for testing. That means full blown test environments as well as time in the user's day or a special team to test bug fixes. Also if you go with a team don't outsource that team to the lowest bidder. They'll just pass everything as "OK" and spend the rest of their time looking for a better job. Hire somebody, give them a decent salary and benefits.
Unless testing really isn't that important. Depending on your needs it might not be (despite all the indignation that engenders). One thing I've learned about writing software: Good enough is _always_ good enough. Just ask Microsoft (Word) and Corel (WordPerfect).
self driving cars are. Millennials won't be able to afford cars. Their wages are dropping and there's no sign of that trend stopping. Once that hits critical mass (e.g. enough of them of voting age who can't buy cars but aren't completely crushed by poverty) they'll be demand for public transportation. That's where Uber is positioning itself. The investors are letting them bleed money because, well, 2.8 billion only sounds like a lot of money to you and me. It's not chump change to the investors, but it's not going to really put them out. We've let wealth inequity get pretty crazy and we don't punish folks at that level for mistakes; so it's not really a risk to them. Maybe it woulda been in the 60s and 70s but not today.
how easy it is. If you want to read the details about how emulators are built most are open source and there's forums galore. It's ridiculously technical and most wouldn't be able to follow it. Ars is a more general tech site.
isn't a lot of money given what's at stake. If Uber pulls off what they're trying to do they'll become the defacto transportation system for basically the entire modern world. Now, any sane society would just have public transportation instead of "Public Transportation with a private company skimming 20% off the top" but that's now how these things usually play out...
it's April. 8 months is a long time to go without producing a highly in demand product unless you have a good reason to.
Fact is they just use the NES classic to remind folks the brand exists in between the Wii U dying and the Switch launching. It worked, but they got a lot of ill will from all the scalping. But not nearly as much as they deserved. Like I said, it's a dick move. Collectors, fan boys and just plain 'ole guys & gals in their 30s and 40s couldn't get one without paying 2x-5x retail to a scalper or winning a lottery day 1. Nasty business all around.
before even a fraction of people who wanted them had them. It's a massive dick move on their part, btw. Any other company (except maybe Apple & Blizzard) would have been crucified by their fans.
so it's already a pain to go over jurisdiction lines. I'm guessing the successful scammers have the good sense to only defraud foreigners and not locals. Different culture too. From what I've heard India has a lot of local corruption (e.g. you can buy the cops off) too. America and most of Europe doesn't really have that. We mercilessly punish low level corruption and just leave the high level stuff (our politicians) alone.
you're replacing people. Maybe they'll find other work. Maybe their departments will grow a little. But if the change really is radical and that's not just hyperbole than the rest of the economy won't be able to keep up. That's what happened with the industrial revolution. 80 years of unemployment strife and poverty before there was enough new tech to start employing folks in mass again...
they literally see everything I do, as far as URLs go. I suppose there's TOR and the like, but then they know I'm using TOR. They're the gatekeepers. Like the phone company or library. Which is why we didn't let them sell that info.
This isn't 1999 (pity, if it was I could look forward the the Dreamcast launch). It's 2017. Everyone understand what websites are, that your ISP knows which ones you've been to and that the information is very, very valuable.
Those politicians knew exactly what they were voting for or against. These people aren't morons and you're doing yourself and everyone a disservice by suggesting that they are.
or anything else besides millions of refugees. Nobody wants to pop the boil that is NK. It'd be a humanitarian nightmare that you couldn't easily ignore like we do now.
NK doesn't want to kill us, they just want us to keep up enough pressure on them that their populace feels threatened enough not to question why things never get better while they're being told their leaders are nearly God-like. You gotta do something with that disconnect.
And the best part? Both sides benefit. NK's ruling elite gets to stay in power because everybody's too scared to risk a changing of the guard and, well, so are we. What's that old phrase... "We've always been at war with Eurasia". Ya know, we're still at war with Iraq. Legally anyway...
why anyone still votes for the GOP? Religion? Are the Tax Cuts worth it? And no, the other side isn't as bad. This last disaster passed along party lines.
