This guy sort of sounds like the type who would go to the ends of the earth to prove his point if he feels he's right. People like him are often the catalyst for change. Good for him.
Also, now I know not to piss off Swedish engineers.
Kidding aside, I have my own frustrations with Windows 10, as I can't upgrade my two Windows 10 machines past 1709. Honestly, I don't really mind the OS that much aside from that. So far I've been able to turn off most of the annoying features.
It's not even close. A smartphone has the advantage of being able to guide you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go, using spoken turn-by-turn directions for safe, hands-free navigation. If you miss a turn, no big deal, it re-routes you from there.
There are plenty of worthless or "minor convenience" apps out there, but navigation apps are one of the absolutely killer features of smartphones. I've used plenty of paper maps over the first half of my life to know that they don't even come close to the utility of an app. A paper map is cumbersome enough that you either need to stop periodically, or have a navigator sitting next to you.
As you alluded to, though, one advantage paper maps have is for longer trip planning, as it's nice to spread the map out on a table and figure out where you want to go. A smaller screen just doesn't work as well for the "bird's-eye" view. Of course, these days, you can do that almost as easily on your PC monitor.
I used 8.x for a while as well for my C++ projects. I'd say it was probably the best among the free IDEs I've tried on Linux.
I've recently been moving my projects to CMake, as I was tired of maintaining multiple projects by hand, or rebuilding a project from scratch if I switch tools. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have a generator for Netbeans projects, so I've switched to Code::Blocks. It's a solid second choice that covers all the basics pretty well.
I guess it's not surprising that no one has bothered with a CMake generator for Netbeans seeing as how C++ support appears to be a fairly low priority for Apache. I can't really blame them for that, as with limited developers, you have to pick your battles.
Given the state of IoT, it's not an unreasonable question to ask. I poked around a bit, and it looks like this company (based in France) at least seems to take security seriously: https://www.wndgroup.io/2017/0...
They use a fundamentally different technology than most IoT products, broadcasting a unique protocol over their own radio networks, and appear to focus on industrial products like water meters rather than consumer devices. Of course anyone can say anything, but it sounds like they're not as likely to make the same sort of braindead security mistakes as some random Chinese manufacturer selling cheap consumer crap.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with that assessment. I certainly don't think this is a big problem by any means (and as I said, there's literally no problem from the technology side). Calling it a "war" is rather overblown - just pointing out the potential area of contention the article was postulating on.
The "war" part comes due to national mandates, such as China demanding that any device sold in China use the Chinese sat network. Or the US actively prohibiting the inclusion of Chinese chips due to national security concerns. This may mean fragmentation in certain markets, which creates problems for vendors wishing to sell a single device to both markets.
From a technological standpoint, there's no real problem, of course. The issue is political. Then again, if the issue *weren't* political, we wouldn't need multiple GPS constellations in the first place.
I don't think she'd have lost without Russian interference and that last minute Oct surprise from Comey pushing Trump over the edge.
Isn't that a bit like saying "I don't think he would have died without that hangnail and the bullet piercing his heart." One seems slightly more likely to have affected the outcome in question than the other.
People keep talking about "Russian interference", but if it was that easy to sway votes with a few anonymously-placed ads or astroturfing bots, it seems the campaigns are awfully incompetent with the $2.4 BILLION spent on the presidential race. I mean, surely the next presidential candidate who hires a Russian strategist is a shoo-in, since they apparently have some untapped genius for getting candidates elected without anyone even noticing.
Naturally he signed an NDA, and has now broken it. Very stupid. This guy shouldn't be blabbing, even if he thinks he's defending his team. Sometimes people have to learn the hard way not to spout what they know to the internet. He may very well face some consequences because of this, depending on how serious Microsoft takes this breach.
I don't think it's been an issue with any Android maker because they all consider Qualcomm's patent terms fair.
Paying the racketeer and "considering it fair" are two vastly different things. Qualcomm got too greedy, arguably not honoring the spirit of FRAND, and Apple has decided it's worthwhile to push back legally.
