Agreed, this guy needs to be stabbed in the face with a rusty crab.
If you read past the first paragraph or two of TFA, you can see what is really up, he is shilling his company in this puff piece, talking about how whatever shitty software Ready is making will solve all education's woes by teaching kids to code in a completely new and different way.
"Our efforts at Ready, a platform that enables kids to make games, apps, whatever they want, without knowing a computer language, are designed to offer a new approach to broadening access to code literacy."
As a senior coder who has written a lot of code, this guy sounds like a complete tool that I would not trust with two burned out matches and a short piece of string, let alone the education of the next generation of computer scientists.
They didn't buy it for the game, they bought it for the brand. You are just adding up sales for the individual games. What about all the merchandise? What about MC2, MC3 and MC4? (They will be made eventually after MC has been milked to death.)
2.5 billion is a steal for a globally recognized brand. Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas for 5 billion, and if they don't make that back before the decade is out, I will eat my hat.
Microsoft, stop raping me with your updates, no means no. I know that I was 'asking for it' by running the automatic updates, but now I just want to go home, take a long crying shower, and put on some shapeless baggy Linux kernels.
I was going to suggest that the third category of work is actually smashing robots that have taken over the first two categories, but I suppose that falls into the 'post battery stage' of development.
Socialism ensure no progress and no freedom. There is absolutely no real life example where socialism has succeeded to promote progress, innovation, increase global wealth and freedom.
And when you say socialism, you mean dictatorships that masquerade as Communism, right? Because Socialism isn't a bivalent thing, and there are a number of highly socialistic countries that are doing quite well. Look to the Nordic countries in northern Europe for an example.
Other than being totally wrong, your statement is quite correct.
As far as "wasting time", it seems to me, without any inside knowledge, that it should be simple enough to have an emoji committee, which does most of the emoji work separate from anyone who doesn't care to be involved in that aspect.
There is plenty of address space, sure. But isn't the real problem time and money, of which there aren't unlimited amounts of each. In a perfect world, have two groups and let each do whatever the fuck they want to do. Anything created that people think is stupid will just get ignored and abandon, no harm no foul.
I suspect though that someone has to pay these jerk wads to make emoji standards, and that isn't ok, at least until we have all the real languages and Klingon, Elvish, Zentraedi, and whatever other pointless nerd jibberish squared away.
Then we can make the stupid pictographs for illiterate millennials.
Even more to the point, is human sleep designed to cut down the rendering cycles by 30%? When you blink, is it because the thread you are running on being 'slept' for a few hundred ms? Is cancer just 'bit rot' on the imperfect storage media you are stored on?
Supposing this is all true, it begs a bigger question, what is the purpose of this simulation? Is it a game? A science project? An artistic endeavor?
And as long as I'm offending all the true believes, let's throw another log on their rage fire: I read a book once about a world where everyone stopped working. It was called Atlas Shrugged...
I like that book. It is boring and poorly written, an unrealistic hysterical anti-communist diatribe written by a madwoman. But I like it because idiots latch onto it an wave it frantically as a banner. It makes identifying soft-headed rubes for interpersonal avoidance a trivial task.
Go on, tell me at length about the 'looters' who are going to steal everything, that's always good for a laugh...
Please stop giving advice on what young women want from men, you have no idea what you're talking about.
...Or based on evidence of a long, successful relationship, I know exactly what I am talking about. I think you are the one here who needs help, you have some, um, 'interesting' ideas about how women think.
And, 'pushy and arrogant' == abusive. Perhaps not in the 'slap a woman around' sense of the word, but someone who values themselves above others and subtly belittles others is abusive. There is a huge difference in arrogance and confidence, and while you might not recognize it, most women certainly do. I suggest you figure it out if you want to improve your chances with them.
I hope you can get the wisdom you seek to improve your chances with women, because you have wrongheaded ideas about what women are looking for in a man.:(
I have been with the same girl for over 20 years. We are quite happily married, I really don't need to improve my chances with women. Also, women don't want pushy arrogant men, many seem to like men who are confident, bold, and decisive, but nobody with a healthy psychology gravitates towards people who are belittling and abusive. I think you might be the one who has a slightly warped view of female psychology.
