My thought exactly. Linux has been embrace/extending for decades, and nobody has managed to extinguish it -- even when presented with unique challenges like Tivoization.
Microsoft's new strategy is that they just want you using their cloud -- they don't care if you use Windows while you're there. And the way they do this is by making it as easy to integrate with Azure as possible, regardless of the platform you're coding for or administering from. Integrating Ubuntu into Windows is all part of making administration easier.
Because who else has a Porsche running an American V8? Some people just like to tinker. Some do it with code, some 3d print drones, some build weird cars. These people are all cool as fuck.
I think there's some confusion with TFA, it is not talking about dev jobs -- it is targeting ALL jobs.
Which is what I was speaking to: yes this method of thinking IS something most coders develop but it can take 5-10 years, so a few light coding classes is not going to help anyone in a different career path.
Because nothing makes managers happier...than the workers doing their job in terms of leadership
If your perception is that only leaders need communication and critical thinking ability, your industry is probably ripe for automation.
And that's the point of the article. We no longer need button pushers because automation is taking those roles. Jobs will increasingly require people to be smarter than their roles would have needed a decade ago.
Coding classes may expose people to black & white logic but they won't make people better decision makers. Coders are mostly defensive thinkers, and that only comes well into their career as they start to think what will this break rather than why did this break. I've met plenty of coders who are not any smarter or better at critical thinking than anyone else.
Now we have one great place left for skimmers to set up: gas pumps. I have yet to see one that is NFC capable or that included a chip reader.
And in the past three years, I've had my card skimmed twice -- it's become annoying enough that I ended up relegating a single card to gas station use, so that when it gets skimmed again I won't need to cancel any sort of auto-pay setup against it.
It's crazy to me that credit companies don't get stricter with gas station owners.
I do think phones are a bit different. Many people these days can't spend 30 seconds not doing anything -- they'll reach for their phones instinctively. TV/comics/music never approached this level of behavior change.
Not to say that this is a negative. It certainly can be sometimes, but I think it'd be wrong to reach a broad conclusion about it. My assumption is that you are correct and that parents are just worrying about things like parents always have... and people generally still tend to turn out alright despite all the worry.
You've misunderstood the problem. The patchability of this issue has been public knowledge for quite a while, so there's no excuse for your flippant ignorance on it. The article even specifically calls out Spectre: you'll see only the summary incorrectly mentions Meltdown.
Meltdown is only patchable via software at the OS level. This is the entire reason operating systems put in these huge page table isolation pages. The CPU fix will come years from now.
Spectre variant 2 is patchable via software per-app via e.g. Retpoline, or via CPU microcode which is what Intel has just done.
Apple is a hardware company. Google is an advertising company. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is by default more trustworthy of holding onto data.
I don't see any indication that Apple is any less likely to mine and sell user data than Google. What gives you that feeling?
So is it actually measured as neutral, or is it applying DSP tricks to *sound* neutral given the environment? The summary seems to indicate both, but these are mutually exclusive goals.
Interestingly enough, most people aren't used to hearing neutral sound and react poorly upon hearing it for the first time. It'll be interesting how this is received.
Every good propaganda is truth, twisted and magnified.
Hillary and the DNC were definitely doing underhanded things that didn't deserve to be rewarded. I still think the DNC needs to clean house and rework themselves. But that was what I was getting at. My point was that people voted for the polar opposite candidate -- in theory this should be an incredibly difficult thing to pull off, but someone executed a plan to make it happen masterfully.
Now in my own case, I think I was successfully targeted by a different kind of divide and conquer strategy. I was encouraged to get overly enthusiastic about Bernie to the point of firing my wallet at the wrong target.
Yes, this! The manipulation of Trump's supporters was so overt that it's mostly uninteresting and just tragic. The manipulation of Bernie supports is the really fascinating thing to me.
Someone manipulated things to make Hillary and the DNC so vilified that these emotion-driven voters, feeling betrayed and upset, flipped from Bernie to his polar opposite. I think it just goes to show how little Americans actually pay attention to policies during an election.
I sometimes get a feeling that once one critic badmouths a movie, it sets of a chain reaction.
Other critics will parrot the majority. Some smart guy says a movie is bad because of X... well, I'm a smart guy too, so I should probably point that out as well. And it just spirals out of control, with a movie getting progressively worse in each review.
Or at least, other critics will look at a film through a new lens. They'll know someone said X, so they'll spend the entire movie looking for examples of X.
