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icantfindaname posted:welcome to capitalism The culture of serial entrepreneurship that exists in startup land really is something unique and hosed up, though.
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I don't think I've ever see people manage to say absolutely nothing in multiple paragraphs quite like a startup talking about itself.
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Paradoxish posted:The culture of serial entrepreneurship that exists in startup land really is something unique and hosed up, though. It's peak capitalism. No historical carried-over labour relations or Way That Things Are Done, and regulation to reign in the worst excesses hes yet to come into being.
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Feb 13, 2016 10:18
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I saw that attitude with computers a lot as well; I know people with computers that are 10-15 years old because gently caress it, the thing works. It gets on the internet, it sends e-mails, it types letters, it plays solitaire, and that's all the person wants it to do. That is the future of technology, and arguably it's already started to happen with computers right now. In the future, computers will be appliances like microwaves or refrigerators - maybe they cost a reasonable amount, but they're very simple and closed off to the general consumer. When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason.
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Feb 13, 2016 18:16
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ToxicAcne posted:Great article, and really relevant! Just today I saw an idiotic post that claimed that in 10 years we will get commonplace simultaneous translation. A stupid question but do CS majors not study physics or anything like that, because it's bizarre how willing they are to disregard real physical barriers Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God. The Something Awful forums need that kind of prose to meet the future head on!
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blowfish posted:It's peak capitalism. No historical carried-over labour relations or Way That Things Are Done, and regulation to reign in the worst excesses hes yet to come into being.
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Feb 13, 2016 18:47
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cheese posted:Don't forget to add a heavy dose of white, male, middle/upper class fantasy realization, where you can CREATE something that will 'change the world' with only your skill and white male genius. I never thought we would see a rival to Wall Street finance for that crown, but it has been firmly snatched. Nah, it's not specifically white male, it's merely that white males ended up with trust funds and power in America so they and not someone else is in the position to be lolbertarian jackasses to everyone. computer parts posted:That is the future of technology, and arguably it's already started to happen with computers right now. In the future, computers will be appliances like microwaves or refrigerators - maybe they cost a reasonable amount, but they're very simple and closed off to the general consumer. When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason. Yes. For everyday computing needs it is good, and it's why people buy macs and smartphones. Computers basically just working and doing things people want them to do is the one thing that takes them to the status of an idiot proof everyday technology. Computers becoming locked-down appliances is scary to compsci people because reducing computer use to button pushing makes it harder to have a technologically literate population and works against ideals where everyone can and does take full control of and shapes their technological life. Basically, ask yourself why an archlinux fan wouldn't want a locked down computer that only runs one proprietary os and a dozen approved applications. To an extent, democratisation of tech stuff would be good, but if you look at how cult-like actual existing open source projects can get and ask yourself if the average person would spend any effort on it, it may end up being pearls before swine.
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computer parts posted:When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason. Cellphones were never really customisable (aside from Motorola's faceplates) so people don't really feel that same sense of loss. Though the recent trend to do away with swappable batteries, MicroSD and SIM cards had some push back.
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blowfish posted:Computers becoming locked-down appliances is scary to compsci people because reducing computer use to button pushing makes it harder to have a technologically literate population and works against ideals where everyone can and does take full control of and shapes their technological life. Basically, ask yourself why an archlinux fan wouldn't want a locked down computer that only runs one proprietary os and a dozen approved applications. The utopian ideal of free software is quite feasible, just not in a society with pesky stuff like "copyright law". If publishing software were treated the same way as say, publishing scientific findings (guess we're leaving drug studies out of this one!), then ideally everyone would be contributing to a shared corpus of software that everyone could build upon and improve over time. While in the big picture, information (in the computer sense) is pretty dang far from the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it is the first technology we've developed where scarcity is almost purely artificial; and of course, as a society we choose to enforce that artifice. Then again, pointing out that copyright is an artificial monopoly is cutting it a lot closer to, "La propriete, c'est le vol" than most anyone wants to.
