The only working type of nuclear power we have is fission, and that's a mess. In more ways than one. It's only doable with heavy subvention by taxpayers, completely ignoring the waste problem and not factoring in real insurance policies for disasters. On top of that it turns out reactors aren't running nearly as long and cheap and frictionless as people have dreamed back in the 60ies and 70ies. All that turns fission into an expensive and dangerous 70ies techno-romantic pipe-dream.
There's a reason Germany is moving away from it - and we've got some of the best reactor-tech on the planet.
I do support research for nuclear power like jet and iter and perhaps that travelling wave stuff Bill Getes is investing in, but fission as we have it today needs to be decommissioned. Now and globally. The numbers just don't add up. That's a simple hard fact.
She needed quality daddy time and once she had that, she turned back into my little girl again.
All kids need quality time. If you have one (or more) you build your life and your career around that fact. Once they're grown up, it will the their problem to find, make and keep good friends, but skip on the very basics of TLC in the first 7 years and respect and support during their teens and you've opened up a life of pain for human you brought into the world. I short changed career decisions and similar things for my daughter and while I'm about to start catching up (she's 18) I don't regret anything I put back.
That's why I host all my dependencies myself, per project and on all my projects. Special font? Self-hosted. jQuery? Self-hosted. CSS Toolkit? Self-hosted. Massive monster webapp lib (like Googles Polymer)? Download, adjust URLs, move to project subdir, host yourself. Some other lib? Downloaded, stashed and hosted in the project too.
Dependencies are fine, but should always have them under your control. I'd do the same with binary code. This is, btw., one of the big problems with many Linux programms.
AND spreading falsehoods about genocide-advocating
Wrong.
Sorry, pal. It's there. In those books. It is right in there, in the books that these people (you?) claim to be "Gods word": Kill the others, burn witches, sell your daughters as sex-slaves, sacrifice your kid when the voices in your head tell you (or, by extension, some priest). Kill the unbelievers. And so on. It is all there. Denying what is blatantly obvious shows that you are in pathological denial, as are countless other "moderate" believers.
It's a simple fact: People of faith are, in the sense of the word and actually, people who are willing to believe something without evidence or even - as I've just proven - with complete and total evidence to the contrary.
Take your bronce-age myths and cults and go back to where they came from. Or do your thing in private. But stop posining our children with this crap and stop society and the brotherhood of man from moving on.
God didn't make man. Man made many gods. And as he is, they are ficle, dumb, flip-floppy and thow temper-tantrums every once in a while, killing innocent people and unbelievers in the crossfire between religious fanatic nutbags. History is very clear about this and any educated grown-up can see the truth. If you can't, I don't trust your judgement on this issue, sorry.
There is not one good thing a religious person can do that an unbeliever can't. Vis-a-vis there are countless evil things that only religious people can do. Especially the abrahamic revelation over thought crowd that I so harshly called out in my comment above.... Gential mutilation, sucide bombing, justifiaction of slavery, suppression of women, genocide, etc. pp. Christians, Muslims, the whole lot. Tribal psycho-cults out of control and in dire need of modern enlightenment.
And spare me with hitler and stalin. Given, they weren't abrahamic, but their crusades were deeply rooted in fascism born out of european christian faith, pagan blood and honor myths and russion orthodox religous zarism respectively. Same bullshit, different brand. Listen to Himmlers Posener Speeches if you want to get a taste of it.
And consider stepping away from any formalised religion or religious oranisation that claims to know it all. It makes you look silly at best. Just some friendly advice.
Monotheistic Theo-Fascist mass-murdering Psycho-Cults - I'm just so fed up of them.
Katholics, Protestants, Muslim, Jewish orthodox... abrahamic book & revelation religions are all the same at variing points in history: Wacko genocide-advocating psycho-cults that have been around for too long. We've always done better whenever we've condemned them to their temples and curbed their power as much as possible.
Apple's hardware has become notably more expensive in comparsion in recent years. Their phones lead the pack with 300-400 Euros premium on top of the regular market price of non-Apple products. I'm currently using a new Moto G2 (you can still get them online) for 130 Euros - it's better than the iPhone 5s that goes for north of 500 Euros.
