This is similar to the backup media problem. Yeah, the code, build system and makefiles need to be updated when they go out of fashion, just as the backups need to be moved to new media when the current media goes out of fashion.
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So you deal with it.
Design for it. Make change your friend, not your enemy.
When your fashionable long-term build environment looks like it is dying, create a new build environment based upon the current fashion.
If you cannot or do not adapt, your pet project will be history.
...What can Facebook or other companies do to help these journalists report on corruption in a safe manner?...
For starters, they need to want to do something to help. Just because someone happens to post on a Facebook webpage, does that put the onus on Facebook automatically to protect that journalist? Probably not.
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So it then comes down to Facebook actively wanting to provide such a mechanism for journalists.
Will Facebook want to do that?
Probably not, as Facebook appears to be more interested in tracking people than providing posting sanctuaries for journalists.
From the looks of TFA, it seems that Facebook's direction is about commoditizing the hardware, and google's direction is about commoditizing the services.
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That makes sense because Facebook's service requirements are not transportable to other industries, but Facebook's hardware needs may be.
Meanwhile, google is providing services to companies, and is looking to make those services transportable.
I wouldn't say that google is "dismissing" Facebook's strategy but instead, google is working a few levels above it.
...A paper from Microsoft researchers posits the possibility of 'pushing' web ads to a user's own computer and serving them into pre-arranged containers on web pages...
So this is what Microsoft meant when they said Windows would become a service. Microsoft just neglected to mention who would be of benefit from this service --- the advertisers.
Many times, the reason boils down to the fact that the entrepreneur's mind works very differently than the mind of a business person.
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Many entrepreneurs wait too long before calling in a business person to watch over the financial aspects and business goals of the company.
Basically a manager's job is to make other people
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...He has some decent starting points. For example, Basically a manager's job is to make other people more productive...
Well, if the summary starts off on such a wrong assumption, it can only get worse from there.
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A manager's job is not to make anyone do anything, whether it is being more productive or coming to work earlier. Indeed, TFA says just the opposite, i.e., "Just Because You’re In Charge Doesn’t Mean You’re In Control".
imo, one of a software development manager's jobs is to create an environment that allows the software developers to do their jobs. If the manager has to "make" them do their jobs or be more productive, then the wrong people are in the software developer jobs.
...The top-down nature of communist societies actually makes corporatism easier, and equates non-conformity with treason
With the large and increasing income equality and the purchasing of Congress by corporate interests here in the United States, it would seem to follow in your logic that the United States is moving towards Communism.
If you really want to look at government subsidies, look at how much, or more correctly, how little huge companies pay in income taxes.
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For instance, General Electric is always whining about taxes, yet pays a small percentage of revenue in taxes. It's an example of a corporation that is focused on taking, not giving.
So if you want to complain about excessive government subsidies, don't just look at one industry.
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The streaming prices are currently being kept low to build the customer base and lure people away from cable TV. Once a critical mass of streaming customers is reached, the content providers will begin raising the prices they charge to the streaming companies.
The content providers have done a similar thing with cable TV (causing most of the monthly price increases). It worked for them with cable TV, they will try it again with streaming.
Netflix is just trying to get their ad placements in place before the content providers start demanding their larger piece of the pie.
I stopped using Netflix for DVD rentals because more and more of the DVDs I was receiving had non-skippable advertising before the movie started. Now Netflix is going to start chasing away their streaming customers because advertisers want to place forced-viewing ads before program streams.
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Netflix is becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Ahhh... good point. My friend telecommutes. As of a year ago, his company stopped paying for his Internet service, saying that everyone has Internet service now. So the company effectively has an employee with no, zero, none, zilch office costs.
It runs Android --- How much data harvesting does this box do?
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Given Android's reputation, I'd say that it sends to google everything I do and watch on the box, and then some. Does a microphone stay open all the time?
...The policy changes also allow for advertising using the rider's contact list: "for example the ability to send special offers to riders' friends or family."...
There is absolutely no reason to send anything to my friends or family based upon what Uber finds rummaging through my phone.
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If any of my friends or family want to receive such advertising, they should be the ones who need to approve the privacy policy. I cannot approve it for them.
So you move the cost of losses from the DC to AC conversion to the cost of significant increases in the amount of copper needed to wire a house and the internals of power-hungry appliances.
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Seems to me a better solution would be to research ways to convert from DC to AC more efficiently. Currently there's up to a 40% power loss. That's just begging for some research money....
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Java developers are no different than other developers.
A light-weight article...
The article appears in InfoWorld, what do you expect?
