The above two comments show the difference between software "engineers" vs "developers"...and none of the major social media platforms (and other consumer-level applications) employ engineers.
Other projects can't use waterfall development because they would like to actually produce something useful instead of what was decided at the start of the project.
This isn't the way pharmaceuticals are developed; we don't require the pharma companies to know how they work (and we shouldn't, because we don't know how many common safe drugs work). We validate them by testing them instead.
Other projects can't use waterfall development because they would like to actually produce something useful instead of what was decided at the start of the project.
It's a whole different world of software development. If you set out to build flight control software because it is needed to run on a new airplane, you're not going to pivot midstream and build something else instead.
These ads are pretty much directly responsible for inspiring me to work in this new Internet thing after graduating college in 1995. That and Wired magazine.
The truly funny thing about that is it is a real food menu item and description I cherry picked from a local restaurant. No creativity on my end required.
Agreed, but it honestly still tastes kinda funny compared to a "real burger," having tried it before. If I was going to go full "vegan" I would personally avoid anything pretending to be a burger at a minimum, with the exception of maybe an "Impossible Burger" every now and then if I got a craving as it comes somewhat close. I honestly wouldn't even try going anything close to vegan as a whole until lab-grown meat becomes a real, mass produced, phenomenon. Even then, though, it's hard to say if that would still truly be considered "vegan."
Honestly, even as a meat eater I think a good bean burger tastes better than 90% of those "fake meat" burgers. The long time vegetarians I know were annoyed when restaurants started replacing vegetarian food for vegetarians with vegetarian food for "new vegetarians" and flexatarians.
Oh so THAT'S why the Evernote update sucks. The Android client is terrible, it dumps me to the useless Home whenever I scroll to the bottom. It's now unusable. I've begun transitioning to Notion because of it.
It's absolutely relevant. The need for those investors to even have an exit is what set them on the course to IPO. Today's situation is a direct result of investors herding them in this direction.
Only downside is the piece of junk trackpad that registers registering itself as a mouse and not a trackpad...resulting in no palm-rejection and crappy gesture functionality.
This reminds me of a piece Stephen Johnson once wrote for the New York Times called "Tool for Thought", which described his process using DEVONthink software.
"The raw material the software relies on is an archive of my writings and notes, plus a few thousand choice quotes from books I have read over the past decade: an archive, in other words, of all my old ideas, and the ideas that have influenced me[...]Consider how I used the tool in writing my last book, which revolved around the latest developments in brain science. I would write a paragraph that addressed the human brain's remarkable facility for interpreting facial expressions. I'd then plug that paragraph into the software, and ask it to find other, similar passages in my archive. Instantly, a list of quotes would be returned: some on the neural architecture that triggers facial expressions, others on the evolutionary history of the smile, still others that dealt with the expressiveness of our near relatives, the chimpanzees. Invariably, one or two of these would trigger a new association in my head -- I'd forgotten about the chimpanzee connection -- and I'd select that quote, and ask the software to find a new batch of documents similar to it. Before long a larger idea had taken shape in my head, built out of the trail of associations the machine had assembled for me."
That process eventually turned into a startup around 2010 I helped found in NYC. Good times.
Native Houstonian turned New Yorker (25 years!) here. I often say to my Houston family and friends that while it may be hotter in Houston, we New Yorkers deal with the summer heat way more than they do. They go from their air conditioned houses to their air conditioned cars to their air conditioned destinations. We New Yorkers are out in it all day...we walk a hell of a lot more, and stand around in the ovens otherwise known as subway stations. And there are just way more spaces that simply lack A/C in NYC.
Yes we do have smaller living spaces, but I will say that my household electricity usage is about 50% less than most of my Houston cohorts, especially in the summertime.
