Not to be that annoying android fan boy guy but if you had gone with android, you could get a different launcher (the thing that manages the home screen basically) and customize how many icons are on it. Some launchers even completely change the way the home screen works. I'm not saying you should have gone android by the way, you're probably happy with your phone and that's great.
Bus factor is definitely an issue. The solution may be to migrate to Xamarin for mobile development and then we'd all be using the same technology, but that hasn't been decided for sure.
Thanks, maybe it's not well suited to our extremely tiny company because we are pretty much all specialized. There's no way I will have any contribution for the (only) iOS guy because I'm the (only) Android guy and don't know anything about iOS, and vice versa.
You seem to know a bit about it, can you explain the point of the daily standup? As a developer, I have never found any value in hearing what everyone else is working on. If it's something I need to know about, I will know about it already through other channels. Is it just for the PM's benefit? And if so wouldn't it be more efficient to just use good PM software?
Besides the glaring issue of Islam not being a race or ethnicity as has been pointed out, you have also failed to demonstrate the relevance of the "Negro ancestry", or show any connection between genetic defects arising from inbreeding and "barbarism" or terrorism.
The average telephone user doesn't understand how trunk lines work or the line voltages for talk and ring on the average phone, or how a telephone exchange works, they only care that when they pick up the handset, there's a dial-tone and they can make a call.
I wonder how many people under about 18 or 20 even know what a dial tone is. Plenty of them have probably never had a home phone, or at least not when they were old enough to use it. Are dial tones in enough movies and TV that it would be familiar? I'll have to ask my kids.
There's also a middle area with things like medicine and running companies (the go-to joke being that your phone could run a company better than most CEOs but putting that aside). I have a feeling what will take the longest is areas where people just prefer dealing with a human even if a robot is just as good. Nursing maybe. Sooner or later robots will be more or less indistinguishable from humans but not for a very long time.
If we don't figure out how to distribute wealth other than via work, that dystopia might be on fire with rich people's heads on spikes.
Though I'm not sure what you mean by non-derivative art. Art that people make is derivative too; it's a result of inputs that include the art that has gone before, and builds on previous works.
That is not a perfect substitute for the Windows (and I assume other OSes) trash/recycle bin. For example, try using both techniques to create foo.txt, delete it, create it again in the same place, and delete it again. The recycle bin will have both deleted files and you can restore either. The mv version will have only one copy.
If you're suggesting that good poker players don't use statistics, you're very much mistaken. Anyone other than a rank beginner will do at least some calculation of odds.
How many common human tasks really require general intelligence? It seems to me we need general intelligence to be good at lots of different tasks, but specialized AI could take over nearly all of them at some point. Maybe all of them.
I suppose it depends on the cloud service. You can never be certain it's going to remain available forever; as you say companies and services come and go. I think you can tell from reviews whether the quality of a service is good. And services that work like LastPass (which is the one I'm familiar with) don't require access all the time anyway. There's a copy of the vault on whatever device you installed it on, and it just uses that, and the cloud is for synchronization. What happens if their service goes away entirely I'm not sure.
If I host my own password manager it is entirely up to me and I present a much smaller attack surface compared to a centralized repository sitting on the open internet.
That is true, but you're also substituting your own equipment, services, and skills instead of the provider's. A well respected service is likely to do a better job with both protection and availability for anyone other than experienced computer security professionals. I'm not one of those so I leave it to the pros, but maybe you are.
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Two of his most famous roles are in Twister and Big Love.
As long as the means of production are privately owned, that's capitalism. It may not be free market capitalism, but that's more specific.
Why didn't you note that true capitalism has never been faithfully tried, either?
Do you mean there's always some means of production owned by the government, even if it's very small, therefore it's not pure capitalism?
Yeah, but it sounds like the HR person is doing exactly what management wants.
Google for example has hired every single black person who has ever applied... But since any black with C and D averages can get into MIT...
Got any citations for those claims?