Same goes for computers. For almost a decade the Mac Mini was a steal, with any compareable PC costing 200-300 Euros more. Now there are quite a few micro-PCs out there and the cheapest mac mini costs 200 Euros more than the last one I bought back in 2007 (WTF??? was my reaction to that).
The only innovative poducts that hold up today are the iPad Pro with the pencil stylus - just now giving Wacom the weeby-jeebies and for good reasons too - and the new, very small and very neat Macbook. The former costs roughly 1000€ - a tough call for a basically non-turing-complete consumer device but never-the-less intriguing for professional artists - and the latter costing 1400 Euros - also a tough call with Chromebooks and similar devices clocking in at less than a third of that price. The new black Macbook is neat and all that, but 1400€ is steep, especially with the netbook era behind us and regular laptops dropping well below 1000€ in price.
If I were to buy a new computer today, I'd very much consider an alternative to Apple, simply because they're to costly these days and have to little of the traits that make them usefully special. So no, their phones don't excite me the least. Quite to the contrary. Though I do like using OS X and am typing this on a pimped out refurbished 27" iMac. Very nice.
There is another interesting and potentially very important observation: People with ASD appear to have a gut flora that differs significantly from the average population.
Bingo!
This! A thousand times this!
Nutrition is the most overlooked factor in the wider ADHD / Autism spectrum. I'm a sugar addict and would subscribe a lot of my solopsistic behaviour that might be classified as sort-of "aspergerish" or adhd to diet. Whenever I make an effort to eat healthy the difference is very notable. I'm more awake, more aware, my mood is better and I'm way better at social interaction.
Excercise is another big factor, as is - for heterosexual men - interaction with women. It's a proven scientific fact that social interaction with women improves mens mental health across the board, autism or not.... I'm basically addicted to Tango for that exact reason - one of the rare opportunities where interaction of the sexes is still formalised, similar to ye 'olde days. Testosterone goes up, cortisol and other stress-hormones go down. Again, that's scientifically proven. Mood and mental well-being improves measurably. If you're a nerd or geek like me and suffer from the usual social interaction problems, especially with the other gender, you should try it.
Mac OS X is better to develop on. Given, they have burned a lot of karma with us opinionleaders and if a new box/laptop was due, I'd be hard pressed to check out some linux option. But the new Macbook would still be attractive.
The reasons are obvious: Low-level developing on linux is a freakin' mess. Trying to get a simple programm to compile without any hassles was my biggest disappointment in recent years. Maybe the kernel toolchain works fine for those grand-master C wizzards using some cli-centric setup and their deep knowlege of Linux' internal workings, but the simple task of getting a native linux IDE to compile some simple code without crashing or fussing about with bizar behaviour still is a major challange. The only environment that ever actually worked out of the box with me has been MonoDevelop.... Sad.
Mac OTOH *still* is buy, turn on, works. Yes, you have to jump though a hoop and register with ADC to download Xcode, but as soon as it is installed it works - plain and simple.
The only area where I see potential for Linux as a professional deverlopment plattform is the web. All important browsers work on Linux and the server stack is home turf. But also in this park Mac comes out ahead, with webdevs on OS X actually taking care of web dev and not coming up with a new wizzbang server framework or something.
The web toolchain on Linux is feasible, but still better yet on OS X, with a slew of professional tools that work very well, are notably cheap, don't look or handle like shit and don't fuss around because they need some 32bit version of some obscure lib downloaded off some offbeat apt-source to run without fussing about.
At the same time I've got homebrew, npm, iterm and all the foss goodies at my fingertips, just as I would on Linux, if not better. The OS X Foss camp is prolofic, cause as they don't have to deal with a glitchy foundation, they actually can get stuff done.
As much as I love Linux, it still is a tinkerbox compared to Mac, that is just as much a unix and comes with quite a few FOSS goodies on its own.
We'll see how this plays out in the future, but for now I understand the decline of Linux in this department.
Service by humans won't go away. Eating out is often about the social experience. That aside, if it's about the quick chow and I bring my buddies along I don't really care to much if it's made by a robot - if it is good enough.
Then again, I doubt a robot or any fast-food chain can beat the turkish family-run falafel and kebab shop around the corner when it comes to speed, tastyness, nourishment and food-for-euro.
Do they expect me to type in my special whishes with that food-bot? With the kebab guy I just yell it over the counter and the 20 other people standing in line. And I can watch him preparing it right in front of me on a bright lit counter. Don't see a robot beating that. Not any time soon that's for sure.
