Part of the original griping was that 'hissy fit' only ever seems to apply to women. When a guy tears down a user like that they usually end up getting neutral to positive feedback.
I had a similar thought. I think I occasionally use maybe the 'option' key in Photoshop for pasting behavior and typing in file names to save, but outside that, not a keyboard heavy app.
Think of it not in terms of what "China" wants or will benefit by, and more in terms of the individual careers of the people involved in the announcement.
I've seen legal documents that basically read like a mad-lib. I could easily see some form letter being mindlessly or automatically filled out based on some context checkboxes.
If computers do not make mistakes, then neither do humans.
Or architecture is more complicated, but there is nothing magical about our wetware and every unexpected result is, deep down, a result of a bunch of rules being followed.
Google never innovated. From day one they improved what others had developed, but they always stayed away from the bleeding edge and waited for other companies to really try things out first.
I find the regression argument rather confusing since it is not hard to get good high quality keyboards today, they just happen to be expensive. Kinda like how the Model M was expensive in its day too. All that has happened is that now we have a wider range of price points and quality instead of everyone having to pay a premium price for 'the company is probably paying for it' hardware.
Thing is, automation HAS been killing jobs. Yeah, people have been finding new work, but outside a small percentage that are finding much better, work, most people who have been replaced by productivity increasing technologies have migrated into lower paying position. The problem did not solve itself, we just placed a greater moral failing on people who did not get the coveted new work then blamed foreigners for the increases in poverty.
Ironic, since democrats always seem to clean up republican messes, and republicans take credit for democratic fixes. Democrats are always accepting responsibility for other people's negative outcomes.
Now? Using payment processors as a tool in morality crusading has been going on since at least the 70s. If you can't make something illegal, pressure the banks to cut off funds.. pretty time honored. And as new systems get larger they get the attention of crusaders and the same pressure gets put on them.
For the fun of doing it? Outside that, yeah, there is not much reason. I could kinda see it if it maintained the user's contact list so was just a drop in replacement to keep chatting with the same people, but if it can not do that I am not sure what purpose it serves.
Eh, I think this kinda overestimates how nuanced recruiters are. I am skeptical that they will want to put in the extra effort to carefully match jobs to candidates through something sophisticated when they are not even using the full set of tools today. As far as I can tell the process usually seems to come down to 'oh, a high commission posting came up for a.Net developer, I'll spam everyone with 'net' in their profile!'.
Targeted advertising has been the 'hope' of people trying to sell to marketers for decades, but at the end of the day dumb spamming is so cheap and low effort that it still rules.
Make no mistake, these people were NOT creampuffs or snowflakes. I would describe this move as downright machiavellian. They overpowered their own company, forced it to give up lucrative contract, managed to do it in such a way that they were outside the blast radius of consequences like all the people who would have to be fired because of this. Yeah.. not 'snowflakes'... cold calculating career oriented assholes.
What is to be gained? Personal brand, new opportunities at other companies or notoriety within their own, and the only people who got hurt were the ones that would have to be laid off, and they must be losers anyway. Yeah,.. not impressed by this 'moral stand'.
I had a related thought. Right now we are waiting on a contract, it is delayed because we do not have much leverage. Most of our people are having to work for nothing or are in a holding pattern looking for other work. Turning down work, or getting to keep your job after getting your company to turn down work, is a mind blowing luxury. It is throwing away what many fight to get.
Morals maybe, but crappy ones. These are people with secure, lucrative jobs deciding to sacrifice others for their self image. Every time you turn down major contracts like that, people lose their jobs. Sometimes lots of people. So this was spoiled brats going 'I don't care if other people get fired, I am too valuable so I will not work on this!'
As the saying goes : standard is better than the best solution. Personally I have really been hoping for more PoE IoT stuff, and I suspect I am not alone.
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Part of the original griping was that 'hissy fit' only ever seems to apply to women. When a guy tears down a user like that they usually end up getting neutral to positive feedback.
A cautionary tale in companies being bought for their credit rating.
I had a similar thought. I think I occasionally use maybe the 'option' key in Photoshop for pasting behavior and typing in file names to save, but outside that, not a keyboard heavy app.
