It's not too late. Many people don't really care about being fast, it's just about doing the challenges for fun. I know people who don't even start each year until they finish work later in the month and then do several days worth of challenges each day to catch up. I started on time this year, but I am now a couple of days behind because I was busy all weekend.
Improving c compilers is a useful exercise, and should continue happening anyway, but that doesn't solve the same problems that Rust solves.
Regardless of how good a c compiler is, it simply doesn't have the information available at compile time that a Rust compiler has available, enabling it to offer unique safety guarantees.
As for missing drivers, I don't see any suggestion that those working on adding Rust support would otherwise have been working on wifi drivers anyway.
I agree that trying to force people to move like that is a way to lose friends.
The way I did it was by gradually spreading the word a few years ago, until probably half of my friends were on Signal after a few weeks (I have a fairly technically orientated set of friends so that wasn't too hard)
For the rest, it was about waiting for a good time. The recent media coverage about WhatsApp T&Cs (regardless of how accurate that coverage was) ended up being a good way to have a conversation with people about moving and most others either moved or already had Signal by then.
For the last handful, the conversation has been "Have you tried Signal yet? [
I'm now down to 2 contact that I use WhatApp for and I expect to have deleted my account in a few weeks.
At no point was any pressure or anything like that needed, and well timed gentle nudging works and I believe is more effective than lawsuits.
I'm not sure about the "ability to reason" part.
What social media taught me about people, is that we were already surrounded by huge numbers of people who lack the ability to reason. These people tend to believe whatever they hear repeated the most and to dis-believe anything that doesn't match their existing views (especially if that would mean them admitting being wrong)
Social media brought a large platform for everyone, and allowed people to put themselves in bubbles they can lead to them believing almost anything. From that point, you something rather like a cult, but one with potentially global reach.
So to me, social media didn't take away ability to reason. It simply amplified those who can't and drowned out those who can.
> Nothing to do with Brexit
It literally states this move is prompted by Britainâ(TM)s exit from the EU. How is that nothing to do with Brexit? This move has absolutely been enabled by Brexit.
Companies in general, move their operations to wherever is best for them. That might mean cheaper, or it might mean fewer rules to protect users from their practices. In this case I think it's both; they are certainly not moving to provide their users a better experience.
I have used "these co-called privacy regulations" several times to deal with companies that failed to handle my data properly, including forcing one company to erase my data, prior to them subsequently being hacked. My data was never leaked.
You are right that some users do not care, but that says more about their ignorance than anything else.
I have also worked at two different companies and been involved in work to tighten up user data practices, specifically because of EU regulations. It's been painful, but in the end we have better designed systems as well as having much more control on how customer data is used. To say the regulations do nothing is ignorant at best.
Can you list some of these things we should know about Bill Gates please?
I know he was a deservedly convicted monopolist who openly wanted to crush open source.
Do you remember the Halloween documents?
Retaining access to books in a form that :
1) Can't later be withdrawn by the owner.
2) Guarantees the contents can't later be revised after publication.
3) It's possible to give to or share with others in future.
4) Reading can't be monitored or controlled by others.
These things are not often important, but sometimes they can be _very_ important.
From what you have said, it seem you are pretty much "doing agile" or at least following a number of the principles:
> customer can redirect our efforts - perhaps a priority changed, or it turns out the customer doesn't want something anymore
It seems like you value customer collaboration over contract negotiation and value responding to change over following a plan. That's covers half of the agile manifesto already.
The things you listed such as sprints/tasks are not agile concepts, but might be found in a scrum based process. My personal view is that scrum is not particularly agile when done how most folks seem to do it.
I have to say that builds that take a day sounds painful though. Isn't that painful enough that you want to do something about it?
How would you achieve anonymity with that?
I work for a FTSE250 UK company and we're running lots of Go in production and the company now depends upon it for important business processes. We continue to see an aggressive growth the use of Go in most areas of IT in our company.
We also have one specific bit of code in Rust also running in production because Go is not appropriate for it, but we're unlikely to increase the use of rust much more.
My previous company (a major UK based international publisher) is in a similar position since I introduced Go there a few years back.
So, that's two companies of reasonable size running their business processes on Go.
That's not a great comparison.
Making their own planes and guns would be like making their own processors and hard drives. They would never do that.
The question was more about why they store their data on somebody elses computers. This would be like keeping their guns in someone elses warehouse, where that somebody makes the keys and locks to that warehouse.
I haven't had problems with systemd for years now. There were problems long ago, but it's solid now for me on server and desktop alike.
Can you provide some information about the problems you are having or link to issue reports?
> This is quite normal for any train/subway system. What information do you think they are going to glean from Wifi that they can't glean in this manner about travel patterns?
If there is no additional information to be gleaned, why would they bother installing all this wifi tracking stuff in the first place?
(Also, they are not recording things like DNS lookups)
Now that even supermarkets and other places are tracking customers via wifi as they walk around stores, it makes sense to have wireless turned off everywhere except where you need it on.
Wifimatic or similar can do this for you. It can save your battery too.
https://play.google.com/store/...
(I have no connection to this app - I just use it and find it helpful)
VIrtual ring routing appears to solve some of these problems.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
I've been reading about this kind of stuff recently, and I'm considering attempting to implement it.
Right now though, I'm writing a test harness to compare various routing algorithms and see how many nodes they can scale to before they fail (also, how much churn they can support, how they handle partitions, etc)
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