Being unbiased is hard. It's got to be even harder now than ever, now that everyone is connected via very immediate social networks. And you have a lot of amateurs on Youtube/etc. who are early enough in their careers that they haven't figured out their biases yet.
I actually thought Bright was okay. It's not a smart movie, but it's not dumb either. It was entertaining. It tried something new and had some flaws, but nothing major.
...years after regulators forced the iPhone maker to back down from an earlier effort to challenge the e-commerce giant's lead.
Yes, that time Apple and the top five book publishers colluded to enable price fixing, causing ebook prices to skyrocket overnight. What a wonderful effort; thank you Apple for fighting the good fight against Amazon. And then a few years later when the DOJ sued them all for it, such a shame.
Our more cautious approach to human experimentation will, in the long run, be the end of us as a scientific superpower when it comes to this kind of stuff.
It also doesn't help that our government is increasingly politicizing science with one side being quite anti-science. Seemingly we will count on other countries to do the innovation.
Bitcoin's high-cost high-latency transactions make it a lot less useful as a currency than everyone hopes. Without some sort of centralized credit agency backing it to amortize those transactions, it'll never be able to take off for e.g. buying a cup of coffee.
It seems obvious the bubble will burst and I'd question how many more bubbles it'll be able to recover from without major changes.
The same could be said for operating systems. So, I think it could be done.
Design would be a patent and licensing hell, but I think it could be done. In terms of manufacturing, it'd need some sort of Kickstarter approach to pay for runs from TMSC or GlobalFoundries.
I don't know about Chicago proper, but McDonalds just vacated their ~80 acre campus in the Oak Brook. Looks like a pretty fancy place, but who knows if it'll be fancy enough for Amazon.
Getting rid of this horrid first past the post voting system is the only real way to fix things. Our representatives have no reason to represent us if our only choices are between bad, worse, and crazy.
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My thought exactly. Linux has been embrace/extending for decades, and nobody has managed to extinguish it -- even when presented with unique challenges like Tivoization.
Microsoft's new strategy is that they just want you using their cloud -- they don't care if you use Windows while you're there. And the way they do this is by making it as easy to integrate with Azure as possible, regardless of the platform you're coding for or administering from. Integrating Ubuntu into Windows is all part of making administration easier.
Because who else has a Porsche running an American V8? Some people just like to tinker. Some do it with code, some 3d print drones, some build weird cars. These people are all cool as fuck.
I think there's some confusion with TFA, it is not talking about dev jobs -- it is targeting ALL jobs.
Which is what I was speaking to: yes this method of thinking IS something most coders develop but it can take 5-10 years, so a few light coding classes is not going to help anyone in a different career path.
Because nothing makes managers happier...than the workers doing their job in terms of leadership
If your perception is that only leaders need communication and critical thinking ability, your industry is probably ripe for automation.
And that's the point of the article. We no longer need button pushers because automation is taking those roles. Jobs will increasingly require people to be smarter than their roles would have needed a decade ago.
Coding classes may expose people to black & white logic but they won't make people better decision makers. Coders are mostly defensive thinkers, and that only comes well into their career as they start to think what will this break rather than why did this break. I've met plenty of coders who are not any smarter or better at critical thinking than anyone else.
Now we have one great place left for skimmers to set up: gas pumps. I have yet to see one that is NFC capable or that included a chip reader.
And in the past three years, I've had my card skimmed twice -- it's become annoying enough that I ended up relegating a single card to gas station use, so that when it gets skimmed again I won't need to cancel any sort of auto-pay setup against it.
It's crazy to me that credit companies don't get stricter with gas station owners.
I do think phones are a bit different. Many people these days can't spend 30 seconds not doing anything -- they'll reach for their phones instinctively. TV/comics/music never approached this level of behavior change.
Not to say that this is a negative. It certainly can be sometimes, but I think it'd be wrong to reach a broad conclusion about it. My assumption is that you are correct and that parents are just worrying about things like parents always have... and people generally still tend to turn out alright despite all the worry.
You've misunderstood the problem. The patchability of this issue has been public knowledge for quite a while, so there's no excuse for your flippant ignorance on it. The article even specifically calls out Spectre: you'll see only the summary incorrectly mentions Meltdown.
Meltdown is only patchable via software at the OS level. This is the entire reason operating systems put in these huge page table isolation pages. The CPU fix will come years from now.
Spectre variant 2 is patchable via software per-app via e.g. Retpoline, or via CPU microcode which is what Intel has just done.
You can't fix Meltdown with a CPU patch.
Apple is a hardware company. Google is an advertising company. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is by default more trustworthy of holding onto data.
