I've worked at Oracle Engineering (in the middleware division), and there was lot's of unnecessary and incompetent engineers. The deep pockets of the corporation reached a level where you had principal engineers who couldn't code. Some people would just close tickets as "implemented" and wait for QA to report a bug on it to actually implement it. That way metric were always fine. Everything is on time, managers look good.
My guess is that this round of layoffs is not nearly enough.
Since 2011, the total number of jobs created and supported by Apple in the United States has more than tripled — from almost 600,000 to 2 million across all 50 states.
It's not the same, for web pages, at least we have the browser that provides a somewhat consistent user experience, for streaming video, each has its own app with its own quirks.
I think Netflix dropped the ball. They were the effective monopoly in terms of digital distribution.
They should have allowed others such as HBO, etc. to sell premium packages on top of Netflix. They take a cut, and become the distribution platform, plus they compete with their own shows. They could have pulled it off, building a reliable streaming platform is not easy/cheap.
Streaming is fantastic, but having to deal with many apps and sites to get what you want is a usability nightmare, to the point that people are resorting again to piracy.
I think Gabe Newell was right when he said piracy is a quality of service problem.
I'm Argentinian, not the top of the pack in terms of government competency, but to get a passport I have to be physically there and they take my picture and fingerprints. You cannot submit your own picture, that's a glaring security hole. They authenticate your identity first and then capture the picture.
Even the camera operators cannot override the input from the camera, at least not easily.
There are 4 guys that don't know their emails properly. One is from Colombia, one from Ecuador and two from Chile.
I get insurance papers, lab results (bladder infection if you want to know), construction material quotes, bank login credential, Netflix accounts, etc.
It's quite common, most days I get one or two emails meant for these four guys. Most sites are so poorly implemented that there's no way to unsubscribe or report, they just accept any email at face value.
The world is a large place, navigating copyright laws is hard and Spotify and Apple have been doing it for a long time.
They have barely expanded their prime video service abroad, so I'm not too worried.
In most places Spotify is unbeatable and gaining speed.
Passwords are bad, but are a lot less annoying than passwords plus 2FA. The loss of the second factor is basically a nightmare, and each service wants you to use their own app or whatever. Even changing phones becomes a hassle.
I get it for an enterprise environment, where in an emergency, you can call your local IT guy an get them to reset it for you, but if something goes wrong with Google you're screwed. You can't even pay to talk to someone to get it fixed.
It's the manufacturers that need something to push more units. Smart TVs obsolesce faster than dumb ones. So they push the convenience of not having to deal with multiple devices and most people fall for it.
I think the devices are much better at understanding you across the room in a relatively noisy environment than the phones. That's the main driver I believe.
Contraceptive pills for women piggyback on the existing infertile period: pregnancy and lactation.
If you already have a basic mechanism to stop fertility in place, it's a lot easier to trigger it on command. Specially when it is designed for external control. It is the fetus that signals the mother's body to switch to pregnancy mode. This makes it a lot easier to find and trigger the chemical pathways that will do the trick.
Males, on the other hand, do not have such mechanism, which makes this much harder to achieve without serious side-effects,
Apple understand that everything should revolve around user experience in the broadest sense, features are meaningless unless they build towards an overall great experience.
I am CPR trained (I have two kids), usually all you can do is buy time for the emergency services to show up. Essentially you postpone/reduce brain damage. The first thing they teach you you is asses the situation, get somebody to call emergency services, start CPR and sustain until help arrives.
In this case Siri played the role of the third party that calls 911 which is not a small thing. Seconds count in these situations.
So I checked the site, and the tree words that it picks for the location it guessed I was at are "meto.pienso.coger", which in Argentinian Spanish would translate to something like: "I put (something) in. I think. To fuck"
Somebody didn't think this through.
Just some observational evidence, but big companies do not seem to buy ideas or technologies. . . they do seem to buy customers, though.
You're right. Ideas are dime a dozen, execution is what's hard. Unless you have proven to be able to execute, the idea from a third party is just potential liability.
