The house of cards is different now. The bulk of the investment market is moving towards private equity, where things are less regulated and more difficult to game.
The only danger with this private equity trend is if all those billions invested in Silicon Valley startups don't turn up profitable. But how could that happen? There's an infinite customer base for freemium and ad-supported step counting widgets. That system could never fail like the subprime mortgage thing, too many people Like it on Facebook.
If you think I'm kidding look at numbers on crunchbase. Just for the last week the amounts invested by VC in startups is higher than Greece's monthly bill.
Why would anyone use those? There's no discount. A $25 gift card just entitles you to spend $25 worth of whatever that company has to sell. What's the point? To show someone that you know that they like coffee, so instead of giving them $25 you give them a $25 Starbucks gift card? It's not really more thoughtful than giving cash yet it's far less convenient for everyone involved. And why would you even refill those for yourself? Because you don't trust yourself with your own money?
And a Starbucks gift card is not like those gas credit cards, the last resort of degenerate gamblers, junkies and broke-ass idiots who offer you to fill up your car using their card in exchange for $20 cash. At least those are convenient if you happen to stop for gas at the right place and the right time.
Interesting stuff, but I still struggle with putting in the correct amount of water when I prepare Kool-Aid, so cold brewing Arabica beans ain't happening anytime soon. In the meantime I'll keep buying my coffee at Starbucks.
Action movies with female leads have been a recipe for a while now.
Look at Tomb Raider, Ultraviolet, Salt or many others. They are basically a Steven Seagal movie with a sexy chick instead of Steven Seagal. If that's the price to pay to see an action movie without being a dinosaur, I'm okay with it. Long live feminism!
And thinking of it, if Steven Seagal was to star in a chick flick instead of Jennifer Aniston, that would be a sign of true gender equality. I don't think we are there yet, and it's probably better that way.
We're seeing a convergence on exactly three languages: C++, C#, and Swift. Every other language is becoming a minor player compared to these Three Giants.
This might qualify as one of the 10 dumbest "Ask Slashdot" questions going. If it's a troll, it's working.
I don't think it's a troll. I think it's an entitled brat asking a real question.
If he's anything like many of today's young people, it's very likely that for all his life he's been over-rewarded for minor achievements and over-praised for minor skills. It is to be expected that he will need a few reality checks before common sense starts sinking in.
Shame on you, parents of millenials, and thank you Slashdot for once again picking up the slack.
I really wanted to look at the video and learn about this thing, but the soundtrack is so bad... I had to give up when it got to the "solo" that starts around 0:38. It sounds like they taped some random person who tried a few keys on a Casio keyboard on display at radio shack.
I think the chilling screams of dogs being skinned live would have been less distracting.
Someone should find the person who picked the soundtrack and pee on the windshield of their car.
Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.
That's possible. We'd know for sure if at some point either of these products could go back to >15% market share, but let's not hold our breath for that.
The reason for Swift is that Apple just doesn't want to compete head-to-head with the Android framework. There is simply no other reason.
You're just Butthurt that Android doesn't have anything as clean and modern as Swift.
See, you don't bring anything new in the conversation, you only repeat meaningless buzzwords already said by others. A lot like what Apple has done for the last 10 years.
As for Swift vs Java, nobody in this thread has provided actual points proving that Swift is indeed a superior language. Which pretty much demonstrates the fact that it's more Apple fenceware, and nothing else.
Yeah. That's like this bleeding-edge feature now available in Oracle 12c: "multitenant architecture with pluggable databases".
Thanks to this fantastic innovation (which requires an additional license), it's now possible to have multiple databases hosted on the same Oracle instance! Crazy.
Of course this has been available (with no extra fee) for decades in SQL Server, MySql, Postgres and others.
There is a reason why people despise goto statements. May you never have to learn from personal experience what those reasons are.
I once had the "opportunity" to work with someone who was using goto to implement a fascinating code reuse strategy. Basically he was copy-pasting old code from previous projects and using goto to jump over lines of codes that were irrelevant in the new project. The best part was that he was *commenting out* old gotos, in case they could be repurposed.
That guy really loved goto, although he frequently complained about the fact that you can't pass variables to goto.
Fuck off Dice we don't care about your shitty fluff pieces passing as news! You will not get any ad dollars from me and I encourage everyone else not to click or respond to this garbage.
Why are you so harsh with them? It's a great company that creates interesting, unbiased and entertaining content!
Oh wait, I thought you meant Vice, not Dice. Sorry about that.
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The house of cards is different now. The bulk of the investment market is moving towards private equity, where things are less regulated and more difficult to game.
The only danger with this private equity trend is if all those billions invested in Silicon Valley startups don't turn up profitable. But how could that happen? There's an infinite customer base for freemium and ad-supported step counting widgets. That system could never fail like the subprime mortgage thing, too many people Like it on Facebook.
If you think I'm kidding look at numbers on crunchbase. Just for the last week the amounts invested by VC in startups is higher than Greece's monthly bill.
Why would anyone use those? There's no discount. A $25 gift card just entitles you to spend $25 worth of whatever that company has to sell. What's the point? To show someone that you know that they like coffee, so instead of giving them $25 you give them a $25 Starbucks gift card? It's not really more thoughtful than giving cash yet it's far less convenient for everyone involved. And why would you even refill those for yourself? Because you don't trust yourself with your own money?