We've already seen the effect of Hollywood bending over backwards, as you put it, to make movies they think will appeal to the Chinese market. It's a definite concern that videogame companies will tend to self-censor in anticipation of the objectives they think the Chinese censors will have.
As an independent videogame developer, this places a fairly large burden on me. Do I pay for a Chinese localization and try to enter that market, and then subject myself to the whims of a board of censorship? My inclination is to tell them to piss off, but as a practical matter, that's discarding a potentially large market. Do human rights benefit simply by me refusal to participate in a particular market? Hard to say, but probably not. It's not like the US embargo really helped Cuba.
Heh, yeah. It's a little sad how something that starts out as an explicit rejection of dogma and over-reliance on process can itself become dogmatic in a very short period of time. I guess that's just human nature. My takeaway is that relying on any sort of single methodology (without regular introspection) to achieve excellence is ultimately doomed to fail, because without understanding the motivation behind an innovative / effective methodology or process, one is doomed to either misapply it where it doesn't make sense, or to continue to use that same process beyond its useful lifespan.
Naturally, a manager who bans words they don't like to hear isn't going to be interested in much introspection or innovation in their workers' processes. Dogma is so much more comfortable to fall back on, because you don't have to actually think, or make hard decisions.
This seems to be an issue with some types of management. They apparently think by banning certain words, that somehow the problems associated with those words magically goes away. Or, perhaps more likely, they just get sick of hearing about the same old problems over and over, and instead of buckling down and actually *solving* those problems (which requires hard work + competence), they simply ban the key phrases used to describe those problems, thus, "solving" the problem on their end, since they no longer have to hear about them. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.
I remember one place I contracted at decided to unilaterally ban the term "technical debt". That alone tells you what one of their major issues was, without me having to explain anything else.
Sad, but as you pointed out, hardly unique to Apple. The best companies I've worked at don't forbid specific words and phrases when they're relevant to the business at hand.
If you think the Unity or Unreal game engines are merely software libraries, you really don't know what you're talking about.
Well, I'm a professional videogame programmer, who also happens to specialize in game engine development. As such, I tend to assume I'm probably a bit more knowledgeable than most on this particular subject. What exactly do you think is packaged with an Unreal or Unity game to make it run, if not software libraries?
Oh, and I never said "merely". Game engines are beasts. There's nothing "mere" about them.
if you write for a game engine like Unity or Unreal, those engines are packaged with your game, allowing it to run on multiple different platforms. It's the same deal with Flutter.
Thanks, Ars Technica (and Slashdot for the copy-pasta), for explaining to me how a software library works. I was completely mystified how they could pull off this wizardry otherwise.
You know, the same sort of thing used to happen by e-mail. Anyone remember the ridiculous urban legends and scams propagated by e-mail? It occurs for at least two reasons, IMO: people love to gossip and spread rumors, and people were (are?) more naturally predicated to believing anything in print, as it seems more authoritative than someone saying "Hey, I heard from my cousin Frank that..."
And of course, it's not like it started there either. I've been reading WW2 history recently, and noticed many accounts at least touch on how rampant rumor-mongering was among both the homefront as well as on the battlefront. People gossip, and that likely goes back to the dawn of civilization.
It doesn't even go away under totalitarian authority, in which you can ban Winnie-the-Pooh, due to an unfortunately association with Dear Leader. That just pushes the rumors underground, and makes the authorities look trite and desperate (hello Streisand Effect).
I think people are also more apt to believe rumors from a new source, until they understand that source is just as fallible as any other, maybe moreso. Generally speaking, I think this problem will tend to partly mitigate itself over time (although never go away completely), as people learn a healthy skepticism for the new medium. I think eventually most people can only get burned by rumors so many times via a given source before they start looking at the source with a more jaded eye. Some idiots never learn, of course, but I think in general, many or even most eventually do.
Fair enough - maybe OSX performs a lot worse? Guess I wouldn't be too surprised at that. I've disabled any but essential tasks at startup, as I find it pretty annoying when they do that. Feels like "cheating" to me - trying to cover up slow startup time. So I think it really does launch that fast, as far as I can tell.