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I've worked at Oracle Engineering (in the middleware division), and there was lot's of unnecessary and incompetent engineers. The deep pockets of the corporation reached a level where you had principal engineers who couldn't code. Some people would just close tickets as "implemented" and wait for QA to report a bug on it to actually implement it. That way metric were always fine. Everything is on time, managers look good. My guess is that this round of layoffs is not nearly enough.
The sample size is way too small to draw the article's conclusion. It could still be by chance.
Since 2011, the total number of jobs created and supported by Apple in the United States has more than tripled — from almost 600,000 to 2 million across all 50 states.
It's not the same, for web pages, at least we have the browser that provides a somewhat consistent user experience, for streaming video, each has its own app with its own quirks.
They should have allowed others such as HBO, etc. to sell premium packages on top of Netflix. They take a cut, and become the distribution platform, plus they compete with their own shows. They could have pulled it off, building a reliable streaming platform is not easy/cheap.
Streaming is fantastic, but having to deal with many apps and sites to get what you want is a usability nightmare, to the point that people are resorting again to piracy.
I think Gabe Newell was right when he said piracy is a quality of service problem.
I'm Argentinian, not the top of the pack in terms of government competency, but to get a passport I have to be physically there and they take my picture and fingerprints. You cannot submit your own picture, that's a glaring security hole. They authenticate your identity first and then capture the picture.
Even the camera operators cannot override the input from the camera, at least not easily.
It's quite common, most days I get one or two emails meant for these four guys. Most sites are so poorly implemented that there's no way to unsubscribe or report, they just accept any email at face value.
I just ignore them.
The world is a large place, navigating copyright laws is hard and Spotify and Apple have been doing it for a long time. They have barely expanded their prime video service abroad, so I'm not too worried. In most places Spotify is unbeatable and gaining speed.
It actually has 48GB but you can link two through NVLink for a total of 96GB
Passwords are bad, but are a lot less annoying than passwords plus 2FA. The loss of the second factor is basically a nightmare, and each service wants you to use their own app or whatever. Even changing phones becomes a hassle. I get it for an enterprise environment, where in an emergency, you can call your local IT guy an get them to reset it for you, but if something goes wrong with Google you're screwed. You can't even pay to talk to someone to get it fixed.
TLDR: apologies, update with battery state coming, next year, battery change is $29 (instead of $79) https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/
(it may have a different name if it was customized somehow)
That way you can keep the repo and you won't pull something unwanted.
You forgot that the phone is no longer water proof.
Tasers are considered torture devices under UN regulations and are illegal in many countries, even for law enforcement use.
It's the manufacturers that need something to push more units. Smart TVs obsolesce faster than dumb ones. So they push the convenience of not having to deal with multiple devices and most people fall for it.
I think the devices are much better at understanding you across the room in a relatively noisy environment than the phones. That's the main driver I believe.
Try Backblaze, I've been using them for several years.
If you already have a basic mechanism to stop fertility in place, it's a lot easier to trigger it on command. Specially when it is designed for external control. It is the fetus that signals the mother's body to switch to pregnancy mode. This makes it a lot easier to find and trigger the chemical pathways that will do the trick.
Males, on the other hand, do not have such mechanism, which makes this much harder to achieve without serious side-effects,
Apple understand that everything should revolve around user experience in the broadest sense, features are meaningless unless they build towards an overall great experience.
More likely the phone transmitter is interfering with the bluetooth signal with an active call.
I am CPR trained (I have two kids), usually all you can do is buy time for the emergency services to show up. Essentially you postpone/reduce brain damage. The first thing they teach you you is asses the situation, get somebody to call emergency services, start CPR and sustain until help arrives. In this case Siri played the role of the third party that calls 911 which is not a small thing. Seconds count in these situations.
So I checked the site, and the tree words that it picks for the location it guessed I was at are "meto.pienso.coger", which in Argentinian Spanish would translate to something like: "I put (something) in. I think. To fuck" Somebody didn't think this through.
Just some observational evidence, but big companies do not seem to buy ideas or technologies. . . they do seem to buy customers, though.
You're right. Ideas are dime a dozen, execution is what's hard. Unless you have proven to be able to execute, the idea from a third party is just potential liability.
On the plus side, the system is audit-able. There's a paper ballot that can be manually recounted and validated (a manually signed paper envelope).
Even if the source were fine, they could have a backdoor in the compiler!