As a male dev who has interviewed and knows people at Amazon, the problem isn't lack of an app. After I went out to talk with them for a day, I came away with the impression that there are a large number of really arrogant and pushy people working there. Undoubtedly, my personal experience isn't statistical representation of the whole company, but I wasn't very impressed with them as people. They seemed stressed, hurried, egotistical, and self-centered. I didn't want to work there for money, so I could imagine that few women would want to date people like that for free.
Anecdote: If you go on a date and the date goes poorly, the person may have been a jerk. If you go on 10 dates and they all go poorly, chances are you are actually the jerk. If nobody at Amazon can land a date, what does that tell you? A lack of girls in Seattle? For being so smart, you seem pretty slow...
Of course NSF might be very careful about their grants and such normally, but they will now be mercilessly mocked because they made a single mistake. I am normally pretty supportive of feminist agendas as treating everyone equally is a strangely compelling idea, but I feel that this is such an easy target that I cannot ignore it:
"tldr: Its men's fault that ice melts when heated because the penis is the root of all evil."
He is a solid choice, I mean, who else on the entire Internet knows better about all the ways that social media can go wrong? Lets face it, he has probably seen every fucked think on the net, and probably has a few good ideas on how to steer clear of them.
The real question isn't 'why moot', the real question is what does Google hope to do that other providers aren't doing better/faster/more already? If their only goal is 'hey facebook, me too!' then they have already failed, and they only have to burn through a few hundred million in budget before they can make with the 'we quit social media' press release.
The Republicans are in between a proverbial rock and a hard place. Obama is a sitting duck president, who can afford to burn bridges and such, so there isn't anything from stopping him from naming a young, ultra liberal for nomination. The problem is that if the republicans stall a nomination until the election in hopes that their guy might win, they risk having Bernie elected, and he is quite likely to nominate someone they would like even less than who ever Obama might pick.
They could go for a 'Hail Mary', and hope that they win in November, but Bernie is polling quite well so there is considerable risk if they do this. A game theory analysis of things would suggest that the logical Republican play would be to pounce on the first Justice nominee that is remotely 'center' politically and appoint them as fast as the hearings will allow. It doesn't advance the conservative agenda, but it is purely a damage control move to prevent the next 40 years of 5-4 'liberal' decisions from being handed down by the court. It you cannot win a game, don't play for a win, play for a tie. The right is stupid, and this will not happen. The Teabaggers will scream a try to scuttle anyone who isn't hard right. They seem to have little patience for diplomacy and compromise these days.
Obama's smart play here is to work with Sunders and Hillary, and get them to both publicly come out in favor of a radical left nominee, and then put a solid moderate liberal nominee up for appointment. The right is scared of what they get if the fumble the election, and he gets a liberal on the bench with minimal fuss.
ew ew ew that is so freaking wrong. send them all to jail!
Who are we talking about here, the FBI or the pedophiles?
Isn't this just the Feds again telling us that the ends justifies the means? Apparently, it is ok to run a child pornography site, as long as it is being used to catch sex offenders.I have mixed feelings about this. It is clearly good that the FBI is working to put people who would hurt children in jail. It is less clear that people who might be consuming such illegal material are the people who produce it. It seems eerily similar to the failed drug wars where large numbers of people who consume drugs are the people that are being arrested, as opposed to the people who are making and distributing drugs.
In the article about the MS chat bot, MS claims that they don't keep information from prior conversations. Assuming that they are being honest about this, it is a moot point, as data between the users smart phones and the servers is likely un-encrypted or the Authorities have the encryption keys. (Or will soon, there was an article on/. yesterday about that very topic).
It is interesting to think that MS could be so naive as to think that this feature isn't rife for surveillance abuse.
Apple should comply with this request, it is actually a very good thing for the US (and terrible for china). By creating this backdoor, China is painting a huge target on the server(s) that store these 'master keys'. Every foreign intelligence agency in the world will want in and they will get in. Someone will forget to check a password buffer when coding it, or someone with an admin password will be presented with embarrassing pictures, and then wham! every western Intel agency will have access to the phone data for all the important people in China. This data will need to be used by so many people that it should be trivial to compromise someone with a master key.
Apple will then be complying with China's laws, and can keep raking in the bucks by selling them easy to compromise phones and personal gadgetry. Nothing requires them to then cripple their phones in other parts of the world, which they will presumably not do so they can claim that they have a secure platform as a sales point every else. Win Win.