The key issue with public transport is frequency, not speed. When I'm sitting on the bus, I don't want the driver to stop and go at breakneck pace - especially if I'm trying to drink my take-away latte or get some code done on my laptop. Or, perhaps even both at the same time. You have your head free and are not in racecar mode, that's a killer cirteria of PT.
Frequency is the actual issue with busses and other PT. It goes a long way that busses and taxis here in Germany often have their own lanes, but double the frequency and you'll reach a tipping point for PT. The streets here in Europe are clogged and cluttered to a max, stuffed with cars parking 97% of their lifetime. It's insane. Car love is basically modern days mass psychosis.
I hope that all changes when the self-driving cars come. That's actually the exact issue Sundar Pichai and the Google Car crew are aiming at. Once we have robots driving busses, we can have them go more often and needn't train and pay busdrivers. I really hope to see that day soon.
A few years back I came to the simple conclusion that this is basically the rebirth of online services at a new level. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon (to an extent) - they're all just bascially ye olde mid-90ies Compuserve or T-Online. We've come full circle, with the net-neutrality debate and all that. So far that I've even considered dropping out as a web professional alltogether.
Once the meta-level is up to speed and the geeks and nerds start using namecoin for DNS and some avantgarde mesh networking it will be another cicle of 20-30 years before it all evens out agian.
I say whatever. We'll live. First world luxury problems.
Not only does that guy put in way more than 4 hours a week...
Yes. That's what he likes to do. He couldn't do that if he'd still doing 80+hrs/week running a sports nutrition company. And like I said, if you don't like the book, get the original, Seneca.
Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does.
Wrong. Beyond 'minimum' needs like food, shelter, health, security, and perhaps some good sex thrown in, income basically is disposable. What humans need beyond that is to feel loved, competent and a sense of enthusiasm for what they strive for. Which all has nothing to do with 'physical' wealth. Money in those latter areas is nothing but a shallow substitute, and mostly a bad one at that. That's why most people are quite unhappy with their lives, even though they're doing well by any outward metric. Depression is the first world disease that comes with that.
By any historic measure we live in times of infinite abundance. 80%+ of work done in first world societies are bullshit jobs and superfluos work. Most of which can be done by robots, better planing or, most of the time, simply left out all together.
I work part time for more spare-time, and while I sometimes moan that because of my compareatively lower income I have the feeling I am - to most women of my social herachy - not suitable for long-term relationship because of that (especially with the values our society to wrongly pursues), I repeatedly run into situations that can only be described as plain an utter envy over my freedom compared to my peers. By men and women alike. I'm only suitably as a dance partner and a lover to most.... A situation I will probably have to learn to live with.... And, yes, I'm going to cry you a river now.:-)
Conclusion: You Sir need to get yourself a copy of the 4 Hour Workweek. Or, better yet, the original: Senecas Letters from a Stoic., read it and get a life (Hint: It is *not* about dependant income-work.) Stoicism: The optimised wester variant of zen-buddhism as you might call it. Get with the programm and start enjoying you life like never before. Welcome to the club.
Vulcanising and HTTP2 Push are the way to go. Allthough I do wonder if this method then still has a chance of improving a sites performance. Personally I'd say well and automatically curated HTTP2 Push and automated minifying and compression are probably the best method overall. I do doubt that this method could improve much more if that were in place.
But I could be wrong.
Does anyone have experience with http-push and perhaps some insights to offer? Please comment below. Thanks.
You're right. In a way. The field of Web is moving fast and I'm doing the work a few more people were doing 10 years ago.
Then again mobile, Plattform fragmentation, the loss of Flash and pushing the envelope of what can be done keeps things interesting. Also I'm more often interacting with customers directly. And good design (Software and UX) is as hard as ever. No robot can replace a cutie doing PS and talking to the customer - not in the foreseeable future that is. And that will stay that way, because it's always about people who don't know what they want until you show it to them.
But true, programming has become more lego-like, sticking together pieces of FOSS that I never feasibly could build better on my own.
But if you think that's limited to Web and not to everything in IT, you're being very naive. Just look what virtualisation is doing in terms of ooomphing the admin-field, for instance.
