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Honestly, I think both of those perspectives don't quite explain why Sears died.

Sears died because Eddie Lampert spent years systematically looting the company. If not for Lampert's dismanagement [0], Sears would be in roughly the same position as other department stores like Macy's or JCPenney. Yeah, sure, they're not doing super great, and Amazon is kicking their asses, but they're still keeping their heads above water.

[0] Sic. I'm trying to coin a neologism here. Dismanagement is to mismanagement as disinformation is to misinformation. Mismanagement and misinformation come from incompetence; dismanagement and disinformation come from malice.
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Different airport. But yes.
Looking over the comments and replies here, it seems everyone has their own version of "the real reason Amazon was successful was X..."

My own conclusion reading this is that Amazon was just highly competent across the board. They were online in the mid-90s. They were quick with shipping (eventually, if not right at launch). They were competitive on pricing. They quickly had a huge inventory. They had the "you might also like..." algorithm that's impossible to get from a print magazine. They had online reviews. They offered Prime in 2005.
They used mechanical Turk to build recommendation lists.
Don't forget that Snap is a camera company.
>I don't think I personally would want to use Delphi in this day and age

I totally understand where you are coming from, however I must say having everything compiled into a static-binary is a powerful thing that we often overlook today.

Case-in-point: Around 2007 I was consulting for a manufacturing facility, basically doing accounting system programming. Their warehouse department needed a small app that basic did two things (a) Check to see if a invoice was marked paid so they could ship, and (b) Record the Fedex / UPS tracking number back into the accounting system.

This was something that was meant to be added into the main accounting application and installed into the warehouse, but there were the usual practical issues (the PC that existed in the warehouse was an under-powered Win XP machine that couldn't actually run the accounting system, so a new machine needed to be purchased...basically weeks of time were required to solve it, but we needed a solution ASAP).

On a whim, I whipped up a simple single-dialog box "utility" in Lazarus / Pascal that would check if accounting had released the invoice and then record the tracking number. Literally took me maybe 3 hours to download, program, test, and deploy.

A few months ago I ran into the product owner from that consulting gig so many years ago....after catching up a bit, asking what had changed...he sheepishly added "I've still never got around to incorporating your warehouse 'utility' into the main program yet". I said 'surely its still not that old WinXP box?' and he said no they had upgraded a few times and just copied the .exe over each time and it continued to work.

Obviously such a simple 'utility' app is not a great example of why you would choose to use a language / platform, but it is a testament that what it does well, it does well. My 3 hours of billable time amortized out over 12 years now was a really good ROI.
You can always look up the relevant years. That's easier than the other way around.
I think this is correct. There is a core group of "meat purists" who define eating beef as being American or vice versa.
You can opt out when you buy the vehicle. Like anyone at a dealership will care or know to even give you the choice. I wasn't and only found out about it when I saw the IMEI number on the sticker with the engine information.
That, and the ONLY analytics based feature I used was the "After viewing this item most people purchased" section WAS THE ABSOLUTE BEST for shoppers. It made me feel like I could look at a vacuum, but then be directed to the BEST one. It was like, I'm doing all this crazy research and stuff, but how could a billion other people's research help me here. It seems like they run experiments now where once in a blue moon you might see that section.

I know why they got rid of it - and Amazon has this problem all over the place, but some products just sit, while others, with really no difference just fly off the shelves.
I'm not sure about that "Devsumer" section. IFTTT / Zapier and those are not replacing Accenture as far as I can tell.

The thing that makes Accenture a viable business is they can sell large projects to large entities. Things that people generally do not reckon they can fix on their own, like government health websites. There's no way to knit that together with just some common APIs. Yes, ironically Accenture can't either, but the point is they make money on convincing people they can.

The thing about people getting more dev-savvy I don't buy either. Yes, people can glue a few bits together now, but most people still suck at anything beyond simple automation. If you want evidence of this, look at Excel based jobs. Pretty much all of them can be automated in Excel itself, and every time someone tries it, they create an awful mess.

So yeah we'll now have a world of little Rube Goldberg machines of everyone's making, but I don't see them replacing any kind of large scale project. They can't really do it technically, and they don't seem like they will replace the incumbent salespeople either.
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Definetly not something you have to learn. If you build something customers really want then the product will probably sell itself, and no selling or marketing will be needed.
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The latter.

