You had laptops and spare parts?! At my first job we had to build ourselves a desk out of 1's from the bit bucket to put the card puncher on, and a sort of beanbag chair from the 0's. And the old-timers said we were lucky--the old system did not even have ones, which made less satisfying desks. When we got upgraded card punchers that could do ASCII instead of just typing the raw instructions in hex, that was a happy day, let me tell you.
This should be no surprise. They've been talking about "balanced budgets", but ever since Clinton actually balanced the budget, they yell about balanced budgets in Democratic presidencies (which reduce the deficits), and then in Republican presidencies they cut taxes without reducing revenue.
Yeah but it's still amazing just how much Trump wants to give to himself and the rich. The "tax cuts" (which aren't tax cuts, they're entirely debt financed, which republicans keep telling me isn't a tax cut) he already did in 2016 were, per year, slightly less than social security + medicaid. If this Moody's report is to be believed the now-planned tax cuts will be more than social security + medicaid.
So Trump wants to TRIPLE social security and medicaid expenses ... with just 2/3 going to him and the rich.
Depends on the situation... If the food source is on a nearby deserted island, connected by two small boats that can carry inconvenient numbers of people + food, and for some reason the boats must always be full and you must always take all the food by the end, well, give me an older programmer accustomed to puzzle interviews!
Sure, but at some point you miss something. You could summarize “The Lord of the Rings” as “Frodo journeys with much effort to destroy the One Ring at Mt. Doom, but in the end claims it himself and Gollum accidentally destroys it for him.” But the book is far more than plot.
“The Iliad” is basically “Achilles gets insulted and sits out the battle, while everyone else tries to win everlasting glory through bravery until Achilles finally has had enough and kills Hector.” But nobody is going to be reading that summary for 2500 years.
According to the linked Wikipedia article, he did not go broke from the gold rush. He went broke because he invested the pickaxe windfall in land, and when his wife divorced him, the judge ruled he had to pay her 50%, but since he was 100% in land he had to sell it. (The article is not clear why he couldn't deed her 50% of it, or only sell 50%. Maybe it happened during a bad market, he had a deadline, etc.)
So maybe if the AI pickaxe sellers get divorced it could lead to poor financial results, but I'm not sure his story is applicable otherwise.
The first company I worked for out of college did that, as it was a technical position that hired people out of university who studied science and engineering. They had two of us and an interviewer. The other guy gave his presentation on Ruby lasers, but his explanation was a more complex version of "the ruby filters the input light", which is completely incorrect. I tried to hint at that in a question or two, but the interviewer did not have any physics background, and seemed to think it was an informative explanation.
So I'm not sure that this method works if candidates can give talks on subjects the interviewers are unfamiliar with.
A lot of the complexity is because HTML, as a document language, is unsuitable for the purpose of making apps, but because the browser is the only cross-platform environment we have (and pushing new versions is easy), that's what gets used.
It seems like what we need is a sort of an integrated virtual machine for each application. The OS provides a virtual CPU+memory machine, but that needs to extend to virtual filesystem, peripherals, displays (which the OS would draw into a window), network with user-limitable urls, etc. This would prevent apps from misusing the filesystem, enable users to limit surveillance network requests, and simplify graphics.
I sort of knew the story, but the way Gates presents it in his article makes it pretty blunt. There is no contrition; rather it is a story of glorious success, a story of hard work to be proud of, all started by the lie. In fact, the lie is presented as the nucleating event, as positive thing that spurred them to turn the lie into truth.
To me it felt consonant with the ethics of Harvard, and more saliently, the fact that their founding event was a lie seems consonant with the trajectory of the company. The summary of the book makes it sound like the real title is "A Glorious Life", and I would expect no contrition about DR DOS, Netscape, and other Microsoft ruthlessness under Gates.
(To be fair, I loathe Microsoft and their products, which help me accomplish my goals the way a spoon helps me cut a steak, and I have never seen Gates as virtuous. So I am hardly unbiased.)
In all their cities they could see buildings that they did not know how to build. And before that, public services would have broken down. It would have become impossible to find people who knew how to repair your heated floor (if you were rich), etc. The city of Rome declined from 1 million people to something like 20,000. In the late 500s, Pope Gregory the Great thought that the world was ending because of all the trouble (including vicious barbarian invasions). Monks (and presumably anyone educated) had access to a lot of ancient texts, it was only some that got lost in the West. I think they would have had a distinct sense that that past was more advanced.
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