"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Once upon a time, Google was a tech company that used advertising as a means to an end. Now they're an advertising firm with an end to a means?? Does that actually make sense? I dunno.
I miss Google Chrome Frame. It helped me cope with the disgusting soul-rot brought about by IE. Hopefully the day won't come when there's a need for Firefox Frame, though it may already be here?
I'm James and I get paid to write software.
The one actual whiteboard interview I had, I intentionally did not really try to appease the process. I was well-familiarized with it and could have easily prepared. But I decided to use the process to filter unworthy employers. The recruiter asked me to implement some basic things on his whiteboard in C. I gave him pseudo-code and commented that I've written many things, including a compiler. Syntax while technically relevant is not actually relevant. Suffice to say, he didn't seem convinced and I went on to work with another (awesome) company who cared about my attitude most. I figured if that actually mattered to them, then they weren't right for me. Years later I talked to a friend who'd worked at the whiteboard interviewing place, he told me I'd dodged a bullet.
Smart Phones are so far from what Phones used to be. They're their own class of device and really ought to have a different name entirely, as they're really really far from just being phones now.
Same goes for Smart Watches, especially an Apple Watch. If you genuinely only wanted a watch, then buying an Apple Watch would be pretty hilariously misguided, for all the obvious reasons.
I recently took the plunge as someone close to me died of a pointless heart attack and I started to feel my age. These devices being ON our skin and fastened to our body have a unique vantage point to enable health-centric apps. I'm now watching my heart rate (and logging to HealthKit) all the time. I keep a decent record of my motion. I'm gaining a little insight in to my sleeping patterns, etc. These medical features are valuable to me. Beyond them, the watch is kind of nifty and handy in small ways. Without the medical aspects, then smart watches wouldn't really get very far. I think we'll find because of the health focus, they have a good fighting-chance to carve out a healthy niche.
If you aren't interested in the medical/fitness features, then I agree. However, for monitoring your body, I think they'll become fairly well adopted. Probably not ever in the under ~40 crowd.
I guess I'm not a person then. Because I just bought an Apple Watch Series 1. I did so because I wanted a decent heart rate monitor and I figured if I paid double I could get a fairly good one that doubled as a toy. I'm enjoying it just fine, even wrote a little app for it too (getting it published on the App Store was painful, but done). Suffice to say, they're not for everyone, but I like them. I guess that's why they'll go away. Most products I like aren't ideal for idiots and since that's the crowd that gets all the love..... (*weeps softly*)
This outcome is because early successes build confidence and lower resistance to learning new things in our education systems. The discovery a strong correlation here is a symptom of our flawed education systems. I struggled massively as a child and after two hard-fought degrees, I have become a successful engineer. The correlation certainly isn't a law.
(*Bursts in to tears*). To even mention IE6. It has ruined my self-esteem as an open source web app developer, trying to serve up modern solutions to a non-tech company. IE6. You are my nemesis.
Since I doubt this thing can pass the Turing Test, I'm skeptical. A cool notion and significant effort. But still, seems pretty far fetched. I hope it works well.
I use Google Reader OFTEN. Multiple times per day. I used it to bring me to this article. I also used Google Notebook heavily. When they retired it, it wasn't so bad, because they'd then started Google Docs (AKA Google Drive). However, Reader isn't being replaced, it's just being stabbed in the face and thrown in the dead-pile. I don't overly blame Google, as it probably doesn't pay for itself nor would I be willing to pay for it if they asked me to, I'd just spool up my own private web app, which I'm in the process of doing, btw. Still, I'm saddened by this attitude of optimizing margins and catering to the biggest level of user literacy. At least we still have Open Source software and the like.
$200K+ for sharing 24 songs? Those profound douche-baggery. I'm so glad that newer methods are emerging to kill off the record label.
This is an example of the industry that we call "The legal system", milking the life-force out of lady justice and then ripping her corpse apart and devouring it without a napkin. There's no measure of justice involved at all. Was there REALLY $222K in damage? Hell no, she helped advertise a brand, of sorts. What a disgusting farce.
Glad I don't live in the states.
I'm feeling validated to see this. When I heard they said they were coming off nuclear power, I laughed pretty hard. That's because it's a massive population in a tiny area. They use large amounts of power and don't have oil resources. I figure their only option at all is to run on nuclear power. I think they'll want to obviously heavily beef-up their safety regulations. They should also really seriously consider LFTR reactors as an alternative, since they seem very viable and a lot safer (and more productive). I hope Japan's paid their debts when it comes to atomic-based nightmares. Nuclear power has it's problems, but it does also have its merits. And there are no comparable alternatives, despite what "green" types will claim.