Do you even use MS Office, or are you just spreading hearsay? On my nine-year old dev machine, Word 2010 launches in half a second and uses about 10MB of RAM with an empty document. Seems pretty svelte by modern standards.
I do think the overall point you're making is valid, just not the particular example used. You can look at Electron-based apps as the most egregious offenders in this regard. For instance, GitKraken takes about 12 seconds to load, and chews up over 450MB, which is just shy of twice the RAM Visual Studio uses when loading that same project. That's rather pathetic, and shows how much CPU horsepower and RAM are wasted with these types of applications.
It turned into a shit-show, apparently just like in the land down under. Personally, I don't consider ad-supported to be free. They're just charging me in time and annoyance instead of money. I'm still irked over Amazon inserting a 30 second ad in front of episodes I watch on Prime. How many damned times do I have to watch the preview of The Man in the High Castle Season Two? I'm currently considering whether this is worth cancelling Prime over. I really only picked up Prime for the video service.
Netflix has the right idea. Just send me an e-mail customized with some shows they figure I might enjoy watching based on my preference. I can always opt-out of it, but I don't mind seeing their recommendations, because it takes all of three second, not thirty seconds for each new show I start.
Honestly, I'm not sure I'll ever forgive Microsoft for giving telemetry such a bad name. I've already seen the fallout from this when people have a knee-jerk reaction to any discussion of telemetry, assuming it's only used for slurping up personal information for less-than-honorable purposes (and unfortunately, we've seen that happen). When it's optional and clearly disclosed to the user, it can be a valuable tool to help developers improve their software.
But when users can't opt out or easily see what's being collected, it's just creepy as hell and feels like spying, even if the developer isn't technically doing anything wrong. Perception can't be discounted. No one likes to be forced to do anything, and the very fact that you can't disable that feature makes people suspicious.
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This guy sort of sounds like the type who would go to the ends of the earth to prove his point if he feels he's right. People like him are often the catalyst for change. Good for him.
Also, now I know not to piss off Swedish engineers.
My Dad was happily using Windows 8
See, now I know you're making this up...
Kidding aside, I have my own frustrations with Windows 10, as I can't upgrade my two Windows 10 machines past 1709. Honestly, I don't really mind the OS that much aside from that. So far I've been able to turn off most of the annoying features.
I think I like my plan better:
1) Get a smartphone
2) Don't become a slave to the damned thing
All of the benefits, and none of the downsides. Win-win.
It's not even close. A smartphone has the advantage of being able to guide you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go, using spoken turn-by-turn directions for safe, hands-free navigation. If you miss a turn, no big deal, it re-routes you from there.
There are plenty of worthless or "minor convenience" apps out there, but navigation apps are one of the absolutely killer features of smartphones. I've used plenty of paper maps over the first half of my life to know that they don't even come close to the utility of an app. A paper map is cumbersome enough that you either need to stop periodically, or have a navigator sitting next to you.
As you alluded to, though, one advantage paper maps have is for longer trip planning, as it's nice to spread the map out on a table and figure out where you want to go. A smaller screen just doesn't work as well for the "bird's-eye" view. Of course, these days, you can do that almost as easily on your PC monitor.
Nice try Satin
Very smooth...
I used 8.x for a while as well for my C++ projects. I'd say it was probably the best among the free IDEs I've tried on Linux.
I've recently been moving my projects to CMake, as I was tired of maintaining multiple projects by hand, or rebuilding a project from scratch if I switch tools. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have a generator for Netbeans projects, so I've switched to Code::Blocks. It's a solid second choice that covers all the basics pretty well.
I guess it's not surprising that no one has bothered with a CMake generator for Netbeans seeing as how C++ support appears to be a fairly low priority for Apache. I can't really blame them for that, as with limited developers, you have to pick your battles.
Given the state of IoT, it's not an unreasonable question to ask. I poked around a bit, and it looks like this company (based in France) at least seems to take security seriously: https://www.wndgroup.io/2017/0...
They use a fundamentally different technology than most IoT products, broadcasting a unique protocol over their own radio networks, and appear to focus on industrial products like water meters rather than consumer devices. Of course anyone can say anything, but it sounds like they're not as likely to make the same sort of braindead security mistakes as some random Chinese manufacturer selling cheap consumer crap.