Of course, the person getting fucked is the average Chinese person. They are being ass-reamed even harder by the government stooges, but perhaps this will be the thing that finally pisses the populace off enough to finally rise up and start hanging all the communist stooges running the country.
I bet the NSA is having a massive Christmas circle jerk over this one. Their job just became a million times easier...
Did anyone catch the last bit there in the synopsis? Puppetry? WTF?
I am a beautiful, amazing person who is totally into D&D, video games and robotics. However, I have never heard of this puppetry thing before. I find your ideas interesting and I wish to subscribe. Also, while I am a sexy hunk of Dungeon Master man-beast, this article look like it holds about as much water as a sieve.
This is really just cosmetic surgery all over again. There are some practical uses for cosmetic surgery, such as helping people with deforming injuries. There are also plenty of people who will carve up an aging woman with cash to make her look young for a few more years. Any technology you create is going to have good and bad uses.
Should we refrain from developing genetic engineering technology that might be able to cure genetic disease? Hell no. And yes, some idiots might want to spend money to give their kids purple eyes.
Illegals come over our border without our permission.
That is just an accusation in the form of a tautology. Of course they come over our border without our permission, that is why they are called illegals.
They bring in drugs which ruin the lives of our citizens, some of them are rapists and murderers and continue their habits when they're here.
As opposed to the citizens who are already ruining their lives with drugs sold by native citizens? Lol, I am so glad you are keen on saving us from dirty 'foreign' drugs. Also, rapists and murders? Really? Why not call em' godless commies too, since you are throwing around baseless labels.
They use up welfare that our productive citizens worked hard to pay the taxes for-- and the illegal immigrants don't pay into this system, or if some do they don't pay nearly as much as a citizen does.
Not sure how they do that without a SSN or birth certificate, but its your racist rant.
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Agreed, this guy needs to be stabbed in the face with a rusty crab.
If you read past the first paragraph or two of TFA, you can see what is really up, he is shilling his company in this puff piece, talking about how whatever shitty software Ready is making will solve all education's woes by teaching kids to code in a completely new and different way.
"Our efforts at Ready, a platform that enables kids to make games, apps, whatever they want, without knowing a computer language, are designed to offer a new approach to broadening access to code literacy."
As a senior coder who has written a lot of code, this guy sounds like a complete tool that I would not trust with two burned out matches and a short piece of string, let alone the education of the next generation of computer scientists.
They didn't buy it for the game, they bought it for the brand. You are just adding up sales for the individual games. What about all the merchandise? What about MC2, MC3 and MC4? (They will be made eventually after MC has been milked to death.)
2.5 billion is a steal for a globally recognized brand. Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas for 5 billion, and if they don't make that back before the decade is out, I will eat my hat.
Microsoft, stop raping me with your updates, no means no. I know that I was 'asking for it' by running the automatic updates, but now I just want to go home, take a long crying shower, and put on some shapeless baggy Linux kernels.
Ah, but aren't those just the kind of blatant mistakes Satoshi would make if he wanted to convince the world that he isn't Craig Wright?
What better way to protect your anonymity than jump in the spotlight and play the buffoon so everybody ignores you?
This guy's subtle.
That EXACTLY the sort of thing that Satoshi would post to make us think that Craig is actually Satoshi, and further obfuscate his real identity.
Well played, Mr Satoshi. Well played.
I was going to suggest that the third category of work is actually smashing robots that have taken over the first two categories, but I suppose that falls into the 'post battery stage' of development.
Socialism ensure no progress and no freedom. There is absolutely no real life example where socialism has succeeded to promote progress, innovation, increase global wealth and freedom.
And when you say socialism, you mean dictatorships that masquerade as Communism, right? Because Socialism isn't a bivalent thing, and there are a number of highly socialistic countries that are doing quite well. Look to the Nordic countries in northern Europe for an example.
Other than being totally wrong, your statement is quite correct.
As far as "wasting time", it seems to me, without any inside knowledge, that it should be simple enough to have an emoji committee, which does most of the emoji work separate from anyone who doesn't care to be involved in that aspect.
There is plenty of address space, sure. But isn't the real problem time and money, of which there aren't unlimited amounts of each. In a perfect world, have two groups and let each do whatever the fuck they want to do. Anything created that people think is stupid will just get ignored and abandon, no harm no foul.