The problem is, that there are papers around that make the sokal affair essay sound sane - and they're meant as a serious contribution to science. I've seen the bizarest of bullshit being taught in schools, with sociology leading the pack in the bullshit bingo camp, closely followed by just about anything that people in agencies do.
There are scientific articles out there that make less sense and are dumber than anything you can find on reality TV. And I'm not exaggerating.
This move *does* raise an eyebrow with me..Net FOSS? Naturally. SQL Server for Linux? Whatever.... But this *is* surprising. They've got a very good IDE with visual studio, it is very surprising that they team up with Eclipse.
Perhaps it is to get closer to the Java camp? After all, that's where all the big corporate money is - Java Appservers and such.
These days basically everyone in the gaming industry agrees that the world would be a better place if Konami finally dies in a fire.
#Fuckonami, started by Jim Sterling (Think Moviebob, but for Games) has gotten trendendous pickup right up to the audience having a solid reason to Boo! Konami at the Game Awards - they legally prevented from Hideo Kojima from recieving his own award (No joke!).
The borderline insane bullshit Konami has done in recent years is bedazzling and let's even non-industry observers wonder why a company is so hell bent on destroying its reputation and ip. Hideo Kojima has since moved on and Konami is shunned as the semi-dangerous nutbag bum in gaming town by just about anybody.
Bottom line: If you want to mod a commercial game, steer clear of Konami.
And, yeah, like the world has been waiting for that.
I'm genuinely surprised that Software is still around. With Firebird, Postgres, MySQL, a freely available DB2 & Oracle running on Linux since something like 15 years ago MS is beyond late - just as it was with fossing.Net....
Seriously, the last time I ever heard of MS SQL Server was back in 2002 or something - and that was in the context of discussing with which DB we were going to replace it.
Somewhere down the line Big Fruit is going to release their own VR thingie and show everyone how it's done. Existing VR execs are going to mock it as a toy while Apple goes ahead to redefine a market and make margins of 20% while doing so.
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Captain Obvious strikes again!
The only working type of nuclear power we have is fission, and that's a mess. In more ways than one. It's only doable with heavy subvention by taxpayers, completely ignoring the waste problem and not factoring in real insurance policies for disasters. On top of that it turns out reactors aren't running nearly as long and cheap and frictionless as people have dreamed back in the 60ies and 70ies. All that turns fission into an expensive and dangerous 70ies techno-romantic pipe-dream.
There's a reason Germany is moving away from it - and we've got some of the best reactor-tech on the planet.
I do support research for nuclear power like jet and iter and perhaps that travelling wave stuff Bill Getes is investing in, but fission as we have it today needs to be decommissioned. Now and globally. The numbers just don't add up. That's a simple hard fact.
She needed quality daddy time and once she had that, she turned back into my little girl again.
All kids need quality time. If you have one (or more) you build your life and your career around that fact. Once they're grown up, it will the their problem to find, make and keep good friends, but skip on the very basics of TLC in the first 7 years and respect and support during their teens and you've opened up a life of pain for human you brought into the world. I short changed career decisions and similar things for my daughter and while I'm about to start catching up (she's 18) I don't regret anything I put back.
That's why I host all my dependencies myself, per project and on all my projects.
Special font? Self-hosted.
jQuery? Self-hosted.
CSS Toolkit? Self-hosted.
Massive monster webapp lib (like Googles Polymer)? Download, adjust URLs, move to project subdir, host yourself.
Some other lib? Downloaded, stashed and hosted in the project too.
Dependencies are fine, but should always have them under your control.
I'd do the same with binary code.
This is, btw., one of the big problems with many Linux programms.
Installed Babel. Strange Error messages and babel borked and unusable. Same problem popping up all over the interweb.
Sad. Wanted to start with classes in JS. :-(
Does anyone know when this gets fixed and what the plan is?
AND spreading falsehoods about genocide-advocating
Wrong.
Sorry, pal. It's there. In those books. It is right in there, in the books that these people (you?) claim to be "Gods word":
Kill the others, burn witches, sell your daughters as sex-slaves, sacrifice your kid when the voices in your head tell you (or, by extension, some priest). Kill the unbelievers. And so on.
It is all there. Denying what is blatantly obvious shows that you are in pathological denial, as are countless other "moderate" believers.
It's a simple fact: People of faith are, in the sense of the word and actually, people who are willing to believe something without evidence or even - as I've just proven - with complete and total evidence to the contrary.
