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How do you sleep at night?
You do realize that you are just re-implementing 10-15 year old tech without the quality control, well-defined limitations and user experience research that made these driver assists actually work?
And then top of of that, you're calling your amateur-hour driving assists "a self-driving car". How the hell do any of you even have have a driver's license, still?
The value of being a part of NATO seems at best fluid with the current US president. That means that your NATO membership might not be as valuable as you thought it was. I'd even go to say as far as saying that Denmark and Norway are being complacent in case they depend on the US for reinforcements - with Trump at the helm.
On the other hand we all know that Trump will be gone by the next US election.
(Besides the current context I am incredibly frustrated with Sweden's unwillingness to join NATO. And just when were gaining some momentum to join, Trump goes and does his thing.)
So-so. I watched it. Enjoyed parts. Mostly cringed through it.
But just like the Danish/Swedish Netflix series "The Rain" in a similar genre the writing was painfully bad at times - I think this is what stopped it from being popular.
There's been a quite generally raised awareness of the importance of civil resilience here in Sweden the past two years. The perceived threath of a Russian invasion (or perhaps more likely network-based sabotage) has been the cathalyst of this.
Being a "prepper" has gone from being seen as border-line psychotic behavior to "being a responsibile citizen". As long as you don't go over-board and try to prep for more than 4-7 days lack of electricity/water/food - then you're still seen as suspicious. Small steps.
There was also this campaign just a week or two ago - every household received a leaflet telling them to prepare for any incidents that stop public services:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/sweden-distrib...
This stuff used to be standard operating procedure when I grew up in the 70s/80s - all this stuff was printed in the annual phone directories that everyone receieved. After Soviet collapsed we stopped doing it though.
There's also been an unusually large number of outages of networked systems in Sweden the past two years, all over the place. Things like ATC systems, banks, media/cable tv distribution systems. Perhaps the official, public explanations are true (typically some kind of "human error" or "software update problem"). I suspect there's an adversary who is not very shy.
I guess this solidifies the more and more common view that Apple's thought leadership is something from the past.
A few years ago, the messaging was along the lines of "just wait, this will just be a temporary pain - Apple is just being brave and taking the industry leader role as usual".
It would be super neat if anyone of the people who downvoted that could comment on... you know, why?
Please don't be so 1-dimensional.
That Nobel Peace Prize for Obama was just so wrong. It was a Norwegian (Not Swedish) small celebrity/exposure hungry group of elderly people who abused the power of the brand for their personal gain.
(Liberal-minded americans downvoting this: please think twice. Not everything that seems to go against your instincts is downvote-worthy if you don't know the details. In this case the details matter.)
Very well put. It's important that we recognize the history that led us to where we are, even if it's not a super beautiful history.
I remember this particular period relatively clearly. There was intense debate everywhere, it was the most polarizing issue for a very, very long time. I was on the dove-side of the debate. I remember having some extremely heated debates with "hawks" (all online - these hawks somehow just disappeared after the invasion when it it got more and more obvious that there actually were no WMDs...).
IBM built some very nice plumbing for NVidia GPUs? :-)
The flags outweighed the upvotes.
Are you saying there were more flags than upvotes and that this is the trigger for the non-linear movement to page 3?
Ok, in plain words, please try to justify why a gaggle of XYZ lang devs should be able to effectively silence a topic they think goes against their personal agenda by pressing the "flag" link once per user?
I don't to see how this kind of binary treshold-based flagging makes any sense in a healthy discussion environment. I've seen it being abused so many times now.
I disagree. I think lots of valuable stories are being buried by organized niche interests. I hope to be able expose some of this.
That flagging scheme of yours allows a subgroup, in this case likely C# devs whose careers are aligned with the success of Microsoft to very efficiently silence any dissent. I don't think this is something that has caught you by surprise, so why do you allow it?
I think he's a psycho (could be a good thing, wait) who cares about two things:
a) Tesla making enough money to make Space X work
b) Being able to establish a colony on Mars, using Space X
I think he's super honest about the Mars stuff. I also think he's being super deceptive about the Tesla stuff. Is that ethical or not? I don't know. From his larger point of view (risk of earth annihilation vs a bunch of rich americans dying in Tesla failures)... who knows.
It's interesting to see the HN reaction to this. The last time the EU fined Google a huge amount of money for anti-trust reasons the general sentiment here was that it was just socialist Europeans taxing American companies trying to make an honest living.
I guess Google is a lot less popular now compared to like two years ago.
I've just started using the Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV 4k. It's web-based and frankly horrible. And not just horrible because of the technical constraints imposed by having to target a web runtime - there are some serious, glaring beginner type UI anti-patterns in the UI.
Is this experience indicative of what I can expect with an Amazon TV device? (I suspect so.)
I pulled that move once in an old product - not all of our users could upgrade to the newer product because of HW constraints - the one we had directed like 97% of our development efforts at, but that tiny thing kept them happy for quite some time. (We went with four color themes though, not just two.)
I recommend this move if you want to make an abandoned product line seem like it's at least a little bit alive.
But wait, I also love mspaint.exe. It's such an original piece of software. Those people who say it's just a crappier clone of MacPaint are just haters.
Microsoft is awesome. I love Notepad and Bill Gates. What he's doing for the world is just great. I am in no way compelled to write this.
Old news. See the discussion from 4-5 days ago here:
The thought that Satya Nadella, who joined Microsoft in 1992 and then steadily climbed his way (in extremely fierce competition) to the top would be a better, more moral person than the "old guard" is kind of funny.
He's just younger and less out of touch than Gates (and particularly Balmer). Many people seem to mistake ascribe this aspect of him (more in touch with modern tech) with some higher moral standards etc than e.g. Gates/Ballmer. I don't see why he should be any less fierce/brutal.
Because Github, unlike Microsoft is not particularly dependant on US government contracts.
I can't tell if it's astroturfing (e.g. WE/Waggener Edstrom - that PR firm actually had to change their name because they were so tightly connected with a negative/abusive kind of PR) or millennials (who were small kids in the 90s).
The PR they get Gates to perform on reddit is incredibly successful there. It's disgusting to look at.
The thought that Satya Nadella, who joined Microsoft in 1992 and then steadily climbed his way to the top would be a better, more moral person than the "old guard" is kind of funny.
He's just younger and less out of touch than Gates (and particularly Balmer).
Wow, that looks like crap on a retina/hidpi screen.
I keep checking up on issue 730 once in a while:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/730
Nope. Still no inline webview component.
...wow.
Ok, that's not relevant to anything else written in this thread.
A zillion companies use Github. This does not qualify them to operate Github.
Up next:
- Github user account migration/integration with outlook.com
- A much-internally-championed Github/Office/LinkedIn integration effort created by some sharp but inexperieced program manager fresh just out of Washington State, that happens to require Github project descriptions to be authored in .docx format, launched as an improvement from that primitive format made by a certain mac fanboy.
- An effort to migrate the Github infrastructure to Azure cloud on Win 10 that ties up 85% of all development resources for the next five years and ultimately fails.
I don't trust them to be compent at operating a large scale service after their insane meltdown february last year.