I've read about Bill Gates and his work philosophy plenty of times. Even watched plenty of YouTube videos capturing his life through interviews and news specials. This article by TechCrunch was a great reminder in knowing that the software world is a really tough place to build a business. There is absolutely zero room to allow for competitors to sneak in. This isn't to say that the software world can be dominated in all areas by one company. Of course not. But considering Microsoft's mission, they only had one competitor: Apple. Until early 2000's, and then Google, Amazon and Facebook came along. Each of these founders had similar work philosophies. Stay focus, hustle hard, and win the market.
The article is based on the interview from Village Global with Bill Gates.
Recently, I needed to download a video stream to replay later with some edited clips to an audience. I haven't done this in a long time (via Firefox extension using Video Downloader on my old PC). Now I have a Mac and am using Google Chrome (but Video Downloader has restrictions via Chrome).
Open the screenshot toolbar by pressing Command + Shift + 5.
You can Record Entire Screen, or Record Selected Portion. Pick the one that you require.
If you select Record Entire Screen just click on the Record button that appears beside Option.
If you have more than one screen click and hold on this button and you will see the option Screen 1 and Screen 2.
If you want to record a portion of the screen, select that area before triggering the recording.
When you have finished what you wanted to record, click the stop button that appears in the Menu bar (beside the timer), or press Shift+ Command + 5 again and press the stop button in the menu that appears.
The recording will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. Click on it to open the video in Quick Look.
To edit your video clip, click on the trim button that appears beside Done.
To trim the video clip, click on the yellow hold points at the beginning end of the recording and drag them inwards.
So the new word in business to lay-off people is "surplus", hunh? The politics of business is getting quite embellished (or beautifully indirect). But, why aren't businesses this creative as in their language of firing people as in re-training or transforming these "human resources" to develop new skills in demand? Is there really no way to help current employees gain new skills in demand to satisfy the next needs of the business?
Obviously, I think the demands that business executives put on technical talent should also be applied. There is a solution that works well for all sides and makes the business profitable. Let's figure this out instead of wasting time with the same old business model (which no longer works for supporting today's families and societies).
I'm still amazed that Java is the most popular language used on the job. I wonder if it's because so many companies have adopted it since the 90's and don't want to try any other languages. Or, if it's because Java is still outperforming other languages. Or, is it because of SpringIO?
Something that surprised me about this survey is that machine learning is more developed as a hobby or in one's free time. Why aren't companies investing in machine learning and contributing back to open source? Especially with all the big data talk?
Eventually, it's probably in every developers best interest to learn Kubernetes (if you don't already know). Here's an article that I like and found insightful. Many thanks to the author.
I was watching this video clip on Hello World and was fascinated to see this company/vision called HackRod.
Very cool and fitting name! If you know "hotrod" and "hacking" then you might know where this is going. I think this group of visionaries are on to something though. I love their idea and their leading steps to changing manufacturing (and doing it in such a cool, useful way).
There's a lot of talk about self-driving cars, but how much do you know about the industry for self-driving trucks?
I didn't know much until now - after watching this video (below). It's already here - i.e. there are already autonomous, self-driving trucks on the road right now. And for your convenience, I have add more video clips regarding the top two companies producing self-driving trucks: Embark & TuSimple.
In short, people will no longer need to drive trucks. Since trucks pose a large risk to people's lives on the road, I don't think these trucks will be 100% autonomous, self-driving. There will be a person from the trucking company's headquarters (or somewhere) supervising the trucks and ensuring these trucks on the road are driving carefully and safely. Something like remote control driving. And that means cybersecurity will be even more important (which I can't wasn't mentioned in these videos). It's one thing to talk about robots (including self-driving trucks) will function well and safely, but it's another thing to talk about robots having security without being manipulated by hackers.
How Amazon Demand Drives Autonomous Truck Tech (by CNBC)
Embark
Tu Simple
Could driverless vehicles spell the end of the road for truck drivers? (by PBS)
I watched this recap and it seems the improvements were more for server-side technologies than anything else (with a strong emphasis on OpenShift and Cloud Computing, Cloud Development).
I may need to look into more articles and videos to learn if I missed anything transformative in tech.
On the business side however, their partnership with Microsoft and being acquired by IBM are two big things for the open source community. The direction with such leadership will be interesting for all things open source supported and promoted.
Yeah, I'm not amazed with anything that was announced at Apple's WWDC. It's tough to beat such conferences where Steve Jobs would come out and surprise the world with a new device that, without question, changed the way people lived: iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.
But, I'm glad to see they have lots of enhancements.
One thing I did like was the person standing (seemingly) in the virtual room. That was cool and different.
This YouTube from Microsoft Developers on VSCode was very helpful and cool. The pace of the video is quick and so I had to pay attention. For convenience, I'm adding the "Useful Links" below the video clip.