Take your bronce-age myths and cults and go back to where they came from. Or do your thing in private. But stop posining our children with this crap and stop society and the brotherhood of man from moving on.
God didn't make man. Man made many gods. And as he is, they are ficle, dumb, flip-floppy and thow temper-tantrums every once in a while, killing innocent people and unbelievers in the crossfire between religious fanatic nutbags. History is very clear about this and any educated grown-up can see the truth. If you can't, I don't trust your judgement on this issue, sorry.
There is not one good thing a religious person can do that an unbeliever can't. ... Gential mutilation, sucide bombing, justifiaction of slavery, suppression of women, genocide, etc. pp. Christians, Muslims, the whole lot. Tribal psycho-cults out of control and in dire need of modern enlightenment.
Vis-a-vis there are countless evil things that only religious people can do. Especially the abrahamic revelation over thought crowd that I so harshly called out in my comment above.
And spare me with hitler and stalin. Given, they weren't abrahamic, but their crusades were deeply rooted in fascism born out of european christian faith, pagan blood and honor myths and russion orthodox religous zarism respectively. Same bullshit, different brand. Listen to Himmlers Posener Speeches if you want to get a taste of it.
And consider stepping away from any formalised religion or religious oranisation that claims to know it all. It makes you look silly at best. Just some friendly advice.
Monotheistic Theo-Fascist mass-murdering Psycho-Cults - I'm just so fed up of them.
Katholics, Protestants, Muslim, Jewish orthodox ... abrahamic book & revelation religions are all the same at variing points in history: Wacko genocide-advocating psycho-cults that have been around for too long. We've always done better whenever we've condemned them to their temples and curbed their power as much as possible.
Captain Obvious strikes again!
Old Kung Fu proverb.
Apple's hardware has become notably more expensive in comparsion in recent years. Their phones lead the pack with 300-400 Euros premium on top of the regular market price of non-Apple products. I'm currently using a new Moto G2 (you can still get them online) for 130 Euros - it's better than the iPhone 5s that goes for north of 500 Euros.
Same goes for computers. For almost a decade the Mac Mini was a steal, with any compareable PC costing 200-300 Euros more. Now there are quite a few micro-PCs out there and the cheapest mac mini costs 200 Euros more than the last one I bought back in 2007 (WTF??? was my reaction to that).
The only innovative poducts that hold up today are the iPad Pro with the pencil stylus - just now giving Wacom the weeby-jeebies and for good reasons too - and the new, very small and very neat Macbook. The former costs roughly 1000€ - a tough call for a basically non-turing-complete consumer device but never-the-less intriguing for professional artists - and the latter costing 1400 Euros - also a tough call with Chromebooks and similar devices clocking in at less than a third of that price. The new black Macbook is neat and all that, but 1400€ is steep, especially with the netbook era behind us and regular laptops dropping well below 1000€ in price.
If I were to buy a new computer today, I'd very much consider an alternative to Apple, simply because they're to costly these days and have to little of the traits that make them usefully special. So no, their phones don't excite me the least. Quite to the contrary. Though I do like using OS X and am typing this on a pimped out refurbished 27" iMac. Very nice.
My 2 cents.
There is another interesting and potentially very important observation: People with ASD appear to have a gut flora that differs significantly from the average population.
Bingo!
This! A thousand times this!
Nutrition is the most overlooked factor in the wider ADHD / Autism spectrum. I'm a sugar addict and would subscribe a lot of my solopsistic behaviour that might be classified as sort-of "aspergerish" or adhd to diet. Whenever I make an effort to eat healthy the difference is very notable. I'm more awake, more aware, my mood is better and I'm way better at social interaction.
Excercise is another big factor, as is - for heterosexual men - interaction with women. It's a proven scientific fact that social interaction with women improves mens mental health across the board, autism or not. ... I'm basically addicted to Tango for that exact reason - one of the rare opportunities where interaction of the sexes is still formalised, similar to ye 'olde days. Testosterone goes up, cortisol and other stress-hormones go down. Again, that's scientifically proven. Mood and mental well-being improves measurably. If you're a nerd or geek like me and suffer from the usual social interaction problems, especially with the other gender, you should try it.