Paint.NET is standalone software. You're thinking of the Paint program that comes with Windows.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with that assessment. I certainly don't think this is a big problem by any means (and as I said, there's literally no problem from the technology side). Calling it a "war" is rather overblown - just pointing out the potential area of contention the article was postulating on.
The "war" part comes due to national mandates, such as China demanding that any device sold in China use the Chinese sat network. Or the US actively prohibiting the inclusion of Chinese chips due to national security concerns. This may mean fragmentation in certain markets, which creates problems for vendors wishing to sell a single device to both markets.
From a technological standpoint, there's no real problem, of course. The issue is political. Then again, if the issue *weren't* political, we wouldn't need multiple GPS constellations in the first place.
I don't think she'd have lost without Russian interference and that last minute Oct surprise from Comey pushing Trump over the edge.
Isn't that a bit like saying "I don't think he would have died without that hangnail and the bullet piercing his heart." One seems slightly more likely to have affected the outcome in question than the other.
People keep talking about "Russian interference", but if it was that easy to sway votes with a few anonymously-placed ads or astroturfing bots, it seems the campaigns are awfully incompetent with the $2.4 BILLION spent on the presidential race. I mean, surely the next presidential candidate who hires a Russian strategist is a shoo-in, since they apparently have some untapped genius for getting candidates elected without anyone even noticing.
Naturally he signed an NDA, and has now broken it. Very stupid. This guy shouldn't be blabbing, even if he thinks he's defending his team. Sometimes people have to learn the hard way not to spout what they know to the internet. He may very well face some consequences because of this, depending on how serious Microsoft takes this breach.
I don't think it's been an issue with any Android maker because they all consider Qualcomm's patent terms fair.
Paying the racketeer and "considering it fair" are two vastly different things. Qualcomm got too greedy, arguably not honoring the spirit of FRAND, and Apple has decided it's worthwhile to push back legally.
We've already seen the effect of Hollywood bending over backwards, as you put it, to make movies they think will appeal to the Chinese market. It's a definite concern that videogame companies will tend to self-censor in anticipation of the objectives they think the Chinese censors will have.
As an independent videogame developer, this places a fairly large burden on me. Do I pay for a Chinese localization and try to enter that market, and then subject myself to the whims of a board of censorship? My inclination is to tell them to piss off, but as a practical matter, that's discarding a potentially large market. Do human rights benefit simply by me refusal to participate in a particular market? Hard to say, but probably not. It's not like the US embargo really helped Cuba.
Yeah... "mock them for decades" over this? Give me a break. I barely care enough to mock them right now. In fact... nope. Not at all.
Now, batteries catching on fire? Apparently, that just never gets old.
Heh, yeah. It's a little sad how something that starts out as an explicit rejection of dogma and over-reliance on process can itself become dogmatic in a very short period of time. I guess that's just human nature. My takeaway is that relying on any sort of single methodology (without regular introspection) to achieve excellence is ultimately doomed to fail, because without understanding the motivation behind an innovative / effective methodology or process, one is doomed to either misapply it where it doesn't make sense, or to continue to use that same process beyond its useful lifespan.
Naturally, a manager who bans words they don't like to hear isn't going to be interested in much introspection or innovation in their workers' processes. Dogma is so much more comfortable to fall back on, because you don't have to actually think, or make hard decisions.
This seems to be an issue with some types of management. They apparently think by banning certain words, that somehow the problems associated with those words magically goes away. Or, perhaps more likely, they just get sick of hearing about the same old problems over and over, and instead of buckling down and actually *solving* those problems (which requires hard work + competence), they simply ban the key phrases used to describe those problems, thus, "solving" the problem on their end, since they no longer have to hear about them. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.
I remember one place I contracted at decided to unilaterally ban the term "technical debt". That alone tells you what one of their major issues was, without me having to explain anything else.
Sad, but as you pointed out, hardly unique to Apple. The best companies I've worked at don't forbid specific words and phrases when they're relevant to the business at hand.