Not to be that annoying android fan boy guy but if you had gone with android, you could get a different launcher (the thing that manages the home screen basically) and customize how many icons are on it. Some launchers even completely change the way the home screen works. I'm not saying you should have gone android by the way, you're probably happy with your phone and that's great.
Then he sets his target at $5500 and takes home 10% profit.
I don't know how old you are but I turn 49 in a few days. At no time in my IT career have I ever seen a living wage.
So have you been on welfare this whole time, or how are you still alive?
Last time I tried Skype on Linux it was completely broken.
Maybe you have a different definition of dumb phone than I do but what good is 4G on a dumb phone?
Bus factor is definitely an issue. The solution may be to migrate to Xamarin for mobile development and then we'd all be using the same technology, but that hasn't been decided for sure.
Thanks, maybe it's not well suited to our extremely tiny company because we are pretty much all specialized. There's no way I will have any contribution for the (only) iOS guy because I'm the (only) Android guy and don't know anything about iOS, and vice versa.
You seem to know a bit about it, can you explain the point of the daily standup? As a developer, I have never found any value in hearing what everyone else is working on. If it's something I need to know about, I will know about it already through other channels. Is it just for the PM's benefit? And if so wouldn't it be more efficient to just use good PM software?
Are you referring to Informix-4GL, or 4th generation languages generally?
Besides the glaring issue of Islam not being a race or ethnicity as has been pointed out, you have also failed to demonstrate the relevance of the "Negro ancestry", or show any connection between genetic defects arising from inbreeding and "barbarism" or terrorism.
The average telephone user doesn't understand how trunk lines work or the line voltages for talk and ring on the average phone, or how a telephone exchange works, they only care that when they pick up the handset, there's a dial-tone and they can make a call.
I wonder how many people under about 18 or 20 even know what a dial tone is. Plenty of them have probably never had a home phone, or at least not when they were old enough to use it. Are dial tones in enough movies and TV that it would be familiar? I'll have to ask my kids.
You're right, Trump is honest, because somebody else said something that wasn't true.
There's also a middle area with things like medicine and running companies (the go-to joke being that your phone could run a company better than most CEOs but putting that aside). I have a feeling what will take the longest is areas where people just prefer dealing with a human even if a robot is just as good. Nursing maybe. Sooner or later robots will be more or less indistinguishable from humans but not for a very long time.
If we don't figure out how to distribute wealth other than via work, that dystopia might be on fire with rich people's heads on spikes.
Though I'm not sure what you mean by non-derivative art. Art that people make is derivative too; it's a result of inputs that include the art that has gone before, and builds on previous works.
That is not a perfect substitute for the Windows (and I assume other OSes) trash/recycle bin. For example, try using both techniques to create foo.txt, delete it, create it again in the same place, and delete it again. The recycle bin will have both deleted files and you can restore either. The mv version will have only one copy.
If you're suggesting that good poker players don't use statistics, you're very much mistaken. Anyone other than a rank beginner will do at least some calculation of odds.
There was one AI that learned to recognize wolves by the fact that they had snow around them, because the training photos of wolves all had snow.
How many common human tasks really require general intelligence? It seems to me we need general intelligence to be good at lots of different tasks, but specialized AI could take over nearly all of them at some point. Maybe all of them.
AI isn't thoughtless arithmetic either.
According to this we're a fairly distant second after Israel.
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I suppose it depends on the cloud service. You can never be certain it's going to remain available forever; as you say companies and services come and go. I think you can tell from reviews whether the quality of a service is good. And services that work like LastPass (which is the one I'm familiar with) don't require access all the time anyway. There's a copy of the vault on whatever device you installed it on, and it just uses that, and the cloud is for synchronization. What happens if their service goes away entirely I'm not sure.
If I host my own password manager it is entirely up to me and I present a much smaller attack surface compared to a centralized repository sitting on the open internet.
That is true, but you're also substituting your own equipment, services, and skills instead of the provider's. A well respected service is likely to do a better job with both protection and availability for anyone other than experienced computer security professionals. I'm not one of those so I leave it to the pros, but maybe you are.