WeWork seems like it should be a buyout target either by a hotel chain or a restaurant chain (Starbucks?) since the basic model is "more permanent and slightly more private than a coffee shop"...
No one other than SoftBank believes it is even worth $8Bn. After it goes bankrupt someone might buy it in a fire sale. Probably next year.
It’s not clear why the Graun is so upset however. Not a penny of public nor pension fund money was burnt in this. Just the Saudis and a few other billionaires.
They're annoyed because of Adam Neumann's golden parachute. If he'd have been kicked out with nothing except the obligation to pay interest on that personal loan to JPMorgan, the article might have come out differently.
I’ll try to find which big article said it. I think it’s from WSJ or business insider if you’re interested where they were breaking down how silly and awful Vision Fund is for SoftBank. It said of the $9B already invested, only $3B is coming from Vision Fund outside Softbank Vision Fund money.
Talented authors have less to fear from AI than talented programmers have to fear from coding boot camps that churn out thousands of entry level devs. It sounds like the AI might be good at taking some random bits of data and presenting it in prose which could threaten the careers of a lot of journalists. But anywhere that abstract thought, analogy, simile, and syllogism would be required to express concepts and ideas will remain the domain of human authors -- forever. Machines can automate and compose passable works based on programmed rules, but they will never be able to improvise, crack jokes, or move the soul.
Oh please... more of this JEDI/WaPo stuff? It ignores that the NSA (and by extension, the DOD) have a long relationship with Microsoft just as the CIA have a long relationship with Amazon and have "AWS-lite" installed at Langley. Microsoft has been very accommodating to the DOD, agreeing to continue maintenance on Windows XP for as long as the Navy continues to request (and pay for) it. Yes, Trump has his gripes with WaPo and might have suggested to Mattis to screw AWS, but it's very likely that the Five Sided Puzzle Palace wanted to go with Azure Stack all along but had to do the open competition thing to avoid being sued by companies not named Microsoft.
Yeah, its pretty crazy how the narrative has become "Trump is insane, AWS was going to win it until he stepped in." AWS fought very well, but Microsoft was destined to win no matter what they did, as long as they could check every box (or make promises that they will check them soon).
You're hiring a new software engineer. You've got one candidate who's a bonafide genius, but young and can't communicate very well. You've got another candidate who seems to be within 80% of the skill level of the former, but came recommended by a trusted third party and can clearly communicate with the team. Which do you pick?
I'm writing this comment on a new MacBook Pro which I purchased in order to write Xamarin mobile applications (including iOS, hence the Mac). In the case of iOS apps you have to have a Mac and Xcode installed and up to date. As for the rest of the existential "why do you use that" the answer is mostly "because they are the best tools given the job requirement" and I take the jobs because they pay well and are fun.
Perhaps a better question is: why are you drawn to the area of programming that you are? For me, the idea that my apps are used on PERSONAL devices and are HELD AND TOUCHED by the end users is a powerful thing. Line of business web apps have the antiseptic separation between the screen and the user: you need a mouse to proxy your physical gestures to the computer. Mobile apps have a sense of being with you at all times as opposed to something on a desk. In a world of decreasing personal interaction, creating mobile apps seems like a very high-touch and personal way to affect people.
This is a crazy idea. A disaster area is EXACTLY where you want to throttle and prioritize traffic. Are the legislators really saying that during a natural disaster one's ability to watch Netflix should be on the same level of priority as First Responders communicating/coordinating on rescue and recovery efforts?
"Pessimistic" is a good generalization of the GPL mindset in my opinion: "If I don't make this thing GPL then some greedy-bastard company will make a fortune off of my ideas and never give me a cut, credit, or contribute back."
Maybe, but it's a dim way of looking at other people.
Remember that GPL is a product of the realities around the open source ecosystem when Bill Gates and Steve Balmer where CEOs on Microsoft.
Moreover the situation with some android OEMs that don't provide source code for their devices shows that this is still happening today.
> Remember that GPL is a product of the realities around the open source ecosystem when Bill Gates and Steve Balmer where CEOs on Microsoft.
The irony being that formerly FOSS companies are turning to dual licensing, "open core", and similar non-free strategies because it turned out that Gates & Ballmer, y'know, like, actually had a point: you need income in order to keep your business running.
And, by the way, you're wrong anyway: GPLv1 came out in '89 and GPLv2 came out in '91. Microsoft was a relatively minor player at that time; its meteoric rise to dominance didn't begin until a few years later.
It's certainly a dim way of looking at corporations, but, oh well. I don't think they deserve better.
And I think GPL actually embodies a really positive mindset. To release GPL code is to believe that there are others out there who will help you without intending to get advantage over you or shut you out.
The language server protocol (LSP) is a massive leap forward. And unlike the Microsoft of Ballmer, LSP is an open standard that any editor designer can implement.
> Is there any reason to use LSP, rather than simple JSON messages passed between the front-end and back-end
Yes, there's a reason to use a documented open standard supported by multiple servers and clients that passes JSON back and forth rather than an ad hoc, client specific mechanism that also passes JSON back and forth.
In fact, the reason is exactly the problem LSP addresses, labeled as “The Matrix” at https://langserver.org
In short, a problem with N+M cost is better than N×M when both N and M are >2.
Because LSP is a widely used protocol for language tooling that's not coupled to any particular editor.
I'm surprised xi didn't just add an LSP client to leverage the existing ecosystem. The benefits of in-house language server implementations seem marginal at best.
Most LSP work is just simple JSON messages passed with HTTP-like headers for Content-Type and Content-Length, presumably to future proof it against other payload formats.