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InfoWorld is still trying to relive its glory days of the 90's when it played second fiddle to PCWeek.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
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So you deal with it.
Design for it. Make change your friend, not your enemy.
When your fashionable long-term build environment looks like it is dying, create a new build environment based upon the current fashion.
If you cannot or do not adapt, your pet project will be history.
...What can Facebook or other companies do to help these journalists report on corruption in a safe manner?...
For starters, they need to want to do something to help. Just because someone happens to post on a Facebook webpage, does that put the onus on Facebook automatically to protect that journalist? Probably not.
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So it then comes down to Facebook actively wanting to provide such a mechanism for journalists.
Will Facebook want to do that?
Probably not, as Facebook appears to be more interested in tracking people than providing posting sanctuaries for journalists.
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That makes sense because Facebook's service requirements are not transportable to other industries, but Facebook's hardware needs may be.
Meanwhile, google is providing services to companies, and is looking to make those services transportable.
I wouldn't say that google is "dismissing" Facebook's strategy but instead, google is working a few levels above it.
Remember when the lack of physical access to a computer was one of the many security rings surrounding that computer?
...A paper from Microsoft researchers posits the possibility of 'pushing' web ads to a user's own computer and serving them into pre-arranged containers on web pages...
So this is what Microsoft meant when they said Windows would become a service. Microsoft just neglected to mention who would be of benefit from this service --- the advertisers.
... Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration...
Maybe Mozilla should stop telling users what they want, and start giving users what they want.
... So basically, someone wanted to advertise their product and they probably paid the Mozilla Foundation to get it added in....
Mozilla no longer resembles a technical organization.
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Now it looks like a bureaucratic corporation struggling to have enough revenue pay for the perks of its executives.
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One would think that Mozilla would take a step back and think, what might we be doing wrong?.
But no. Mozilla, instead, accelerates the rate of bloating.
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Many entrepreneurs wait too long before calling in a business person to watch over the financial aspects and business goals of the company.
...He has some decent starting points. For example, Basically a manager's job is to make other people more productive...
Well, if the summary starts off on such a wrong assumption, it can only get worse from there.
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A manager's job is not to make anyone do anything, whether it is being more productive or coming to work earlier. Indeed, TFA says just the opposite, i.e., "Just Because You’re In Charge Doesn’t Mean You’re In Control".
imo, one of a software development manager's jobs is to create an environment that allows the software developers to do their jobs. If the manager has to "make" them do their jobs or be more productive, then the wrong people are in the software developer jobs.
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But I would suspect that he may be, as I am, concerned about the ongoing dumbing down of
...The top-down nature of communist societies actually makes corporatism easier, and equates non-conformity with treason
With the large and increasing income equality and the purchasing of Congress by corporate interests here in the United States, it would seem to follow in your logic that the United States is moving towards Communism.
Even he couldn't figure out how to make it explain things.
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For instance, General Electric is always whining about taxes, yet pays a small percentage of revenue in taxes. It's an example of a corporation that is focused on taking, not giving.
So if you want to complain about excessive government subsidies, don't just look at one industry.
We will HAPPILY PAY MORE MONEY
You will be paying more money anyway.
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The streaming prices are currently being kept low to build the customer base and lure people away from cable TV. Once a critical mass of streaming customers is reached, the content providers will begin raising the prices they charge to the streaming companies.
The content providers have done a similar thing with cable TV (causing most of the monthly price increases). It worked for them with cable TV, they will try it again with streaming.
Netflix is just trying to get their ad placements in place before the content providers start demanding their larger piece of the pie.
How many times have companies told us that they do not plan to do something, only to do it a year or two later?
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Netflix is becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Ahhh... good point. My friend telecommutes. As of a year ago, his company stopped paying for his Internet service, saying that everyone has Internet service now. So the company effectively has an employee with no, zero, none, zilch office costs.
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If you want to follow the trend, find a way to put people in an office that costs less than tables.
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Maybe cushions on the floor?
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Given Android's reputation, I'd say that it sends to google everything I do and watch on the box, and then some. Does a microphone stay open all the time?
...The policy changes also allow for advertising using the rider's contact list: "for example the ability to send special offers to riders' friends or family."...
There is absolutely no reason to send anything to my friends or family based upon what Uber finds rummaging through my phone.
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If any of my friends or family want to receive such advertising, they should be the ones who need to approve the privacy policy. I cannot approve it for them.
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Seems to me a better solution would be to research ways to convert from DC to AC more efficiently. Currently there's up to a 40% power loss. That's just begging for some research money....