And a Starbucks gift card is not like those gas credit cards, the last resort of degenerate gamblers, junkies and broke-ass idiots who offer you to fill up your car using their card in exchange for $20 cash. At least those are convenient if you happen to stop for gas at the right place and the right time.
Fuck gift cards.
Interesting stuff, but I still struggle with putting in the correct amount of water when I prepare Kool-Aid, so cold brewing Arabica beans ain't happening anytime soon. In the meantime I'll keep buying my coffee at Starbucks.
You explicitly make it impossible for anyone to determine your contribution to the community.
You just make mindlessly hostile comments to random posts on the site.
Kill yourself.
If your words were source code, it wouldn't compile.
The U.S. Navy is not pleased with the progress it has made on data center consolidation and plans to change strategies.
I'm sure changing strategies will allow them to make up for the slow progress since the last change of strategy.
Action movies with female leads have been a recipe for a while now.
Look at Tomb Raider, Ultraviolet, Salt or many others. They are basically a Steven Seagal movie with a sexy chick instead of Steven Seagal. If that's the price to pay to see an action movie without being a dinosaur, I'm okay with it. Long live feminism!
And thinking of it, if Steven Seagal was to star in a chick flick instead of Jennifer Aniston, that would be a sign of true gender equality. I don't think we are there yet, and it's probably better that way.
I can imagine Ed Felton getting frustrated with just how little power the position actually has.
He would get even more frustrated if he knew that neither Slashdot editors or readers can decide on how to spell his name.
We're seeing a convergence on exactly three languages: C++, C#, and Swift. Every other language is becoming a minor player compared to these Three Giants.
Baghdad Bob, is that you?
Easy: a Buffer.com account using a prepaid credit card.
Don't let death stop the conversation! Prepare right now years of meaningless babbling that people will Like, Share and Retweet.
This might qualify as one of the 10 dumbest "Ask Slashdot" questions going. If it's a troll, it's working.
I don't think it's a troll. I think it's an entitled brat asking a real question.
If he's anything like many of today's young people, it's very likely that for all his life he's been over-rewarded for minor achievements and over-praised for minor skills. It is to be expected that he will need a few reality checks before common sense starts sinking in.
Shame on you, parents of millenials, and thank you Slashdot for once again picking up the slack.
cumputers
don't forget the moanitors!
It's about time that someone democratizes terrorism!
So how does a 40 year old computer system get replaced and only doubles the number of flights capable of being tracked?
They switched from 7-bit ASCII to 8-bit ASCII...
*cough* Webmatrix
I really wanted to look at the video and learn about this thing, but the soundtrack is so bad... I had to give up when it got to the "solo" that starts around 0:38. It sounds like they taped some random person who tried a few keys on a Casio keyboard on display at radio shack.
I think the chilling screams of dogs being skinned live would have been less distracting.
Someone should find the person who picked the soundtrack and pee on the windshield of their car.
Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.
I was with you until the "high quality development tools" part.
That's possible. We'd know for sure if at some point either of these products could go back to >15% market share, but let's not hold our breath for that.
This is for people with phones that have limited features, like a Blackberry or an iPhone.
The reason for Swift is that Apple just doesn't want to compete head-to-head with the Android framework. There is simply no other reason.
You're just Butthurt that Android doesn't have anything as clean and modern as Swift.
See, you don't bring anything new in the conversation, you only repeat meaningless buzzwords already said by others. A lot like what Apple has done for the last 10 years.
As for Swift vs Java, nobody in this thread has provided actual points proving that Swift is indeed a superior language. Which pretty much demonstrates the fact that it's more Apple fenceware, and nothing else.
Those "clean" features have been in C# for years. Even java has now somehow the equivalent.
None of this gives Swift any kind of "cleanliness" edge. This is pure fluff, nothing else.
The reason for Swift is that Apple just doesn't want to compete head-to-head with the Android framework. There is simply no other reason.
Yeah. That's like this bleeding-edge feature now available in Oracle 12c: "multitenant architecture with pluggable databases".
Thanks to this fantastic innovation (which requires an additional license), it's now possible to have multiple databases hosted on the same Oracle instance! Crazy.
Of course this has been available (with no extra fee) for decades in SQL Server, MySql, Postgres and others.
There is a reason why people despise goto statements. May you never have to learn from personal experience what those reasons are.
I once had the "opportunity" to work with someone who was using goto to implement a fascinating code reuse strategy. Basically he was copy-pasting old code from previous projects and using goto to jump over lines of codes that were irrelevant in the new project. The best part was that he was *commenting out* old gotos, in case they could be repurposed.
That guy really loved goto, although he frequently complained about the fact that you can't pass variables to goto.
Fuck off Dice we don't care about your shitty fluff pieces passing as news! You will not get any ad dollars from me and I encourage everyone else not to click or respond to this garbage.
Why are you so harsh with them? It's a great company that creates interesting, unbiased and entertaining content!
Oh wait, I thought you meant Vice, not Dice. Sorry about that.
So I think that anyone who claims to like it is either:
A) One of its creators.
or
B) A hipster who is repeating hype.
It's called the Go syndrome.