Mac OS X is better to develop on. Given, they have burned a lot of karma with us opinionleaders and if a new box/laptop was due, I'd be hard pressed to check out some linux option. But the new Macbook would still be attractive.
The reasons are obvious: ... Sad.
Low-level developing on linux is a freakin' mess. Trying to get a simple programm to compile without any hassles was my biggest disappointment in recent years. Maybe the kernel toolchain works fine for those grand-master C wizzards using some cli-centric setup and their deep knowlege of Linux' internal workings, but the simple task of getting a native linux IDE to compile some simple code without crashing or fussing about with bizar behaviour still is a major challange. The only environment that ever actually worked out of the box with me has been MonoDevelop.
Mac OTOH *still* is buy, turn on, works. Yes, you have to jump though a hoop and register with ADC to download Xcode, but as soon as it is installed it works - plain and simple.
The only area where I see potential for Linux as a professional deverlopment plattform is the web. All important browsers work on Linux and the server stack is home turf. But also in this park Mac comes out ahead, with webdevs on OS X actually taking care of web dev and not coming up with a new wizzbang server framework or something.
The web toolchain on Linux is feasible, but still better yet on OS X, with a slew of professional tools that work very well, are notably cheap, don't look or handle like shit and don't fuss around because they need some 32bit version of some obscure lib downloaded off some offbeat apt-source to run without fussing about.
At the same time I've got homebrew, npm, iterm and all the foss goodies at my fingertips, just as I would on Linux, if not better. The OS X Foss camp is prolofic, cause as they don't have to deal with a glitchy foundation, they actually can get stuff done.
As much as I love Linux, it still is a tinkerbox compared to Mac, that is just as much a unix and comes with quite a few FOSS goodies on its own.
We'll see how this plays out in the future, but for now I understand the decline of Linux in this department.
Service by humans won't go away. Eating out is often about the social experience. That aside, if it's about the quick chow and I bring my buddies along I don't really care to much if it's made by a robot - if it is good enough.
Then again, I doubt a robot or any fast-food chain can beat the turkish family-run falafel and kebab shop around the corner when it comes to speed, tastyness, nourishment and food-for-euro.
Do they expect me to type in my special whishes with that food-bot?
With the kebab guy I just yell it over the counter and the 20 other people standing in line.
And I can watch him preparing it right in front of me on a bright lit counter.
Don't see a robot beating that. Not any time soon that's for sure.
Nonsense.
The key issue with public transport is frequency, not speed. When I'm sitting on the bus, I don't want the driver to stop and go at breakneck pace - especially if I'm trying to drink my take-away latte or get some code done on my laptop. Or, perhaps even both at the same time. You have your head free and are not in racecar mode, that's a killer cirteria of PT.
Frequency is the actual issue with busses and other PT. It goes a long way that busses and taxis here in Germany often have their own lanes, but double the frequency and you'll reach a tipping point for PT. The streets here in Europe are clogged and cluttered to a max, stuffed with cars parking 97% of their lifetime. It's insane. Car love is basically modern days mass psychosis.
I hope that all changes when the self-driving cars come. That's actually the exact issue Sundar Pichai and the Google Car crew are aiming at.
Once we have robots driving busses, we can have them go more often and needn't train and pay busdrivers. I really hope to see that day soon.
A few years back I came to the simple conclusion that this is basically the rebirth of online services at a new level. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon (to an extent) - they're all just bascially ye olde mid-90ies Compuserve or T-Online. We've come full circle, with the net-neutrality debate and all that.
So far that I've even considered dropping out as a web professional alltogether.
Once the meta-level is up to speed and the geeks and nerds start using namecoin for DNS and some avantgarde mesh networking it will be another cicle of 20-30 years before it all evens out agian.
I say whatever. We'll live.
First world luxury problems.
You may also know it by it's international Name "T-Mobile".
Not only does that guy put in way more than 4 hours a week...
Yes. That's what he likes to do. He couldn't do that if he'd still doing 80+hrs/week running a sports nutrition company.
And like I said, if you don't like the book, get the original, Seneca.
Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does.
Wrong. Beyond 'minimum' needs like food, shelter, health, security, and perhaps some good sex thrown in, income basically is disposable. What humans need beyond that is to feel loved, competent and a sense of enthusiasm for what they strive for. Which all has nothing to do with 'physical' wealth. Money in those latter areas is nothing but a shallow substitute, and mostly a bad one at that. That's why most people are quite unhappy with their lives, even though they're doing well by any outward metric. Depression is the first world disease that comes with that.
