Delphi was far superior than all other languages of the time, it had all the necessary bullet points to become what is Java now.
Borland really failed on the marketing and sales side, while providing the best tech, they completely missed the importance of having a strong sales team capable of scaling the language inside corporates, which were the driving force back in the days.
I have a lot of good memories of Borland Delphi 4.0 and 5.0 on Windows 95 and later 98/2000.
I am somewhat confused about this product. I think the Function as a Service approach has really some good advantages on more classic approaches sometimes, but if I want to go that path, what is the advantage to actually use an open source product and maintain the server with all the maintenance required (security updates, platform updates, handling scale, etc...)?
Wouldn't be an out of the box solution provided by AWL Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc... a better and more straightforward option on this space?
I am just wondering if I am the only one with this opinion, what is your experience on this topic?
A "Swiss Startup" is a startup actually based in Switzerland.
As far as I know, foreigners with permanent residence in Switzerland have the same rights of Swiss people, plus more than 25% of population is actual foreigner in Switzerland, so that should not a problem at all.
> Although it is nice to have more funds available, which increases the competition among VCs, the main point is not lack of funds.
I agree on that, on the other hand I don't see the lack of market as a big problem. I like to take Spotify as example, it started in Sweden, which is a market comparable to the Swiss one in terms of size, but after the first prototypes and early versions, it went global almost immediately.
Schneider-Ammann said that a change of mentality is required in Switzerland. He noted that while in the US, business failure is greeted with a “better luck next time” or with a similar attitude, on the other hand, in Switzerland, “if you fail with your business idea here everyone points the finger at you. You are branded a looser”. This seems to be the main goal and I totally agree with him.
IMHO, a company can move to a global scale from the start with the right plan, but it's the mentality and the fact that Swiss VCs care more about patents and product protection preventing Swiss Start-up to compete with the rest of the world, instead of caring about quality of the actual product and picking the right time to enter the market.
I heard some stories about companies collecting 500-800k in seed investment, spending 50% of it in legal fees protecting a product they still have to develop, failing later in execution for lack of cash... this is what, I think, needs to be fixed in Switzerland.
Yes, for that reason a POC I made for a side project costed almost 100 bucks to me (I was the single user)... I never checked the current bill because I was sure the total cost would have been around 15-20... when I got charged I noticed all the previous pushed versions had a single instance running, so the costs were incremental...
These are pretty much the same forecasts Switzerland and Norway were supposed to face when they rejected to join the EU... people losing jobs, Swiss Franc falling, export collapsing, etc... well, it went a little bit in a different way.
OFC leaving is totally a different thing from not being in at all, but still... there are going to be pro and cons, but the economy will adapt as happened in Switzerland and Norway. Some will gain, some will lose, but the general picture can be valid only in 3-5 years after the Kingdom is out, so not before 2022.
That book is by far the best one I ever read about Functional Programming in general, even if you don't want to learn Scala itself it is an amazing reading about FP.
Really? I wasn't aware of that problem in the system, any reference or article about that? I am just curios about the technical details why this was happening.
Considering the current evolution of automation and the global forecast of high unemployment rates, that will be a problem for the whole economy (with Bill Gates suggesting a tax on robots), what are your thoughts about education? We currently educate kids based on a system that assumes the current jobs are going to be there in 15-20 years and for the rest of their lifes. Can startups and technology help in improving education considering the future world considering the current pace of automation in most fields?
I love these kind of articles. For some people it might be a waste of time, but to me is really good to see such amazing willingness to discover the problem. I am tempted to get a pair of AirPods, not totally sure yet, but if in the future I will get one, I will definitely remember this post in case I have troubles with them.
I am big fan of Swift and Scala... and, to be honest, for Swift there's a long way ahead before a big system can be deployed... tooling and libs are not there, also not considering that the lack of ABI stability makes the source code necessary for any external dependency.
It was 22 fields and the problem was not serializing/deserializing, but it was a problem with the Scala functions and tuples system not supporting case classes with more than 21 fields. This limitation has been removed since Scala 2.11.
I guess their conclusion is that this is the maximum size for the goal they want to achieve. Can it be bigger without having an impact on the quality of the event?
This works for some "controversial" researches, which can be dismantled. What about successful (or apparently) ones which may lead to tons of $$$ in return? Is there any value to pay for a research which is going to prove someone else was right ending in making their wallets fatter?
Sorry for the informal language, but makes things a little bit more salty.