The real question that should be asked is what kind of work environment did, say, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Jack Dorsey etc. have when they did the heavy lifting of originating their software concepts.
My bet would be quiet university dorm rooms or similar. In other words the opposite of the open plan office.
Depends on the size of your hands to some degree. I find that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V for example requires twisting the left wrist outward so the hand is angled to the left, and also requires stretching the fingers apart. The natural resting positions of hands which are together in front of you on a keyboard is for the hands to be pointed inward (left hand angled slightly to the right) with fingers not stretched in tendon tension apart.
If you spend serious hours and days and weeks and months and years programming or doing IT admin, your hands will get damaged with the repeated stretches and twists needed to do Ctrl+whatever. You might say there are two-handed alternatives to the twisty-stretchy ones, but two handed gestures are prone to failure by reversed order of press.
These are all small details, yes, but ergonomic details make the difference when you have to do things thousands and thousands of times.
No. We just won't be using macbooks for development any more. Shame really. I'm waiting for someone to make the ultimate linux-based software development laptop now. And it would be nice if it had some of the design cohesion and just-works features of apple products.
Before someone rants, of course developers use many other editor tools, but proper support of the terminal and vi is essential for a serious server-software (back end software, or IT admin) development box.
Most people have figured out that they carry their phone all the time so the watch is useless.
Some people think that a big platinum or gold looking one or diamond encrusted one still makes them look successful or alpha, whereas it really just makes them look quaint, narcissistic, and backward.
If you're really important, you have a person to tell you the time without you even having to ask.
the housefly cam that's recording video of your keyboard from the ceiling, and the laser pointed at your office window that is recording the window vibrations as you proofread by mumbling to yourself as you write.
Actually in the bi-partisan US election cycle, it's effectively NOT possible to point out flaws in the Democrat candidate without actually supporting the Republican candidate.
And Assange should remember that Trump supports more extreme forms of torture.
I would try to learn, explore, write, and make, oh and try to build better relationships with my time being now my own and not "the man's". And I would try to help do and organize solutions to problems the economy forgot, like unsustainability, eco-system destruction,...
Compare how good AI was 20 years ago with how it is now. Have you talked to google on your phone lately?
Consider how powerful your pocket phone is as a computer and context-aware oracle now compared to 20 years ago.
Consider how good facial recognition technology, and image recognition generally, are now compared to 20 years ago.
And consider that the rate of progress in such technology is not linear. It is accelerating as advances in hardware and software, and different areas of the problem and approaches, combine with each other, and as qualitative quantum leaps in understanding of it must work are made in the R&D.
Consider the strong possibility of quantum computing, with lots of technical challenges still, but almost unfathomable rapid-search capability if it works.
In 10 years the presence of real, general, and decreasingly erroneous AI and adaptable, skillfull robotics will not be an argument, and you will definitely be on the wrong side of the former argument.
Robots go get materials, and make stuff. Computers sell it. The government taxes the sale and the profit, and gives the money to people, who buy stuff. Repeat.
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I meant when he/they were coming up with the idea and coding the original prototype.
That would have been before the existence of company office (or even company.)
Desks! Bloody luxury.
The real question that should be asked is what kind of work environment did, say, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Jack Dorsey etc. have when they did the heavy lifting of originating their software concepts.
My bet would be quiet university dorm rooms or similar. In other words the opposite of the open plan office.
(Things that make you go Hmmm department).
Actually, constantly distracted thumb twiddlers who know how to, say, program, but have given up trying to get real work done cost way more.
iPhone Y
So incredibly shiny, and bendy, on purpose!
Depends on the size of your hands to some degree. I find that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V for example requires twisting the left wrist outward so the hand is angled to the left, and also requires stretching the fingers apart. The natural resting positions of hands which are together in front of you on a keyboard is for the hands to be pointed inward (left hand angled slightly to the right) with fingers not stretched in tendon tension apart.
Ctrl+Anything is not ergonomic.
If you spend serious hours and days and weeks and months and years programming or doing IT admin, your hands will get damaged with the repeated stretches and twists needed to do Ctrl+whatever. You might say there are two-handed alternatives to the twisty-stretchy ones, but two handed gestures are prone to failure by reversed order of press.
These are all small details, yes, but ergonomic details make the difference when you have to do things thousands and thousands of times.
Esc is a single key action.
No. We just won't be using macbooks for development any more. Shame really. I'm waiting for someone to make the ultimate linux-based software development laptop now. And it would be nice if it had some of the design cohesion and just-works features of apple products.
Before someone rants, of course developers use many other editor tools, but proper support of the terminal and vi is essential for a serious server-software (back end software, or IT admin) development box.
Most people have figured out that they carry their phone all the time so the watch is useless.
Some people think that a big platinum or gold looking one or diamond encrusted one still makes them look successful or alpha, whereas it really just makes them look quaint, narcissistic, and backward.
If you're really important, you have a person to tell you the time without you even having to ask.
Swedish citizen bans overreaching government. Vows to ignore silly laws and go about life.
The ad-ratio and crap-content-to-wothwhile ratio drove me off it long ago.
the housefly cam that's recording video of your keyboard from the ceiling,
and the laser pointed at your office window that is recording the window vibrations as you proofread by mumbling to yourself as you write.
with close to zero key throw,
I imagine they're whisper silent, almost as if they were just a piece of glass.
Besides people will only be typing short security-unimportant tweets on the damn things anyway, since real long-form documents will be a pain to type.
Actually in the bi-partisan US election cycle, it's effectively NOT possible to point out flaws in the Democrat candidate without actually supporting the Republican candidate.
And Assange should remember that Trump supports more extreme forms of torture.
The rallying cry of neanderthals throughout their truncated history, as they were being outcompeted by the other human species.
Is that what you would do?
I would try to learn, explore, write, and make, oh and try to build better relationships with my time being now my own and not "the man's". ...
And I would try to help do and organize solutions to problems the economy forgot, like unsustainability, eco-system destruction,
Your time estimate is way off.
Compare how good AI was 20 years ago with how it is now. Have you talked to google on your phone lately?
Consider how powerful your pocket phone is as a computer and context-aware oracle now compared to 20 years ago.
Consider how good facial recognition technology, and image recognition generally, are now compared to 20 years ago.
And consider that the rate of progress in such technology is not linear. It is accelerating as advances in hardware and software, and different areas of the problem and approaches, combine with each other, and as qualitative quantum leaps in understanding of it must work are made in the R&D.
Consider the strong possibility of quantum computing, with lots of technical challenges still, but almost unfathomable rapid-search capability if it works.
In 10 years the presence of real, general, and decreasingly erroneous AI and adaptable, skillfull robotics will not be an argument, and you will definitely be on the wrong side of the former argument.
Yeah, I had that mechanic working on my car last month.
No seriously, have you ever asked yourself why McD's burgers are so cheap? What happened to the horses he says.
Where the money comes from?
Robots go get materials, and make stuff. Computers sell it. The government taxes the sale and the profit, and gives the money to people, who buy stuff. Repeat.
Pay people to do make-work is really, really pathetic.
If the world is changing, we need a new way of thinking and a new way of valuing human life which is other than "what can you produce for me?".
I see what you did there Mr. Godwin.
That sounds like a great idea, Em.
Interestingly, Probably 90% of people in the private sector work in failing businesses.
The whole economy basically turns on undue faith in failing businesses, and the credit that keeps them alive for a while.
Sorry, but you'll lose that case to "Big AlphaGo Blue - Law Edition".