It would work, too, if the value of these services was not in a perpetual downward spiral. In order to make this happen, you would need some compelling reason this was a sensible investment. Honestly, while I think the idea is pretty cool... I'm just not seeing how it could possibly work. Maybe if you had a whole bevy of similar or inter-related services offered by commodity providers?
Right. And Lycos and the other second generation search engines were always getting hacked. My big concern here, is that Watson is a great AI, but it doesn't have anywhere near the experience in ranking that Google does. I'm sure IBM has the ability to retrofit it if they want to, but knowing the answer to a question, and judging the quality of a website are two completely different things.
Very good point. Ever since I started my company, my workload has doubled. I'm still writing the same amount of code as I ever did, but I'm also doing every other job role that's required. I find that I do my best work when I'm working a double shift on Indian time, which works out to about 9 hours off a normal daytime schedule. I work through the night when it's nice and quiet, and I'm awake early enough in the morning to take frenzied client phone calls (they always call early). My wife never sees me, but I've managed to stay in business for eight months so far, so I'm doing okay with it.
That more programmers will wake up from the delusion that they have to work nine to five, and that suddenly, I'll have a lot more competition from people just as talented and driven as I am... in the same areas I specialize. That's a pretty frightening thought, even if it is unrealistic. Most programmers don't actually make it to that point in their career at all, so in all reality, I that's not the kind of thing I lose any sleep over.
I have to tell you that most of the time, the thefts (usually by direct competitors) are minor, and I don't generally care. If I cared about every snippet of code I've ever written that's showed up on some other website, I wouldn't be doing anything else. But there's a lot of different kinds of theft to consider. It's one thing when someone borrows a javascript from you. I usually use that as a sales tool. "Hey look, this code is good enough, that you can see my competitors using it" it's funny, and it works. It's another thing entirely when they break into your home and steal your proprietary cms that you've been developing for five years. I've had that happen too. That kind of thing is usually handled with a lawsuit... if they're dumb enough to actually use it without paying you. As far as clients leaving, and the new company putting their names on my websites, that's usually not malicious (even though the practice sucks). More often than not, it's handled with a polite phone call to the new company.
I know this is a bash Microsoft because you can thread, but there were a few things in Windows 8 that I really liked.
1 The new file transfer dialog actually shows accurate information about the file transfer when you're passing files between hard drives, or pasting files. This has been a long time coming, and it's worth using Windows 8 for this feature alone, in my opinion.
2 I now have control bars on every screen, not just my primary screen. Not having them for every screen has been my single biggest complaint about using ALL OTHER versions of Windows.
3 The new task manager is awesome. Just awesome. They did absolutely everything right.
4 Surprisingly, it's actually a little faster than Windows 7 and vista when I run adobe products on Intel.
My biggest complaints with it have been that you need classic shell. You just can't run the thing without it, and Classic Shell is a hack. It's not as good as the original built in feature that they discontinued. Have also seen Windows 8 cause mouse issues. Not an issue on my desktop, but on my wife's laptop, it's been a huge pain in the ass. And Metro/Modern/WTF? I could take or leave it. It makes no sense on a desktop anyway, so I don't find myself using it... at all, actually.
The mockups were neat, but I have a strong suspicion that this is not the general direction that Windows is going. There was a youtube video that came out in 2005, that detailed the future of the OS, and a theoretical touch screen device, that still looks odd. But it really does look like Microsoft and others took it to heart. That's a huge mistake. There was so much totally untested technology there that's just not going to work. And morphing new layers on top of Windows is not the answer.
If ever Microsoft was going to actually invent something, this would be the time. I think that the crowd has it wrong on Windows 8 this time, throwing out the baby with the bath water, but I don't necessarily think they're all wrong either. As usual, I'm going with the pragmatic approach. The key things I noted were good reasons to use Windows 8 over Windows 7, especially with multiple screens. If you don't like Metro/Modern/WTF, don't use it. If nobody writes apps for it people, it goes away. As far as the Windows 8 desktop, it's not perfect. But it's never been perfect. It is better though, once you install Classic Shell.
