It’s marketing making them think they want to own that stuff.

Developers rarely control the tools budget; their managers do.

So this whole article is a moot point

Developers detest marketing. If you want to sell them a tool, make it easy for them to find the information they need and leave them alone to try out your tool.

So marketing does work, just not “traditional” or “mainstream” marketing. We’ve had shareware since the beginning times, which was the ultimate try before you buy. Now we have the subscription model (fbow).

Yeah I’d like to think I’m better than marketing, but really, it just takes the right marketing, and I’m putty in their hands.

I don’t remember that level.

He would still win if there was an election today. Even though they don’t like Trump, they’d still vote party line.

Your father might be a witch.

I feel attacked

I haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:

This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.

“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.

Buy a sack of potatoes. No refrigeration needed and you can even use those potatoes to grow more potatoes. Cut two arm holes and one neck hole in the sack and now you have a shift, no need to buy clothes. Piles of raw potatoes make perfect furniture (chair, table, pantry shelf, etc.) Cook and mash potatoes, eat some and spread the rest on the floor for a nice, soft, warm bed.

Problem solved.

import builtins

def HelloWorld(funcname):  
    getattr(builtins, funcname)("HelloWorld")

HelloWorld("print")

Edit, improved:

import inspect, builtins

def HelloWorld(funcname):
    caller = inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name
    getattr(builtins, funcname)(caller)

HelloWorld("print")

Yes, that’s what I meant with my “for now” and “for the moment”.

Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.

But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.

So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.

Thanks, this is a good one!

Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:

“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”

The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.

Source: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Source: https://xkcd.com/2347/

PS/2 isn’t vintage. I’m still using an adapter to connect my Microsoft Natural keyboard through USB.

Oh, wait…

I usually go back to the top and pull down to refresh and get new posts.

This is too deep for me to fathom right now.

Smort.

Intentional misspelling of Epstein for plausible deniability?