While I agree with your premise about different types of work, and while I agree there's some level of clerical work required to interact with a computer, computers can do far more than clerical work, and can provide intellectual leverage when used properly. Banning a high-level executive from using something that gives them intellectual leverage holds the organization back.
You have to think, people - especially senior executives at fortune 50 companies - don't like being arbitrarily held back when they have a job to do. If they want to use a computer, I imagine that these ambitious people would fight the CEO tooth and nail to get access to one. Probably people on the board whom the CEO is politically motivated to please are also banned from using these computers.
People tend not to ban things before they're widely used and cause some sort of problem. I imagine there was a time at his company where his executives used computers. People would have a memory of the time before the computer ban, and compare it every day to the time after the computer ban.
These executives probably had stellar track records, had the motivation to do better, had the previous experience of using computers, had political sway, and still failed to convince the CEO.
And yet, with nothing more than a brief description of the abstract idea, and a firm belief that computers are valuable, a Hacker News commenter has been able to diagnose that it's holding their company back.
That's not to say that CEOs can't make bad decisions, but we don't even know what the company does or what they sell. Probably neither of us have worked there. It seems a little premature to rebel at his decision.
That is something completely different. The Jigsaw referred to in the title is the Java module system that will be part of Java 9, not a GUI browser made by a different group.
The article seems to say that the estimate of all who have lived is about 106 billion, so the number of currently-alive is estimated at about 6% of those who have ever lived.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." I wondered if that ratio needed updating. It does, but not, it seems, in the direction I expected.
One approach is to issue one certificate per device per subject. The subject identifier could remain the same. If this approach is taken, revocation checking is critical -- you end up having a bunch of certificates that all claim to be the same subject, so you need to make sure any presented certificate is valid. However, while revocation checking is often problematic for clients, some of those issues are more easily managed on a sessile server.
Purely from a user's perspective, the Mac app store has a considerable advantage in centrally managing updates. Non-MAS apps each have their own eclectic ways of updating. Some support automatic update checks, while users have to explicitly check others. For the ones with automatic updates, there are a number of ways it's handled. Users don't generally want scores of update daemons running, and the whole business of "On launch, check for update, notify the user and let them choose whether to update now" really feels like the web page pop-ups that are so popular. ("I launched the app to do work, not to see if there was an update. The update prompt is in my way.") This cries out for a better user experience.
Update on the way out? ie. Pop up with two options "close" and "update and close", at least this time you've already accomplished what you were after with the application.
Especially one that will relaunch the app when it's done.
Ideally, you'd want a system-level daemon that downloads and preps updates in the background, and either waits until the system is idle (I think Apple has some tech like this already for running Time Machine backups), with pending updates optionally installed on system shutdown (am I shutting down to save on battery, to restart, or because I'm about to leave the office and I don't care how long it takes for the system to shut down).
I think Kelly Sutton (of the late layervault) figured this out with his fork of sparkle, called "autosparkle" - https://github.com/layervault/Sparkle . I haven't personally integrated it into my app yet, but supposedly it makes updates a much more silent process - which is really important for 'always-on' tray apps like layervault was, or the one I'm making.
What I've always wanted, and no one seems to do, is to have the update box pop up on startup (as usual), and then have a button that says "Install on quit." Then I wouldn't have to be interrupted when I opened an app to do something, and it would be taken care of when I finished so that it's ready for the next time.
Yeah it's a little insane how long it's taken for Apple and Microsoft to get software updates right when it's so common and humdrum on the linux side of things.
I had years of mechanical drawing in high school, and it wasn't until my junior year that the teacher noticed I am left-handed. He started having me create drawings from the lower-right corner to the upper-left, while the right-handed kids drew from upper-left to lower-right. When I switched, I stopped having smudged drawings caused by dragging my hand across the completed parts of the drawings.
I was comfortable with the notion. It seems to me that "soft technologies" are the ones that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. The other technologies seem to be physical transformations of matter and energy.
What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already.
"What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already."
It was a little laborious, but I went through each essay and used dotEPUB (http://dotepub.com/) to convert it to epub, then transferred to my ereader manually.
I considered looking for a more automated solution, before realising that it would take more time looking for a solution than just manually doing it.
Similarly for pocket I imagine with the frequency these are coming out it would be easiest to simply manually add each essay to pocket.
There are many things that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. Money is not one of them. It's simply a crude approximation of trust.
