Soylent is a much better name for a nutritious food drink, it's almost like they meant it from the beginning
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Would actually be pretty good for park rangers, border control, protecting large industrial complexes (unpredictable camera points with computer vision to locate human movement)
If I see 50 restaurants nearby, but ten of them have been +1'd by people I know and trust, that's great and helps me. And I'm happy to recommend my favourite places, books, games too. I think it's an important problem that Google (and others) are solving and it actually reduces the need for advertising.
What I really hate though is facebook selling their 'likes' to appear in your feed again and again, long after you liked it. It's a lie, because it gives the impression that you're liking it again, right now, which might not be true. For example let's say you liked tiger woods, that might be news feed worthy at the time. And if someone searched for tiger woods then yes show the like as part of that information, but to put it up again at a later date, say immediately after he's caught being dishonest is misleading people and sending the wrong message. The fact that they're being paid just makes it worse. What's more they don't even show you what likes they're putting on on your behalf in your own news feed which would give you the option to unlike <x> if necessary.
In short not everyone hates G+
Not to mention you write "obj." and can instantly see all the methods available with arguments.
Also if you add say an interface or inherit a new object it will immediately throw an error if required methods are not implemented. You then just hit ctrl+1 and enter and it will automatically add all the boilerplate functions you need to comply with the new interface.
It's a must for statically compiled, boilerplate filled languages like Java and C#. That said, if intellij is more polished for a niche and has a better UI I'll switch away from Eclipse in a heartbeat.
If you're not working with a dynamically typed language or markup language though then an IDE can really add a significant boost to productivity by eliminating all the repetition and actually making the strict static typing work for you.
If only someone would create patent troll shell companies whose sole purpose is the sue the Federal Circuit over ridiculous business method and algorithm patents. Maybe then they'd realise what they're doing to the world.
This is not the right move long term. If they've wronged you move on, maybe blow the whistle if its complete BS. Resorting to extortion is not going to make you any friends who take pride in their ethics and who therefore won't screw you over in the long term.
If he was going to leak it, it would have been sent months earlier over the internet, duh!
Especially if he knew that someone was suspicious of him. Someone has been watching too many movies.
I'm putting my money on tablet magazines as the future of journalism. Technology has made it so we don't need as many journalists reporting the same news, so it makes sense to redeploy them to niches.
On digital magazines the payments are also more frictionless as Apple/Google have already set it up, and I have a theory that the reading style is different too. On the internet people want quick, shallow bites of information, but when you're holding a tablet you probably have at least ten minutes to really get into the deep, quality articles that professional journalists excel at.
On my project (issimomag.com) we're having to really push our journalists not just to write but to become true digital natives by finding pictures, videos, soundbytes, mini apps, etc if appropriate to go with all stories. At an event? Get your phone out, or better yet have a camera. The platform can handle a gallery of thirty pictures effortlessly whereas traditionally you'd obviously need to find space for them. In fact the pictures could be the entire story, no more needed. Honestly its a bit of a struggle to change the culture after decades of stagnation sometimes but it's one that journalists need to make.
The recruiters though are typically inexperienced due to high churn rate, so it's almost random luck that you'd get a good fit for a job interview, particularly if they lie to both you and the employer before the interview to make it seem like there's a fit.
It's definitely inefficient, what's the solution here?
Giving them ways to pad their budget was also an eye opener for me. The idea that they might not even be conforming to our rational actor model of balancing cost and value opens up new pricing considerations. I wonder if a monthly 'flex' option where they can temporarily boost their budget to some ridiculous figure would work. The engineer in me does cringe at the thought of it though
It's actually a problem in Australia where we all sort of treat each other as equals, for example our hospitality classes won't scrape and bow and call you sir, and everyone is ok with that. Racism has started to emerge because the only Indians who can get to Australia are the rich ones. All it takes is a few bad interactions and people start to write off the entire race, when I'm sure that 99%+ of Indians are actually pretty damn nice people.
I just wonder if those new generations will be less cheap but more entitled than ever.
Although making sentences relevant to the learner is also a big part of language learning, and the FB part does help there. It's almost killing two birds with one stone.