I have CS degree and develop web apps. I've worked on web apps since before starting university too, so it's something I do because I enjoy it. I suggest you stick it out. I was fairly jaded many times in the content of my CS program, as I expected a lot more. Since graduating a few years ago, I'm realizing that there was more value than I thought in those courses. Often it wasn't entirely captured in the technical details of the course, but rather the process of getting stuff done in that field. Web apps are continuing to gain traction and unless you want to work on "brosure" websites, you'll probably end up using fairly extensive CS concepts to make your web apps awesome. That said, if you love something, a formal education isn't always necessary. However, if you want to get WORK in that subject, you may find customers/employers bizarrely more receptive to the degree. It's stupid. It's reality. Take care friend!
In 2010, I put a then-modern PCIE video card in my P4 3GHz HT box. Suffice to say, Starcraft II ran on Ultimate settings just fine. I think the big difference between my beater and a much newer machine was load times, but once the core game was up and running, it kept up really really well. I think it probably helped that the video card had a fair bit of memory. Perhaps if I wanted to revive that machine further, I could also throw in SSDs, which would probably only offer limited benefit, but would certainly reduce any potential for disk io in the actual drives from being a choke-point. lol.
As a software developer, I must vote that this is a very very interesting idea. I think there's great potential in this sort of move. Of course, the elegance of the actual implementation will likely make or break it. Javascript is full of potential. Great idea!
From ages 14-25 I consistently slept anywhere from 4-7 hours a night, the average being about 6 hours. I struggled through high school and university. Towards the end of my University tenure, I finally put serious stock in the old notion that sleep was essential to mental function. After a couple weeks of always getting at least 8hrs/night, I found my memory capabilities (which had always sucked) were vastly improved. So was my ability to focus my full attention. It's now been about 4 years since I started sleeping properly and it's made a big difference. Further, sleep deprivation will cause weight gain has something to do with hormones. My short sleeps wasn't a disorder, I think. Rather, it was lack of satisfaction with the day, I wanted to feel like I lived more, so I'd stay up late reading, programming, playing video games, talking with friends, etc.
As far as I know, this was first studied and published about 10 years ago by a group led by Dr. David Keith. This isn't news. No power is "free", everything action has a reaction. Anyway, whatever.
If he were convicted of this in Iran, they'd probably sentence him to having to murder all his friends and family with a belt-sander... Followed up by his own demise induced by stoning. Their gov't is nuts. Which sucks, cause there's some great people over there. Oh, yeah, by the way don't steal stuff. Helping people communicate while not paying others for enabling it is WRONG. And as such, you should be isolated and psychologically assaulted... You know.. For the greater good.
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"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Once upon a time, Google was a tech company that used advertising as a means to an end. Now they're an advertising firm with an end to a means?? Does that actually make sense? I dunno.
I miss Google Chrome Frame. It helped me cope with the disgusting soul-rot brought about by IE. Hopefully the day won't come when there's a need for Firefox Frame, though it may already be here?
I'm James and I get paid to write software. The one actual whiteboard interview I had, I intentionally did not really try to appease the process. I was well-familiarized with it and could have easily prepared. But I decided to use the process to filter unworthy employers. The recruiter asked me to implement some basic things on his whiteboard in C. I gave him pseudo-code and commented that I've written many things, including a compiler. Syntax while technically relevant is not actually relevant. Suffice to say, he didn't seem convinced and I went on to work with another (awesome) company who cared about my attitude most. I figured if that actually mattered to them, then they weren't right for me. Years later I talked to a friend who'd worked at the whiteboard interviewing place, he told me I'd dodged a bullet.
It is hilarious, the cosmic double standard. I love that getting replacement parts/service/accessories for apple stuff is super easy.
Smart Phones are so far from what Phones used to be. They're their own class of device and really ought to have a different name entirely, as they're really really far from just being phones now. Same goes for Smart Watches, especially an Apple Watch. If you genuinely only wanted a watch, then buying an Apple Watch would be pretty hilariously misguided, for all the obvious reasons. I recently took the plunge as someone close to me died of a pointless heart attack and I started to feel my age. These devices being ON our skin and fastened to our body have a unique vantage point to enable health-centric apps. I'm now watching my heart rate (and logging to HealthKit) all the time. I keep a decent record of my motion. I'm gaining a little insight in to my sleeping patterns, etc. These medical features are valuable to me. Beyond them, the watch is kind of nifty and handy in small ways. Without the medical aspects, then smart watches wouldn't really get very far. I think we'll find because of the health focus, they have a good fighting-chance to carve out a healthy niche.
If you aren't interested in the medical/fitness features, then I agree. However, for monitoring your body, I think they'll become fairly well adopted. Probably not ever in the under ~40 crowd.
+1 this jives. Apple is poorly understood and receives comical amounts of hate. Nevertheless, they're massive for a reason.
I guess I'm not a person then. Because I just bought an Apple Watch Series 1. I did so because I wanted a decent heart rate monitor and I figured if I paid double I could get a fairly good one that doubled as a toy. I'm enjoying it just fine, even wrote a little app for it too (getting it published on the App Store was painful, but done). Suffice to say, they're not for everyone, but I like them. I guess that's why they'll go away. Most products I like aren't ideal for idiots and since that's the crowd that gets all the love..... (*weeps softly*)
Tell that to the telegraph operators with burned hands from a big CME back in the 1800s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
+1: Perfect!
