Posts by Pascal Monett

"especially from an engagement and marketing perspective"

These people know things I don't. What exactly is the downside of 4.0 ? Who cares if it's 4.0 or 40.0 ?

I don't think the users do. The only thing they care about is it is the next version. Those faithful to Gnome will continue using it whatever the number is.

So what's the negative in going with 4.0 ? I'd really like someone to explain that to me.

Why sell Arm anyway ?

It's doing good, isn't it ? What's the point in selling it ? Who benefits from this ?

Arm won't. Being folded into Nvidia will obviously get those in Arm's graphic section shed when their specific knowledge has been "transferred". For Nvidia, well it already has chip designers that do a fine job, it doesn't really need more of them. This must simply be to gain control of Arm's IP and patents, in order to control that down the line.

If that is true, then it is all of Arm's employees that are at risk.

"CEO Marc Benioff declared that he was in hiring mode"

Does that mean that he'll be hiring back the 1000 people he fired ?

If not, how will he justify firing 1000 people and then hiring 12 times that ?

I know all about creative accounting, but Jesus, this is creative employee management. There are supposed to be laws about that.

"hand over information about themselves to the Netgear Cloud"

Fuck that.

If I paid for a product with a given list of functionality and find out, after the fact, that using said functionality depends on me recording my private data on some effing cloud, I guarantee that there will be some people regretting getting my calls.

So that's NetGear on my blacklist. Good to know.

Not that I'd buy that kind of equipment for myself, but if they can do that on the high-end, then they'll definitely do that on the low-end.

"The result has been a circus"

Oh, so just like the last four years then.

"Assuming, of course, one is thinking rationally about such things"

If the UK government were thinking rationally, it would never have pushed to leave the EU.

So rational thought is not part of this process.

"Police units supporting Uber's appeal"

Well duh. The Police these days are just an extension of the NSA - they want all the data they can get whether it is pertinent to the case or not.

And it's very nice to know that Uber sends thousands of user data to the police - how much of that sharing actually brought a condemnation ?

How much of it was actually useful in court ?

That's the other problem I have with all this data sharing going on. Law enforcement all over the world now steadfastly declares that it is very useful to them, but never declares how many cases they won because of it.

"has lobbied the Indian government to change that requirement"

I hope the Indian government will hold fast to its requirement.

Apple is the company with the most money in the bank, it can take the hit.

Bit by bit, multinational behemoths will participate in the local economy. They will dragged in kicking and screaming, but it will happen.

The no-code approach

I cannot imagine building a database of any complexity without coding. If you have a no-code design environment, then you will have to have modules and you will be constrained by what the modules allow. The modules will only allow for what has been coded in them by actual developers and the no-code approach means you can't modify them in any way.

So the only "applications" you can make are the ones that correspond to the modules' abilities. If what you need lies outside that scope, you can't build it.

There may well be some types of application that benefit from this approach, but I can't see people building everything they need simply with a drag-and-drop environment.

"malicious persons from Iran"

Well isn't there a simple solution ? Block all Iran IP addresses on the router, problem solved.

I can understand that media sectors and, eventually, financial sectors could welcome IP traffic from Iran, but please explain how exactly an Iranian citizen in Iran is going to sign up for US healthcare, insurance or use US government facilities ? Don't they all require US residency ?

Maybe there are dual-citizenship US/Iranian people who regularly go to Iran, but they can understand that they need to be in the US to conduct their US business. And a VPN is not all that expensive.

Why is it that key government websites accept traffic from any country other than their own anyway ? I fail to see what benefit a Chinese citizen in China can find in browsing impots.gouv.fr, especially as that site is exclusively in French, and they don't have a login anyway.

"Cupertino's rigorous software and human-driven testing"

Oh, you're just being cute now, aren't you ?

"did not include functional specifications"

Sorry, but there's your problem.

No project should be started without knowing where you want to end up. I don't care if you use Agile or Waterfall, you still have to know what the required functionality is and a company that cannot state its needs deserves to fail.

This is obviously a bunch of high-level "managers" who have never been confronted with the daily grind and think that IT is a magical process that just happens.

Well no, it doesn't "just happen". It needs thought, planning and employee adoption, and you obviously got none of those.