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ToxicAcne posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/45dzq4/the_language_barrier_is_about_to_fall_within_10/ No, thats r/transhuman or r/singularity Futurology comments are super dismissive about "in x number of year" claims, and consider a ton of stuff posted there as click bait sensationalism. Even about that very article you posted. Theres even a video near top on why solar panel roads won't work after France announced they wanted to do it.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:00
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eSports Chaebol posted:The utopian ideal of free software is quite feasible, just not in a society with pesky stuff like "copyright law". If publishing software were treated the same way as say, publishing scientific findings (guess we're leaving drug studies out of this one!), then ideally everyone would be contributing to a shared corpus of software that everyone could build upon and improve over time. While in the big picture, information (in the computer sense) is pretty dang far from the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it is the first technology we've developed where scarcity is almost purely artificial; and of course, as a society we choose to enforce that artifice. That's, um, not how scientific publications mostly work, either. It's an area of massive conflict in academic publishing as well, but "open access" is still very, very far from universal-particularly because open access frameworks have had difficulty shouldering the costs of maintaining, editing, and hosting publications. Of course, this has led to the emergence of a "let's crowdsource editing and have no pre-publication review" movement, which is a colossal nightmare- but at that point we're back to talking about entrepreneurs trying to "disrupt" scientific research as a whole. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Feb 13, 2016 22:37
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eSports Chaebol posted:The utopian ideal of free software is quite feasible, just not in a society with pesky stuff like "copyright law". If publishing software were treated the same way as say, publishing scientific findings (guess we're leaving drug studies out of this one!), then ideally everyone would be contributing to a shared corpus of software that everyone could build upon and improve over time. While in the big picture, information (in the computer sense) is pretty dang far from the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it is the first technology we've developed where scarcity is almost purely artificial; and of course, as a society we choose to enforce that artifice. Quite frankly any effort to privatize the internet and intellectual property, such as cracking down on pirating of movies and music, have failed miserably.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:38
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:Quite frankly any effort to privatize the internet and intellectual property, such as cracking down on pirating of movies and music, have failed miserably. By that I mean the Pandora's and Netflixes charging you for access to a library of content that you don't own. Make it convenient enough and piracy isn't a concern anymore.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:40
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Apparently recent video game DRM efforts have actually gotten very effective, though:quote:TorrentFreak reports on a recent post by Bird Sister, the founder of Chinese cracking message board 3DM forum, that says the recent release of Just Cause 3 has pushed the group's cracking abilities practically past their limits. "The last stage is too difficult and Jun [cracking guy] nearly gave up, but last Wednesday I encouraged him to continue,” she wrote.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:45
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:Quite frankly any effort to privatize the internet and intellectual property, such as cracking down on pirating of movies and music, have failed miserably. It has been getting harder and harder to get copyrighted materials for free, and items like games and music and video have gotten cheaper and easier to purchase. I stole just about everything I could back in 2003ish, because it was easy and getting mp3's legally was impossible. Games were incredibly expensive. Nowadays, it's just easier to watch Netflix or just buy that game on massive sale. I guarantee that piracy is decreasing because of the ease of accessing media is up, the cost is down, and the difficulty of theft is constantly increasing.
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Gabe Newell always said that the way to beat piracy was to be more convenient than piracy, and goddamn if he wasn't right.
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Feb 13, 2016 23:05
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Gabe Newell's an incredible businessman. Has he ever invested in anything that wasn't a huge suc
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Discendo Vox posted:Gabe Newell's an incredible businessman. Has he ever invested in anything that wasn't a huge suc Gabe Newell is a huge success.
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Feb 13, 2016 23:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eULB8uMIucCicero posted:Apparently recent video game DRM efforts have actually gotten very effective, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/denuvo/comments/4307at/denuvo_hows_it_coming_along/ Assepoester fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Feb 13, 2016 23:16
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computer parts posted:That is the future of technology, and arguably it's already started to happen with computers right now. In the future, computers will be appliances like microwaves or refrigerators - maybe they cost a reasonable amount, but they're very simple and closed off to the general consumer. When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason. The specialist you hired to fix your car or refrigerator isn't going to find multiple GB of your weird fetish porn.
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Pope Guilty posted:Gabe Newell always said that the way to beat piracy was to be more convenient than piracy, and goddamn if he wasn't right. Don't forget a lot of games released these days have always online, leader boards, community play etc etc. Id say that does more to deter pirating then other stuff. I know I used to pirate games but now most games I play are connected to a server for whatever reason so it's far easier to just buy it.