Well said. I totally agree.
This outcome is because early successes build confidence and lower resistance to learning new things in our education systems. The discovery a strong correlation here is a symptom of our flawed education systems. I struggled massively as a child and after two hard-fought degrees, I have become a successful engineer. The correlation certainly isn't a law.
(*Bursts in to tears*). To even mention IE6. It has ruined my self-esteem as an open source web app developer, trying to serve up modern solutions to a non-tech company. IE6. You are my nemesis.
Since I doubt this thing can pass the Turing Test, I'm skeptical. A cool notion and significant effort. But still, seems pretty far fetched. I hope it works well.
I use Google Reader OFTEN. Multiple times per day. I used it to bring me to this article. I also used Google Notebook heavily. When they retired it, it wasn't so bad, because they'd then started Google Docs (AKA Google Drive). However, Reader isn't being replaced, it's just being stabbed in the face and thrown in the dead-pile. I don't overly blame Google, as it probably doesn't pay for itself nor would I be willing to pay for it if they asked me to, I'd just spool up my own private web app, which I'm in the process of doing, btw. Still, I'm saddened by this attitude of optimizing margins and catering to the biggest level of user literacy. At least we still have Open Source software and the like.
$200K+ for sharing 24 songs? Those profound douche-baggery. I'm so glad that newer methods are emerging to kill off the record label. This is an example of the industry that we call "The legal system", milking the life-force out of lady justice and then ripping her corpse apart and devouring it without a napkin. There's no measure of justice involved at all. Was there REALLY $222K in damage? Hell no, she helped advertise a brand, of sorts. What a disgusting farce. Glad I don't live in the states.
I use stack exchange often. It's very very helpful.
Well said friend
I'm feeling validated to see this. When I heard they said they were coming off nuclear power, I laughed pretty hard. That's because it's a massive population in a tiny area. They use large amounts of power and don't have oil resources. I figure their only option at all is to run on nuclear power. I think they'll want to obviously heavily beef-up their safety regulations. They should also really seriously consider LFTR reactors as an alternative, since they seem very viable and a lot safer (and more productive). I hope Japan's paid their debts when it comes to atomic-based nightmares. Nuclear power has it's problems, but it does also have its merits. And there are no comparable alternatives, despite what "green" types will claim.
Well said Linus.. I think.. lol
I have CS degree and develop web apps. I've worked on web apps since before starting university too, so it's something I do because I enjoy it. I suggest you stick it out. I was fairly jaded many times in the content of my CS program, as I expected a lot more. Since graduating a few years ago, I'm realizing that there was more value than I thought in those courses. Often it wasn't entirely captured in the technical details of the course, but rather the process of getting stuff done in that field. Web apps are continuing to gain traction and unless you want to work on "brosure" websites, you'll probably end up using fairly extensive CS concepts to make your web apps awesome. That said, if you love something, a formal education isn't always necessary. However, if you want to get WORK in that subject, you may find customers/employers bizarrely more receptive to the degree. It's stupid. It's reality. Take care friend!
In 2010, I put a then-modern PCIE video card in my P4 3GHz HT box. Suffice to say, Starcraft II ran on Ultimate settings just fine. I think the big difference between my beater and a much newer machine was load times, but once the core game was up and running, it kept up really really well. I think it probably helped that the video card had a fair bit of memory. Perhaps if I wanted to revive that machine further, I could also throw in SSDs, which would probably only offer limited benefit, but would certainly reduce any potential for disk io in the actual drives from being a choke-point. lol.
As a software developer, I must vote that this is a very very interesting idea. I think there's great potential in this sort of move. Of course, the elegance of the actual implementation will likely make or break it. Javascript is full of potential. Great idea!
From ages 14-25 I consistently slept anywhere from 4-7 hours a night, the average being about 6 hours. I struggled through high school and university. Towards the end of my University tenure, I finally put serious stock in the old notion that sleep was essential to mental function. After a couple weeks of always getting at least 8hrs/night, I found my memory capabilities (which had always sucked) were vastly improved. So was my ability to focus my full attention. It's now been about 4 years since I started sleeping properly and it's made a big difference. Further, sleep deprivation will cause weight gain has something to do with hormones. My short sleeps wasn't a disorder, I think. Rather, it was lack of satisfaction with the day, I wanted to feel like I lived more, so I'd stay up late reading, programming, playing video games, talking with friends, etc.
As far as I know, this was first studied and published about 10 years ago by a group led by Dr. David Keith. This isn't news. No power is "free", everything action has a reaction. Anyway, whatever.
If he were convicted of this in Iran, they'd probably sentence him to having to murder all his friends and family with a belt-sander... Followed up by his own demise induced by stoning. Their gov't is nuts. Which sucks, cause there's some great people over there. Oh, yeah, by the way don't steal stuff. Helping people communicate while not paying others for enabling it is WRONG. And as such, you should be isolated and psychologically assaulted... You know.. For the greater good.