Having a physical remote isn't the value proposition. Being able to remotely control a wide variety of aspects of my home is the service I would pay for. The hardware that accomplishes that is irrelevant.
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Likewise, if you are a consumer and buying a physical device that needs an upstream service, you dont really own, or really even need to own the device. What you really want is the value the device brings, without any of the headaches that go along with devices becoming obsolete.
Logitech is so used to selling hardware products that they didn't realize that they became a service provider as soon as their Harmony Link required connectivity. They should not be marketing or selling devices, despite their history of being a physical product vendor. If users had purchased a "Harmony Link" service agreement, and Logitech was responsible for keeping their users devices up to date and functioning with their service, then nobody would complain.
Cable companies figured this out a long time ago. When was the last time anyone had to care about cable modem or set top boxes being deprecated? The cable companies have always sold the service, and the hardware was either rentable, or, sometimes, provided by the consumer, but always with the understanding that the hardware wasnt why people bought cable.
I've avoided any of these connected home hardware specifically because the manufacturers try and push ownership to the consumers. As soon as its the service providers responsibility to ensure the devices are secure and work with their service, I'll sign right up.
"But then, of course, there are the people who complain that your $29 chicken dish is "amazing… but it's too expensive for chicken."
"people complaining" means the owner didn't understand the market. At all. If you don't have enough people willing to pay 40$ for a dish that is only profitable at that price point, then you really shouldn't keep trying to sell a dish like that.
That being said, however, I think they should figure out a way to get the multi packs able to be purchased by multiple groups of parents. This looks like great fun for a group, and sad on its own, but parents probably don't want to buy expensive-ish toys for their kids friends.
Then again, the easy thing to do here would probably be to have each one come with a few one time use coupon codes to give to their friends parents. "Recruit a friend into your squad and get 30$ off" etc.
I had to check the date on this article to see if it was from 2007 or something. Under no circumstances does java "just work", its an insane mess of java shipped with the os, being updated, and people not updating due to oracle trying to force feed crapware as part of their installers/updaters. I, for one, do not live in a world that resembles anything like java jars "just working".
I agree that call out culture sometimes doesn't leave room for nuance and sometimes unnecessarily shoves people into defensive spaces - i.e. telling people they 'are sexist' vs telling them a behavior they are exhibiting is 'a little sexist'.
In this situation the impact wasn't "The speaker is being offended, I must speak up", the situation was "Im here to hear what the expert has to say on the subject that they are an expert in, and the moderator is doing all the talking" Which would be irritating regardless of the genders involved. But this behavior fit with a very common pattern of men speaking over/for women.
All the other cultural issues he seems to bemoaning are all consequences of growth in a startup. Information flow gets harder with more people.
As far as the CMO moving on to github, that certainly doesn't seem to be all that sinister of an indictment. If you have experience in marketing a developer tool to developers and software businesses, you're probably going to leverage that experience getting a job marketing a developer tool to developers and software businesses.
The one thing he's likely right about is that there probably isnt enough market to actually chase, github has a huge piece of it already and hasn't been able to liquidate, so its not obvious where their growth is going to come from besides eating away githubs marketshare. But thats probably why they seem to be pivoting more towards a holistic tool set that is bigger than version control (like the atlassian example). But only time, execution, and a whole lot of luck with show how it all pans out.
1. Go to github, do a git clone 'repo' --mirror 2. cd to the bare repo.git and do a git show-ref and you will see all the pull requests in that repo. If any of those pull requests contained a duplicate hash, then in theory they would be colliding with your existing objects. But since git falls back to whatever was there first, I think it would be very challenging indeed to subvert a repo. You'd essentially have to find somebody who's forked a repo with the intention of submitting a PR, say, on a long running feature branch.
You could then submit your PR based off hashes in their repo before they do, which would probably mean your colliding object would get preference.
Its pretty far fetched, but the vector is non-zero.
Disclaimer: I've purchased some of their Navy Strength rum, and it was incredible. Aging liquor may become a thing of the past.
Best practices have tended to evolve towards Continuous Integration/Continuous delivery for those sorts of deployments (i.e dev/test/staging/deploy to prod), and its generally a very bad idea to automatically update your production software without running it through your own localized battery of tests so that you can verify that the application will continue to function. Frameworks and CMSs that encourage extensibility have no way of knowing whether an update is going to conflict with some locally developed custom code.
In the composer based world of php, it would also mean relying on every library that your application is dependent upon to follow strict semantic versioning, which is merely a handshake agreement that is reliant upon the library author's judgement.
Even if everything is architected such that you can guarantee the security of the process, I don't see how one could guarantee the correctness of the process.
If someone were to tamper with the seals on many of the machines, and they target precincts that tilt heavily in favor of one party or the other, couldn't they theoretically invalidate a lot of ballots that are likely to help their opponents?
Also, how many of those hotels asked you what you did for work?
While she omitted the fact that she did sex work, she might not actually be lying about the real estate work. It's probable that's she has at least done that a couple of times, maybe infrequently, but often enough that she can say thats what she does for work to people who she doesnt know if she can trust with the truth.
This whole "nightmare" just seems to me like the homeowner is judging this girls' lifestyle, doesn't agree with it, and thinks that means that somehow "Vera" is some kind of criminal. It's actually kinda gross how slut shamey this whole thing comes across.
"that I have no idea who they are, and what they are capable of." - does getting paid to use dildo's on a camera suddenly thrust you into a realm of criminality and questionable character? HOLY SHIT, she wears high heels in a city with big hills!!! dont you know that you girls wearing high heels in SF will Stab you when your back is turned?
Ew. I got no sympathy for this lady.
I sure hope that means downloading projects from sourceforge can happen on a modern timescale. I have more bandwidth in my bedroom than their infrastructure.