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Feb 14, 2016 07:15
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The specialist you hired to fix your car or refrigerator isn't going to find multiple GB of your weird fetish porn. Saving porn is another quaint hobby compared to what regular people do these days.
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computer parts posted:Saving porn is another quaint hobby compared to what regular people do these days. you mean hire hookers?
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eSports Chaebol posted:The utopian ideal of free software is quite feasible, just not in a society with pesky stuff like "copyright law". If publishing software were treated the same way as say, publishing scientific findings (guess we're leaving drug studies out of this one!), then ideally everyone would be contributing to a shared corpus of software that everyone could build upon and improve over time. While in the big picture, information (in the computer sense) is pretty dang far from the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it is the first technology we've developed where scarcity is almost purely artificial; and of course, as a society we choose to enforce that artifice.  Academic publishing is a circlejerk of petty politics, inflated profits, unpaid work, wildly varying quality down to being a net drain on humanity, and restricted access. Drug studies and medical things are actually among the better parts of publishing because they're of sufficient public interest that governments went "cut that poo poo out assholes" to enforce a minimum standard of adequacy. max4me posted:you mean hire hookers? lol if you don't live in an area with superfast internet and free wifi where you stream HD porn 24/7
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Discendo Vox posted:Gabe Newell's an incredible businessman. Has he ever invested in anything that wasn't a huge suc Ricochet was a free mod so idk what you're on about.
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Pope Guilty posted:Ricochet was a free mod so idk what you're on about. It was released as a free mod because after they made all its systems work(and there was a lot involved to get the kind of collisions they wanted working, for the time) they realized it was janky and deeply unfun, and could not be incorporated into any sort of profitable product. It's why "Richochet 2 announced" jokes are still made. The only other thing that came close from Valve was Alien Swarm, but they actually got a lot of indirect benefit from that- I actually think some of its systems went into Dota et al. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Ricochet was a free mod so idk what you're on about. http://store.steampowered.com/app/60/ Now it's down to 5. It's worth none.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The specialist you hired to fix your car or refrigerator isn't going to find multiple GB of your weird fetish porn. Watersports fetish freaks learn to do their own plumbing, it happens.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Uber just paid $28M to settle a class-action lawsuit. (They probably found the money in the couch cushions.)
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Cicero posted:
Indeed. How will they ever make their quarterly bonuses now...?
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computer parts posted:That is the future of technology, and arguably it's already started to happen with computers right now. In the future, computers will be appliances like microwaves or refrigerators - maybe they cost a reasonable amount, but they're very simple and closed off to the general consumer. When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason. I can't tell you how many times I've seen nerds get pissed off when someone complains about Windows 10 upgrades because that person doesn't want the bother and risk (and for business, expense) of migrating to Windows 10 when his/her current system is just fine for the job. HURR DURR JUST TRY NEW THINGS I DON'T CARE IF IT COSTS YOUR COMPANY THOUSANDS IN RETRAINING AND MORE ON NEW INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE COMPATIBLE. 
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Woolie Wool posted:I can't tell you how many times I've seen nerds get pissed off when someone complains about Windows 10 upgrades because that person doesn't want the bother and risk (and for business, expense) of migrating to Windows 10 when his/her current system is just fine for the job. To be honest, some of the new features in Windows 10 were either ill-conceived or not entirely well thought out. In-operating system advertising seems like a huge security risk to me, and this is already on an operating system which is known for being high-maintenance about security and system integrity. It's unfortunate, because there are some straight improvements to the underlying system in there -- you just have to put up with another bad feature for every new good one. I'm still confused/disgusted by how Microsoft was trying to pass off in-OS adtech as if it was no big deal.