By any historic measure we live in times of infinite abundance. 80%+ of work done in first world societies are bullshit jobs and superfluos work. Most of which can be done by robots, better planing or, most of the time, simply left out all together.
I work part time for more spare-time, and while I sometimes moan that because of my compareatively lower income I have the feeling I am - to most women of my social herachy - not suitable for long-term relationship because of that (especially with the values our society to wrongly pursues), I repeatedly run into situations that can only be described as plain an utter envy over my freedom compared to my peers. By men and women alike. I'm only suitably as a dance partner and a lover to most. ... A situation I will probably have to learn to live with. ... And, yes, I'm going to cry you a river now. :-)
Conclusion:
You Sir need to get yourself a copy of the 4 Hour Workweek. Or, better yet, the original: Senecas Letters from a Stoic., read it and get a life (Hint: It is *not* about dependant income-work.) Stoicism: The optimised wester variant of zen-buddhism as you might call it. Get with the programm and start enjoying you life like never before. Welcome to the club.
Vulcanising and HTTP2 Push are the way to go.
Allthough I do wonder if this method then still has a chance of improving a sites performance.
Personally I'd say well and automatically curated HTTP2 Push and automated minifying and compression are probably the best method overall.
I do doubt that this method could improve much more if that were in place.
But I could be wrong.
Does anyone have experience with http-push and perhaps some insights to offer?
Please comment below. Thanks.
Senior Webdev here.
You're right. In a way. The field of Web is moving fast and I'm doing the work a few more people were doing 10 years ago.
Then again mobile, Plattform fragmentation, the loss of Flash and pushing the envelope of what can be done keeps things interesting. Also I'm more often interacting with customers directly. And good design (Software and UX) is as hard as ever. No robot can replace a cutie doing PS and talking to the customer - not in the foreseeable future that is. And that will stay that way, because it's always about people who don't know what they want until you show it to them.
But true, programming has become more lego-like, sticking together pieces of FOSS that I never feasibly could build better on my own.
But if you think that's limited to Web and not to everything in IT, you're being very naive. Just look what virtualisation is doing in terms of ooomphing the admin-field, for instance.
The problem is, that there are papers around that make the sokal affair essay sound sane - and they're meant as a serious contribution to science. I've seen the bizarest of bullshit being taught in schools, with sociology leading the pack in the bullshit bingo camp, closely followed by just about anything that people in agencies do.
There are scientific articles out there that make less sense and are dumber than anything you can find on reality TV. And I'm not exaggerating.
... and the sea is running red with blood.
This move *does* raise an eyebrow with me. .Net FOSS? Naturally. SQL Server for Linux? Whatever. ... But this *is* surprising. They've got a very good IDE with visual studio, it is very surprising that they team up with Eclipse.
Perhaps it is to get closer to the Java camp? After all, that's where all the big corporate money is - Java Appservers and such.
These days basically everyone in the gaming industry agrees that the world would be a better place if Konami finally dies in a fire.
#Fuckonami, started by Jim Sterling (Think Moviebob, but for Games) has gotten trendendous pickup right up to the audience having a solid reason to Boo! Konami at the Game Awards - they legally prevented from Hideo Kojima from recieving his own award (No joke!).
The borderline insane bullshit Konami has done in recent years is bedazzling and let's even non-industry observers wonder why a company is so hell bent on destroying its reputation and ip. Hideo Kojima has since moved on and Konami is shunned as the semi-dangerous nutbag bum in gaming town by just about anybody.
Bottom line:
If you want to mod a commercial game, steer clear of Konami.
And, yeah, like the world has been waiting for that.
I'm genuinely surprised that Software is still around. With Firebird, Postgres, MySQL, a freely available DB2 & Oracle running on Linux since something like 15 years ago MS is beyond late - just as it was with fossing .Net. ...
Seriously, the last time I ever heard of MS SQL Server was back in 2002 or something - and that was in the context of discussing with which DB we were going to replace it.
Somewhere down the line Big Fruit is going to release their own VR thingie and show everyone how it's done. Existing VR execs are going to mock it as a toy while Apple goes ahead to redefine a market and make margins of 20% while doing so.