At work, I was later able to switch release note generation from Word to LaTeX, which was much easier to script (extract change logs from the vcs, match with some extracts from the error database and test results etc, feed a database with release specific information [which bug was fixed in which release and merged to which branches]), and generate the final release notes as HTML and PDF.
And the landsharks?
Lawyers are supported like normal people, yes
Because if you miss and don't kill them instantly, [...]
A Shotgun should eliminate that risk...
For Samsung, they might not be allowed to fork Android, but they do invest in Tizen. I'm looking forward to finally see the first devices.
Tizen is not an Android fork. Tizen is built on Linux and the project resides within Linux Foundation. So, Samsung building Tizen phones doesn't break their agreement to abide by Google's OHA requirements.
I thought that is what I wrote? They can't fork Android, but they can invest in Tizen... That's why I'm looking forward to Tizen
All-New Fire OS "Mojito"
New Kindle Fire tablets are powered by the latest version of Fire OS—Fire OS 3.0 "Mojito", which starts with Android and adds cloud services
As far as I understood the restrictions, they could use the word Android, but they can't use the Google logo or Google Apps (Mail, Maps and others) without Googles permission. For Samsung, they might not be allowed to fork Android, but they do invest in Tizen. I'm looking forward to finally see the first devices.
All the other people in the world are not morons.
I object. But do agree that "Not all the other people in the world are morons.", it's just I'm convinced as well that "Not all the other people in the world are not morons." Takes all kinds...
Nothing comes close to Google maps.
HERE (including former Navteq!) has 80% market share in all car navigation systems. The map data is quite good, the routes calculated by here.com are also on par with Google (sometimes slightly better, at other times slightly words). Maybe Google has some more point of interest listed, but this is a matter of market share of the software as a guide rather than only routing. The more people use HERE map data and software as a guide, the more points of interest they will add.
Everyone else likes it and uses it to their advantage. The EU is working against the wishes and against the interests of its citizens.
Unfortunately most people do not understand the significance of privacy and free speech. Ask people if they'd sell the right to speak out on one tiny specific topic for 1000€ annually, and you will see that freedom has a price-tag. Nevertheless I think governments should prevent people from selling their privacy and freedom. (Yes, sounds illogical to force people to stay free. I'm still working on that one
NSAs actions regarding surveillance are worse than the wettest dreams the East German StaSi could ever have imagined, for several reasons:
Are you really going to go full retard on me? Show me where the NSA created a secret police force in another country (repeatedly), and trained them, created a large network of "sleeper agents", assisted in smuggling in weapons and nuclear secrets, created and financed a terrorist organization responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, deseceration of cemeteries, orchestrated a large-scale industrial chemical disaster solely to distract from domestic problems, numerous assassinations, and routinely engaged in psychological warfare of social undesireables so extreme that its victims often committed suicide or went insane.
Please, show me this amazing and never-before documented evidence you have about comparable NSA activities. Because that is what the Stasi did in East Germany. To compare them to the NSA is, to put it mildly, intellectually dishonest. While you're at it, invest in a double-wrapped tin foil hat, because apparently single-ply isn't getting the job done with you anymore.
We were discussing surveillance here. But Ok, lets broaden the scope; only in that case lets not restrict it to NSA, but include other american secret services as well.
Ever read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...?
Or about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...?
Or about do you know about the Taliban history, how they were created by CIA to fight against the Russians? (Steve Coll: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, February 23, 2004, Penguin Press HC, )
I do agree on the point that blowing interviews is a bit pretentious. But there are a lot of times an interviewer has clearly asked questions "over the line" or that identify this company as a terrible fit.
Maybe, but I wouldn't judge by any of those low standard questions. Either the interviewer is from HR, then his competence does not necessarily say anything about the engineers technical competences and team atmosphere. Or the guy might still be a quite good engineer and just sucks at interview planning, or was scheduled on short notice to do the interview for another team. I'd probably tell the interviewer that I consider the questions a bit generic, took the time to learn the usually expected answers, but would prefer to go into more job-specific topics. Depending on the reaction, I can still blow the interview, or if they consider the interview blown because of this, I could probably live with it.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard