If something is cheap in terms of the price you pay for it, you're going to pay by something else. Be it poor quality components, information collection or unethical manufacturing processes. Yes, of course I am generalizing. There are good cheap(er) products and bad expensive ones.
This, minus the kids. As much as I hate vaccuuming I'd love to have a roomba, but the hassle of roomba proofing the house is way too great. I live in a rather farmlike environment so the dirt in my house can range from the tiniest dust particles to anything the cats will drag inside. I would not like to have the roomba smearing around parts of a dead bird all over, I also have rather high doorsteps and I don't feel like having those roomba ramps all over my house. So at the moment, the obstacles of having a roomba are much greater than just wipping out the good old vaccuum cleaner and use 45 minutes of that day to clean on my own.
I've never worked with AMP but reading about it I'm glad I haven't. For me personally, I think the biggest issue with AMP is "The project enables the creation of websites and ADS that are consistently fast ..." (taken from https://www.ampproject.org/, capitalization by me). Yeah it's a google project, but really, do they honestly believe that internet is for ads? I might be living in a bubble, but I've never heard anyone speak fondly of ads. I worked for a media company for years which had ads on their news sites and no one liked them. They were more of a necessary evil needed to bring in some money, if we could have survived on subscriptions alone we would never have had ads on our sites. Also, I think the amount of ad blockers in use speak for itself.
I'm not a parent, but if life has taught me anything is that time invested now is time saved in the future. Also, it's not only children who mess up a learning process. Anyone who's learning will make mistakes and probably break things. I'll never forget when my brother, being in his late teens, broke the food processor trying to prepare macaroni.
I think it's funny that now when Apple happened to make a truly awful keyboard, basically everyone is raging. But PC makers has been building terrible keyboards for years and no one seems to give a damn. Or is everyone just assuming that keyboards are supposed to be that way on PCs? Also, this problem goes beyond laptops, most "affordable" keyboards that I've tried has been horrible as well. I'm typing at the moment at some standard logitech keyboard my fingers cry for every key I press. It's got a cheap feeling to it, the force it takes to press beyond the "bump" is way too great and the keycaps wobble. The only thing I like about it is the profile which is rather low.
I've always felt like, in situations where I earn less than the people I'm talking to, that I'm earning less than them simply because I'm not worth to earn more. This feeling occurs especially when talking to people within my own field, software development, but regardless of how much experience I have versus them. And maybe that's the truth, sure someone with 30 years of experience might be better at their job than someone with 5 years of experience, but the also might not. Just because you've been doing something all your life doesn't automatically mean you've done it right.
Yeah, I should have been more clear in my previous comment about that. But I just think it's strange logic. Like, no one is using 'Android' referring to any smartphone, or 'Toyota' when talking about cars, just because they have the largest shares within their fields.
This. I am more of a "work really intensly for X days until I'm exhausted and never want to see a computer again, then rest for a couple of days while I regain my productivness" person. Also, I've found that if I get up in the morning and do something else other than work before lunch, only to start working in the afternoon, is where I'm at my best in terms of being productive. It's strange that we still operate by these industrialistic workhours, when people clearly are performing at their best at different hours.
Nice! I've been looking for something like this for ages. If I could make a wish, I'd love to see some sort of interactive stuff, or at least visualisations of for example username/password -> cookie exchange. To make it easier to digest. Not everyone prefer to learn by reading :)
I don't know about Facebook and Instagram being the main "culprits", but rather the fact that it's so much easier to travel today, than it was before. And I'm talking about everything from price to accessibility. You just grab your phone, order a ticket, book a room somewhere, pay up and wait for the departure date to come. Sure, social media helps promoting places and creates an urge to show that you also travel to these ultra amazing locations. But if it was more difficult to travel, people wouldn't be touristing as much either. As I see it, it's a two way relationship where both ends fuel the other.
Excuse my portion of scepticism, it's not the fact that a "12 year old" built this, sure anyone can learn how to code and we can't know how much help this person got along the way. But it's rather the person's language when writing plain text, here in the comments for example. It doesn't feel adolescent but more grownup to me ... But maybe it's just me realising my own shortcommings as a 12 year old, as I only was playing with my friends and the odd computer and video game.
I can't read the article as I'm getting a security warning. But I've always felt really awkward using an IDE like VS or Eclipse. Even as a beginner when I had no experience of using anything else I thought it was a bit, uncomfortable pointing and clicking and having numerous menu options in my face all the time. So when I got introduced to Emacs by a former colleague I started out with a great amount of scepticism, I mean why should Emacs be so great when nothing else I had tried up until that point hadn't. (I went through VS, Eclipse, Sublime, Atom and 15 minutes of Spacemacs in advance). And at first I wasn't impressed, the concept of doing 99.9% of everything using only the keyboard was completely foreign to me. But the more I got used to it, and all basic key bindings, the more I grew to love Emacs. Today, some three years later I can't even imagine myself developing using something else. I know one can set up other IDEs to get basically the same functionality. But yeah, Emacs comes with the functionality built in so why should I go through all the hassle of setting up the key bindings in VS?
I'd like to compare the situation to the record industry, where artists usually get something around a measly 10% of the income generated by record sales. Artists are busting their asses of while the record companies are cashing in like never before. And yes, there are some artists that make more money than others, but they still only get a percentage of what their fans really pay them. I understand that they, being record companies or Google Play/App Store, need and rightfully should demand a fee for helping their content providers with a platform for their product. But at the same time, without the content providers, they would be nothing. The music industry has already seen the rise of various indie labels, artists starting their own record companies and such. And although I realize the difficulty in doing something equivalent within the mobile app industry, Google or Apple are already saying that you as a user should only download apps from approved and reliable sources, i.e. Google Play and App Store, I think we will see some sort of similar development. Perhaps companies will start providing app downloads on their own, create their own app store platform etc. Especially since the companies themselves get so little out of making their apps available on Google Play and App Store. They still need to market their apps for example.