Just how fucking beyond stupid do you have to be to willingly bug your own home with one of these devices? Or is just the ultimate expression of apathy when you can't even be bothered to use a touchscreen to find or do what you need? I think the passengers in the Wall-E film are a closer reality than anyone believed.
When you're a small startup you concentrate on one thing and do it well. You don't throw money at a wall and see where it sticks. Sure , when you're a multi billion dollar company like Google then you can blow all the money you like on pie in the sky, but when you've got bank loans and/or vencture capitalists on your back you need to make damn sure you concentrate all your resources on producing a working product.
"People who speak English, but refuse to accept that American English is the standard form, might get support last though; More people speak American English or French, or German, or Japanese, etc., etc., than speak each of the various regional English dialects."
American english is a dialect. Real english is spoken in England. The clue is in the name. Ditto if I wanted to hear proper spanish I'd visit spain, not mexico.
"Keyboard and mouse are primitive. Voice, slightly less primitive"
Actually the keyboard and mouse are extremely good for the tasks they were designed for. Try saying "int main left round bracket int A-R-G-C comma char star star A-R-G-V right round bracket left curly bracket..." etc faster than I can type the equivalent.
Similarly good luck using photoscope going "ok, do a transform from that point there, no left a bit, no right a bit, no there, THERE! , yes thats it, now drag that down from 10 pixels back... no TEN, oh FFS, wheres my mouse..."
You're obviously an Einstein level savant for figuring that out for yourself so fast. I was wondering for a long time if "second hottest" meant there was ONE year that was hotter.
SImply as a last resort - if you're lost your wallet or phone you can always borrow some cash whereas not many people will let you borrow their cards!
Plus sometimes its nice to be able to pay anonymously and not always be tracked by some financial organisation by using their services.
Once cash is gone then the banks + Apple really will be the ones in charge or your life. There'll be no anonymity and if the bank suspends your account then you won't even be able to buy a coffee never mind pay your rent. All the millenials rushing to ditch cash and thinking its yesterdays payment system might want to think about that for a moment especially given how hot they are on privacy and anonymity elsewhere.
Thanks for the heads up on your 1990s design pattern knowledge, but I was talking mainly about backend code on proper computers, not silly little smartphone apps. As for Qt, its one of the better ones out there.
Most *progams* only run on one architecture anyway but perhaps you've not heard of compile time options in code that allow you to use the same source code for multiple platforms.
Do you actually work with computers or did you get lost here on the way to Facebook?
Instead of using lots of scripting languages and VM with frameworks that suck up huge volumes of memory and are so poorly written they require large amounts of CPU time to do very little, perhaps there should be a return to an emphasis on more effcient compiled languages that only use what resources they need at any given time.
Yeah I know, get off my lawn etc. But that fact that script kiddy coders don't like being told that their toy language is a bloated CPU hogging mess doesn't change the reality of the situation.
When you've grown up and mummy doesn't drive you everywhere and you have to get yourself to places that don't have public transport or nice men driving Ubers (yes, they're cars too), perhaps you'll understand.
.... that don't require volatile organics in their manufacture. Perhaps this current fashion for glueing everything could be reverted back to rivets and bolts for a start. And there are plenty of plastics that don't release volatile compounds for months after they're purchased - eg you wouldn't be too happy if your food smelt like a chemical plant after you took it out the packaging.
Given that everything in java inherits from Object templates are not required. They were simply put it to keep some purists happy and serve little practical purpose other than to have some errors occur at compile time rather than runtime.
Thats all nice in theory, but in practice in a job you'll be working on all styles of C++ and you DO need to know all of it to be effective. Ditto when it comes to interviews. "Yeah, I'm no beginner but whats dis lambda shit? You not needin that bro!" isn't going to get you a job.
Its pie in the sky wishful thinking by people who've read too many sci fi novels and don't understand the real sciencei, engineering, biological and psychological issues very well.
"You are lucky that you have projects that use C++11... my Java projects usually feel like being stuck around 1995..."
Thats the problem - you can't just learn the new stuff, you have to learn *everything* because any C++ program you work on might have syntax from the 80s up to the latest draft.
You have the opposite problem in java - a fairly stable syntax with only useful stuff added now and then, but libraries and frameworks that breed like rabbits with a new one along every year thats going to be The New Way.
