Has anyone done the cost + risk assessment of building a for-profit product on top of this? Would love to know, as I am working on a web IDE with collaboration. There’s also the matter of obscuring client data from 3rd and even 1st party.
Has anyone done the cost + risk assessment of building a for-profit product on top of this? Would love to know, as I am working on a web IDE with collaboration. There’s also the matter of obscuring client data from 3rd and even 1st party.
Money to go do something else.
The changing-baseline effect is an artifact of a particular market competition. Housing prices went up as two-earner households increased faster than the housing supply. (i.e., women's entry into the workplace wasn't primarily a technological change) By contrast, secretary, illustrator and translator are hardly careers any more.
What technology (communications, computers, transportation) did was to make it possible for few people to effectively control many people and a lot of resources, without much of a tax for bureaucracy (coordination costs). Sometimes that's been good, sometimes not.
Today the driving feature of being busy stems from lacking pace control at work. Professionals used to be distinguished by owning their own standards and controlling the pace of work. Now even doctors and lawyers work in hierarchies with production processes. The only freedom today lies in being off the critical path (but still necessary), or using technology to go directly to consumers. Or just having resources.
You must be American.
A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.
A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend.
A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.
I can choose to talk to a person who speaks another language and have a computer translate for us.
On a more serious note:
I can choose to have my tooth decay treated without experiencing horrific pain.
A compound fracture is not an automatic sentence of death or lifelong severe disability.
You used to be able to login with IRS credentials, but now it's a hard requirement to use ID.me credentials. So I created an account and had to verify my identity. The automated verification failed, so I waited 20 minutes on the phone to talk to one of the representatives. There was a checkbox to consent to having the meeting recorded. I opted out but the submit was disabled. Even before this, they took a 3d scan of my face. None of this seems like choice and options.
By the way, ID.me is a private company. They're even squatting on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921&
Um. No. Go was originally created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
Some key reasons for its creation include:
Improving productivity of Google engineers - The creators felt existing languages like C++ took too long to compile and had other productivity issues. Go was designed to be simpler and faster to compile.
Supporting concurrency and multi-core machines - Go has built-in concurrency features like goroutines and channels to allow easy parallelism and concurrency on multi-core machines. This was becoming increasingly important with multi-core CPUs.
Improved code readability and maintainability - Go was designed with a clean, minimal syntax that avoided complex features like inheritance in favor of simplicity. This improved code readability and made programs easier to maintain. Better performance than interpreted languages - While Go is a compiled language like C++, it was designed to provide performance closer to those languages while maintaining some productivity benefits of interpreted languages like Python.
Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.
References: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article
How is this not a web service?
If they had followed my advice instead of laughing at me they would still be the largest cell phone maker on planet Earth.
The problem was that it had a resistive touch screen. Samsung already had touchscreen MP3 players that you can install apps on, but it was the capacitive touch at that price point that gave Apple a good 3+ year head start on software. At the time, being able to dial phone numbers with IPhone was mind blowing versus a resistive touch
That’s what was revolutionary about IPhone. They didn’t invent capacitive but they brought it to the $1k range.
Nokia was developing their own OS and App Store, too, but it was the iPhone’s cohesive experience that made everything else fit together