I've been coding for 37 years and just last evening interviewed almost 3 hours for a job that would be the first IT-related job where I won't be installing or using an IDE.
Prepare for incoming is what I say. The world and world of IT is going to look quite different real soon.
... the payment protocol is an open standard, cryptographically safe (obviously) and the default mode is prepaid and fair proportional "time spent" billing and payout.
The crucial problem though is basically a global provider- independent protocol based transaction bank. That's what this boils down to. I've always wondered why Google didn't do something like that a loooong time ago. Don't they have billions of users on android and cheap portable devices?
You need something like that to really make micropayments work in a feasible manner for everyone.
Quote from some other guy here on slashdot sums it up perfectly:
- new database
- stores records forever
- no purging of old records, obsolete records
- guaranteed to grow in size forever
- can't edit records
- sequential processing with complex calculations so it's not Order(1) or O(n) or even O(n^x) but a complex polynomial that grows by yet another O(n^y) each time another entry is added
- guaranteed to always get slower over time -- it's the nature of cumulative calculations to verify the data each and every time it's accessed
This new database is available immediately. It currently underperforms
- SQlite
- MysQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle
- MSSQL
- NOSQL
- a flat text file
- an SOS written with a stick on a deserted desert island to attract air rescue
Welcome to Blockchain, the database worse in every respect except one -- authentication.
So if you believe that the only way to do authentication properly is to accept all the above,
then it's a good thing you're not a security researcher.
If you insist on driving a 3+ ton heavy 5.5+ meter long car to move your fat lazy solitary ass around and block the streets and public space for everyone else, you better pay through the nose into public koffers to do it, otherwise I'll be super-pissed.
If you don't like that quit whining and get a bike or a small motorscooter.
To emphasize: here in Germany current SUVs are so fat and wide I often can't even get passed them on my maxiscooter
I'm only half joking. I *do* know that Snap still exists, because I saw a newspost featuring them a while back. But I am surprised they're still around. Did they even turn a profit with their service?
With proprietary hardware becoming less of a thing and media-brands being largely platform independent such a move could really make sense. These days I really see no real benefit to console-centric releases. The Playstation wouldn't loose large numbers of customers if they made the Horizon series available on XBox but they likely would make money reaching out the XBox crowd. For MS this might just be the same. Halo is an XBox tentpole and Sea of Thieves and Forza are neat but besides that there is little incentive to buy XBox for the exclusives. I see a similar situation for the Playstation.
However, MS could make some neat money offering servies and games to Playstation and it would be a good thing too if they opened up a little more for cross-platform.
... and sustainable market.
There, FTFY.
... were well known in the 1950ies. There are even TV documentaries on the subject from those times.
... of electricity. 7x the price for your power or windmills, it's your choice.
... is close to a miracle. Their core product is basically a commercial OIDC service - something a group of smart highschoolers could probably set up - correctly(!) - in a week - which they at least twice managed to set up so broken that they got hacked and leaked critical OIDC data. How Okta even still is a publicly traded company is beyond me.
I basically agree with what you're saying but I would describe this as an industrialization of IT and Software (Development). With that the "Artisan" aspect of software development goes by the wayside. Bluntly put: In these times it's too costly for society to keep highly skilled experts around when run-off-the-mill software and cargo-cult programming by some clueless clerk will do the trick " good enough " and, most importantly, way quicker/cheaper than that expensive guy who's always caught up in other requirements or keeps blabbering about that our software is too wet and needs to be dry or whatever that means.
It's a bit like with books: The first modern book was the gutenberg bible that hat skilled painters filling in the colors and adding leaf-gold. Today it's digital presses pushing out infinite amounts of printed paper half of which will quickly be pulped again before anyone reads the text on it.
We are not needed and just about nobody can judge whether software quality is good or not nor do they really care. Is it colorful and can I click on it? That's the main thing, all else really doesn't matter. And if you think about it, this makes total sense: Why would I want some expensive obnoxious expert making noise when I'm perfectly happy with that cheap templated software that the expert calls a bloated piece of utterly unmaintainable sh*t.
... and their goofy acronyms.
... is either off his meds or took to many.
This is one of those - admittedly quite rare - slashdot posts that stick out like a sore thumb and look like someone accidentally pushed some obscure peronsal sub-sub-redit post into the slashdot mainfeed.
Seriously man, this blurb is a bummer.
That may be the reason they train a certain skill better. And that _may_ be the skill that opinion leaders _think_ makes them better humans.
Given, I still like dead tree books. They do force me to stay on topic, have no distraction built in and they don't need electricity and electronics to function. The latter being a very distinct advantage. I still spend money on dead tree copies of writings I consider to be of potential long-term value. All nice, fine and dandy.
But I also have roughly 500 books as free (beer & speech) PDFs and a few DRM-free epubs on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+. Also nice, almost as easy to read on my OLED Tablet and waaaay more easy to carry around. Along with Gigabytes of Music and Audiobooks and Videos and whatnot. That's the huge advantage of electronics.
While I would admit that long-form reading on a single topic or story likely could have positive effects on development of the brain and certain cognitive abilities I do wonder how relevant this study will be when any cheap-ass discounter smartphone is way smarter than the average human.
Just sayin'.
Always the same message, "we gonna die!!!!!111!!".
Says absolutely nobody. That modern civilisation is at stake? Yeah, there is a measurable chance that our times might perish due to stupidity and ignorance on the eco-front. We *are* in trouble, that's a given. How much trouble is still mostly up to us. Though I wouldn't count on that being the case for much longer now.
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