I suspect though that someone has to pay these jerk wads to make emoji standards, and that isn't ok, at least until we have all the real languages and Klingon, Elvish, Zentraedi, and whatever other pointless nerd jibberish squared away.
Then we can make the stupid pictographs for illiterate millennials.
Even more to the point, is human sleep designed to cut down the rendering cycles by 30%? When you blink, is it because the thread you are running on being 'slept' for a few hundred ms? Is cancer just 'bit rot' on the imperfect storage media you are stored on?
Supposing this is all true, it begs a bigger question, what is the purpose of this simulation? Is it a game? A science project? An artistic endeavor?
And as long as I'm offending all the true believes, let's throw another log on their rage fire: I read a book once about a world where everyone stopped working. It was called Atlas Shrugged...
I like that book. It is boring and poorly written, an unrealistic hysterical anti-communist diatribe written by a madwoman. But I like it because idiots latch onto it an wave it frantically as a banner. It makes identifying soft-headed rubes for interpersonal avoidance a trivial task.
Go on, tell me at length about the 'looters' who are going to steal everything, that's always good for a laugh...
....And by revolutionize, we mean, 'Halt revolution'.
translation: We will do anything we can to keep from being run out of business by steam....
Please stop giving advice on what young women want from men, you have no idea what you're talking about.
...Or based on evidence of a long, successful relationship, I know exactly what I am talking about. I think you are the one here who needs help, you have some, um, 'interesting' ideas about how women think.
And, 'pushy and arrogant' == abusive. Perhaps not in the 'slap a woman around' sense of the word, but someone who values themselves above others and subtly belittles others is abusive. There is a huge difference in arrogance and confidence, and while you might not recognize it, most women certainly do. I suggest you figure it out if you want to improve your chances with them.
I noticed that you waffled on grey areas....
I hope you can get the wisdom you seek to improve your chances with women, because you have wrongheaded ideas about what women are looking for in a man. :(
I have been with the same girl for over 20 years. We are quite happily married, I really don't need to improve my chances with women. Also, women don't want pushy arrogant men, many seem to like men who are confident, bold, and decisive, but nobody with a healthy psychology gravitates towards people who are belittling and abusive. I think you might be the one who has a slightly warped view of female psychology.
As a male dev who has interviewed and knows people at Amazon, the problem isn't lack of an app. After I went out to talk with them for a day, I came away with the impression that there are a large number of really arrogant and pushy people working there. Undoubtedly, my personal experience isn't statistical representation of the whole company, but I wasn't very impressed with them as people. They seemed stressed, hurried, egotistical, and self-centered. I didn't want to work there for money, so I could imagine that few women would want to date people like that for free.
Anecdote: If you go on a date and the date goes poorly, the person may have been a jerk. If you go on 10 dates and they all go poorly, chances are you are actually the jerk. If nobody at Amazon can land a date, what does that tell you? A lack of girls in Seattle? For being so smart, you seem pretty slow...
Of course NSF might be very careful about their grants and such normally, but they will now be mercilessly mocked because they made a single mistake. I am normally pretty supportive of feminist agendas as treating everyone equally is a strangely compelling idea, but I feel that this is such an easy target that I cannot ignore it:
"tldr: Its men's fault that ice melts when heated because the penis is the root of all evil."
He is a solid choice, I mean, who else on the entire Internet knows better about all the ways that social media can go wrong? Lets face it, he has probably seen every fucked think on the net, and probably has a few good ideas on how to steer clear of them.
The real question isn't 'why moot', the real question is what does Google hope to do that other providers aren't doing better/faster/more already? If their only goal is 'hey facebook, me too!' then they have already failed, and they only have to burn through a few hundred million in budget before they can make with the 'we quit social media' press release.
Half of Americans are by definition, below average intelligence. Coincidence?
The Republicans are in between a proverbial rock and a hard place. Obama is a sitting duck president, who can afford to burn bridges and such, so there isn't anything from stopping him from naming a young, ultra liberal for nomination. The problem is that if the republicans stall a nomination until the election in hopes that their guy might win, they risk having Bernie elected, and he is quite likely to nominate someone they would like even less than who ever Obama might pick.
