Just because that particular CEO couldn't manage the 4day approach does not reflect badly on the approach - it reflects badly on him.
Other can make it work, he can't. It doesn't mean that the approach is flawed.
I'm sure he cares a lot about Debian and a lot of my early learning was on Debian derivatives but I feel that the production server side world has largely standardised on RedHat. Non RedHat/CentOS, non-Ubuntu debian distros are probably a distant fifth in terms of business critical production server so no wonder they were not included in the disclosure early on...
Syntax aside, are verified smart contracts a solution looking for a problem?
They were supposed to be the killer app for blockchain-based solution, but they are computationally (and architecture-wise) prohibitively expensive, slow and just too complicated given the problems they can and can't solve. Am I wrong here? You can always cheat a 'smart' contract outside of blockchain?
"a degree that the developer no longer has to think about anything but his application code."
a developer still has to understand the implications of resource consumption etc.
For performance-critical pieces of code, IMO it's better to have direct access to the hardware - I had a recent first hand experience with this debugging NUMA related performance issue.
You can't 100% guarantee anyway.
But you can pay your cloud vendor to do that for you, with the right legal contacts. Should work out cheaper due to economies of scale.
Such delays in shipping and yet the hardware designs are rushed. I'm switching to Linux laptop with 64GB RAM. There might be some pain for a bit, but IMO totally worth it for Apple to have viable competition in the 'pro' space.
like everything else in 2018, live-streaming is overhyped and competes with everything else - work, sleep, netflix, social etc.
I also don't think the focus on gaming / live streaming is enough of a differntiator - youtube does livestreams just fine, Facebook is catching up and I think youtube/alphabet have better economies of scale (with their own cloud infra, additional ad revenue etc) and more tightly integrated ecosystem (preinstalled youtube on Android etc.
Sadly, the great GDS team that is bringing about the great design/technical change in the UK gov is falling prey to politics from the same people that brought you #brexit.
GDS used to be an initiative directly from the Cabinet Office, it has now been moved to the ministry of Culture and Sport.
You might think what does sport have to do with gov website UX? But it's all politics - GDS delivered and it is making the other politicians and gov officials look bad so they are being undermined.
That's my reading of that anyway - no good deed goes unpunished.
I think I'm being more pragmatic and immediately jumping to what needs to change to make this situation treatable. An abstract statement of a problem like this is probably great for teaching people concepts about consensus, but hopefully no one knowingly designs stuff that way (except Mongo perhaps)
For such generic statement of the problem, it's certainly unsolvable.
But with encryption, timeouts and defaults it can be - as seen by many the distributed systems on the Internet
Exercising with small weights just means you will burn through calories. To gain muscle mass you literally need to tear muscle fibers so your body rebuilds with stronger ones.
Don't give up on tomatoes! You say that they do need maintenance, but you plant them, water them, give them sun - I bet you can automate a lot these steps - watering and nutrition, for example. You can give them extra boost with some artificial light and heat. You can do it!
I had mine removed with only mild anaesthetics and I still have nightmares about that. It also didn't help with various nose and throat infection at all. In fact I had pneumonia couple years later so not much respect for the butchers that did this to me.
it's not too hard to see the cons - poor, rainy weather, which can be depressing in itself.
Old, mouldy houses with poor thermal insulation and generally high cost of living.
Traffic in towns and cities.
Uptight, insular, class based society that is not exactly welcoming to foreigners.
Now if you swap UK with London, a lot of these cons go out of the window as your neighbour is probably also a migrant. You still get very high cost of living, very bad car traffic, but relatively decent public transport.
Wages, given the cost of rent are not that impressive and the weather in London is a bit better than the rest of the UK, but could be better, of course.
As a EU Citizen, whose grandfather fought for the freedoms in WWII alongside British pilots, those freedoms, including Schengen area freedom of movement that UK never bother to adopt, are being thrown away and they dare ask people to apply for a visa now?
Good luck with that.
except people have vested interest in not keeping it very open and potential contributors also have vested interests. I don't think 'blockchain' adds value here
Ok, so, assuming that all the things he mentioned are just nitpicky, what's the upside of Kotlin over Java 10?
Lots of people would need adequate training, perhaps some new tools and rewrites. There needs to be a serious upside to get a mainstream company to a niche language.
They are building all this on very weak foundations. The assumption is that all these services built on top of crypto currencies will somehow be more efficient than existing systems.
They are not. It takes more time and electricity to confirm a BTC transaction, therefore it's slower and more costly.
Those shaky foundations mean that the actual winners may be other fintech companies like Revolut, Stripe or TransferWise who are not distracted as much by the whole crypto mania.
I've used Technical Director and I use "owner" as I trade via my own company. I know some bolder people who elevate themselves to CTO, even if they are the only employee - to me that's a bit BS so I stopped at owner. In any case if "Founder" leaves it up to interpretation and leads to a conversation, they you've got your foot in the door already.
The script's default message says that you are very sorry, twice.
But you're not really sorry are you? You just install the script rather than address the problem of data privacy.
Its not $10B worth. If you tried to liquidate, convert into another currency or asset etc there wouldn't be enough buyers at $9500, $1 would be much more likely towards the end of selling...