I think you would be challenged to find anyone in America who wasn't arrested at 20 years old for the crazy shit 20 year olds do. And who cares if they were? Jeez, man. Truth be told, some of the best programmers in the industry have dark moments in their pasts. I personally know at least two major players in the open source world that have done time in actual, real life prison. If you're worried about background checks, you're missing the point. Someone's past is not an accurate indicator of how they will behave, or what they will accomplish at your company, good or bad. Someone with no criminal record is no less likely to burn down your office as the guy who spent time in prison for arson. That's the world we live in, friends. People snap. It fucking happens. If you've been doing this for any period of time, you've probably snapped at least once yourself. So get off the high horse people. If you treat people decently, and give them the basic human respect they deserve, you're not going to have any serious issues with anyone. Treat people badly, and you deserve every bit of what you're going to get back, and probably more. The only thing that I would care about, if I were hiring someone would be a long history of mental illness. And that kind of thing almost never shows up in a criminal check, so good luck with that.
except that it never happens. Awhile back, I donated $15 to a fairly widely used open source program. I got the nicest thank you letter from the author. Turns out, that in the five years he had been soliciting donations on his website, that I had been the second person in the history of the project to donate anything to it. This program had over a million downloads, by the way. With this in mind, I made sure to donate small amounts to other open source projects I wanted to see keep going. Out of six of them, I received four letters stating basically the same thing. Maybe times have changed, and maybe oss software writers have become savvier when it comes to things like mailing lists and social media for soliciting. Crowd funding certainly has changed the way these things work as well. But in general, I suspect that things are probably the same as they've ever been. And that simply asking for donations just doesn't work.
I never realized visiting a website required me to "sacrifice my freedom"!
You're not. Javascript is a standard, it's controlled by the ECMA. It's free, it's open, it's universally supported. The FSF has nothing better to do. Stallman is off his meds again.
Dude, it's assholes like this that make telecom companies see the need for data caps in the first place. If you're doing that kind of data transfer, you need to be on a business plan. If you know enough to create that kind of set up, you know enough to know what kind of plan you need to be on. Stop fucking up the home networks people. You're dealing with companies that have lost their minds! The last thing you want to do is feed their delusions.
Really really hard to say without knowing the specifics of the project. I we're talking in abstracts, then you can argue either side and be correct. Without actually knowing what the project is, however, it's kind of an academic exercise. ie. Won't give you much actionable input in the real world, if that's what you're looking for.
If everything legally permissible is deemed morally acceptable then humanity is doomed.
So you're making the moral argument for taxation? That's kind of an absurdist world view, don't you think?
In order for it to be an acceptable argument, you must also make the argument that everything governments do with your tax money is morally acceptable, and reasonable as well. Good luck with that one.
For one thing, the fundamental mechanics at play here are important. No major corporation is only one entity. Everyone always thinks of this as Apple saving billions on taxes, but it's not Apple saving anything. Apple is a group of entities in multiple jurisdictions that are paying what they're obligated to. Nobody's actually "saving" anything on taxes.
If any of this is a real issue, maybe we should examine our free market principles, and make the US tax code more reasonable to individuals and corporations alike. If you change these rules and supposed "loopholes" that Apple and others are using, then we all suffer.This needs to be left alone.
Really cool stuff. Wish I would have thought of it. Superimposing code on top of a picture of himself. Great stuff. Screams uber hacker. I don't even need to read the article to know that anyone with mad photoshop skills like that must know what he's doing.
There are no other Slashdotters. It's all me, well, and my army of minions. I have a lot of time on my hands, and happen to be independently wealthy. I have a team of paid writers that I find in homeless shelters, who work under my direction, and we spend pretty much all of our time just filling Slashdot with junk. It's a great Silicon Valley business model if you think about it.
1. Hire homeless people to work for free. Make sure to give them superhero or scripting related pseudonyms, and take their clothing so they can't run away.
2. Fill Slashdot, and occasionally Craigslist with condescending garbage
3. Some as yet undefined step.
Go public!
Right now, we're entering our fourteenth year on the circuit, and the house I use for this has never smelled worse. That just means it's working.
Hoping to spark some VC interest later this year, as I anticipate low overhead business models, and sweatshops in general may come back into vogue.
Well, the way I remember it, jail-breaking came about because someone noticed that you can run a full on unix command line on an i-phone. This was before we had Android phones, and it was really fucking novel at the time. I can't tell you how many times I had to sit there, and hear the fan boys ask me things like, "So, can you ssh into your Nokia?" To which I always told them, "Look dude, if I wanted a command line, it would have a real fucking keyboard."
Right. That's exactly it. It's a clear message to power users, and it's hard to mistake it for anything else. What they're saying is, "don't buy our gadgets."
There are industries where a severely limited patent system makes sense. Any industry that's too tightly regulated by government, so that barrier to entry is impossible, like pharma or telecom. Of course you could solve the same problem by pealing back the red tape as well. Competition in the free and open market is the only thing that truly breeds innovation. No free market, no competition. It's easy.
