Can anyone say the type of renewable energy: Is it wind based?
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A bit off topic and NOT just Apple related:
When corporates list such achievements as above, they need to do full disclosure like how many old type jobs are destroyed due to their actions/products/services and how much time it took for the effected people to readjust to new reality.
Press statements as above -which we see from several organizations- give the impression of all positives and no negatives which is not true. Public companies are supposed to inform complete truth to public (since some of them are shareholders) and statements as above are not complete truth. Their actions may be innovation to the organization concerned but it is not for the affected. Personally, I feel, now-a-days, modern organizations and their executives are showing the habit of abusing the word of innovation[0] for whatever they do.
This is not just applicable to Apple only but to every other organization in the world. Amazon has to list how many brick and mortar stores are effected in addition to creation of new jobs and similarly vehicle, energy companies has to list the pollution they/their products caused across the world. Cities like Beijing has polluted air and is it not human made through innovated products developed few decades before? If they are proud of positives, they should feel sorry and/or pay for negatives as applicable. Is n't it?
In some cases, measurement may not be easy or indicators/metrics are not defined yet like "number of jobs ...etc". Governments and other competent organizations need to define and enforce them just like enforcing in the cases similar to harassment/discrimination/workspace issues/environmental issues. Even reference year also needs to be defined.
Jobs alone is not indicator and it is just tip of the iceberg of the total effect due to the actions of organizations.
[0] Some background on origin and growing popularity of the usage of the word "innovation": http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/r-gopalakri...
How do you plan to handle security related dangerous items? For example, an user may ask you to deliver a package taken from one place to another place and you may arrange that but that package may contain dangerous/destructive/harmful materials which may be against law of the land where you operate.
You can ask user to confirm contents but he/she may lie and faithfully you may try to deliver and in between you may get struck in legal issues. If the origin is well known or reputed enough, then risk may be less but otherwise, there is an element of risk. Have you considered it? and how do you plan to handle it safely? Thanks.
i.e. "youtube for TV".
Since screens are converging, i.e. we can see TV shows on PC or any other device, netflix will be direct competitor to youtube with only captive/curated shows.
Rust and Go are two reasonably new languages. I understand scope and priorities of each language may be different but my idea is to get some approximation/thumb rule for any one before starting similar journey.
As per Github and wikipedia:
Number of contributors for Rust and time taken so far: 840, and 2 years. Number of contributors for Go language and time taken so far: 424 and 6 years.
Financial details are not known.
It seems developing new language and bringing it to reasonable level is not trivial effort.
1. Is above data correct i.e. are those contributors full time working on those languages i.e. is it full time job of those people?
2. Can we get details like number of developers/number of test engineers/number of documentation writers ...etc?
3. Is it possible to know the total amount of financial resources consumed so far in the effort?
4. Is there any research into resources required for new language development in terms of man power, time, financial resources for various languages?
It is fascinating to see a new language developed in front of us.
From this article:
>>> They were both to be “whipped at the public whipping post 20 stripes each.”
This was year 1742.
From the web (http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/raif-badawi-to-be-p...)
>>>HE IS brought before the crowd and whipped relentlessly 50 times with a long, hard cane.
This is year 2015.
But you can notice the similarity in punishments.
We need to understand that society in every country evolves over time at its own pace. This evolution can take centuries of time in some cases because societies has to understand and readjust peacefully as much as they can.
I guess American political leadership needs to understand and remember these parts of their history before pointing out and shaming/preaching other countries on human rights,intolerance...etc.
Point I want to make is, people are different starting from blood type, height, weight to "n" number of parameters and we can get different graphs for different parameters but that won't conclude anything.
Each person is different and just because some one belongs to a category does not make that person any extra attractive for any job.
In my personal opinion, this type of validation rather than competence,track record,experience is not beneficial to organization or society and completely shortsighted. So please stop these generalizations like "women are so and so", "men are so and so" ...etc. There are good and bad elements in every category.
I read Google has self-driving cars project. Now it seems we can have self-driving bikes/two-wheelers in future.
Also, we see/hear about vehicular/car accidents and in future I won't be surprised to hear/see "robot accidents".
