My sentiments exactly. I, however, see more value along the lines of file related workflows and third party apps. Google Drive now has third party apps. Workflows on the other hand, I have only seen in NextCloud.
Third party apps would have helped them remain focused. That ship has, almost certainly, sailed though.
Seems to be the case. All the same, given enough cases, I would expect that one can find something at which most major languages are faster by a generally faster language.
1. Depends. If you have a lot of update queries, MySQL wins [https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/]. MySQL also has better replication and sharding support at the moment.
2. PostgreSQL and MYSQL also sport JSON... JSON functions can be a little tricky. Still, they work.
3. Depends on the structure of your XML. Might even possible to use RegEx to achieve this objective. XML to JSON is easier though. That can be saved in JSON fields in a DB.
4. You can build a custom file based on anything. The only catch, the SQLite client will only read a valid SQLite file. As such, you have to know what you're doing.
I believe that the journey can be exhausting and fatigue as well. The closer you get to completion, the longer you’ll have worked on the project, the more like you are to be fatigued. Any long journey will take its toll on you.
My two cents, JS has come a long way and should qualify as a "proper language" if it wasn't one before. Is it good enough? Is any language ever good enough?
As for the pace of changes, it's hard to tell. All the same, if TIOBE is to be believed, JS is getting more popular, not less.
I suppose the whole "luxury and inspirational" bit is my problem. Maybe an even bigger part of this is the fact that I don't look at technology the same way I look at cars. More and more, technology is becoming a necessity, more than a luxury. So I find myself routing against Apple, even if I love their phones and tablets. I hope this doesn't make me a hypocrite.
Totally unrelated; car manufacturers share technology quite a bit.
Some anecdotal account, if I may. I got out of depression by going through a purely online cognitive behavioural therapy programme, over 10 years ago. Been OK since.
I believe that depression and anxiety may need more unbiased research for the best solutions to be found. Between therapists and pharmaceuticals, there's a lot of vested interest in the status quo.
On Linux, I still miss MS Office. Not just because of the UI, much as I prefer the MS Office one, but also because of compatibility issues. This is for LibreOffice Writer. Simply opening a file and saving it on LibreOffice or OpenOffice gets it distorted on MS Office. I've resulted to using Google Docs more often that I would like.
Save for posing a major threat to suppliers who rely heavily on them, it would be a surprise if Apple sells its chips to anyone. Their chips are certainly great, if the responsiveness of their iOS devices is anything to go by. The OS and restrictions on background processes doesn’t harm them either. I wish they could somehow share their all advances with everyone.
This brings me to my main problem with Apple; as a consumer of technology in a the developing world. For Apple, I don’t exist, or at least the vast majority of my us don’t. The technology is always priced beyond our reach. Some individuals can afford them, but the vast majority have to use alternatives. Any success in slowing down Android would have meant no smart phones for us. Most people I know can’t afford an iPhone. This is what I consider the other side of the Apple story.
Very interesting. Maybe stumbling onto such a piece before 2015 would have saved us quite a bit of trouble and time. We ended up doing most of our development from Shenzhen, with out primary electronic Engineer spending time in there, months at a time. Being a hardware startup in Kenya working on a custom Android device meant that a lot of what we needed to do had to be done outside the country.
Our first foray in Shenzhen was made once we found a small company that had a Mediatek based 3G SOM and was willing to help us develop our hardware from there; they suggested that it was the best option. Two years, several stays and a final prototype later, we have learnt why it would have been almost impossible for us to successfully get to a functioning prototype from Nairobi; especially with our budget. For one, the we had direct help from manufacturers, who our hosts had to speak to in Mandarin. With drivers for out custom touch panel, we still needed a visit to the IC manufacturer for some configurations to be fixed. We also had such great help on mechanical design; here, I must admit, we had been completely clueless.
The one thing I can say for sure, in China relationships help; greatly!! We were worried about changing our LCD because the one we're using has come to it's End Of Life. We were then introduced to a factory that was to make us a replacement. Turns out they can make the new LCD use the same exact connections as the one we had before. So no change in our circuit, and support for any change in our code. For us, it was less having a plan and more serendipity though.
We've been working on a hardware startup for about 7 years now, 8 years since I had the idea. It took us such a long time because we had to learn a lot of things. Our prototype is a two weeks away, and actual tests with users a little over a month away. What would the ideal time to apply? Now, as soon as the prototype is done or after actual tests with actual users?
Put that way, it may make sense...My problem is that almost everyone is reacting as if the intention of that presentation was to demean or objectify women rather than make light of the fact that men do stare at tits. Still, I'd go for both men and women understanding each other over political correctness. Reason, this will eventually lead to men only events http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=5811.
I wouldn't go for making men uncomfortable around women any more than making women uncomfortable around men. The solution, I believe, lies somewhere in between men appreciating that some things are rude in certain contexts and women appreciating that men may make certain jokes without any ill intent. Also, in my experience, in offices that are balanced, gender wise, such jokes are not uncommon; it's a thing people do.
The effect of this post to me is that it makes me realize how vast the body of knowledge and skills is, and that is quite humbling. I must admit that I have tried around half the things on your list, but, as you imply, there is a larger list.
... learn to fly a plane; learn to fight with a sword; learn to design cars; learn to write novels; learn to make shoes; learn to design clothes ...
So in that respect, why should I decide that one of my skills is the most utile on the planet and thus, everyone ought to be familiar with it. We all wear shoes that only a minority of humanity know how one can be built from scratch, and virtually no one can build one from scratch without requiring input from professions he/she doesn't understand.
IMHO, this whole "Learn to code" thing is a bit egotistic.
[EDIT] Changed "profession skill" to "one of my skills"
If they fail with MS, which seems to be it's fate, in retrospect it would have been a bad bet.
They chose the easier route, given that Windows Phone 7 wasn't ready for prime time either, and sat out of an emerging handset segment for years and for this they will pay dearly. They have to build themselves as a brand in the new smartphone market, a game that seems to be already taken. IMHO, short of a major innovation from Nokia in the near future, their smartphone business will go the way of the Blackberry; I have no idea is they will still want to keeps their low end models after the dust settles.
>Sure. But it's the exact same system that asks for your tax money to clean up its mess.
This makes the system even worse! It's like a cancer, and if you look closely, the people who benefited the most are the ones who created the mess. Not, what I'd call, biggest victims who lost their jobs because of the mess and ended up not affording what they could afford before. I'm not sure the mess was cleaned up either, I think it was whitewashed.
On the issue of where taxes go, instead of the rich refusing to be taxed to fund wars and give bailouts, why not insist on policy change and frugality to ensure that taxes are utilized properly and efficiently. Much as it will never be perfect, it can be close to perfect if with the same vigor that people fight taxes, they would fight for better utilization of the taxes.