If you think the Unity or Unreal game engines are merely software libraries, you really don't know what you're talking about.
Well, I'm a professional videogame programmer, who also happens to specialize in game engine development. As such, I tend to assume I'm probably a bit more knowledgeable than most on this particular subject. What exactly do you think is packaged with an Unreal or Unity game to make it run, if not software libraries?
Oh, and I never said "merely". Game engines are beasts. There's nothing "mere" about them.
if you write for a game engine like Unity or Unreal, those engines are packaged with your game, allowing it to run on multiple different platforms. It's the same deal with Flutter.
Thanks, Ars Technica (and Slashdot for the copy-pasta), for explaining to me how a software library works. I was completely mystified how they could pull off this wizardry otherwise.
You know, the same sort of thing used to happen by e-mail. Anyone remember the ridiculous urban legends and scams propagated by e-mail? It occurs for at least two reasons, IMO: people love to gossip and spread rumors, and people were (are?) more naturally predicated to believing anything in print, as it seems more authoritative than someone saying "Hey, I heard from my cousin Frank that..."
And of course, it's not like it started there either. I've been reading WW2 history recently, and noticed many accounts at least touch on how rampant rumor-mongering was among both the homefront as well as on the battlefront. People gossip, and that likely goes back to the dawn of civilization.
It doesn't even go away under totalitarian authority, in which you can ban Winnie-the-Pooh, due to an unfortunately association with Dear Leader. That just pushes the rumors underground, and makes the authorities look trite and desperate (hello Streisand Effect).
I think people are also more apt to believe rumors from a new source, until they understand that source is just as fallible as any other, maybe moreso. Generally speaking, I think this problem will tend to partly mitigate itself over time (although never go away completely), as people learn a healthy skepticism for the new medium. I think eventually most people can only get burned by rumors so many times via a given source before they start looking at the source with a more jaded eye. Some idiots never learn, of course, but I think in general, many or even most eventually do.
Fair enough - maybe OSX performs a lot worse? Guess I wouldn't be too surprised at that. I've disabled any but essential tasks at startup, as I find it pretty annoying when they do that. Feels like "cheating" to me - trying to cover up slow startup time. So I think it really does launch that fast, as far as I can tell.
Do you even use MS Office, or are you just spreading hearsay? On my nine-year old dev machine, Word 2010 launches in half a second and uses about 10MB of RAM with an empty document. Seems pretty svelte by modern standards.
I do think the overall point you're making is valid, just not the particular example used. You can look at Electron-based apps as the most egregious offenders in this regard. For instance, GitKraken takes about 12 seconds to load, and chews up over 450MB, which is just shy of twice the RAM Visual Studio uses when loading that same project. That's rather pathetic, and shows how much CPU horsepower and RAM are wasted with these types of applications.
I don;t what the fuck is wrong
I totally agree.
How is advertising-supported TV going in the US?
It turned into a shit-show, apparently just like in the land down under. Personally, I don't consider ad-supported to be free. They're just charging me in time and annoyance instead of money. I'm still irked over Amazon inserting a 30 second ad in front of episodes I watch on Prime. How many damned times do I have to watch the preview of The Man in the High Castle Season Two? I'm currently considering whether this is worth cancelling Prime over. I really only picked up Prime for the video service.
Netflix has the right idea. Just send me an e-mail customized with some shows they figure I might enjoy watching based on my preference. I can always opt-out of it, but I don't mind seeing their recommendations, because it takes all of three second, not thirty seconds for each new show I start.
Honestly, I'm not sure I'll ever forgive Microsoft for giving telemetry such a bad name. I've already seen the fallout from this when people have a knee-jerk reaction to any discussion of telemetry, assuming it's only used for slurping up personal information for less-than-honorable purposes (and unfortunately, we've seen that happen). When it's optional and clearly disclosed to the user, it can be a valuable tool to help developers improve their software.
But when users can't opt out or easily see what's being collected, it's just creepy as hell and feels like spying, even if the developer isn't technically doing anything wrong. Perception can't be discounted. No one likes to be forced to do anything, and the very fact that you can't disable that feature makes people suspicious.