaps another language will fit you better, or at least it will be a good experience. Keep in mind that PHP doesn't have a monopoly on bad code, bad configuration or bad performance.After you switch to a different environment such as a corporate.net environment you may find you get different types of problems that you you may not even have realized existed when you used PHP. Either way, still good experience.
I love Google, but what they did was textbook abuse of a monopoly. They established a monopoly, and then used that monopoly to force their other products onto consumers and companies. That's just a textbook version of abusing your monopoly power. Then they also made the mistake of not just doing that, but forcing major corporations with massive lobbying power like Samsung to ship their products. EU regulates competition tightly, and enforces this against EU companies just as fiercefully as against US companies. Google could have seen this one coming from miles. They probably just thought this type of fine and ruling was a fair price to pay for it.
You are right that it's probably a lot of work for Adobe to make it work on iPad, even to just get it working. However, don't underestimate the Photoshop market power. Lots of companies and people are stuck with it and Photoshop only has to be 'good enough' to retain those. They don't have to put in the work to make it better than the competition. Also, for any competitor, Adobe may just decide to buy it (and then either kill it off or include it in their offerings).
Ah yes, I don't need that feature because for you it doesn't work. Reminds me of my grandmother again! For me there are use cases where it's a hell of a lot better than what is there currently. Perhaps you don't need one, just don't buy one.
i.e. needing screen real estate beyond the capabilities of a smartphone screen and fitting a usable keyboard in less than 10x5cm
If you want a laptop, go buy yourself a laptop, there are lots of stores out there that sell them. Some people perhaps have different wishes and requirements than you. I could use my Motorola Droid just fine for doing some basic development work over SSH. The keyboard was fine for it too. If you have proper eyesight there is a hell of a lot of information you could put on an HD phone screen. On a Galaxy S9 it's much less convenient as any time you use the keyboard it takes up loads of your screen. I would really love a device like this. It obviously wouldn't replace my desktop.
"We want mobiles that are mobiles, and desktops that are desktops. They're two distinctly different devices, and should be treated as such."
Ah yes, you are exactly like my grandmother was, just wants a phone she can call with. I think they have homes for people like you. God bless you. You wouldn't believe what the kids these days to with phones. Sending text messages, playing computer games with snakes.
What a weird line of thinking. Just because nobody has thrown head 64 times in a row (in a proper coin toss), doesn't mean that there is some fixed limit on the amount of times you can do it. With only 7 billion, or 10 billion, or 20 billion people the odds of someone reaching 130 are very small, but not impossible. You'd think people on/. would understand how quickly 1/2^n grows.
That's a great idea. Be sure to include frequencies that people may communicate over to call for help. That also solves the problem of having to help people and makes sure you can spend more time focusing on other problems.
Noooo, people cannot handle something existing that they don't feel 100% comfortable with. That's why every film these days has to go by dozens focus groups to remove every bit of originality and we cannot have original stories anymore, only derivatives.
Office 365's UI, a lot of it, but definitely not all of it, are pieces that are built using React Native (Windows). API's and Services are still going to be powered by C++, C#, or whatever is the most appropriate for that team. Nothing is converting to "all/completely" JavaScript/TypeScript.
His correction sounds like nonsense too. Can't Microsoft just let someone jump in that has a clue what he is talking about?
They knew that well-paid programming jobs would also soon turn to smoke and ash, as the proliferation of learn-to-code courses around the world lowered the market value of their skills, and as advances in artificial intelligence allowed for computers to take over more of the mundane work of producing software.
Kind of hard to take this article serious after saying gibberish like this. I would say most good programmers know that neither learn-to-code courses nor AI are going to make a dent in their income any time soon.
What's the point of that when the real sensitive data is in the website? The PHP code still has to access the database. Who cares about anything else? Either way, it's pretty standard practice these days to run sites in a separate VM or otherwise sandboxed environment.
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Bush/Hitler was a thing and Cheney being the evil one was too. Of course, Bush and Trump are very different presidents. Both are aweful in entirely their own ways like two crappy snowflakes.
The amount of time required to validate that a piece of networked software is secure to absolute certainty approaches infinity.
They are right and it's called market power. ISP's should thank god Google and Netflix aren't charging ISP's yet for the privilege of having their service, as consumers would be happy to ditch any service that doesn't offer them.
Wow, are you a time traveler from 2010? Because that's when it became clear that China couldn't leverage the rare earth monopoly. Rare earths are everywhere, and the China/Japan rare earth embargo in 2010 was immediately overcome by Japan, it did zero damage.
The two dollars worth of metals in a phone could double price and it wouldn't matter, not that they'd actually double as there are plenty of other suppliers. Now the actual chip & electronics manufacturing capabilities of China, combined with reasonable quality affordable staff, that's a lot harder to replace.
Because we live in the real world and not in an economical model of a perfect market economy.
