Would be fun to observe people waving their hands in complex patterns detected by a built-in watch motion sensor to unlock things.
Wow, I think you just implemented wizard spells with a somatic component. Add in voice recognition and the need to have your phone with you, and you've got verbal and material components too.
When I do a Google search for "Pacifist Enlistment Options" I get nothing back. Please help me out and point me to where I can enlist but specify that I don't want to be subject to orders that will help kill people.
If by "enlist" you mean becoming an enlisted soldier, then you probably don't have much choice in the matter. If you just mean joining the military, then if you have a college degree in some science or engineering field, you can become an officer and work at someplace like a Navy research lab. There probably isn't much need for computer scientists or physicists in Afghanistan, so you most likely won't be deployed to a combat zone.
It's not like he has to produce a new build or approve a new patch every 47 seconds to keep the world from exploding.
Is this the next season of 24?
As an aside, I'd rather work with someone who was a complete asshole, but often right, than a person who was always nice, but often incorrect.
I wouldn't. When the asshole is incorrect, they'll still be an asshole. They'll probably be an even bigger asshole because you dared challenge their wisdom.
This means that there are, quite literally, tens of thousands of people who are *perfectly capable* of being excellent software engineers - just as good as you - but who are not working in that field because they've been told, in effect "sorry, Black dudes, and girls of all colors can't do this stuff. Maybe you'd like dealing drugs or baking cakes instead?"
But that's fiction. Black kids aren't being told that at all. Instead, many deliberately avoid academic and STEM fields because their own peers disapprove of it.
Just to be pedantic, that would mean that they are being told that they can't (or at least shouldn't) do it. It doesn't necessarily have to be an adult that teaches children what jobs their gender, ethnicity, etc. can and cannot do. "Peer pressure" has been an issue at least since I was in grade school.
Suppose I said "To be fair to [a murderer], [other murderer1], [other murderer2], [other murderer3] and [other murderer4] didn't [fail to murder], either."
Suddenly it becomes (or should become) obvious that there is nothing relevant whatsoever about the other entity's actions that involves being "fair" to the entity being examined.
Google is being evil here. No slack for this should be contemplated whatsoever. It is irrelevant to our consideration of Google if/that others are being evil as well. The metric shouldn't in any way be "everyone does it", it should be "this company is doing bad things, and they should stop."
You rarely hear anyone say that Jack the Ripper was an evil person, but Charles Manson was really a nice guy that was just misunderstood.
In this case, though, you may get a large number of fanboys of other technology companies spouting about how this makes Google the most evil company in the history of the world.
1960s: "Cheap fusion power is only 40 years away." 1980s: "In 40 years we'll have cheap fusion power." 2015: "We're getting closer, at the rate we're making progress we'll have fusion power within 40 years"
And each time it was said, there was an assumption that funding would stay at the same level. Fusion power isn't X years away, it's Y dollars away. If we keep reducing the amount of money we spend on research and development, X will get larger, because Y isn't changing.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
The professors I had in college must have been truly outstanding at doing, because they sure didn't bother teaching.
If they don't patent this, someone else will. Because we now have a "first to file" system, where prior art doesn't matter if the prior artist never patented it.
You need to stop getting your legal advice from trolls on Slashdot (and people need to stop modding this up), because this is completely wrong.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
