I always knew they were bad for you. Wanna know how? They taste good. Taste is inversely proportional to nutritional value.
Yeah, I know there are caveats, but in general it's one of the truest rules of life. The closer the taste is to cardboard, grass, soil, or liver; the better it is for you.
Just wait for the tech bubble to pop. It usually does.
There was a gaming bubble 1983-ish, Windows/aerospace bubble (1992-ish), Dot-com bubble (2001-ish), and we are due for the smart-phone bubble to pop.
The mortgage bubble arguably could be counted, but didn't affect Silicon Valley as much, probably because it just got super-charged by touch-screen smart-phones at the time.
It seems 2 different things to me. The content producers and the content distributors are different groups with different specialties. The top producers and physical studios can rent themselves out to Netflix if the deal is right, for example. Neither is stapled to each other.
The fact that Netflix and Amazon have produced a hit or two doesn't mean they will take over most content production. If they find a nice niche, competitors will copy that niche.
The only way to get sufficient competition is to make "the last mile" into a public utility, but allow many content providers in. They don't have run a jillion lines, only hook up to regional routing nodes. By not having to get into the mass wiring business, more content providers can enter the market.
In my opinion, dynamic languages should require, or at least encourage, one to specify what comparison type to use rather than rely on parameter (operand) analysis. The hard part is coming up with a nice syntax for such. I've had various discussion groups consider different suggestions, and found no consensus.
In the shorter term, one can roll their own functions and hope staff coders follow along. Example:
if (strCompare(a, '>', b)) {...} if (numCompare(a, '<=', b)) {...}
Those considered "beautiful women," and between the ages of 18 and 28, can make four times as much plus tips by working as live-streaming models to keep mostly-male viewers entertained.
Give me decent tools/standards and I'll tell and show the PHB's I can do apps in 1/4 the time and with less code. PHB's like pretty shows, but they also want to save money for internal apps. "Pretty will cost you more."
One should be close to the customers and users to make useful office software. If most of your effort is fiddling with low-level programming and UI issues, then you are doing something wrong and wasting labor.
I used to crank out custom internal software quite quickly in the pre-web days: blam blam blam! Now it takes a 10 fucking hours to get shit like scrollbars to work right in JS libraries with lots of screwy code and dealing with browser differences. Something is fucked about the Web Stack; we are doing it wrong; billions are wasted. We are chasing fads instead of productivity. I want to make useful tools in short time, not make fucking skirts; you goddam fashion monkeys buy into this shit!
I didn't have to micromanage UI crap back then. It may be great job security, but a nuke to productivity. One of these days a standard or tool will get network UI's right and jillions of programmers will be unemployed or serving fries. The UI shit-bubble will pop. I will learn it early and replace many you goddam fashion monkeys because I'll be able to crank out and quickly fix and adjust apps again! There is a market for eye-candy, but it's not everywhere. Internal apps don't need eye-candy and the org shouldn't be fashion-taxed to get normal apps.
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I always knew they were bad for you. Wanna know how? They taste good. Taste is inversely proportional to nutritional value.
Yeah, I know there are caveats, but in general it's one of the truest rules of life. The closer the taste is to cardboard, grass, soil, or liver; the better it is for you.
Ooops, sorry, wrong envelope. My bad. The "moon" group won.
NOOOOooooooooooo!
They both suck maggot filled rotting corpses on their best days.
Less competition will make them go from an F- to a G.
Just wait for the tech bubble to pop. It usually does.
There was a gaming bubble 1983-ish, Windows/aerospace bubble (1992-ish), Dot-com bubble (2001-ish), and we are due for the smart-phone bubble to pop.
The mortgage bubble arguably could be counted, but didn't affect Silicon Valley as much, probably because it just got super-charged by touch-screen smart-phones at the time.
It seems 2 different things to me. The content producers and the content distributors are different groups with different specialties. The top producers and physical studios can rent themselves out to Netflix if the deal is right, for example. Neither is stapled to each other.
The fact that Netflix and Amazon have produced a hit or two doesn't mean they will take over most content production. If they find a nice niche, competitors will copy that niche.
The only way to get sufficient competition is to make "the last mile" into a public utility, but allow many content providers in. They don't have run a jillion lines, only hook up to regional routing nodes. By not having to get into the mass wiring business, more content providers can enter the market.
Common plot for gloomy sci-fi
No problem, just bust into the Roswell stash. The Zorkians carried plenty with them.
As a troll, I'm upset my job is being automated away.
What's next, bums will be automated?
Try "allah".
Those are similar to Gnarly Class stars.
The last one offended the first six and is building a Dyson sphere around them and making them pay for it.
That's where God keeps Earth's backups.
I wonder how far back the oldest goes?
Hop aboard the Dereg Express!
What will it be, fires?, floods?, pestilence?, mass riots?, Trump?
That's not catchy enough for the Mainstream Media. Trye:
"Berserk Cyborg Car Escapes Lab, Goes on Killing Spree!"
In my opinion, dynamic languages should require, or at least encourage, one to specify what comparison type to use rather than rely on parameter (operand) analysis. The hard part is coming up with a nice syntax for such. I've had various discussion groups consider different suggestions, and found no consensus.
In the shorter term, one can roll their own functions and hope staff coders follow along. Example:
If the battery is smaller, it cannot be a galaxy. Rename it Star Cluster Note 7.
Or more appropriately, Cluster Fuck 7.
They'll just fill up more cores with @#&$% McAfee scans; they own half the company. It's like a dog breeding company also selling pooper-scoopers.
I told the PHB it had 13 just to quiet him. However, he now gets nervous on Fridays.
"Relax, I installed extra Flux Capacitors to shore it up. Can I have a raise?"
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It is complicated and obscure. But, so is Windows.
People just go with the devil they know. Compatibility and familiarity often trump better technology.
The PHB has the money, so he calls the shots.
Give me decent tools/standards and I'll tell and show the PHB's I can do apps in 1/4 the time and with less code. PHB's like pretty shows, but they also want to save money for internal apps. "Pretty will cost you more."
No, I know how to do it the long stupid illogical way also, like all the other suckers. I just miss being productive.
One should be close to the customers and users to make useful office software. If most of your effort is fiddling with low-level programming and UI issues, then you are doing something wrong and wasting labor.
I used to crank out custom internal software quite quickly in the pre-web days: blam blam blam! Now it takes a 10 fucking hours to get shit like scrollbars to work right in JS libraries with lots of screwy code and dealing with browser differences. Something is fucked about the Web Stack; we are doing it wrong; billions are wasted. We are chasing fads instead of productivity. I want to make useful tools in short time, not make fucking skirts; you goddam fashion monkeys buy into this shit!
I didn't have to micromanage UI crap back then. It may be great job security, but a nuke to productivity. One of these days a standard or tool will get network UI's right and jillions of programmers will be unemployed or serving fries. The UI shit-bubble will pop. I will learn it early and replace many you goddam fashion monkeys because I'll be able to crank out and quickly fix and adjust apps again! There is a market for eye-candy, but it's not everywhere. Internal apps don't need eye-candy and the org shouldn't be fashion-taxed to get normal apps.