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Woolie Wool posted:I can't tell you how many times I've seen nerds get pissed off when someone complains about Windows 10 upgrades because that person doesn't want the bother and risk (and for business, expense) of migrating to Windows 10 when his/her current system is just fine for the job. Windows 10 is a pointless windows. Windows 7 forever, or Windows 8.1 forever would provide the exact same benefits to customers as Windows 10 forever now does. The only reason to upgrade to Windows 10 in an office environment is that 7 and 8.1 will stop getting security updates. We've reached the point where mainstream OSes are good enough and computers are good enough (except linux stuff lol), so tech companies flailing about trying to maintain sales numbers by releasing New Operating System 11, with over 9000 bullet point features!!!!111!!1 impresses nobody.
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blowfish posted:Windows 10 is a pointless windows. Windows 7 forever, or Windows 8.1 forever would provide the exact same benefits to customers as Windows 10 forever now does. The only reason to upgrade to Windows 10 in an office environment is that 7 and 8.1 will stop getting security updates. Nah, that was the sentiment about XP 10 years ago. In 2026 if you're still using Windows 10 you'll see a massive difference in implemented "real, actual improvements" nobody has thought up yet. OSs aren't word processors (or IDEs).
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Maels posted:Nah, that was the sentiment about XP 10 years ago. In 2026 if you're still using Windows 10 you'll see a massive difference in implemented "real, actual improvements" nobody has thought up yet. OSs aren't word processors (or IDEs). Name one end user visible feature ("comes with native USB3 drivers" or "optimised for X hardware" doesn't count) in Windows 10 that makes it better for an office PC running, uh, Office than Windows 7 or 8.1. Regarding XP, if it ran well on modern hardware and could use more than 3GB of RAM, it would still be serviceable. Minor quality-of-life improvements like window snapping aren't hard to patch in, you know.
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DirectX12, Start menu and task switcher. Being patched in because they're good ideas and still calling it XP would probably work for ya.
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Maels posted:DirectX12, Start menu and task switcher. Start menu: I wouldn't call it an improvement (over 7). All apps is less easy to use, and the tiles are not meaningfully better. *installs classic shell* Task switcher: OK I admit you may have found a thing some people might benefit from quote:Being patched in because they're good ideas and still calling it XP would probably work for ya. Correct. I don't want to reinstall an OS ever, and I don't want to relearn the UI ever. Basically, since MS wants to do SaaS so much, they should do it right and just leave people on Windows 10 for eternity while rolling what would otherwise become windows 11,12,... into it bit by bit.
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lol if you don't launch literally all apps by just hitting winkey and typing (a feature which has been a part of the OS since vista) Seriously, though, I use Windows 10's virtual desktops on my work laptop on a daily basis. They're barebones as hell, but feel way better to use than just about every third party option that existed pre-10. Windows 10 has a lot of nice quality of life features.
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blowfish posted:DX12: who cares, it's an office PC Its you. You are the guy who turns his desktop style back to win98 and makes me miserable while i'm remoting in and fixing poo poo. IT LOOKS SO WRONG.
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Tigntink posted:Its you. You are the guy who turns his desktop style back to win98 and makes me miserable while i'm remoting in and fixing poo poo. IT LOOKS SO WRONG. No that's my supervisor. Putting a control panel shortcut on the desktop and installing classic shell fix objectively bad UI decisions that make computers harder to use  Still, UIs staying the same unless a new compelling development that actually serves a purpose comes up is good, because I don't give a gently caress about how my computer looks beyond "not a complete eyesore" and "not so confusing it becomes hard to use" and don't want to spend effort on getting used to change for the sake of change. Paradoxish posted:lol if you don't launch literally all apps by just hitting winkey and typing (a feature which has been a part of the OS since vista)  somehow UI developers haven't gotten this into their head, and sperglords who turn their desktop style back to win98 have refused to implement this functionality in most Linux distros, even though it's easily implemented by installing ksuperkey without disrupting any shortcut functionality (i don't give a gently caress about whether assigning a direct function to a modifier key hurts your feelings, unless you're developing a clunky OS for turbonerds you make sure things that every user ever is used to are present out-of-the-box). quote:Seriously, though, I use Windows 10's virtual desktops on my work laptop on a daily basis. They're barebones as hell, but feel way better to use than just about every third party option that existed pre-10. Windows 10 has a lot of nice quality of life features. , windows 10 isn't particularly bad or anything, it's just that besides occasional quality-of-life stuff that could have been rolled into a mild update there's no reason to suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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