Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good – but disrupts the ‘natural’ flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.
I quit my software engineer job, decided that I would be a singer, and got married. Those days, there were no platforms like the ‘Indian Idol.’ It was like, you decide to become a singer, and then what do you do? It must have been tough for my wife getting married to a man without a job.
I love software and I love technology.
If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early ’80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term ‘open source.’
There’s a common personality type to software developers – one I certainly fall into. We’re more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone’s eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff – whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps – are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that’s essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Out of the five years I spent in software, I was in the U.S. for two.
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would be locked down and could force you to only install software through the Microsoft store.
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.
We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software.
Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
We do need this diversity in the industry. Regardless of what From Software is doing, we need people making battle royale games and live services, and we need people making single-player focused experiences. We feel that this diversity is what will keep everyone going.
Software is like gardening – one day I’ll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn’t even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company’s later success.
Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that’s occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.
Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.
Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offereing a global, affordable, simple an dsecure savings account to billions of people that don’t have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund.
Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else’s operating system and core apps. Awkward.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers – folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.
Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.
Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer.
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don’t think I was there more than a month.
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that’s another question.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.
When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.
Ours is a company that doesn’t do annualized software, and so when we create a ‘Zelda’ game, when we create a ‘Smash Bros.’ game, or a ‘Pokemon’ experience comes on the platform, it needs to be exceptionally compelling because we plan on selling it for a very long time.
I wouldn’t put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I’m not impressed.
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.
Governments are scared of software.
Most people assume that once security software is installed, they’re protected. This isn’t the case. It’s critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
So Viaan Industries Ltd has three verticals; one is licensing and technology which concentrates on Fintech and licensing various products and creating IPs in the country in the software fintech space.
