Doesn't matter too much. They will invariably get bought out by whoever is waving a large cheque in their face. All the "deep learning" stuff could have easily spun out startups from academia but look at what has happened instead. Its especially rare these days cause all the big powerhouses(Goog/FB/MS/Amazon/Apple) are highly insecure about when they are going to get disrupted overnight. And since they are all sitting on mountains of cash they can afford to throw highly ridiculous amounts at ppl.
There are very few examples where it doesn't happen. I can only think of Torvalds\Linux and Wikipedia.
1) Two of those companies (FB/Goog) could easily have been bought by the megaliths of their time, but their founders' vision and control prevented it. I don't see what is so much different about these times that would prevent a founder from doing the same. Indeed, not so long ago Drew Houston did the same (though it seems the gamble is not so certain to pay off for him)
2. Startup or established company, it doesn't matter so much who does the displacing as much as who is getting displaced: either way, the argument contends that vast swathes of the middle class will be adversely affected.
Good point. I guess the larger pt here is that, it would be nice to see pressure on the megaliths\holdouts to let go of their winner take all inclinations and go more the Torvalds\Jimmy Wales route. So that the advances benefit the many rather than the few.
Time to just outsource USG data and services to Zuckerberg.
He's possibly handling more data, providing more services and doing it with what...10K engineers?
We are just going to see more and more Sony type hacks, Manning/Snowden type events. Just look at what happened with Bangladesh's Central Bank and Philippines voter records.
Going forward I just don't see Govt IT coping on their own. Things are just moving too fast and they have my sympathies.
Which component of Zeal allows you to pull in your own local code for completion?
Zeal definitely works great for popular third party library code and integrates with Sublime, but I haven't seen options for it to integrate with your own libraries or third party libraries that aren't quite big enough to be supported by Zeal directly.
