Well... The plastic-eating microbes could get loose and destroy everything made of plastic - like electrical insulation, etc.... like in the book, Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters. But, that's just science fiction.
The chief executive of email unsubscription service Unroll.me has said he is "heartbroken" that users felt betrayed by the fact that his company monetises the contents of their inbox by selling their data to companies such as Uber.
Heartbroken because user "felt betrayed" or actually were betrayed?
But can you turn on your juicer from your phone while you're in the driveway so that it's done when you open your front door? That's worth $400 to absurdly wealthy people.
Assuming you manually loaded a pack earlier, so it could sit there, un-refrigerated all day, ready to deliver that room-temperature drink at that command - yum.
(Having pre-chopped fruit and/or veggies in single-serving plastic packs delivered in chilled containers to you door seems pretty wasteful, btw.)
... some investors were surprised to discover a much cheaper alternative: You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands. Two backers said the final device was bulkier than what was originally pitched and that they were puzzled to find that customers could achieve similar results without it.
Working shorter hours resulted in healthier workers, researcher Bengt Lorentzon found in a new paper. "They were less tired, less sick, had more energy coming home and more time to do activities,"...
... but it assumes that companies actually care about their employees.
Snapchat had "an institutional aversion to looking at user data,"
This part is outright praise-worthy...
Depends on if they mean their users' data or data about their users. As they're talking about metrics and "utter incompetence" in it's efforts, it seems they're talking about the latter and their inability to properly analyze the data about their users. If that's so, it's not so praise-worthy. (Noting, in the opposite case, that incompetence in *not* looking at the users' data would mean they're actually good at looking at it.)
He has a controlling hand in a major part of modern society.
Don't be ageist.
He doesn't believe in the defacto necessity of using computers and the Internet in current, modern society. His controlling hand is misguided and uninformed - at least currently. I'm 54 and understand that simple age doesn't bring wisdom and experience to all things.
In the USA, if you wish to actually be a part of modern society, yes you really do have to use the Internet
The congressman is 73, so he's not part of modern society. What the fuck does he care, he'll be dead soon. For all we know he thinks the Internet is a series of tubes. And to paraphrase this guy, people don't have to vote for him, they have a choice.
Do people no longer buy their own modems/routers....?
I used to use my own Motorola Surfboard cable modem, but now use my ISP's Cisco 3212 EMTA VoIP/cable modem (as it's required for phone service and I can use the included DOCSIS 3.0 8x4 cable modem w/o extra charge), but I have my own DLink DSR 250 (router) and separate DLink DAP 2660 (WiFi AP). All my switches and NICs are Gbit.
... if you miss your flight due to no fault of the airline, you will be charged the fare.
You're missing other (valid) reasons for no-shows, like refundable / changeable tickets. I recently read another article that noted the no-show rate for non-refundable tickets was rather low, and the majority were for refundable / changeable / full-fare tickets, usually purchased by business travelers. These higher-cost tickets allow last-minute changes.
I worked for a company 20 years ago that had a Windows program written in VISUAL COBOL. It was terrible. It crashed all the time. When it worked, it was slow. We don't need more COBOL programs, but I hardly think that Python is the answer.
I imagine the failure modes revolved around the words "Windows" and "Visual" rather than "COBOL". As other posters have pointed out, running real COBOL on grown-up, production hardware like IBM System z, etc... is a better metric.
Why don't they automatically translate them to something more modern then run them in the cloud?
Maintaining these systems is just throwing good money away. Money that we all end up paying via our bank charges.
Translate debugged, working, proven code into something else? Not really a good strategy for production code. I also doubt that maintaining those systems is a problem or limiting expense. Modern hardware can run COBOL just fine. As TFS implies, the expense is in finding and hiring people trained in (or willing to learn) a language many don't see as useful and/or sexy -- mainly 'cause it's old. Newer / younger isn't always better or less expensive
A sentence can be technically correct yet still reveal the writer to be an idiot... sometimes in subtle fashion that other idiots wouldn't necessarily pick up on...
Thanks. That explains why some Twitter feeds are popular.
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What could go wrong? - Louis Wu
Well... The plastic-eating microbes could get loose and destroy everything made of plastic - like electrical insulation, etc.... like in the book, Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters. But, that's just science fiction.
The chief executive of email unsubscription service Unroll.me has said he is "heartbroken" that users felt betrayed by the fact that his company monetises the contents of their inbox by selling their data to companies such as Uber.
Heartbroken because user "felt betrayed" or actually were betrayed?
So they're going to copy your data from one cloud to another.
When will the madness stop?
Hopefully before Joni Mitchell can look at both sides, 'cause she doesn't really know clouds at all.
(Okay, maybe only if systemd ran as PID 2 ...)
This is what everybody wanted right? right!?
If by "everybody" you mean 46.1% of the popular vote (to Hillary's 48.2%), then sure.