More seriously though, there won't be a true error corrected quantum computer for a long time. People are hoping that there can be useful applications with imperfect physical qubits.
Even the ability to declare bankruptcy would be nice. Millions are in a state of what amounts to indenture.
I don't need to apply to OMSCS...I was just saying it offers 100% online, including proctored tests. No need to go to get a proctor or go to a testing center, which is inconvenient for me. They used to use ProctorU, but switched to ProctorTrack. I don't know what they use right now.

Edit: Just checked and UOP doesn't seem to offer a math degree at all, so that doesn't help me.
A quine—in a scripting language—is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_(mathematics) of the interpreter, which is kind of profound.

A quine in a compiled language isn't anything in particular, though. (I guess you could call it a fixed point of the compiler+target Turing machine, when taken as a single function?)
So your logic is that "people buy gold because other people believe it's a safe investment"? That same logic applies to crypto - if people stop believing that gold is a good investment and start believing that crypto is a good investment, gold will cease to be a good investment and crypto will become a good investment.

I think gfodor is asking something more along the lines with "What can you do with gold that you cannot do with anything else you can buy?" There are valid answers to that - gold is a catalyst in several chemical reactions that won't work with any other metal, it's corrosion resistant, it's shiny, it's a very good conductor that's quite malleable. But I'm with him in surmising that if people only used gold for its metallurgical properties, absent any historical sentimental attachment, the price would drop 99.9%. Gold is actually quite abundant; 190kt have been mined so far [1], most of which is either locked up in jewelry or being hoarded as an investment, so if people ceased to believe it was valuable there'd be a very large oversupply for the few real industrial uses.

[1] https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-...
May I ask a stupid question? What's the difference between collation and encoding? Some people in this thread have suggested "use byte strings"; is it "enough" to "just" use UTF-8, like you should "just" use UTC (unless you know/Should know better)?
The JSON glue could be changed to Rust macros, but I've not found the time to do that. It's a bit ugly but free and works for me on Linux and I've had reports of success on Raspberry Pi and Windows.

If it fails to build on Mac OS, I'd like to see why and help. The latest version uses Cargo for building, so e.g.
`cargo qrep && qrep` should give you a working Rust + Qt example application.
I hope business schools teach about the failures made by Sears executives. Especially about not adapting to change and investing in technology.
I've been doing this for years now and it's hard to imagine the old days when I used to wake up, shower, and run into work. At first it started with just waking up, making coffee with my aeropress, and sitting down to read a novel for up to an hour.

The past 2.5+ years have been: wake up, stretch and pranayama for 20 minutes, meditate for 30 minutes, make tea/coffee, write for 30-40 minutes, shower and then off to work. (I've moved the reading to the evenings before bed.) All in it's about 2 hours from waking up until out the door to walk to work.

My work days now start even more focused -- previously I'd just be sitting at my desk being only semi productive, waiting for the coffee to kick in. It's worth giving it a try for a couple months to see how it works for you.
Which might be fine, depending on their privacy policy. Let's take a look...

Their privacy policy indicates they are claiming Legitimate Interest as the legal basis for using Google Analytics. My network tab also sees hits form ShareThis and Facebook, which are not mentioned in the Privacy Policy. There's a section on Embedded Content, but I don't see any content embedded in the privacy policy itself.

https://gdpr.eu/privacy-policy/

I will say this does a good job of being straightforward and readable, and covering what a privacy policy needs to cover. But it's still incomplete with regards to what data is being sent where.
If it's just a voicemail box it doesn't have your location data to leak, although a DID onto a voicemail box (and maybe a SIP trunk if you really want it) is better.
You don't pay anything back until you're making at least $50k a year. Not sure what the life of the contract is, but I've been following the Lambda school guys on Twitter for a while and they seem very focused on a 2-3 year payback.

A lot of the criticism of Lambda School seems like unfairly comparing some ideal of education with their model, rather than comparing the current reality, which is colleges that frequently leave people in $30k + worth of student debt with no guarantee of a job afterwards, and that's before we talk about the years you sink into it. Then there are the learn to code bootcamps which seem to be garbage in general.