But what a contrast between Apple and IBM!!!
Personally, this space appear more crowded. So far, I have read only positive feedback on existing tools like Jira/trello ...etc and I have not read many bad experiences (may be I have limited exposure). Is there really a window/space for new entrant?
To the current users of other tools: Are these tools (Jira/trello ...etc) fundamentally different to each other or just incremental differences while fundamentally similar?
Economic press has created a race among leaderships of nations on who is developed(advanced) i.e. praiseworthy and who is not and many organizations started preaching ways to improve productivity as if productivity only is the ultimate goal of human life. Political leaders cannot dare to advocate alternatives because that is suicidal for them, their countries ...etc.
I think, technology's effect on human life is like inverted bathtub curve i.e. technology advancement to certain level is beneficial to society but beyond that we enter region where costs/losses outweigh benefits if we consider entire society. No doubt, there will be winners any time but as a whole society loses and inequality may rise causing law and order issues and impacting even winners indirectly. In that sense, technology is like level of water in river and beyond certain level, it is not good for humanity.
World is highly decentralized and innovators or cultures who tasted success in innovation won't agree that progress in certain technologies need to be stopped or efforts need to be directed towards other required activities. So technology progress always happen and jobs also gets destroyed as collateral damage.
Microsoft seems to be enhancing their products/services in enterprise while applying free/low-price on consumer side to compete with Apple/Google, balancing revenue and guidance to wallstreet. Search engine for Google is similar to Enterprise sales for Microsoft while both compete in consumer space.
It may make MS competitive to companies in data processing space like SAS/IBM ...etc.
1. If Google detects something as malware, i.e. google software knows that it can be dangerous to users, then why it cannot prevent itself from acting as intermediary? Also, why it does not stop hosting malware?
2. >>> Malicious software is hosted on 279 domain(s), including 24corp-shop.com/, abu-farhan.com/, soaksoak.ru/.
These web domains do not belong to Google. It seems google is downloading several pages onto its server for various purposes. Is it legal in all countries?
From the architecture point of view, is it difficult to sandbox/protect user facing google.com search engine from the above websites all the time so that if malware is there, do not let it effect search engine or other major parts. Users are not security-literate.
3. What should I do as user? Just ignore this assuming that this is for webmasters and not for ordinary users?
Honestly, for me personally, malware on google is unimaginable, since we consider it as gold standard on the web.
I get the impression that, as a society, you want to be open but in the industry, you want to be closed/highly secretive and in personal life, privacy is preferred. (i.e. not open/sharing all aspects). This appears contradicting each other and it suggests that, guiding principle is not openness/freedom itself but selecting profitable/suitable style and spreading forcibly across the globe.
Many countries/cultures cannot really comprehend these sharp edges/changes and this partly explains the tensions/conflicts in the world.
In both cases, human mind keeps circling on what went wrong. Is there any misunderstanding or wrong perception? So providing reasons is humane in any such life altering transaction.
Related to law, is following possible?
Before interview, there will be an agreement needs to be signed by interviewee, recruiter, company involved, so that, after interview, recruiters can provide reasons for rejections and as long as the reason is with in the laws of the country or appears reasonable, then involved parties will not proceed legally. If it is against the law, then interviewee may proceed legally. It may be expensive but we are not robots, right?
Different cultures have different opinions on work/job/career...etc. Since Americans are advanced in technology as of now, many countries are adopting similar policies and during that process, workforce management related laws also getting copied. These laws may be new to that society and difficult to understand by society/family. This makes lot difficult to effected employee to explain the rationale, which he/she also do not know. People won't even believe that reasons are not provided.
In conclusion, providing reasons or at least honest effort in that direction is needed, since we are dealing with other human beings rather than robots.
Please note I am not suggesting isolation or moving to forest for meditation ...etc. You can stay where you are but consciously allocate some time for meditation, in a room where you may not be disturbed by others for some time. Please note it is not reflection on past activities of yours or others. During meditation, just forget outside world,time,circumstances and focus on mantra. It helps in bringing mental peace, strength and this will bring change in behaviour, feelings towards others. It takes some time and practice.
