>> incubate ideas largely around apps built for iOS.
Here's three crowdsourced ideas to start: - Bovine HotrNot: rate and find the best looking cows on the street - Roof-n-Go: last-minute booking of busses with available hang-onto-the-side and roof seating - MyNameIsTed: while you are at your call-center job, this reminds you which Western name you were assigned and which company you are currently taking calls for so you can answer the phone correctly
>> 10base2 put together from stuff scavenged from uni skips
This. And some of us worked in hospital IT and uni IT and other IT shops where networks were being converted to 10bT using dual network cards, so we often "helped with" the conversion by putting in 10bT-only cards instead of dual cards and taking home the 10b2/10bT and 10bT-only cards and cabling, er, "lost" in the wash.
(Sorry, though I'm pretty sure no one ever missed a packet.)
10b2 was the network of choice for playing Doom in my neck of the woods (around 1994-5 I think). I never had a direct computer-to-ISP connection (modem or otherwise) after that.
>>>> $10K? >> While Google likely didn't make that much off of each one
Let's do some math. I've been searching with Google for about 13 years and have probably made about $1M after taxes during that time. In that time advertisers have probably spent much more than 1% ($10K) influencing what that $1M purchased. And since most of my purchases begin with a Google search, I think it's quite possible that Google has collected $10K from organizations wanting to advertise to me.
>> your boss is screaming at you for not answering his "emergency" email the night before
Quit being a *uss. I've always had a explicit policy with my managers and coworkers - even put it on my email footers sometimes - that YOU will CALL/TEXT ME if it's an emergency. Otherwise, your "emergency" email goes into the inbox and stays there until I have time to read that pile.
Based on personal experience, I could have written this "attorney software" in second grade.
CLIENT: "I'd like to do X".
COMPUTER: "Sure thing, litigious human. That will be fifteen thousand dollars for a retainer and we will bill at two hundred fifty dollars an hour. How would you like to pay?"
>> a Seattle-based e-waste watchdog group...dropped them off nationwide at donation centers, recyclers and electronic take-back programs -- enterprises that advertise themselves as "green," "sustainable," "earth friendly" and "environmentally responsible."...About a third of the tracked electronics went overseas
A lot of businesses quickly figured out that people who go "awww" when they see whales or polar bears are often more easily parted from their money than the general public, and since calling themselves "green" takes no actual extra work - you might even get the ganza-smelling dude hauling monitors to work cheaper if he thinks he's working for "a cause" - what did you really expect?
>> how government jobs will be replaced with technology
This will never happen. The whole point of government these days is to provide cushy jobs and pensions where paper is shuffled and reports are filed.
Example: today through our taxes we spend more than $60K on anti-poverty programs for a family of three. (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA694.pdf) Guess how much of that actually "trickles down" to the family vs. what gets wasted on government middlemen? How much better could that family live if we just handed them half the money ($30K) that we intended to send them? We will never know.
Piling on with another example of "monolithic intolerance coming from youth movements" leading to mass murder for the historically undereducated.
Maoists rooting out capitalists killed millions during China's Cultural Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution - also covered briefly in pop culture in "The Last Emperor")
Turn-based RPGs in general have been jobbed: no MUDs, Zork or Final Fantasy...yet. But the hall's criteria of "on popular culture and society in general" might keep those classics out until after we see Angry Birds, Candy Crush and that crappy farm game on Facebook who's invites finally drove me off that social platform get in.
>> During the college and pro seasons I watch multiple ESPN stations, FoxSports, the NFL Network, and all of the broadcast networks that broadcast games liv
This. Eventually I just said "fuck college football - I can't even find my team anymore" and cut the cord. Now all the sports I watch either comes over the local HD broadcast or streamed through Russia/Europe (e.g., March Madness).
>> as a white anglo you're much more likely to have an (white collar professional) in your family who is a role model
That's exactly the assumption I'm challenging. I think this association cleaves closer to economic lines than racial ones. In the boonies you're likely to find a lot of "white anglo" family groups without a single college education. If you ignore them long enough, you end up with Trump voters, or worse.:)
>> respected journalism that takes time and effort to research and write, where the journalist/researcher/writer don't have the promise of instant reward, and maybe are facing significant personal risk
That's already pretty much gone. When's the last time you saw/heard a journalist even wanting to ruffle feathers at a presidential press conference?
>> former curators described grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders
Welcome to work, where "consistency of product" (e.g., the content you crap out) is key. The average salary for a "content curator" appears to be $43K: not bad for a liberal arts major - beats serving coffee, right?
The quote refers to the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination. (http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html)
See also: Allen v. Wright - In 1984 the Internal Revenue Service denied tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools (charities?) and established guidelines for determining whether particular schools were racially nondiscriminatory. (http://www.lawnix.com/cases/allen-wright.html)
>> young people from minority backgrounds enter the tech world
The whole "special access due to skin color/gender" bit is getting a bit old, when what's really probably needed is "special access to people from impoverished backgrounds." When you've never seen anyone in your family working in a corporate office, it's a little hard to see understand what a career in IT/legal/other-cushy-white-collar-job could be, and there are plenty of "non-minority" kids stuck in that world too.
>> I hope you got to see the Ivy League psychologist regularly.
Back then, there was no such thing - just an appointment with the Dean telling you to shape the fuck up or get out.:) I hear there's a little more slack built into the system these days...
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>> Xbox Live PR chief Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb
I think I saw how he got his nickname...in Spaceballs.
>> incubate ideas largely around apps built for iOS.
Here's three crowdsourced ideas to start:
- Bovine HotrNot: rate and find the best looking cows on the street
- Roof-n-Go: last-minute booking of busses with available hang-onto-the-side and roof seating
- MyNameIsTed: while you are at your call-center job, this reminds you which Western name you were assigned and which company you are currently taking calls for so you can answer the phone correctly
>> You spent 100% of your earnings?