I'd be willing to bet for most of us, paying 17% of our income (once we made $50k) a year, for two years, is a vastly preferable to whatever we've paid.
Or killing of the old. Or forced breeding.

Migration is the most ethical of those.
As the article says, it is surprising how easy and cheap it is to shut down a world-class airport and disrupt 100,000's of people. They haven't even caught the last person.
Business. Business is the word they were looking for.

Apple and Google don't engage in capitalism, they engage in business. Capitalism is a socio economical political system that they are actors in and have no say over(besides attempts to lobby which are real but not the focus here).

This may sound like semantics but I think this subtle and intentional shift in language is dangerous. You constantly slip the strawman into everyday language until the average person has heard it enough times to have a deeply negative view of capitalism because they equate capitalism to companies they don't like(we are already past this point)

These days, being deeply anti capitalist is a main stream viewpoint but if you ask people what they mean by it, many of them aren't usually looking for economic system reform, they are looking for Companies that they feel are doing business unethically to be constrained or policed. They end up fighting the wrong thing based on a faulty definition which is highly unlikely to produce the results they want.
Yeah, I know I'm not super excited about google gaining the ability to continuously monitor the status of my erectile tissue.
Interesting, judging by the other replies, that the opponents in your debate have not agreed to disagree, despite the fact that the underlying differences are deep-rooted enough that any action on their part, especially on an internet forum, is unlikely to make a change.
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It only works for some kind of products and some kind of buyers, obviously. You can't sell someone a can of tomatoes based on a demo.

But, if the value you can provide is immediately obvious to the customer, rather than an incremental improvement on their existing situation, then you can get them to express interest before you have a finished product to provide them with.
> The airport said it had spent several million pounds to purchase the equipment.

I feel like this is a problem some smart people could solve quickly if they were asked, similar to the healthcare.gov situation. Ask some MIT students to come up with a solution over a weekend and I bet they would deliver.

Knocking a slow moving object out of the sky is literally not rocket science.
I doubt it is. Recommendations can be great for certain kinds of purchases -- books, Amazon's original niche, being an obvious example: "people who looked at this book also tended to look at these books" can be a meaningful signal. But I don't think that's what helped Amazon to astronomic growth, particularly when we're comparing it to Sears.
GDPR compliance doesn't imply that tracking is disallowed, right? The GDPR specifies the allowed, legal protocols for tracking users and consumer behavior on sites.
> They owned part of Prodigy in 1984!

Widely considered one of the worst-run businesses of all time. No wonder they thought expanding into bigger box retail was a better move.
Why do some vegans and vegetarians want to eat something that looks like meat?

This is not to say vegans and vegetarians are the only market for plant-based "meat" or "burgers".
Yes, first movers in general have a disadvantage. For example, this is part of the reason why Sega's hardware business died.

Admittedly, that was only part of it: there was some mismanagement behind Sega's decline too. Actually, you could say the same thing about Sears: the final nail in their coffin wasn't Amazon learning from Sears's lessons but rather Eddie Lampert's deliberately and systematically looting the company over a period of several years. If not for Lampert, Sears would just be another Macy's.
Can a low power 50Ghz signal penetrate a wall?
Last time it was Gatwick south of London. Hopefully this shutdown doesn't get extended because the government drones get mistaken for continued sightings of the original drone (or copycats) like happened at Gatwick.
Part of me wonders if this is a long term problem with solving - causing so much annoyance with so little effort - or if this is just a fad. Time will tell. One thing is for sure, it's very easy to cause a lot of harm. Much of our society relies on assuming people are good. Sabotaging infrastructure is as easy as loosening or cutting bolts on a bridge.
Yeah, let's get some subversion astroturfing going on in here to balance it out.
Satphones still get your location data, although by default not to quite as precise a location. Some of them do GPS on the handset to give location data separately, and all of them can be localized pretty precisely (either to a circle or a specific location) if the operator wants, although for some networks this isn't routine. The default is just footprint and then slant distance/timing, but most systems (iridium, etc.) are more complicated.

