Comment Re:Obvious answer (Score 1) 565
He's getting emails for new account signups. How is Gmail's spam filter supposed to distinguish between new accounts that he himself created, and those that the other person in Australia created?
He's getting emails for new account signups. How is Gmail's spam filter supposed to distinguish between new accounts that he himself created, and those that the other person in Australia created?
It's nice to have a web browser and a basic set of (pdf, image, etc.) file viewers so that double-clicking a file in the file manager works.
But there's a class of apps that most people won't use, and take up a lot of disk space (and bandwidth to install/upgrade) so the default should be to not install anything:
Email Client: Evolution is a large program that pulls in lots of dependencies. Most people use web mail anyway. People who want a native MUA either know how to install one, or have instructions from their company on how to set this up.
IDE: Even for people who need them, there's no one IDE that will handle every programmer, so there's no sensible default. The people who need an IDE will know how to install one.
IRC/Messaging Client: Again, the market is so fragmented that it's hard to pick a good default for this, and many people are using web-based IM clients anyway.
Office Suite: LibreOffice is probably the right default, but it's a very big piece of software. Many people use Google or Office 365 for this too, and many more don't have a need for an office suite at all.
Calendar: If there's a simple calendar app (e.g. GNOME Calendar) that doesn't require a lot of setup to start using, go with that. But not Evolution, which is too big and requires too much configuration on the first launch.
Although they have adapted it to this specific species of mosquito, what Google/Verily is doing is not a new. It's been done since the 1940's, and has had many successes in eradicating or suppressing pest populations.
Have you thought that maybe it's even harder to convince all 7.5+ billion people to stop reproducing? When this has been tried in places India and China, it resulted in forced sterilization, abortion and other human rights violations.
On the other hand, reducing per capita carbon emissions is something that can be done with economic policy. Implement carbon taxes so that people pay their fair share of environmental costs, and have incentives for research into alternative energy, etc.
Having developers focus exclusively on "luxury" apartments is not itself a problem. If all the new housing supply is going to the luxury end of the market, then the mid-range apartment hunters will no longer have to compete with the rich. Which then means that the poor will no longer have to compete with the middle class.
So more luxury apartments mean that the rent goes down for everyone (unless there was an oversupply, which there isn't in the Bay Area).
Don't forget:
- Scrum
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Agile Unified Process
In defence of the cloud, here's how I usually see the conversation go:
Boss: "Let's deploy this application to a server in our data center"
Developer: "OK"
Developer: "We need a server in our data center. How can I get one?"
Sysadmin: "You'll need to engage an architect to produce an infrastructure design, then bring it to our vendors to get a quote, and then talk to the accountants to get your project funded. Make sure you get sign-off from these 8 different managers, and we can install your server. Then you'll need to talk to the networking guys about connectivity. We can have everything ready for you in about 6 months."
Developer: "Uhh...OK. Let me talk to some people and get back to you..."
Boss: "So when will our servers be ready?"
Developer: "I've just signed up for an AWS account and I'll go and spin up some EC2 instances. They should be up in about 5 minutes. If I put it on the corporate card, can you approve the expense?"
Boss: "Yeah sure."
The reality is, in a lot of big companies, the services that IT provides are really shitty and you might be able to get a lot more done if you work around them.
Chicago had a 100% gun ban till recently. They still had record levels... of gun crime. So much for the gun control argument. (Kind of funny how liberals hate prohibition of drugs... but forget the same rules apply to guns. Ban guns and people bring them in... from places where guns aren't banned. Stunning.)
That's like saying "Arizona has strict immigration laws, yet it has high levels of illegal immigration".
Immigration, gun control, homelessness, etc. are federal-level issues. But that doesn't mean that local and state governments shouldn't do what they can do to try to fix things as much as they can, when they don't see eye-to-eye with the federal government.
Is there really anything other than Software Engineer? (for non-research roles)
As others have said, AI isn't new. But it is a fast growing field, so I'd caution against getting too specialized. In a field that is growing fast and changing quickly, it's important to be adaptable. You only tend to see highly specialized roles in established fields, and AI is not one of those.
When Eich was running things, the browser worked.
He was running things for 11 days. That's not enough time to have any impact, positive or negative.
I don't think Eich's firing made any difference to the fortunes of Mozilla. If you look at the market share graph in TFA, there's no real change in Firefox's downward trend around the time that this happened.
This idea seems very common - if only Millennials would stop spending so much, and start saving up like their parents' generation, they would be able to afford a house.
Where I live, the house price to income ratio is double what it was in 1985. This means that young people need double the income that their parents had, to buy the same home.
In this case, it isn't that they're spending too much - it's that houses are too expensive relative to the jobs that are available.
Sounds like you're looking for something like TechShop - http://techshop.ws/
The studies focus on private offices vs open plan offices. The AC was talking about cubes vs open plan, and was saying that cubes are no substitute for a proper private office.
There's no reason why either a power system, or a payments system, need to be built around a single point of failure. It's just a matter of how much engineering and money we want to put into these systems. For businesses that care, it's common to have backup power, and electronic payment systems usually have an offline mode (at least the popular ones do).
But businesses are more worried about things like theft, and this is an actual problem that electronic payments solve. Stacks of cash no longer have to be secured from violent criminals by armed guards, and audit trails make it harder to commit fraud and embezzlement.
Terrorism, on the other hand, hardly ever actually happens in Europe or the US. And when it does, terrorists are focused on, you know, inflicting violent terror, not on blocking electronic payments.
I'm really surprised that you (and others) care so much about gedit. Regardless of whether we're talking about the gnome 2 gedit or the gnome 3 one, neither of them are serious text editors for power users.
All it does is provide a simple-to-use default editor for new users (who edit text files very occasionally). It's like Notepad on Windows. And the current gedit serves this purpose just fine.
Serious users will install a serious text editor (e.g. vim, emacs, sublime, atom). This was true back in the gnome 2 days, and is still true today.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.