They could go for a 'Hail Mary', and hope that they win in November, but Bernie is polling quite well so there is considerable risk if they do this. A game theory analysis of things would suggest that the logical Republican play would be to pounce on the first Justice nominee that is remotely 'center' politically and appoint them as fast as the hearings will allow. It doesn't advance the conservative agenda, but it is purely a damage control move to prevent the next 40 years of 5-4 'liberal' decisions from being handed down by the court. It you cannot win a game, don't play for a win, play for a tie. The right is stupid, and this will not happen. The Teabaggers will scream a try to scuttle anyone who isn't hard right. They seem to have little patience for diplomacy and compromise these days.
Obama's smart play here is to work with Sunders and Hillary, and get them to both publicly come out in favor of a radical left nominee, and then put a solid moderate liberal nominee up for appointment. The right is scared of what they get if the fumble the election, and he gets a liberal on the bench with minimal fuss.
ew ew ew that is so freaking wrong. send them all to jail!
Who are we talking about here, the FBI or the pedophiles?
Isn't this just the Feds again telling us that the ends justifies the means? Apparently, it is ok to run a child pornography site, as long as it is being used to catch sex offenders.I have mixed feelings about this. It is clearly good that the FBI is working to put people who would hurt children in jail. It is less clear that people who might be consuming such illegal material are the people who produce it. It seems eerily similar to the failed drug wars where large numbers of people who consume drugs are the people that are being arrested, as opposed to the people who are making and distributing drugs.
In the article about the MS chat bot, MS claims that they don't keep information from prior conversations. Assuming that they are being honest about this, it is a moot point, as data between the users smart phones and the servers is likely un-encrypted or the Authorities have the encryption keys. (Or will soon, there was an article on /. yesterday about that very topic).
It is interesting to think that MS could be so naive as to think that this feature isn't rife for surveillance abuse.
Apple should comply with this request, it is actually a very good thing for the US (and terrible for china). By creating this backdoor, China is painting a huge target on the server(s) that store these 'master keys'. Every foreign intelligence agency in the world will want in and they will get in. Someone will forget to check a password buffer when coding it, or someone with an admin password will be presented with embarrassing pictures, and then wham! every western Intel agency will have access to the phone data for all the important people in China. This data will need to be used by so many people that it should be trivial to compromise someone with a master key.
Apple will then be complying with China's laws, and can keep raking in the bucks by selling them easy to compromise phones and personal gadgetry. Nothing requires them to then cripple their phones in other parts of the world, which they will presumably not do so they can claim that they have a secure platform as a sales point every else. Win Win.
Of course, the person getting fucked is the average Chinese person. They are being ass-reamed even harder by the government stooges, but perhaps this will be the thing that finally pisses the populace off enough to finally rise up and start hanging all the communist stooges running the country.
I bet the NSA is having a massive Christmas circle jerk over this one. Their job just became a million times easier...
Did anyone catch the last bit there in the synopsis? Puppetry? WTF?
I am a beautiful, amazing person who is totally into D&D, video games and robotics. However, I have never heard of this puppetry thing before. I find your ideas interesting and I wish to subscribe. Also, while I am a sexy hunk of Dungeon Master man-beast, this article look like it holds about as much water as a sieve.
"Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from stupidity", apologies to Arthur C Clark...
This is really just cosmetic surgery all over again. There are some practical uses for cosmetic surgery, such as helping people with deforming injuries. There are also plenty of people who will carve up an aging woman with cash to make her look young for a few more years. Any technology you create is going to have good and bad uses.
Should we refrain from developing genetic engineering technology that might be able to cure genetic disease? Hell no. And yes, some idiots might want to spend money to give their kids purple eyes.
Illegals come over our border without our permission.
That is just an accusation in the form of a tautology. Of course they come over our border without our permission, that is why they are called illegals.
They bring in drugs which ruin the lives of our citizens, some of them are rapists and murderers and continue their habits when they're here.
As opposed to the citizens who are already ruining their lives with drugs sold by native citizens? Lol, I am so glad you are keen on saving us from dirty 'foreign' drugs. Also, rapists and murders? Really? Why not call em' godless commies too, since you are throwing around baseless labels.
They use up welfare that our productive citizens worked hard to pay the taxes for-- and the illegal immigrants don't pay into this system, or if some do they don't pay nearly as much as a citizen does.
Not sure how they do that without a SSN or birth certificate, but its your racist rant.