VoIP and then VPN/tunnel/whatever (or just opportunistic wifi use) to connect and pull down messages is the only reasonable way.
I think the key is to commoditize the complement when the complement is embedded deeper in the value chain than your product.
The U.S. market? ;)
Also, if the VP of Eng. or whoever is making the decision thinks of Github as the default git SaaS because it's what they have used since college, there's a good chance they will just go with Github without even evaluating alternatives.
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And you can write your own. I use i3wm and was not satisfied how it handles Window Titles by default, so I wrote my own daemon for renaming windows automatically, which makes a huge difference for me: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/i3-window-title-changer
> I'm trying to coin a neologism here. Dismanagement is to mismanagement as disinformation is to misinformation. Mismanagement and misinformation come from incompetence; dismanagement and disinformation come from malice.

I've seen “malmanagement” used the way you seem to be trying to set up “dismanagement”, by analogy to the distinction between misfeasance and malfeasance. (Dictionaries seem to view it as a simple synonym of “mismanagement”, though.)
Not the person you replied to but the one above him. Interestingly enough my experience with this type of judgement has made me much more aware of the challenges of other people in minority situations. I am a white male but in the world of being a primary parent to babies I'm a minority. I understand how minorities in a professional setting might feel the need to be beyond reproach.
How is this a business? I’m not tuned in to the preppier community but from what I gather they would not be huge fans of rushing to a centralized location in an emergency. Also they’re a tiny market.
> I have no idea if there's an efficient way to scale beef

If you're interested, https://twitter.com/drsplace is a good follow. She writes and cites a lot on this topic (because she is employed by the beef industry).
Collation is basically a fancy way of saying "sorting" and should be independent of encoding (or course, certain encodings lend themselves more naturally to certain collation algorithms). In general collation needs to be locale-aware while encoding (in Unicode) largely doesn't care.
Too mad to write politely. Because the US is Israel’s bitch the rest of the world must not work with Iran. And because the US hates the ruler of Syria so much it tacitly supported a genuinely Wahhabist terrorist group instead, all other governments must not work with them.

When the petrodollar is over and Americans realize they’re less welcome in most places than the plague, maybe then you’ll elect some sane politicians and leave the world alone.
> trying to replace everything with vegetable stuff is not going to work in the long run.

I'm not sure what you think the alternative is. People need to eat.
It works with the GNU sed that ships with GitBash on Windows.
It's going to be funny when we learn he works for the IRS. ;)
Beyond Meat, another meat-substitute company, uses soy and pea protein:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Meat
Thanks. This is good to know.
> Knocking a slow moving object out of the sky is literally not rocket science.

But perhaps doing it in a way that doesn't shower the runway with dangerous debris, is?
As a European, having "bounty hunters" in the title implied that already.

I was unaware of bounty hunters being aserious profession in any particular EU country. Then again, i don't know any EU country where an accused can bail themselves out of jail till the court case.
I figured it was "gossip".
Just as in Gatwick before this, the police and the airport are not able to produce even grainy footage of a drone that is supposedly "buzzing" the tower.

Gatwick reported "67 sightings", but couldn't confirm if some (all?) were their own drones [1]. And now Parliament is tabling new powers for the police [2]. Was there ever any evidence presented that there was ever a drone present? Is there any evidence that this was actually a drone at Heathrow?

Are we sure this wasn't a plastic bag again [3]?

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/29/gatwick-drone-si...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/08/police-ha...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/22/11486256/drone-collision-...

P.S: I'm insinuating terrible preparedness to verify drone sightings leading to wonky regulations, not a conspiratorial power grab
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I really wonder why and how companies are willing to rent at these places. It's full of arrogant pricks and the failure rate of startups is insane.
I founded a company few years ago. Was offered space at we work for about 3k for just 100square feet. Few days of searching through local real estate companies brought me a 300square feet office for 1.5k at a similar location. Only no freebeers and fancy entrance.
Partner in a law firm told me they were starting to test various techs to search through legal documents.

You can imagine NLP being quite useful in sifting through piles of old cases, a step beyond simple text search.
Or just some annoyed passengers with a roll of toilet paper? https://imgur.com/gallery/0b4wF3V
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Two paths. 1) start selling to and building for customers. 2) start recruiting cofounder(s) then fundraise. Which one is better depends on the nature of your startup and skill set.
Good job. I think determination and willpower like you have is fairly rare, at least where I'm from (Midwest US).
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