Also, please understand, though we are in same place at the same time, our origins,destinations,paths all are different in this journey called life. Once you realized that, you will start some mental search on your destination and its place in this world and focus on your material goals i.e. focus on others will be reduced i.e. qualities like jealousy will be reduced over period of time. Also, during interactions with others, ensure your focus will be on positive things. Our mind is like horse and as rider, we need to preemptively focus on what we want. It won't change on its own to where/how we want to go.
Hope it helps and if you wish, let us know after some time (may be one year) on your progress. There may be many books on meditation also. They may further help.
EDIT: Minor grammar corrections.
Cities changes with time and people who stayed in that city decades ago, when they visit recently, will get the similar impression. Any one who saw a phone in late 70's and saw it now, will get the similar impression. Even jobs also change where designation/title may remain same but underlying technologies,tools,working hours,team composition, challenges,expectations on delivery ...etc all may change.
In conclusion, this is natural phenomenon w.r.t time, where top remains same and change happens below.
Upvoting without reason may be ok, in that case at least we know that upvoter is in the same/similar logical region as we are. Downvotes may indicate differences of opinion but do not indicate what/why are those differences. So reasons for downvoting clarifies those reasons and other view points, which I guess is the reason for "comments" in the first place.
In future, if some Hollywood studio makes a movie on Russia's Putin or on China and if hackers claiming from the injured country do similar cyber-attack on that studio and If USA retaliates and if Russia/china counter-retaliates and if this spills into physical world, then we can have nightmarish situations/tensions and may be full blown war. Worse, another country may do that sort of attack from some other country to hide its trail. Hope proper sense and calm minds prevail to prevent such nightmare. But such possibility exists in theory.
As solution, world needs an international, independent, competent panel/forum/group to investigate openly/transparently all cyber-attacks and find out culprits rather than doing mere guess work. Also, evidence of the crime need to be put in public domain to avoid conspiracy theories. This can be on the lines of international court of justice/United nations ...etc. Since parties involved are entities like Sony which are not connected to national defence directly, we need not fear national secrets leaking out ...etc i.e. it can be done without impacting the sovereignty of the nations involved.
Without such arrangement, stability and peace of the world will always be in question for any cyber attack on any major country such as USA/Europe/China/Russia ...etc.
TL,DR: Cyber-attacks on economic entities such as Sony or Google in the past involving several countries need to be investigated by international body rather than a single country and evidence of the crime need to be in public domain to avoid conspiracy theories.
>>> As for peaceful co-existence and all that, such a thing can only be possible not by retaliating when we are offended, but by understanding we have a right to be offended, and a right to express our outrage peacefully and constructively.
I would like to see examples of this approach getting succeeded between different countries with different scales/opinions on justice,fairness. Whatever may be the reasons/circumstances, West did not pursued this approach after 9/11. I live in India which pursued peaceful/constructive approach after 26/11 but literally no change has occurred. So this looks proper approach in theory but not practical.
>>> There is always people whose sensitivity gets hurt by movies and books, but this should not automatically lead to stopping publishing.
There are "defamation laws" in many countries. Many people/companies use them if they feel offended/hurt, even if they are not noble. This incident may be the same for NK.
Every human/culture has likes,dislikes ...etc and every one expect others not crossing those lines for peaceful co-existence. In democracy, no doubt, there is freedom of expression but if that expression is uncomfortable to other, then there is responsibility to control/prevent that expression rather than brazenly going ahead ignoring sensitivities of others.
If the story line as I understand from mass media is, assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and if North Korea protested it, then Sony should have understand and accommodated the sensitivities of North Korea and stopped making this movie. It is not censorship as President Obama noted.
People on HN voiced concern on NSA surveillance ...etc, since many felt privacy/anonymity is violated...etc. Just like you have sensitivities, North Korea too has sensitivities and it is natural to expect, others to understand them. Whether it is, dictatorship or democracy and their relative merits/demerits is different point of discussion.
I am neither supporting hacker's attack on Sony nor North Korea but Sony in first place, should have considered the sensitivities of other cultures, even if they are alien to your culture and act accordingly, given the story line.
Arts should further enable the stability or peace on earth and you may not achieve peace by hurting sentiments of others.