Lets be real, how many AI specialists do British startups really need? Tech giants that are developing sophisticated AI libraries and very rich audio, video and other data analysis software have a huge need for AI specialists, but most startups seem to just be applying those tools. Of course, some exist, but 1 in 7 sounds about right.
Only if by Franken algorithm they mean some doomsday device with autonomous killing robots that drive humans into extinction. Programmers may some day become obsolete, but the death of programmers will be nothing so vague as the article.
Yep, it's exactly like Theranos if Theranos didn't commit fraud, delivered on their promised products, etc etc. In what sense are they even remotely alike? Both overvalued stocks? Elon is nothing like Holmes.
"Destroy all companies that help support dictatorships"
So that would be the entire fortune 500? I think China would be pretty happy with that.
Wow, you better make it into law that professional webdev is a protected title then and make sure that you are the gatekeeper. Because shockingly, right now anyone can call themselves a professional webdev without going through Qbertino (265505). In fact, the term professional web developer means that web development is your profession. Meaning that anyone working in it (even if they suck) should be called professional webdev. If you aren't aware of any webdev jobs that really don't require *any* aesthetic skills, you should look around any major organization.
So you are saying Dick Stanton was not in the cave? You might want to Google who that is before making statements like that.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
Kind of sad that the whole premise for you swearing at a fellow Slashdotter are some false facts you could have Googled easily. Also, even if it wasn't established fact (like it is) that he did Talk with Stanton, how could you be so sure he didn't talk with anyone on site? You couldn't.
If you are so frustrated with PHP you should switch, perhaps another language will fit you better, or at least it will be a good experience. Keep in mind that PHP doesn't have a monopoly on bad code, bad configuration or bad performance.After you switch to a different environment such as a corporate .net environment you may find you get different types of problems that you you may not even have realized existed when you used PHP. Either way, still good experience.
I love Google, but what they did was textbook abuse of a monopoly. They established a monopoly, and then used that monopoly to force their other products onto consumers and companies. That's just a textbook version of abusing your monopoly power. Then they also made the mistake of not just doing that, but forcing major corporations with massive lobbying power like Samsung to ship their products. EU regulates competition tightly, and enforces this against EU companies just as fiercefully as against US companies. Google could have seen this one coming from miles. They probably just thought this type of fine and ruling was a fair price to pay for it.
You are right that it's probably a lot of work for Adobe to make it work on iPad, even to just get it working. However, don't underestimate the Photoshop market power. Lots of companies and people are stuck with it and Photoshop only has to be 'good enough' to retain those. They don't have to put in the work to make it better than the competition. Also, for any competitor, Adobe may just decide to buy it (and then either kill it off or include it in their offerings).
Ah yes, I don't need that feature because for you it doesn't work. Reminds me of my grandmother again! For me there are use cases where it's a hell of a lot better than what is there currently. Perhaps you don't need one, just don't buy one.
If you want a laptop, go buy yourself a laptop, there are lots of stores out there that sell them. Some people perhaps have different wishes and requirements than you. I could use my Motorola Droid just fine for doing some basic development work over SSH. The keyboard was fine for it too. If you have proper eyesight there is a hell of a lot of information you could put on an HD phone screen. On a Galaxy S9 it's much less convenient as any time you use the keyboard it takes up loads of your screen. I would really love a device like this. It obviously wouldn't replace my desktop.
Ah yes, you are exactly like my grandmother was, just wants a phone she can call with. I think they have homes for people like you. God bless you. You wouldn't believe what the kids these days to with phones. Sending text messages, playing computer games with snakes.
What a weird line of thinking. Just because nobody has thrown head 64 times in a row (in a proper coin toss), doesn't mean that there is some fixed limit on the amount of times you can do it. With only 7 billion, or 10 billion, or 20 billion people the odds of someone reaching 130 are very small, but not impossible. You'd think people on /. would understand how quickly 1/2^n grows.
That's a great idea. Be sure to include frequencies that people may communicate over to call for help. That also solves the problem of having to help people and makes sure you can spend more time focusing on other problems.
Noooo, people cannot handle something existing that they don't feel 100% comfortable with. That's why every film these days has to go by dozens focus groups to remove every bit of originality and we cannot have original stories anymore, only derivatives.
I'm not a C++ programmer, but I'm genuinely curious. What idioms would that be?
His correction sounds like nonsense too. Can't Microsoft just let someone jump in that has a clue what he is talking about?
Good luck getting votes for that initiative.
Kind of hard to take this article serious after saying gibberish like this. I would say most good programmers know that neither learn-to-code courses nor AI are going to make a dent in their income any time soon.
What's the point of that when the real sensitive data is in the website? The PHP code still has to access the database. Who cares about anything else? Either way, it's pretty standard practice these days to run sites in a separate VM or otherwise sandboxed environment.