There's been several videos/articles showing Ryzen (their new CPU) closing it's gaps with Intel when RAM was overclocked; even if you run the same overclock on Intel hardware.
still harbor some racism. Meaning if you're a person of color you've got a 25% chance that your jury is predisposed to vote 'guilty'... Maybe they won't (they're instructed to put their prejudices aside) but with mandatory sentencing rules being what they are most won't risk it. Take a year in prison or risk 20? What are you gonna do?
there's a snowball's chance in hell the ISP is going to pay your legal fees if you get sued/imprisoned because somebody used your router to pull MP3s, movies or worse, child porn. IIRC the UK doesn't have Juries so you might (_might_) have a better chance. Here in the States unless you're tall, good looking and personable you almost always plea bargain because our juries are so damn unpredictable. That and ridiculous mandatory sentencing guidelines that prevent judges from overriding juries at sentencing time. That's why we've got like a 90% conviction rate.
I think. Blacks are going to be more likely to default on a loan, right? They've got higher rates of poverty. You don't even have to have a 'black guy' flag in your app. Poverty segregates all on its own and you can just use their zip codes and the schools they went to. There's a million ways to profile somebody as black or white without having a little checkbox...
I've said it before, but this is what folks mean by "institutionalized racism". It's when racism is part of the basic makeup of society. If you want to put a stop to it I think you kinda need to take a hammer to it, but these days anyone who does gets called a SJW and shouted down.
by Institutionalize racism. It's when it's buried so deep in your society that it's hard to separate it from statistical data. Forest for the trees and what not. It starts getting hard to separate cause and effect. Actually no, that's not right. It becomes easy to _not_ separate them. In the overt scenario blacks get profiled for crime. In the not so overt one they can't get loans because folks in those neighborhoods are 3% more likely to default. This is what happens when you feed large amounts of data into complex systems without knowing or caring about the consequences...
since they probably don't count illegal immigrants but almost certainly count the kinds of higher level office workers how work from home.
Also, It'd be hard to imagine a more irrelevant metric given how few Americans walk/bike to work. I mean, in theory I can bike to work but it's a 70 minute run one way and I'll get to work covered in sweat...
Uber has always been just on the edge of legality. The research let them stay ahead of that edge. There's been a dozen "It's Uber for X" businesses that shut down while only Uber & Lyft remain (I don't count Fivver since they seem to be operating mostly overseas and relying on the complexities of international jurisdiction to shield them).
Uber has been flouting labor, insurance and safety laws since day one. The real technical miracle isn't their dispatch system but the software that lets them stay on step ahead of the law and their competitors.
I'm on T-Mobile. As long as this doesn't' result in my rates getting jacked it means their service might finally be AT&T/Verizon level. Heck, even if you're not on T-Mobile it's good news. Spotty coverage is what keeps a lot of folks off T-Mobile and reduces their ability to compete. Now if we can just stop these mega mergers we'll have some real competition.
Food. Shelter. Education. Transportation. Health Care. Those matter. Facebook, Snapchat and even Netflix less so. And we're not talking about Facebook or even Netflix going away, we're talking about them cost a bit more to use. And the next Youtube will bleed a little more money up front. That's it. Compared with coal jobs going away without any real replacement or the various American healthcare crises that's not even small potatoes.
If you want NN stop abandoning the lower classes. If you want them to spare time for your issues spare time for theirs.
Thomas Sowell is a right wing hack who rights for Town Hall for god's sake. They're one of those Rags the right fund to give their whack job ideas some credibility.
And I don't feel better. I feel like shit. I've got damned little in this life and I'm constantly worried some asshat will take it away. Like that line from Indiana Jones: There's nothing you have I can't take away Mr Jones.
Here's thing thing: Economy of Scales screw everything. If I'm a small biz and I fuck my workers out of 5% of their pay it probably wasn't worth it. If I'm the CEO of a major chain it's totally worth it. Did you know Funeral Parlors are chains now? Do you have any idea how incredibly fucked up that is? Are you just a troll or do you actually believe the crap you spout? If you're not a troll (professional or otherwise) they'll come for you eventually. They'll come for all of us.
