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Smartphones might be helping employees keep in touch with colleagues and do urgent tasks on the move, but using these devices at workplace actually make people less productive, says a new study by the Universities of Würzburg and Nottingham-Trent. And decrease incoming calls by 100%
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Kent Sharkey wrote: do urgent tasks
"The urgent is seldom important."
~Stephen Covey
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Yes, not being readily available for every whim of the wife and kids is amazingly productive...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Not being married and/or having a steady girlfriend/boyfriend improves productivity even more. However, the biggest boost is not having an incompetent dick for a boss.
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"...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread." But you'll still have to change the diapers
And now my eyes won't roll back to normal
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And parenting will become more like programming 
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Very few parents understand tolerance stackups. 
(And, given the companies I've worked for, few of them are willing to invest in the capital required to create such systems. Largely thanks to investors. )
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The next silver bullet that will become a buzzword, get on everybody's nerves for a while and then (ironically) go the way of the dinosaurs. Ironically, because it's essentially an evolutionary algorithm with the fitness function partially replaced by human interaction.
The downside is, that the evolution of something not trivial may take a few generations with many candidates. That means the whole process may take some time, as a non-trivial test of each candidate and the also non-trivial fitness function will limit the number of candidates per second severely and manual 'parenting' will only slow down the process.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Yet more words from someone collecting a paycheck for doing, well, nothing except saying weird stuff.
Not altogether different from what Kent writes WITHOUT a PhD.... 
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This RC gives an idea of what the full version of 2.0 will look like, and we’re looking for broader feedback to stabilize and make 2.0 a solid release. Overall, the RC should be stable enough for general use, and we don’t expect any major new features to be added past this point. Fixing JavaScript's woes, since 2012
Well, some of them. It's a big list.
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Bloomberg: Updated August 30, 2016 10:48 AM GMT: [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Typical EU Bullshit: Ireland made the deal and (much as I hate apple) that deal was made by a sovereign nation. If there's a fine to pay it's Ireland's problem.
Or - put it in terms of the way things are - in the EU, a business contract means what they want it to mean when they want it to mean it unless they change their minds.
Were I Apple, I'd start closing all EU operations as soon as possible - let them find jobs working for someone else. Ditto for Micro$haft and anyone else who made a deal with a government and now realize it isn't worth the toilet paper it's written on.
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Will this perhaps prompt an iExit and Eirexit similar to Brexit?
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Or perhaps a US CorpExit from EU due to the unstable business conditions and money-grabbing Brussels Louts.
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That would be nice.
It would probably do more harm to those corporations than the EU.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The problem is that within a trading block any state-aid that benefits one company over another is illegal.. so, for example, the fact that the French government subsidised the development costs of nuclear power stations that then benefitted EDF was deemed illegal.
Apple aren't blameless in this either - they explicitly asked for the tax deal and were touting it around multiple EU countries before the got agreement from Ireland.
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I wouldn't claim apple to be blameless for anything - except, in this case, they were making a business deal with a sovereign nation and if this violates the rules to which that nation agreed to then they're the ones who committed the violation - perhaps the whole island should be walled up and put in prison for fraud?
No one twisted anyone's arm to offer a the deal in violation of any law. They could have remained on the up-and-up easily enough. They were greedy and wanted the deal - well now it's time to pay back some of the money they made from having the company there.
That's worth repeating: well now it's time to pay back some of the money they made from having the company there. because they didn't do it out of charity - they thought to make so money on this.
It's just typical EU budget balancing at the expense of US corporations.
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It is typical US Corporations that want to benefit more than it's competitors....
Europe is paying for years for the infrastructure of the country while they could have paid that themselves by asking proper taxes. Apple paid 0.005% taxrate. No consumer could get that.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Nothing about what apple did or didn't pay is relevant: they had a contract with a sovereign nation and that nation should be held to honor it.
As for EU infrastructure? Proper taxes? Not even the least bit relevant. At least not until they give Apple and Microsoft seats in the Brussels gathering of idiots.
This comes down to a very simple and basic concept: do you trust in a legal agreement signed in the EU or not. Apparently, and repeatedly, we know the answer is "NOT".
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And the EU should trust TTIP?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I wouldn't - I find that any trade agreement the US makes with Europe or Asia is a disaster for the US. Just trade - or make trade war if that's the cover you wish to use to hide a failing culture - but I'm really disgusted with rEUgulations.
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Quote: ... I find that any trade agreement the US makes with Europe or Asia is a disaster for the US...
Also said as:
- As soon US is not more free to do whatever it wants, it begins the pain?
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Mario Vernari wrote:
Also said as:
- As soon US is not more free to do whatever it wants, it begins the pain?
Here's the FIFY:
Also said as:
- since the US product is so good the EU cannot compete so they fine and take some of the profits anyway*
* For example, fining Google because (1) they put paid advertisers ahead of others in the search - even though that has always been their business model and never a secret, and (2) Google has over 90% of the EU search traffic so they're a monopoly. Who's fault is (2)? It's substantially lower in the US (we use Yahoo, Bing, etc.) and the fact that no EU web-search product is worth the time to type in the address-bar is another problem the thieves in Brussels cannot stand for. The EU is taking a cue from an old USA proverb "The power to tax is the power to destroy". In our case, it's a seperation-of-church-and-state thing, but in your case, it's a clue on how to compete in business when you're not good enough to compete.
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It doesn't matter. Google goes away? K bro, some months of discomfort later and we'll have our version. No Farcebook? VK is already there to stay. No Apple? There are A LOT of EU makers that are struggling against the monopoly of now US-controlled giants, and there still are Sony, Asus, Acer, Huawei ans HTC of the big giants.
Fools will still buy US products thus incerasing the volumes of business of Import/Export companies. Services will be EU tailored so it would be more than possible that US companies wouldn't be listed first in the new search engines.
And our markets are already expanding Eastwards, slower than they could because the US keeps intervening. The moment when US companies will release their economic grip here will be the moment the US nation will lose the political one.
I'm not at all anti US, which is a current trend, but I'm fairly sure we can survive without them. And without their sock puppet in EU too (aka UK).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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If you could beat google you would have. Your statement is totally empty.
All the problems of the EU are US caused, such as you not being able to expand eastward. Well - that's so typical of a failed system, find an outsider to blame. Maybe you should build a wall?
When it comes to mercenary business practices, it was EU representatives that were in Iran before the Ink dried on the deal to let Iran do whatever it wants to do (the reality, after the built in caveats are included). You just couldn't wait to try and get your hands on that money. As usually, worry about the consequences later. Just bring a trophy back to the rabble that vote for them (just like they're doing know with Apple - how macho of them!).
The biggest difference between the US and EU business practices is that you pretend your on the up-and-up, always taking the high road. Even for the immigrants allowed in, the undercurrent on the (European produced) news pointed out that there weren't enough young people and they were being looked at as a (cheap) labor force. Humanitarian? Not so much.
Maybe it's time you started to accept that your sh*t stinks and stop pointing at our bathrooms as though it changes anything.
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