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It would work, too, if the value of these services was not in a perpetual downward spiral. In order to make this happen, you would need some compelling reason this was a sensible investment. Honestly, while I think the idea is pretty cool... I'm just not seeing how it could possibly work. Maybe if you had a whole bevy of similar or inter-related services offered by commodity providers?
Right. And Lycos and the other second generation search engines were always getting hacked. My big concern here, is that Watson is a great AI, but it doesn't have anywhere near the experience in ranking that Google does. I'm sure IBM has the ability to retrofit it if they want to, but knowing the answer to a question, and judging the quality of a website are two completely different things.
Very good point. Ever since I started my company, my workload has doubled. I'm still writing the same amount of code as I ever did, but I'm also doing every other job role that's required. I find that I do my best work when I'm working a double shift on Indian time, which works out to about 9 hours off a normal daytime schedule. I work through the night when it's nice and quiet, and I'm awake early enough in the morning to take frenzied client phone calls (they always call early). My wife never sees me, but I've managed to stay in business for eight months so far, so I'm doing okay with it.
I dunno. Sounds like it could be a fascinating field.
That more programmers will wake up from the delusion that they have to work nine to five, and that suddenly, I'll have a lot more competition from people just as talented and driven as I am... in the same areas I specialize. That's a pretty frightening thought, even if it is unrealistic. Most programmers don't actually make it to that point in their career at all, so in all reality, I that's not the kind of thing I lose any sleep over.
I have to tell you that most of the time, the thefts (usually by direct competitors) are minor, and I don't generally care. If I cared about every snippet of code I've ever written that's showed up on some other website, I wouldn't be doing anything else. But there's a lot of different kinds of theft to consider. It's one thing when someone borrows a javascript from you. I usually use that as a sales tool. "Hey look, this code is good enough, that you can see my competitors using it" it's funny, and it works. It's another thing entirely when they break into your home and steal your proprietary cms that you've been developing for five years. I've had that happen too. That kind of thing is usually handled with a lawsuit... if they're dumb enough to actually use it without paying you. As far as clients leaving, and the new company putting their names on my websites, that's usually not malicious (even though the practice sucks). More often than not, it's handled with a polite phone call to the new company.
I know this is a bash Microsoft because you can thread, but there were a few things in Windows 8 that I really liked.
My biggest complaints with it have been that you need classic shell. You just can't run the thing without it, and Classic Shell is a hack. It's not as good as the original built in feature that they discontinued. Have also seen Windows 8 cause mouse issues. Not an issue on my desktop, but on my wife's laptop, it's been a huge pain in the ass. And Metro/Modern/WTF? I could take or leave it. It makes no sense on a desktop anyway, so I don't find myself using it... at all, actually.
The mockups were neat, but I have a strong suspicion that this is not the general direction that Windows is going. There was a youtube video that came out in 2005, that detailed the future of the OS, and a theoretical touch screen device, that still looks odd. But it really does look like Microsoft and others took it to heart. That's a huge mistake. There was so much totally untested technology there that's just not going to work. And morphing new layers on top of Windows is not the answer.
If ever Microsoft was going to actually invent something, this would be the time. I think that the crowd has it wrong on Windows 8 this time, throwing out the baby with the bath water, but I don't necessarily think they're all wrong either. As usual, I'm going with the pragmatic approach. The key things I noted were good reasons to use Windows 8 over Windows 7, especially with multiple screens. If you don't like Metro/Modern/WTF, don't use it. If nobody writes apps for it people, it goes away. As far as the Windows 8 desktop, it's not perfect. But it's never been perfect. It is better though, once you install Classic Shell.
RIght, but River was born on the Tardis, no telling how many regenerations she had to start with.
Right, but all those years fucking around with the timeline. Who is to say that Valyard ever even happens now?
Right, and let's not forget that the doctor got a totally new batch of re-generation energy from River Song.
I think you would be challenged to find anyone in America who wasn't arrested at 20 years old for the crazy shit 20 year olds do. And who cares if they were? Jeez, man. Truth be told, some of the best programmers in the industry have dark moments in their pasts. I personally know at least two major players in the open source world that have done time in actual, real life prison. If you're worried about background checks, you're missing the point. Someone's past is not an accurate indicator of how they will behave, or what they will accomplish at your company, good or bad. Someone with no criminal record is no less likely to burn down your office as the guy who spent time in prison for arson. That's the world we live in, friends. People snap. It fucking happens. If you've been doing this for any period of time, you've probably snapped at least once yourself. So get off the high horse people. If you treat people decently, and give them the basic human respect they deserve, you're not going to have any serious issues with anyone. Treat people badly, and you deserve every bit of what you're going to get back, and probably more. The only thing that I would care about, if I were hiring someone would be a long history of mental illness. And that kind of thing almost never shows up in a criminal check, so good luck with that.
