On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 17:35:51 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
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.
That's because I never made that Office/Docs comparison in the
first place, I merely gave an example of someone plausibly
replacing their current Windows/Excel workflow with Android/Docs
in a decade. The operative comparison there is mobile Android
versus desktop/laptop Windows, Docs doesn't even matter as Excel
also runs on mobile.
I was talking about the mobile shift being so big that it takes
out a host of Windows PC-driven shops. I also tangentially
mentioned that I don't think people will be using Office _or_
Docs in a decade, which is the bigger shift you seemed to want to
explore, so I expanded on it.
Lyft and Uber are particularly apposite because they've ridden
both shifts to quick success.
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.
Never used Jupyter but I see that it's a webapp, so it should
work fine on mobile, or as a frontend for a cloud instance.