:)
Banks and investment firms advertise too.
>> 10base2 put together from stuff scavenged from uni skips
This. And some of us worked in hospital IT and uni IT and other IT shops where networks were being converted to 10bT using dual network cards, so we often "helped with" the conversion by putting in 10bT-only cards instead of dual cards and taking home the 10b2/10bT and 10bT-only cards and cabling, er, "lost" in the wash.
(Sorry, though I'm pretty sure no one ever missed a packet.)
10b2 was the network of choice for playing Doom in my neck of the woods (around 1994-5 I think). I never had a direct computer-to-ISP connection (modem or otherwise) after that.
>>>> $10K?
>> While Google likely didn't make that much off of each one
Let's do some math. I've been searching with Google for about 13 years and have probably made about $1M after taxes during that time. In that time advertisers have probably spent much more than 1% ($10K) influencing what that $1M purchased. And since most of my purchases begin with a Google search, I think it's quite possible that Google has collected $10K from organizations wanting to advertise to me.
>> your boss is screaming at you for not answering his "emergency" email the night before
Quit being a *uss. I've always had a explicit policy with my managers and coworkers - even put it on my email footers sometimes - that YOU will CALL/TEXT ME if it's an emergency. Otherwise, your "emergency" email goes into the inbox and stays there until I have time to read that pile.
Based on personal experience, I could have written this "attorney software" in second grade.
CLIENT: "I'd like to do X".
COMPUTER: "Sure thing, litigious human. That will be fifteen thousand dollars for a retainer and we will bill at two hundred fifty dollars an hour. How would you like to pay?"
>> a Seattle-based e-waste watchdog group ...dropped them off nationwide at donation centers, recyclers and electronic take-back programs -- enterprises that advertise themselves as "green," "sustainable," "earth friendly" and "environmentally responsible." ...About a third of the tracked electronics went overseas
A lot of businesses quickly figured out that people who go "awww" when they see whales or polar bears are often more easily parted from their money than the general public, and since calling themselves "green" takes no actual extra work - you might even get the ganza-smelling dude hauling monitors to work cheaper if he thinks he's working for "a cause" - what did you really expect?
Let me tell you how rice paddies work sometime.
Recommendations?
No one wants your crufty shit.
Simplify or die.
>> how government jobs will be replaced with technology
This will never happen. The whole point of government these days is to provide cushy jobs and pensions where paper is shuffled and reports are filed.
Example: today through our taxes we spend more than $60K on anti-poverty programs for a family of three. (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA694.pdf) Guess how much of that actually "trickles down" to the family vs. what gets wasted on government middlemen? How much better could that family live if we just handed them half the money ($30K) that we intended to send them? We will never know.
Don't build your "startup" on other people's data/API/etc. unless you have a contract. They could change the terms tomorrow and then you're screwed.
Better idea: if we just unplug all computers, they will soon power down and become unhackable by humans. Problem REALLY solved.
>> The Community Connect program run by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) funds broadband deployment in rural communities,
And you wonder why our government is neck-dept in debt.
Piling on with another example of "monolithic intolerance coming from youth movements" leading to mass murder for the historically undereducated.
Maoists rooting out capitalists killed millions during China's Cultural Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution - also covered briefly in pop culture in "The Last Emperor")
Turn-based RPGs in general have been jobbed: no MUDs, Zork or Final Fantasy...yet. But the hall's criteria of "on popular culture and society in general" might keep those classics out until after we see Angry Birds, Candy Crush and that crappy farm game on Facebook who's invites finally drove me off that social platform get in.
>> During the college and pro seasons I watch multiple ESPN stations, FoxSports, the NFL Network, and all of the broadcast networks that broadcast games liv
This. Eventually I just said "fuck college football - I can't even find my team anymore" and cut the cord. Now all the sports I watch either comes over the local HD broadcast or streamed through Russia/Europe (e.g., March Madness).
>> as a white anglo you're much more likely to have an (white collar professional) in your family who is a role model
:)
That's exactly the assumption I'm challenging. I think this association cleaves closer to economic lines than racial ones. In the boonies you're likely to find a lot of "white anglo" family groups without a single college education. If you ignore them long enough, you end up with Trump voters, or worse.
>> respected journalism that takes time and effort to research and write, where the journalist/researcher/writer don't have the promise of instant reward, and maybe are facing significant personal risk
That's already pretty much gone. When's the last time you saw/heard a journalist even wanting to ruffle feathers at a presidential press conference?
>> former curators described grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders
Welcome to work, where "consistency of product" (e.g., the content you crap out) is key. The average salary for a "content curator" appears to be $43K: not bad for a liberal arts major - beats serving coffee, right?
The quote refers to the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination. (http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html)
See also: Allen v. Wright - In 1984 the Internal Revenue Service denied tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools (charities?) and established guidelines for determining whether particular schools were racially nondiscriminatory. (http://www.lawnix.com/cases/allen-wright.html)
>> Then start your own program doing that.
"Separate but equal" then?
>> young people from minority backgrounds enter the tech world
The whole "special access due to skin color/gender" bit is getting a bit old, when what's really probably needed is "special access to people from impoverished backgrounds." When you've never seen anyone in your family working in a corporate office, it's a little hard to see understand what a career in IT/legal/other-cushy-white-collar-job could be, and there are plenty of "non-minority" kids stuck in that world too.
>> I hope you got to see the Ivy League psychologist regularly.
:)
Back then, there was no such thing - just an appointment with the Dean telling you to shape the fuck up or get out.
I hear there's a little more slack built into the system these days...