also evil.
The layoff wasn't much of a surprise.
I've been expecting it for a few years and I expect that Apple and Google will follow suit,
just not sure of the timeframe. They're all engaged in verticalizing their information
equivalent of a supply chain, i.e. an indicator of saturating markets.
here's some numbers and quantified conjecture.
the MSFT layoffs were a complete non-surprise to me and I expect to see something similar from Yahoo, Apple and Google, not sure of the timing, though.
http://nodemy-ghost.herokuapp....
Information has finite value.
I joined Mensa in 1988 to meet chicks
but they were too weird for me!!!
The Big Data Crash began about a year ago. Google jiggered the numbers from its own Trends tool sometime earlier this year to disguise it, but you can still still it happening on Indeed.com/jobtrends page. Most likely, they're cutting prices in the face of declining rate-of-increase in demand. i wrote this article about it six months ago -
Today's capitalists are so all-consumed with greed that it's hard to imagine somebody like Henry Ford actually raising wages to his workers could buy mor stuff. Mister Super-Genius Tom Perkins probably can't even imagine an act like that, or imagine reducing the national workweek to 36 hours to force employers to broaden income distribution, which is really how the Great Depression was fixed (48-hour workweek reduced to 40).
Cry me a river when the government takes your obscene wealth away, Tom.
America's IT companies are today's modern-day equivalent to the pre-WW2 German Industrialists. More than happy to clamp diigital handcuffs on their own customers for a few $$$, shove them into electronic cattle cars and ship them off to Information Death Camps.
It has to be designed some way or another, why not Star Trek?
Because the Millennium Falcon had cooler gun bays, that's why!
I kind of wish they'd used the Death Star for greater irony and creepiness.
Suggested experiment: remove all NSA leaders and administration but leave all hardware intact.
Expected result: no significant change.
We'd need a New Tron Bomb for that.
Perhaps NSA chose the wrong movie.
The shark with the fricking laser beam is over at DARPA.
Get yore agencies straight!
I even then only in a programming conferences for apps or interpreted languages.
"Interpreted languages"?!!!
What kind of racist mindset is that, anyway?
If you're paying attention, the consumer IT industry is consolidating along a 'vertical stack integration" strategy.
Check out my Microsoft column for "mobile hardware".
You can't legislate egos.
Young guys always know more than old guys.
I remember two years ago young guys telling me about Mongo
and how they were "beyond Codd's rules and integrity contraints".
Of course, now there's a movement to "structure" Mongo.
Yuk yuk yuk.
Why, just on this board somebody replied that they were now "beyond design patterns".
Yeah, let me know that one works out, kid.
I mean, really, a for loop is a for loop.
How hard is that to figure out?
Apparently quite hard for younger people who think they invented a new for loop
because it's in javascript or erlang.
Are you the type that stands there staring at other mens junk?
Not now when I can disable my camera LED and just film surreptitiously.
Apple and Google are rapidly owning their entire vertical infrastructure.
Their own power centers.
Their own data centers
Their own hardware.
Their own mobile.
Facebook is missing a lot of that, although they're (apparently) trying to catch up.
Likewise with Amazon and Microsoft.
Maybe most of the women gamers are lesbian or bi
and like sexy female characters, too?
Maybe they like imagining they are those characters?
Maybe the teen-minded boys like imagining they are those characters, too?
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