Probably have to sacrifice the WINE developers first.
Think of it not in terms of what "China" wants or will benefit by, and more in terms of the individual careers of the people involved in the announcement.
Always be wary of investors who's fortunes are not tied to your own.
I am sure they will find someone to blame, and take credit when someone else cleans it up.
I've seen legal documents that basically read like a mad-lib. I could easily see some form letter being mindlessly or automatically filled out based on some context checkboxes.
If computers do not make mistakes, then neither do humans.
Or architecture is more complicated, but there is nothing magical about our wetware and every unexpected result is, deep down, a result of a bunch of rules being followed.
Google never innovated. From day one they improved what others had developed, but they always stayed away from the bleeding edge and waited for other companies to really try things out first.
So a dev was snarky at a player and got fired? Oh, she upset a bunch of redpillers. Didn't she realize that such banter is reserved for men?
I find the regression argument rather confusing since it is not hard to get good high quality keyboards today, they just happen to be expensive. Kinda like how the Model M was expensive in its day too. All that has happened is that now we have a wider range of price points and quality instead of everyone having to pay a premium price for 'the company is probably paying for it' hardware.
I tend to assume (3). Technical debt in web projects always seems to pile up faster and worse than any other type of project.
Thing is, automation HAS been killing jobs. Yeah, people have been finding new work, but outside a small percentage that are finding much better, work, most people who have been replaced by productivity increasing technologies have migrated into lower paying position. The problem did not solve itself, we just placed a greater moral failing on people who did not get the coveted new work then blamed foreigners for the increases in poverty.
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Ironic, since democrats always seem to clean up republican messes, and republicans take credit for democratic fixes. Democrats are always accepting responsibility for other people's negative outcomes.
I have often heard how these restriction are valid because adult merchants are high risk, but I have never found any numbers to back this up.
Now? Using payment processors as a tool in morality crusading has been going on since at least the 70s. If you can't make something illegal, pressure the banks to cut off funds.. pretty time honored. And as new systems get larger they get the attention of crusaders and the same pressure gets put on them.
For the fun of doing it? Outside that, yeah, there is not much reason. I could kinda see it if it maintained the user's contact list so was just a drop in replacement to keep chatting with the same people, but if it can not do that I am not sure what purpose it serves.
Eh, I think this kinda overestimates how nuanced recruiters are. I am skeptical that they will want to put in the extra effort to carefully match jobs to candidates through something sophisticated when they are not even using the full set of tools today. As far as I can tell the process usually seems to come down to 'oh, a high commission posting came up for a .Net developer, I'll spam everyone with 'net' in their profile!'.
Targeted advertising has been the 'hope' of people trying to sell to marketers for decades, but at the end of the day dumb spamming is so cheap and low effort that it still rules.
But.. wireless!... apps!.. things!..
Make no mistake, these people were NOT creampuffs or snowflakes. I would describe this move as downright machiavellian. They overpowered their own company, forced it to give up lucrative contract, managed to do it in such a way that they were outside the blast radius of consequences like all the people who would have to be fired because of this. Yeah.. not 'snowflakes'... cold calculating career oriented assholes.
What is to be gained? Personal brand, new opportunities at other companies or notoriety within their own, and the only people who got hurt were the ones that would have to be laid off, and they must be losers anyway. Yeah,.. not impressed by this 'moral stand'.
I had a related thought. Right now we are waiting on a contract, it is delayed because we do not have much leverage. Most of our people are having to work for nothing or are in a holding pattern looking for other work. Turning down work, or getting to keep your job after getting your company to turn down work, is a mind blowing luxury. It is throwing away what many fight to get.
Morals maybe, but crappy ones. These are people with secure, lucrative jobs deciding to sacrifice others for their self image. Every time you turn down major contracts like that, people lose their jobs. Sometimes lots of people. So this was spoiled brats going 'I don't care if other people get fired, I am too valuable so I will not work on this!'
As the saying goes : standard is better than the best solution. Personally I have really been hoping for more PoE IoT stuff, and I suspect I am not alone.