MrLeftHand

Good title! :-)

I know how it feels. My longest function which I had to work with was around 1000. And on top of that the author and all the others who had to work on it left useless comments how bad the code is etc...

Well no shit Sherlock! Then why didn't you fixed it instead of leaving shit messages for future use?

Welcome to the REAL world of software development!

When will it change? Never?!

Sadly yes. I should have known better.

Oh well, hope never dies.

'so sad' as in, it makes you sad how I think of these things, or 'so sad' because you agree in some extent? Anyway, I think it's sad as well.

The best example is to describe how our world works is where a job advert tells you to have X amount of experience with Y technology. You have Z skills, which is close to Y, but the only way to get the experience in Y is to get that, or similar jobs. But the company won't hire you, because you don't have Y. Even if you go and get Y in your spare time, that won't cut it because they want 'commercial' experience not home learning. Welcome to IT kids, where you have to be 2X years old, with 30 years of experience (commercial) and 3 degrees and Agile and 20 programming languages and...

I wanted to have a good Agile experience so bad, that in every job I had, I fell flat on my face. And when I wanted them to change some things. I fell flat on my face.

When I asked the 50 years old 'Senior Developer' why don't we use the Adapter Pattern, the response was a question. 'What's that?'

When I wanted them to change from ant to maven? Sorry we don't have the time right now.

Most of my friends who are developers as well are thinking to start their on business, or go into management, because they had enough. And all of them I would count as senior regarding their knowledge and experience.

I can only talk from my experience. I am sure there are places, which are like nirvana for developers, but I haven't come across one yet.

By calling it "fancy unicorn stuff" I mean, it is really hard to come by in real life. Because generally people avoid it and when they don't, they usually use it in a completely wrong way. I saw a Singleton pattern which made me carve my eyes out. And that came from a guy, who was a Senior Developer. And most of the times being a developer is about working with legacy code and trying to fix loads of problems, which wont be fixed in the end because there is not enough time, money and energy and so on and so on and... This makes loads of experienced people move in to management, or creating their own business, because they had enough of the trench work. That's why you won't see talented people on the market. Because they know...

Oh and no, I'm not from that school. But having tests doesn't mean the tests are any good. You can have loads of methodologies, patterns, principles. If you can't tell when to use a Factory Pattern, or how to implement SOLID, then it doesn't matter how much you like, or want them.

Maybe because Agile is not what it should be. Managers love it Devs hate it. And every place I worked in, no one could do it right. It's not helping at all. It helps the manager to have more tools at his disposal to annoy the team, but it doesn't help the common folk. Also I'm tired to see people referring to seniors as old guys who worked as Devs for XX amount of years. Most of these people are stuck in a loop and know nothing about the new technologies and the younger generation has to teach them in the end. Also most of the senior Devs will move up in to manager positions and won't look back. None of my workplaces knew anything about SOLID principles, Design Patterns and all that fancy unicorn stuff because it looks lovely on paper but in the end it slows development down, so people avoid it. Most of the development work is done like we were monkeys with typewriters. But this is only my opinion. Take it with a pinch of salt.

Blending in is only a question of having the app icon next to similar ones in colour and design. Also it could make it harder to find. I think the best practice is to make your icon stand out and not blend in. Which might be a bit interesting for an app about anonymity. :)

Try 4.1 mask with the rectangle base.

I like 1.1, 4.1 and 4.2.

Also I might lose the gradient from the X.2 versions.

As all our stuff is held in the cloud - which I dislike very much - less and less stuff we want to connect to our machine. A few years back it was so annoying when they started to get rid of optical drives, but now nobody misses it. Soon we wont give a rats ass about USB as well. Especially on laptops, because on a desktop you will still need it for a few peripherals. But on a laptop where everything is built in...

My opinion is, that magsafe was awesome. I hate having everything in the cloud.