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for testing. That means full blown test environments as well as time in the user's day or a special team to test bug fixes. Also if you go with a team don't outsource that team to the lowest bidder. They'll just pass everything as "OK" and spend the rest of their time looking for a better job. Hire somebody, give them a decent salary and benefits.
Unless testing really isn't that important. Depending on your needs it might not be (despite all the indignation that engenders). One thing I've learned about writing software: Good enough is _always_ good enough. Just ask Microsoft (Word) and Corel (WordPerfect).
self driving cars are. Millennials won't be able to afford cars. Their wages are dropping and there's no sign of that trend stopping. Once that hits critical mass (e.g. enough of them of voting age who can't buy cars but aren't completely crushed by poverty) they'll be demand for public transportation. That's where Uber is positioning itself. The investors are letting them bleed money because, well, 2.8 billion only sounds like a lot of money to you and me. It's not chump change to the investors, but it's not going to really put them out. We've let wealth inequity get pretty crazy and we don't punish folks at that level for mistakes; so it's not really a risk to them. Maybe it woulda been in the 60s and 70s but not today.
how easy it is. If you want to read the details about how emulators are built most are open source and there's forums galore. It's ridiculously technical and most wouldn't be able to follow it. Ars is a more general tech site.
isn't a lot of money given what's at stake. If Uber pulls off what they're trying to do they'll become the defacto transportation system for basically the entire modern world. Now, any sane society would just have public transportation instead of "Public Transportation with a private company skimming 20% off the top" but that's now how these things usually play out...
it's April. 8 months is a long time to go without producing a highly in demand product unless you have a good reason to.
Fact is they just use the NES classic to remind folks the brand exists in between the Wii U dying and the Switch launching. It worked, but they got a lot of ill will from all the scalping. But not nearly as much as they deserved. Like I said, it's a dick move. Collectors, fan boys and just plain 'ole guys & gals in their 30s and 40s couldn't get one without paying 2x-5x retail to a scalper or winning a lottery day 1. Nasty business all around.
in Maryland. Seriously textbook industry F-. See me after class.
before even a fraction of people who wanted them had them. It's a massive dick move on their part, btw. Any other company (except maybe Apple & Blizzard) would have been crucified by their fans.
so it's already a pain to go over jurisdiction lines. I'm guessing the successful scammers have the good sense to only defraud foreigners and not locals. Different culture too. From what I've heard India has a lot of local corruption (e.g. you can buy the cops off) too. America and most of Europe doesn't really have that. We mercilessly punish low level corruption and just leave the high level stuff (our politicians) alone.
you're replacing people. Maybe they'll find other work. Maybe their departments will grow a little. But if the change really is radical and that's not just hyperbole than the rest of the economy won't be able to keep up. That's what happened with the industrial revolution. 80 years of unemployment strife and poverty before there was enough new tech to start employing folks in mass again...
they literally see everything I do, as far as URLs go. I suppose there's TOR and the like, but then they know I'm using TOR. They're the gatekeepers. Like the phone company or library. Which is why we didn't let them sell that info.
This isn't 1999 (pity, if it was I could look forward the the Dreamcast launch). It's 2017. Everyone understand what websites are, that your ISP knows which ones you've been to and that the information is very, very valuable.
Those politicians knew exactly what they were voting for or against. These people aren't morons and you're doing yourself and everyone a disservice by suggesting that they are.
or anything else besides millions of refugees. Nobody wants to pop the boil that is NK. It'd be a humanitarian nightmare that you couldn't easily ignore like we do now.
NK doesn't want to kill us, they just want us to keep up enough pressure on them that their populace feels threatened enough not to question why things never get better while they're being told their leaders are nearly God-like. You gotta do something with that disconnect.
And the best part? Both sides benefit. NK's ruling elite gets to stay in power because everybody's too scared to risk a changing of the guard and, well, so are we. What's that old phrase... "We've always been at war with Eurasia". Ya know, we're still at war with Iraq. Legally anyway...
why anyone still votes for the GOP? Religion? Are the Tax Cuts worth it? And no, the other side isn't as bad. This last disaster passed along party lines.
