On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 16:50:42 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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No, it happens when they streamline and automate their entire
workflow much more, to the point where they aren't using
antiquated document systems anymore:
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/5/21/office-messaging-and-verbs
I've never written a single document in the entire time I've
contributed to the D open source project. That's because we
replace that ancient document workflow with forums, email,
gitter, bugzilla, git, and github, some of which is also fairly
old tech, but not nearly so as typing up a bunch of documents
or spreadsheets.
Of course, the D OSS project isn't a business, but the point is
made in that linked post: most businesses are also about to
transition away from that doc workflow altogether, where they
simply replaced a bunch of printed documents and balance sheets
with digital versions of the _same_ documents over the last
couple decades. It's time for them to make the true digital
transition, or they will lose out to those who did and became
more efficient for it.
Lyft and Uber are merely two public examples of the leading
edge of this wave.
You're making a broader point about Lyft and Uber that I agree
with. Automating certain things and providing a digital platform
has been very successful for them. But taxicab companies
switching from Excel to Google docs wouldn't have solved anything
for them. Taxicab companies in London and other places have found
better ways to adapt (excepting through increased regulations) by
offering their own apps to compete.
Similarly, the investment management industry (my industry) has
seen a large increase in the share of passive management over the
past 10 years (and a corresponding decline in the share of active
management). Switching from Excel to Google docs is irrelevant.
There are broader competitive forces at work.
Now, these competitive forces have been shaped by computer-driven
investing and a reduction in costs. So in this sense, your
broader point has validity, but perhaps the way you were
expressing it with regard to Office vs. Google Docs was not
convincing.
Do those Python/Numpy users have the level of VS or other
Windows IDE support that D currently doesn't?
You don't need VS with Python/Numpy, but python has a large
number of IDEs available. I haven't used them, but they are
there. The only thing I ever used was Ipython notebooks, which
became Jupyter.