Its not a minor issue - you'd have to fully wash and decontaminate a spacesuit each time it came back into the facility Even a tiny amount of dust that got in would soon make people sick and clog up machinary. These arn't the sort of problems you can hand wave away.
The language is now so large and complicated because the ISO committee just won't leave well alone, that its a virtual cliff face for newcomers to climb in order to learn it. So thats the next generation lost. And even the current generation of C++ coders such as myself have given up learning the latest drafts of esoteric garbage that have been shoe-horned into it by people who clearly have too much time on their hands. I stopped at the 2011 iteration of the language, 2014 and 2017 have passed me by because it appears to be a law of dimishing returns leaning the new stuff and frankly I have better things to do with my free time.
I modded you up but my mod point vanished into the ether - not for the first time on slashdot. So screw it, i'll reploy. Jim Dyson is a master of marketing - he had one ok idea in his life which was a bagless vacuum cleaner and he's been dining out on it with ever diminishing returns ever since.
All his latest "inventions" are useless junk which are more expensive and worse than the alternatives - eg the bladeless fan which blows about as much as as a knats fart and the "blade" hand dryer which blows water in your face, can only dry hands, collects muck in its u-bend design and because the 2 vents are so close together you often end up touching the filthy thing which your clean hands.
Oh, and he loves to wave the union jack flag when it suits him for sales purposes and trumpets the UK - even voted brexit - then the fucker went and opened his new factory in singapore last month citing staffing issues in the UK. IMO he can go swivel on it.
"Nor can humans. Those situations trip up humans all the time."
Speak for yourself. Those situations trip a small minority of humans which could easily be rectified with harder driving tests, but they trip ALL current self driving systems.
The difference in those examples is that the automation was an improvement on the human. A self driving car OTOH is still extremely limited in scope and ability compared to a human driver and despite all the usual silicon valley techno-utopia hype and BS, exists simply to save on the cost of drivers wages. So if you cut costs expect to suffer the consequences if something goes wrong.
This is slashdot, even the article posters often don't read the articles they link to, never mind people who simply want to get max points for 1st post!
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Just how fucking beyond stupid do you have to be to willingly bug your own home with one of these devices? Or is just the ultimate expression of apathy when you can't even be bothered to use a touchscreen to find or do what you need? I think the passengers in the Wall-E film are a closer reality than anyone believed.
When you're a small startup you concentrate on one thing and do it well. You don't throw money at a wall and see where it sticks. Sure , when you're a multi billion dollar company like Google then you can blow all the money you like on pie in the sky, but when you've got bank loans and/or vencture capitalists on your back you need to make damn sure you concentrate all your resources on producing a working product.
... with Unicorns is that they're both fantasy.
Just who are the clueless financial fuckwits who value these companies? Whoever they are I do hope they're not involved in managing my pension pot.
"People who speak English, but refuse to accept that American English is the standard form, might get support last though; More people speak American English or French, or German, or Japanese, etc., etc., than speak each of the various regional English dialects."
American english is a dialect. Real english is spoken in England. The clue is in the name. Ditto if I wanted to hear proper spanish I'd visit spain, not mexico.
"Keyboard and mouse are primitive. Voice, slightly less primitive"
Actually the keyboard and mouse are extremely good for the tasks they were designed for. Try saying "int main left round bracket int A-R-G-C comma char star star A-R-G-V right round bracket left curly bracket..."
etc faster than I can type the equivalent.
Similarly good luck using photoscope going "ok, do a transform from that point there, no left a bit, no right a bit, no there, THERE! , yes thats it, now drag that down from 10 pixels back ... no TEN, oh FFS, wheres my mouse..."
You're obviously an Einstein level savant for figuring that out for yourself so fast. I was wondering for a long time if "second hottest" meant there was ONE year that was hotter.
SImply as a last resort - if you're lost your wallet or phone you can always borrow some cash whereas not many people will let you borrow their cards!
Plus sometimes its nice to be able to pay anonymously and not always be tracked by some financial organisation by using their services.
Once cash is gone then the banks + Apple really will be the ones in charge or your life. There'll be no anonymity and if the bank suspends your account then you won't even be able to buy a coffee never mind pay your rent. All the millenials rushing to ditch cash and thinking its yesterdays payment system might want to think about that for a moment especially given how hot they are on privacy and anonymity elsewhere.
The 21st century MS is far more of the latter as all their decent programmers and team leads upped and left years ago.
The x86 instruction set simply doesn't lend itself to pared down power efficient architectures.