And yes, these guys will do whatever they want. Because 98% of their customer base don't give a damn and even if they do, they will still buy it, because of brand loyalty and other reasons.

a) the more we venture further into the unknown the more cautious we can get, and we should get. Even, if you say, that's not the way it is. It might be better. Not saying it IS better, but might be...

b) I just proven my point. Humans are ignorant bastards. You can't deny the fact that this will create massive problems in society.

c) Yeah, but during that time, wars will erupt and kill millions who already could have been saved. Lose money, lose the greed out of humanity and everything bad. Then we can talk about free immortality for everyone.

d) We are soooo far away from proper interstellar travel with technology, that putting a handful of people in a tube and sending them far away while the rest of us dies here whilst they're travelling. I still think we will find answers regarding how fast can we travel. What about huge colonisation ships, on which people can live for generations? The great filters are mostly speculations. Some stuff we look back on and go, 'Hey that was a filter. Thank god we survived it!'. And there are always more answers for one problem. Oh and you forget there might be another issue. Living in space during the venture. That is hard for the human body, even if you live forever. So unless you change into robot, which is not as good, because solar winds, radiation, etc... What if we let humans evolve into space life?

e) Maybe, maybe not...

f) That is silly again. Over the years much has changed in our body. Just go and have a look at old castles, houses in Europe. A few hundreds of years ago the people were much shorter. Our body structure changes and adapts, but so does everything else in us. We are still evolving as we speak. Maybe the environment for the dinos was a bit harsh. Humans couldn't have evolved in that. Not to mention live. That's why being a dino was they way to go. A lot of people agree that it is a freak accident, that we have such a calm few thousand years without any huge issues in climate and vegetation. Now it is better, because we can shape our surrounding. Of course this spirals down into us killing everything that moves and has meat, fur, tusks, whatever... Mother nature is not stupid, there was a reason why the dinos couldn't evolve but still they were the dominant species. And it would be foolish to say they didn't. Not every dino lived in the same prehistoric age at once. They evolved from each other. Only an alternative history would know what would have happened, if dinos remain here.

g) Ok, than why do we have organisms which live basically forever and we're not one of them? And why aren't these immortal creatures not the true rulers of Earth by now? I'm not a biologist, but I do see a relation here between the necessity of death and evolution. As we mix our DNA we create better and better offspring. Immortality kills the need for offspring.

This is not off-topic. It would have been off-topic for me to comment: ' Hey what about vanilla flavoured ice-cream? How the hell they do it!?'

Anyway I enjoy this argument. It wont hurt you get a bit out of your comfort zone. Sorry if I annoyed you in any way.

Oh and I would love to have a cyber-brain as they have it in the Ghost In The Shell world. If my body dies I could still transfer my brain into something else. Like a big robot or something, or just a jar. Maybe creating this kind of hybrid solution would be the answer. If we can continue with our current body to evolve, but have our brain picked out if we want to... Maybe that would help. And the human robot doesn't need fixing, it is good as it is and what it will evolve into. Stepping outside of it might be a better solution then fixing.

a)I understand it's a technical question. But as with every technical question, we have to ask what the changes will be on society.

b)Mortality gives way to other minds to step forward like Stephen Hawking and others. Would have been such a good thing to have an immortal Isaac Newton for a millennia? Would have he realised the the laws of physics outside of earth's standards. Could have an immortal Einstein refine his theories and change his mistakes and adapt to newer findings? Could have had a Stephen Hawking any chance to share his knowledge beside immortal Einsteins and Newtons?

c)It is a discussion about who deserves it. As for expensive treatments which aren't affordable by anyone in our society right now. We all now this. These treatments or solutions won't be free of charge. Only the rich will afford it. You know, money talks...

d)It's not only mortality that binds us to earth. It's our whole biological build up. Which fits only the life on earth. What about the warp drive, worm holes, etc... These aren't good enough for humanity to reach for the stars?

e)Also we don't have any clue about what effects it will have on the human body to live on another planet.

f)It is silly to say that evolution has stopped for the human race. We are biological creatures which can adapt to its surrounding as any other. But having immortality and not producing offsprings will actually lead to an evolutionary dead end. Having no genetic mutation will prevent the species to create natural immunity against diseases etc...

g)I only wanted to point out that maybe it is not the best thing to cheat death. It is natural. It's not a disease. Stop treating it like one.

As I said. As we are concerned about A.I., so should we concerned about this as well. Logic dictates to examine a possible solution from every angle as possible. Not to put ourselves and the whole humanity into a dead end.

It is good to have someone living as long as possible who actually wants to make the world a better place.

But, we all know who will be the ones actually benefiting from this.

The ones who don't give a rats ass about anything, only selfishly living longer just to make more money, have more power. Hoarders who are rather a disease for humanity then being useful.