There's been several videos/articles showing Ryzen (their new CPU) closing it's gaps with Intel when RAM was overclocked; even if you run the same overclock on Intel hardware.
still harbor some racism. Meaning if you're a person of color you've got a 25% chance that your jury is predisposed to vote 'guilty'... Maybe they won't (they're instructed to put their prejudices aside) but with mandatory sentencing rules being what they are most won't risk it. Take a year in prison or risk 20? What are you gonna do?
there's a snowball's chance in hell the ISP is going to pay your legal fees if you get sued/imprisoned because somebody used your router to pull MP3s, movies or worse, child porn. IIRC the UK doesn't have Juries so you might (_might_) have a better chance. Here in the States unless you're tall, good looking and personable you almost always plea bargain because our juries are so damn unpredictable. That and ridiculous mandatory sentencing guidelines that prevent judges from overriding juries at sentencing time. That's why we've got like a 90% conviction rate.
I think. Blacks are going to be more likely to default on a loan, right? They've got higher rates of poverty. You don't even have to have a 'black guy' flag in your app. Poverty segregates all on its own and you can just use their zip codes and the schools they went to. There's a million ways to profile somebody as black or white without having a little checkbox...
I've said it before, but this is what folks mean by "institutionalized racism". It's when racism is part of the basic makeup of society. If you want to put a stop to it I think you kinda need to take a hammer to it, but these days anyone who does gets called a SJW and shouted down.
by Institutionalize racism. It's when it's buried so deep in your society that it's hard to separate it from statistical data. Forest for the trees and what not. It starts getting hard to separate cause and effect. Actually no, that's not right. It becomes easy to _not_ separate them. In the overt scenario blacks get profiled for crime. In the not so overt one they can't get loans because folks in those neighborhoods are 3% more likely to default. This is what happens when you feed large amounts of data into complex systems without knowing or caring about the consequences...
since they probably don't count illegal immigrants but almost certainly count the kinds of higher level office workers how work from home.
Also, It'd be hard to imagine a more irrelevant metric given how few Americans walk/bike to work. I mean, in theory I can bike to work but it's a 70 minute run one way and I'll get to work covered in sweat...
Uber has always been just on the edge of legality. The research let them stay ahead of that edge. There's been a dozen "It's Uber for X" businesses that shut down while only Uber & Lyft remain (I don't count Fivver since they seem to be operating mostly overseas and relying on the complexities of international jurisdiction to shield them).
Uber has been flouting labor, insurance and safety laws since day one. The real technical miracle isn't their dispatch system but the software that lets them stay on step ahead of the law and their competitors.
I'm on T-Mobile. As long as this doesn't' result in my rates getting jacked it means their service might finally be AT&T/Verizon level. Heck, even if you're not on T-Mobile it's good news. Spotty coverage is what keeps a lot of folks off T-Mobile and reduces their ability to compete. Now if we can just stop these mega mergers we'll have some real competition.
Food. Shelter. Education. Transportation. Health Care. Those matter. Facebook, Snapchat and even Netflix less so. And we're not talking about Facebook or even Netflix going away, we're talking about them cost a bit more to use. And the next Youtube will bleed a little more money up front. That's it. Compared with coal jobs going away without any real replacement or the various American healthcare crises that's not even small potatoes.
If you want NN stop abandoning the lower classes. If you want them to spare time for your issues spare time for theirs.
Than being able to download Game of Thrones. Net neutrality only really matters to techies, and we're fighting for our jobs too...
Thomas Sowell is a right wing hack who rights for Town Hall for god's sake. They're one of those Rags the right fund to give their whack job ideas some credibility.
And I don't feel better. I feel like shit. I've got damned little in this life and I'm constantly worried some asshat will take it away. Like that line from Indiana Jones: There's nothing you have I can't take away Mr Jones.
Here's thing thing: Economy of Scales screw everything. If I'm a small biz and I fuck my workers out of 5% of their pay it probably wasn't worth it. If I'm the CEO of a major chain it's totally worth it. Did you know Funeral Parlors are chains now? Do you have any idea how incredibly fucked up that is? Are you just a troll or do you actually believe the crap you spout? If you're not a troll (professional or otherwise) they'll come for you eventually. They'll come for all of us.