Thanks for the heads up on your 1990s design pattern knowledge, but I was talking mainly about backend code on proper computers, not silly little smartphone apps. As for Qt, its one of the better ones out there.
Most *progams* only run on one architecture anyway but perhaps you've not heard of compile time options in code that allow you to use the same source code for multiple platforms.
Do you actually work with computers or did you get lost here on the way to Facebook?
Instead of using lots of scripting languages and VM with frameworks that suck up huge volumes of memory and are so poorly written they require large amounts of CPU time to do very little, perhaps there should be a return to an emphasis on more effcient compiled languages that only use what resources they need at any given time.
Yeah I know, get off my lawn etc. But that fact that script kiddy coders don't like being told that their toy language is a bloated CPU hogging mess doesn't change the reality of the situation.
When you've grown up and mummy doesn't drive you everywhere and you have to get yourself to places that don't have public transport or nice men driving Ubers (yes, they're cars too), perhaps you'll understand.
.... that don't require volatile organics in their manufacture. Perhaps this current fashion for glueing everything could be reverted back to rivets and bolts for a start. And there are plenty of plastics that don't release volatile compounds for months after they're purchased - eg you wouldn't be too happy if your food smelt like a chemical plant after you took it out the packaging.
Given that everything in java inherits from Object templates are not required. They were simply put it to keep some purists happy and serve little practical purpose other than to have some errors occur at compile time rather than runtime.
Thats all nice in theory, but in practice in a job you'll be working on all styles of C++ and you DO need to know all of it to be effective. Ditto when it comes to interviews. "Yeah, I'm no beginner but whats dis lambda shit? You not needin that bro!" isn't going to get you a job.
Its pie in the sky wishful thinking by people who've read too many sci fi novels and don't understand the real sciencei, engineering, biological and psychological issues very well.
Cover yourself in poisonous flour and see how well a clean room decontamination suite works.
"You are lucky that you have projects that use C++11 ... my Java projects usually feel like being stuck around 1995 ..."
Thats the problem - you can't just learn the new stuff, you have to learn *everything* because any C++ program you work on might have syntax from the 80s up to the latest draft.
You have the opposite problem in java - a fairly stable syntax with only useful stuff added now and then, but libraries and frameworks that breed like rabbits with a new one along every year thats going to be The New Way.
Its not a minor issue - you'd have to fully wash and decontaminate a spacesuit each time it came back into the facility Even a tiny amount of dust that got in would soon make people sick and clog up machinary. These arn't the sort of problems you can hand wave away.
The language is now so large and complicated because the ISO committee just won't leave well alone, that its a virtual cliff face for newcomers to climb in order to learn it. So thats the next generation lost. And even the current generation of C++ coders such as myself have given up learning the latest drafts of esoteric garbage that have been shoe-horned into it by people who clearly have too much time on their hands. I stopped at the 2011 iteration of the language, 2014 and 2017 have passed me by because it appears to be a law of dimishing returns leaning the new stuff and frankly I have better things to do with my free time.
I modded you up but my mod point vanished into the ether - not for the first time on slashdot. So screw it, i'll reploy. Jim Dyson is a master of marketing - he had one ok idea in his life which was a bagless vacuum cleaner and he's been dining out on it with ever diminishing returns ever since.
All his latest "inventions" are useless junk which are more expensive and worse than the alternatives - eg the bladeless fan which blows about as much as as a knats fart and the "blade" hand dryer which blows water in your face, can only dry hands, collects muck in its u-bend design and because the 2 vents are so close together you often end up touching the filthy thing which your clean hands.
Oh, and he loves to wave the union jack flag when it suits him for sales purposes and trumpets the UK - even voted brexit - then the fucker went and opened his new factory in singapore last month citing staffing issues in the UK. IMO he can go swivel on it.
"Nor can humans. Those situations trip up humans all the time."
Speak for yourself. Those situations trip a small minority of humans which could easily be rectified with harder driving tests, but they trip ALL current self driving systems.
The difference in those examples is that the automation was an improvement on the human. A self driving car OTOH is still extremely limited in scope and ability compared to a human driver and despite all the usual silicon valley techno-utopia hype and BS, exists simply to save on the cost of drivers wages. So if you cut costs expect to suffer the consequences if something goes wrong.
This is slashdot, even the article posters often don't read the articles they link to, never mind people who simply want to get max points for 1st post!