In an ideal world it would be a fantastic thing. But we aren't living in one. We can try, but unless 90% of humanity stops acting like a maniac, it will divide humanity on another level.

We can't cope with the fact properly, if our neighbour has a bigger car then ours. Imagine how people would cope with the fact, that some of us can live for hundreds of years.

Immortality is a nice thing, but not until the minds are cleared, poverty, hunger, closed mindedness, are banished and humanity as a whole can act and decide without having constant internal struggles.

Just look at the idiots who are against vaccinations, religious nut-jobs, greedy, selfish, maniac, egocentric, etc...

All the beautiful traits of humanity. Do you want to give those power to live long, or maybe forever?

Would you prevent new generation to blossom and create something new, by selfishly clinging to life and not letting go to give way for the change? It is a common thing that the older you are, the less you can change, or keep up with trends. And this is not only about are ageing bodies. We might have the risk to stop evolving. To stop innovating, exploring, etc...

I advise to you to read "2br02b" from Kurt Vonnegut. A short story about our society perfecting immortality. It is very interesting.

And to answer your question. I would probably choose 'A', even if I fear that it will have a very negative impact on humanity.

It's not about giving up.

It is about looking at mortality as some kind of disease and not a common thing that happens to all living beings.

As a human, I am afraid of death as the most of us. I like to toy with the idea living forever, or at least hundreds of years...

But looking at our society now. As the average lifespan getting higher, more people stay in jobs longer as usual. The young wont have any jobs, because their parent will stay in the positions. In the end the old would have to sustain the young and soon after that, no one would want to have a child, because who needs another hungry mouth.

Of course as the 1st world country citizens will afford living a longer life, 2nd and 3rd ones wont. This will create a massive gap between nations. Like we didn't have that already.

And we don't know how the human mind could handle this anyway. Maybe you would go actually mad after 200 years of living.

And as I said. The extra years always add up to the end. Maybe you live 200 years, but 2/3 of that is spent being old and useless.

As highly appreciated and acknowledged people warn us about the ramifications of A.I., so we should be extremely cautious about banning death.

To be honest I would be less afraid of A.I. as the consequences of immortality.

May I ask why we need to battle mortality? People tend to forget our body's limitations and that all the extra years add to the end, not in the middle. Not to mention the implications it might have on reproduction. People wont want to have children and slowly our numbers will decline. Also this will bring up an issue depriving ourself's of new Isaac Newtons, Einsteins and all the other bright mind and great people who would have been born and now they aren't. We always forget that strength lies in diversity. And lastly, do we really want to give immortality to people who do not contribute anything to our society? How do we determine who is worth the while to live for hundreds of years? And how will we convince the other parts of society that this is beneficial for all of us? Too many questions on a human level which are ignored, or it looks like they are ignored...

Instead of spending all our time in the shadow of mortality why not we just step out in the light and enjoy life in its brief moment and make the most of it?

Don't get me wrong, I would like to live forever, but it might have greater risks for mankind then the benefits it holds.

I don't think it's a problem having a lot of interesting stories, even if they aren't related to hacking.

For example I don't care about web development and Javascript, but you can see a huge amount of those sometimes.

Hacking is not just about coding and IT. You can hack basically all aspects of life. Coming across a topic that makes you think how to address and resolve an issue can be a hack as well.

I love this site because it's not biassed and covers a lot of things.

And lastly, look at the 'Guidelines' for regulations.

We all feel this most of the times.

I left my last company after a year, right after I managed to push one of my brain child through. It was a bit awkward because of that. But they recovered and so did I.

I wouldn't worry that much. I'm a Java Developer from Hungary with 4 years experience behind my back when I came here to the UK last year. My first job was with 22K and over a year I almost doubled my salary. The problem is with web development, that most of the developers come from a home learning background with almost zero commercial experience and nothing to show up. This is funny, because some fields need a portfolio or something, like Android development, where the candidate has to have successful apps on the Play Store. ( But who want's to work at a company if you have a selling app which makes you enough money) These things can water down the industry a bit. And don't forget, that as the candidate so does the company likes to lie a bit. They wan't more and more skills and we usually say more that we actually know. I would say, if you're confident enough with your skills and you can sell yourself, then always go for the highest offer. They very well know they won't get anyone decent with that low of a wage. But they like to try. And after a year or so, go and look for a new job. With one or two years commercial experience and something to show, you will get a lot better positions offered.