Do you really think that, with all of the competition in markets, they will actually raise their prices? Seriously?
"All of the competition?" My area is widely served by exactly two ISPs: Cox and Verizon.
But can you turn on your juicer from your phone while you're in the driveway so that it's done when you open your front door? That's worth $400 to absurdly wealthy people.
Assuming you manually loaded a pack earlier, so it could sit there, un-refrigerated all day, ready to deliver that room-temperature drink at that command - yum.
(Having pre-chopped fruit and/or veggies in single-serving plastic packs delivered in chilled containers to you door seems pretty wasteful, btw.)
With the deck stacked entirely in his favor he still can't deliver.
I imagine many of his casino investors had the very same thought.
Not to worry. I still get American Girl adverts after buying one for my niece. Who just graduated college.
I still get Hello Kitty adverts after buying some USB drives as a joke.
Your "nice" and "joke" aside, just a reminder that /. is a safe space and you're free to be yourself w/o any judgment. :-)
... some investors were surprised to discover a much cheaper alternative: You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands. Two backers said the final device was bulkier than what was originally pitched and that they were puzzled to find that customers could achieve similar results without it.
Working shorter hours resulted in healthier workers, researcher Bengt Lorentzon found in a new paper. "They were less tired, less sick, had more energy coming home and more time to do activities," ...
Is that data-driven programming isn't a thing at Snapchat.
Maybe the data disappears after 5 minutes, like the attention span of the CEO ...
This part is outright praise-worthy...
Depends on if they mean their users' data or data about their users. As they're talking about metrics and "utter incompetence" in it's efforts, it seems they're talking about the latter and their inability to properly analyze the data about their users. If that's so, it's not so praise-worthy. (Noting, in the opposite case, that incompetence in *not* looking at the users' data would mean they're actually good at looking at it.)
He has a controlling hand in a major part of modern society.
Don't be ageist.
He doesn't believe in the defacto necessity of using computers and the Internet in current, modern society. His controlling hand is misguided and uninformed - at least currently. I'm 54 and understand that simple age doesn't bring wisdom and experience to all things.
Please deface and lock the Whopper page so when Alexa reads it out it's really obscene and/or embarrassing. Problem solved.
In the USA, if you wish to actually be a part of modern society, yes you really do have to use the Internet
The congressman is 73, so he's not part of modern society. What the fuck does he care, he'll be dead soon. For all we know he thinks the Internet is a series of tubes. And to paraphrase this guy, people don't have to vote for him, they have a choice.
A surgeon would just cut the cancer out and follow up with chemo and radiation to be sure.
My understanding is that one must nuke it from orbit to be sure.
Amazons Alexa for example has a choice of three words, the alternatives are probably more common in use than Alexa.
I'm thinking: "I", and "am", and "Groot" - exclusively in that order.
Do people no longer buy their own modems/routers....?
I used to use my own Motorola Surfboard cable modem, but now use my ISP's Cisco 3212 EMTA VoIP/cable modem (as it's required for phone service and I can use the included DOCSIS 3.0 8x4 cable modem w/o extra charge), but I have my own DLink DSR 250 (router) and separate DLink DAP 2660 (WiFi AP). All my switches and NICs are Gbit.
... if you miss your flight due to no fault of the airline, you will be charged the fare.
You're missing other (valid) reasons for no-shows, like refundable / changeable tickets. I recently read another article that noted the no-show rate for non-refundable tickets was rather low, and the majority were for refundable / changeable / full-fare tickets, usually purchased by business travelers. These higher-cost tickets allow last-minute changes.
I imagine, like most Google's projects when they go live, AlphaGo is still in beta.
please list for me the humble leaders of the biggest corporations in the world
Not "the biggest", but I saw a segment on 60 Minutes last night about Hamdi Ulukaya Founder & CEO of Chobani and he seems to fit.
I worked for a company 20 years ago that had a Windows program written in VISUAL COBOL. It was terrible. It crashed all the time. When it worked, it was slow. We don't need more COBOL programs, but I hardly think that Python is the answer.
I imagine the failure modes revolved around the words "Windows" and "Visual" rather than "COBOL". As other posters have pointed out, running real COBOL on grown-up, production hardware like IBM System z, etc... is a better metric.
Why don't they automatically translate them to something more modern then run them in the cloud?
Maintaining these systems is just throwing good money away. Money that we all end up paying via our bank charges.
Translate debugged, working, proven code into something else? Not really a good strategy for production code. I also doubt that maintaining those systems is a problem or limiting expense. Modern hardware can run COBOL just fine. As TFS implies, the expense is in finding and hiring people trained in (or willing to learn) a language many don't see as useful and/or sexy -- mainly 'cause it's old. Newer / younger isn't always better or less expensive
A sentence can be technically correct yet still reveal the writer to be an idiot... sometimes in subtle fashion that other idiots wouldn't necessarily pick up on...
Thanks. That explains why some Twitter feeds are popular.