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Kent Sharkey wrote: aluminum
Reading US dictionaries is good exercise for your funnybone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/20676755/jony-ive-exit-tim-cook-disinterest-in-product
Ive disagreed with “some Apple leaders” on how to position the Apple Watch. Ive pushed for the Apple Watch to be sold as a fashion accessory, not as an extension of the iPhone. The product that went on sale was a compromise. Apple only sold a quarter of what the company forecasted in the first year, according to the WSJ, with “thousands” of the $17,000 gold Apple Watch Edition left unsold.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Who did they think would buy a $17000 apple watch, and why did they think "thousands" of people would?
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#realJSOP wrote: Who did they think would buy a $17000 apple watch, and why did they think "thousands" of people would?
Fanbois would have bought them at any price, if they weren't too heavy for the plonker-pulling arm.
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...for the same reason why some people would drop a couple hundred thousand on a new Italian sports car. Because it appeals to them. I've always considered myself a more "function before form" designer, and while I have enjoyed many Apple products in the past, today's Apple has become a slave to the form and not the function.
I've followed Jony Ive since he began his tenure at Apple, and actually met him a couple times, and while the conversations were brief, you could see the wheels turning with ideas. But he is like all of us creatives...many great and wonderful ideas, but they each need a champion other than the originator. Call it lack of ambition or zeal or even the inability to see the good ideas because all the details get in the way.
But in Steve Jobs, Jony found a great champion willing to tilt at windmills to see his best ideas make it through to reality. And while Steve was a bit of a jerk (well, rather a lot, actually) to some, he always got results. And he had enough charisma to bend the world to fit his view.
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The Osaka Track might help digital business -- if it gets enough support. At least until it becomes inconvenient
Or the government changes, or someone else uses it to an advantage....
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or someone else uses it to an advantage....
As it would not yet happen
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Keeping data local isn't protectionism in the economical sense; it is being reasonable in the security-sense.
Ransomware-attacks, like the one in Lake City[^] (Florida) prove how vulnerable most of the IT-infrastructure is.
Google's China-filter also shows how sharing of data has its political limits. The thing those countries will agree upon is sharing face-recognition data and financial transactions from the masses 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It will only work partially in North America.
Walls work.
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We noticed back in October 2018 that Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system was not creating Registry backups anymore. Because nothing bad ever happens to the Registry information
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It is not a bug... it is a feature.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Their explanation was that "it works on our boxes".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But seriously, how freakin big IS the registry if MS felt the need to do this?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: To recover a system with a corrupt registry hive, Microsoft recommends that you use a system restore point.
Nice idea. Except for that fact that system restore is turned off by default for most Windows 10 installs. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: system restore is turned off by default for most Windows 10 installs.
Because they don't want people doing anything in any ways that aren't their latest (and therefore stupidest) ways.
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Oh.
It's a feature.
OK.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Researchers have come up with a mobile-sensing system that can track and rate the performance of workers by combining a smartphone, fitness bracelets and a custom app. I take back what I said elsewhere about the benefits of technology in the workplace
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I take back what I said elsewhere about the benefits of technology in the workplace
Too late...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Back to getting whipped for me, I guess. 
TTFN - Kent
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Needs a hack that will show you working industriously, when you're actually out back, napping in your car.
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Because the chains cause chafing ? 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Quote: The system was able to tell the difference between high performers and low performers with 80% accuracy.
Are people who do their jobs at 80% accuracy remotely qualified to tell anyone else how to do theirs?
As this is a KSS forum, I will not venture an opinion on these people and simply leave it your imagination and the more colourful end of your vocabulary to fill in the blanks ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Are people who do their jobs at 80% accuracy remotely qualified to tell anyone else how to do theirs?
A lot of people I work with don't even get that 80%, yet they are more than willing to tell everyone what to do 
The most extreme case being a (now ex-)coworker who told me my JavaScript was way off and I had to rewrite it (because I used a module pattern rather than putting everything in the global scope).
That same coworker told me he couldn't even read my C# code because the syntax was foreign to him (I used a Func<something> with a lambda expression...)
This guy had such a big mouth that the entire project was suffering from his incompetence and he brought the whole team down to his level.
The problem is that this guy worked hard (producing negative results), so this new system would probably give him a high rating.
This isn't my only example either.
Basically, I think the harder people shout what you should do and how you should do it, the less qualified they are.
If they knew how to do their job they wouldn't be so concerned about the work of others...
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There are certain types who always do quite well in IT without ever doing anything useful.
The Ever-Present: He turns in at 7 and leaves late at night. During his extended shift he largely drinks coffee and talks about football but the PHB loves him because he's always first in and last out. Little does the PHB realise that he only does this because he's trapped in the marriage from Hell and really doesn't want to be at home.
The Voice: Like Sander's mate, he sounds like knows everything and has all the jargon to go with it. Everything that anybody else does is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and he won't rest until everyone is made aware of this.
The Cheerleader: He may not be able to code his way out of a wet paper bag but he will passionately get behind the PHB's buzzword of the week. If the PHB is getting into DevOps, he's more than happy to champion DevOps even though he has no more idea than the rest of the planet what DevOps actually means.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I've known multiple voices and at least one ever-present 
I don't think I've met a cheerleader before, mostly because the people I worked with were either afraid of change or knew their job well enough to either embrace it or reject it with good arguments.
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