Is goat.se still around?
except that it never happens.
Awhile back, I donated $15 to a fairly widely used open source program. I got the nicest thank you letter from the author. Turns out, that in the five years he had been soliciting donations on his website, that I had been the second person in the history of the project to donate anything to it. This program had over a million downloads, by the way. With this in mind, I made sure to donate small amounts to other open source projects I wanted to see keep going. Out of six of them, I received four letters stating basically the same thing. Maybe times have changed, and maybe oss software writers have become savvier when it comes to things like mailing lists and social media for soliciting. Crowd funding certainly has changed the way these things work as well. But in general, I suspect that things are probably the same as they've ever been. And that simply asking for donations just doesn't work.
I never realized visiting a website required me to "sacrifice my freedom"!
You're not. Javascript is a standard, it's controlled by the ECMA. It's free, it's open, it's universally supported. The FSF has nothing better to do. Stallman is off his meds again.
Dude, it's assholes like this that make telecom companies see the need for data caps in the first place. If you're doing that kind of data transfer, you need to be on a business plan. If you know enough to create that kind of set up, you know enough to know what kind of plan you need to be on. Stop fucking up the home networks people. You're dealing with companies that have lost their minds! The last thing you want to do is feed their delusions.
Really really hard to say without knowing the specifics of the project. I we're talking in abstracts, then you can argue either side and be correct. Without actually knowing what the project is, however, it's kind of an academic exercise. ie. Won't give you much actionable input in the real world, if that's what you're looking for.
If everything legally permissible is deemed morally acceptable then humanity is doomed.
So you're making the moral argument for taxation? That's kind of an absurdist world view, don't you think?
In order for it to be an acceptable argument, you must also make the argument that everything governments do with your tax money is morally acceptable, and reasonable as well. Good luck with that one.
For one thing, the fundamental mechanics at play here are important. No major corporation is only one entity. Everyone always thinks of this as Apple saving billions on taxes, but it's not Apple saving anything. Apple is a group of entities in multiple jurisdictions that are paying what they're obligated to. Nobody's actually "saving" anything on taxes.
If any of this is a real issue, maybe we should examine our free market principles, and make the US tax code more reasonable to individuals and corporations alike. If you change these rules and supposed "loopholes" that Apple and others are using, then we all suffer.This needs to be left alone.
Really cool stuff. Wish I would have thought of it. Superimposing code on top of a picture of himself. Great stuff. Screams uber hacker. I don't even need to read the article to know that anyone with mad photoshop skills like that must know what he's doing.
If I can't code against it, it's not good enough.
I read brutish as British.
That would be fascinating.
Question would be this: Does it match anything in the fossil record?
There are no other Slashdotters. It's all me, well, and my army of minions. I have a lot of time on my hands, and happen to be independently wealthy. I have a team of paid writers that I find in homeless shelters, who work under my direction, and we spend pretty much all of our time just filling Slashdot with junk. It's a great Silicon Valley business model if you think about it.
1. Hire homeless people to work for free. Make sure to give them superhero or scripting related pseudonyms, and take their clothing so they can't run away.
2. Fill Slashdot, and occasionally Craigslist with condescending garbage
3. Some as yet undefined step.
Go public!
Right now, we're entering our fourteenth year on the circuit, and the house I use for this has never smelled worse. That just means it's working.
Hoping to spark some VC interest later this year, as I anticipate low overhead business models, and sweatshops in general may come back into vogue.
Well, the way I remember it, jail-breaking came about because someone noticed that you can run a full on unix command line on an i-phone. This was before we had Android phones, and it was really fucking novel at the time. I can't tell you how many times I had to sit there, and hear the fan boys ask me things like, "So, can you ssh into your Nokia?" To which I always told them, "Look dude, if I wanted a command line, it would have a real fucking keyboard."
Right. That's exactly it. It's a clear message to power users, and it's hard to mistake it for anything else. What they're saying is, "don't buy our gadgets."
There are industries where a severely limited patent system makes sense. Any industry that's too tightly regulated by government, so that barrier to entry is impossible, like pharma or telecom. Of course you could solve the same problem by pealing back the red tape as well. Competition in the free and open market is the only thing that truly breeds innovation. No free market, no competition. It's easy.