You are quite right - those drivers are precautions. This makes SDCs look even worse, because, as you pointed out in your previous response, we've had that for at least a decade. For a decade (or longer) we've had self-driving cars with precautionary drivers. What is happening now with Uber and the rest is, as you pointed out NOTHING NEW!
If someone came to me with a piece of technology looking for investment, there isn't a way in hell I would fork over the money without full disclosure of how it worked.
That's true, if the investors didn't feel they had gotten a full disclosure and still invested, then they were fools.
Looking at the PyPI download statistics1, the Python 3 situation seems gloomy: all Python 3 versions together are about as popular as Python 2.6 that nobody should use anymore.......Python 2.7 still growing.
Your VB.net idea is also off, I know several shops who use it (no idea why)
The company is located right there on Sand Hill road, which means it was built from the ground up with the idea of getting funding. They were really good at doing that.
I've watched investors and buyers do due diligence of technology, and its not particularly impressive. I could easily see how with a few good presentations they could be tricked, especially since technologically-minded people aren't good at looking for scams. That is, if they are talking to someone who understands the subject, they assume he is also not lying.
Far too many people having too many babies in parts of the world that can't support those populations and thus the resulting strife and misery? Cultural problem.
Far too many parents being completely disengaged with their kids' education, or too dumb themselves to contribute to it? Cultural problem.
Sense of entitlement causing resentment instead of inspiring the creativity and productivity that comes without being raised in a state of feeling owed things? Cultural problem.
All sorts of ecological messes and resource shortages? Cultural - see first example. Persistent friction between modernity and retrograde medieval thinking, including blowing up pressure cooker bombs in NY (as we had again, tonight)? Cultural problem.
We can't even agree on what the problems are.....pretty much all the things you listed are controversial to some segment of society (often very large segments).
Yeah, if only there techies who spent a bunch of time writing free software. If only there were people who dedicated their lives to making free software. They could start a foundation.
But no, everyone knows open source is about the money.
Yeah, give an 8-year-old Logo and a Turtle, and within a few hours they'll be programming. The idea that normal people can't program is an idea that can only be held by the ignorant.
As the account slipped further and further behind I tried an idea based on the common practice of companies like this sending out a check "cash this to enroll in our credit monitoring service" or whatnot.
I drafted a repayment agreement at 0.000% (I did borrow the money, I should pay it back, but by their actions I decided they forfeit being able to earn any money from me) and wrote a check for the first payment.
I looked up their business office (*not* payment office) and mailed the letter and check (both referencing the other and acceptance of terms by cashing check) attention: Account Manager.
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Complaining about it isn't going to change anything.
Most likely complaining loudly enough will give them a bigger royalty payment.
The reason they can get away with it is because copyright law explicitly allows you to include imaginary sales in the damages calculation. FWIW.
You are quite right - those drivers are precautions. This makes SDCs look even worse, because, as you pointed out in your previous response, we've had that for at least a decade. For a decade (or longer) we've had self-driving cars with precautionary drivers. What is happening now with Uber and the rest is, as you pointed out NOTHING NEW!
We've had it since the 90s, actually. Cross-country trips, 98% autonomous with neural networks.
ZFS on Linux would be a non-issue if a company other than Oracle was involved in the matter.
Sun purposely made the license incompatible with Linux.
That if HRC doesn't win in November, she'll be in jail a year from November?
No point wasting scandal-time on those without power.
as much as you might disagree with some of their stances, their candidates aren't morally bankrupt idiots
I think that's probably not true. If they attracted the focus of other candidates, you would quickly find them morally bankrupt also.
Of course. It's about tone. What you say is just as important as what you intended to say.
I guess you don't really travel, then.
If someone came to me with a piece of technology looking for investment, there isn't a way in hell I would fork over the money without full disclosure of how it worked.
That's true, if the investors didn't feel they had gotten a full disclosure and still invested, then they were fools.
A major part of SpaceX's goals is to *reduce* the cost of space travel.
Worth mentioning they've succeeded......costs of launching a satellite have dropped by an order of magnitude or two.
Looking at the PyPI download statistics1, the Python 3 situation seems gloomy: all Python 3 versions together are about as popular as Python 2.6 that nobody should use anymore.......Python 2.7 still growing.
Your VB.net idea is also off, I know several shops who use it (no idea why)
"Move fast and break things,"
It's such a bad saying that even Facebook has discarded it.
Yeah, it's bloated......at 12MB compiled (on my computer).
The company is located right there on Sand Hill road, which means it was built from the ground up with the idea of getting funding. They were really good at doing that.
I've watched investors and buyers do due diligence of technology, and its not particularly impressive. I could easily see how with a few good presentations they could be tricked, especially since technologically-minded people aren't good at looking for scams. That is, if they are talking to someone who understands the subject, they assume he is also not lying.
Oracle won by saying, "Yes, you win, you can pay me."
Well, if your point is that there are too many idiot programmers writing bad code, I agree with you there.
Your question in the title is an accusation: the headline accuses 'techies' of not improving the world. Don't go around accusing people.
But other than all that......what have the Romans^W Programmers ever given us?
Far too many people having too many babies in parts of the world that can't support those populations and thus the resulting strife and misery? Cultural problem. Far too many parents being completely disengaged with their kids' education, or too dumb themselves to contribute to it? Cultural problem. Sense of entitlement causing resentment instead of inspiring the creativity and productivity that comes without being raised in a state of feeling owed things? Cultural problem. All sorts of ecological messes and resource shortages? Cultural - see first example. Persistent friction between modernity and retrograde medieval thinking, including blowing up pressure cooker bombs in NY (as we had again, tonight)? Cultural problem.
We can't even agree on what the problems are.....pretty much all the things you listed are controversial to some segment of society (often very large segments).
Yeah, if only there techies who spent a bunch of time writing free software. If only there were people who dedicated their lives to making free software. They could start a foundation.
But no, everyone knows open source is about the money.
The Swift libraries that everyone uses are not open source, though.
Yeah, give an 8-year-old Logo and a Turtle, and within a few hours they'll be programming. The idea that normal people can't program is an idea that can only be held by the ignorant.
That's really annoying.
I feel like sewer rats just kind of fit in a niche.....where they can hide from human presence.
As the account slipped further and further behind I tried an idea based on the common practice of companies like this sending out a check "cash this to enroll in our credit monitoring service" or whatnot. I drafted a repayment agreement at 0.000% (I did borrow the money, I should pay it back, but by their actions I decided they forfeit being able to earn any money from me) and wrote a check for the first payment. I looked up their business office (*not* payment office) and mailed the letter and check (both referencing the other and acceptance of terms by cashing check) attention: Account Manager.
Genius.