I don't see any indication that Apple is any less likely to mine and sell user data than Google. What gives you that feeling?
I'd love to know how he came up with either of those numbers as being somehow reasonable.
An RIAA lawyer commented to say the math checks out.
So is it actually measured as neutral, or is it applying DSP tricks to *sound* neutral given the environment? The summary seems to indicate both, but these are mutually exclusive goals. Interestingly enough, most people aren't used to hearing neutral sound and react poorly upon hearing it for the first time. It'll be interesting how this is received.
Every good propaganda is truth, twisted and magnified.
Hillary and the DNC were definitely doing underhanded things that didn't deserve to be rewarded. I still think the DNC needs to clean house and rework themselves. But that was what I was getting at. My point was that people voted for the polar opposite candidate -- in theory this should be an incredibly difficult thing to pull off, but someone executed a plan to make it happen masterfully.
Now in my own case, I think I was successfully targeted by a different kind of divide and conquer strategy. I was encouraged to get overly enthusiastic about Bernie to the point of firing my wallet at the wrong target.
Yes, this! The manipulation of Trump's supporters was so overt that it's mostly uninteresting and just tragic. The manipulation of Bernie supports is the really fascinating thing to me.
Someone manipulated things to make Hillary and the DNC so vilified that these emotion-driven voters, feeling betrayed and upset, flipped from Bernie to his polar opposite. I think it just goes to show how little Americans actually pay attention to policies during an election.
We've moved to a mostly cashless society and made a handful of banks the arbiters of what we're allowed to buy.
And Bitcoin is designed explicitly to prevent this kind of abuse. Of course they're afraid of it.
First of all, chill. The purpose was to get people riled up and divisive, and by being outraged you are playing into their hand.
If Americans can stop calling each-other Nazis and snowflakes, and instead unite around Fuck Putin, I'm okay with that.
I sometimes get a feeling that once one critic badmouths a movie, it sets of a chain reaction.
Other critics will parrot the majority. Some smart guy says a movie is bad because of X... well, I'm a smart guy too, so I should probably point that out as well. And it just spirals out of control, with a movie getting progressively worse in each review.
Or at least, other critics will look at a film through a new lens. They'll know someone said X, so they'll spend the entire movie looking for examples of X.
Being unbiased is hard. It's got to be even harder now than ever, now that everyone is connected via very immediate social networks. And you have a lot of amateurs on Youtube/etc. who are early enough in their careers that they haven't figured out their biases yet.
I actually thought Bright was okay. It's not a smart movie, but it's not dumb either. It was entertaining. It tried something new and had some flaws, but nothing major.
...years after regulators forced the iPhone maker to back down from an earlier effort to challenge the e-commerce giant's lead.
Yes, that time Apple and the top five book publishers colluded to enable price fixing, causing ebook prices to skyrocket overnight. What a wonderful effort; thank you Apple for fighting the good fight against Amazon. And then a few years later when the DOJ sued them all for it, such a shame.
I can't wait to see what their new efforts are.
Our more cautious approach to human experimentation will, in the long run, be the end of us as a scientific superpower when it comes to this kind of stuff.
It also doesn't help that our government is increasingly politicizing science with one side being quite anti-science. Seemingly we will count on other countries to do the innovation.
Bitcoin's high-cost high-latency transactions make it a lot less useful as a currency than everyone hopes. Without some sort of centralized credit agency backing it to amortize those transactions, it'll never be able to take off for e.g. buying a cup of coffee.
It seems obvious the bubble will burst and I'd question how many more bubbles it'll be able to recover from without major changes.
The same could be said for operating systems. So, I think it could be done.
Design would be a patent and licensing hell, but I think it could be done. In terms of manufacturing, it'd need some sort of Kickstarter approach to pay for runs from TMSC or GlobalFoundries.
This just in: top software engineers also make more than the average software engineer. More updates coming as we learn more!
It seems more to prevent people from paying $10 and binge-watching all of Amazon's exclusives in a single month.
I don't know about Chicago proper, but McDonalds just vacated their ~80 acre campus in the Oak Brook. Looks like a pretty fancy place, but who knows if it'll be fancy enough for Amazon.
Getting rid of this horrid first past the post voting system is the only real way to fix things. Our representatives have no reason to represent us if our only choices are between bad, worse, and crazy.
When people claim that the parties are functionally identical, they are ignoring things like this.
Those people are just making an easy excuse for their own ignorance and resultant inability to argue for/against a party on specific policy.