Yep, the new meta frameworks add dev friendliness but does nothing to up the user experience in relation to speed and consistency.
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Yup, similar problem with "Debt" by David Graeber, it's eloquent and well argued up until the point where he gradually slips into blaming just about all thinkable ills on money and harkens back to a more 'fair' past where people from different tribes simply killed and raped each other instead of selling one another off as slaves [sic].
This is to an odd degree very right, it also forced leaders in nearby countries to take their social responsibilities seriously which lead to the Scandinavian brand of Social Democracy (which is now eroding away due to the lack of any perceived 'real' solution on the left).
Yes, it is all over the place:
1) "Why smart people are better off with fewer friends"
2) "The higher the population density of the immediate environment, the less happy" - for everyone that is.
3) "[...] one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed."
4) "The effect of population density on life satisfaction was [...] twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals,"
COMMENT - So, trusting the writing, presumably low-IQ individuals are more happy in a small town where fewer people are around to socialize with and more unhappy in a big city where more people are around to socialize with.
5) "more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently."
COMMENT - So they have that in common with low-IQ people? This claim contrast oddly with 4) and also the graph pointing out that this is a population wide trend..
6) "If you're smarter and more able to adapt to things, you may have an easier time reconciling your evolutionary predispositions with the modern world. So living in a high-population area may have a smaller effect on your overall well-being"
COMMENT - Then the whole article could be summon up into something a bit shorter basically, smarter people have a relatively easier time than less smart people, no matter whether they are in a small town or a big city. I feel the reason for the sense of oddness stems primarily from point 4 which remains unexplored/explained and stands out against some but not all of the other claims made.
On second thought this kind of thing is already done around the torrent sub-culture with regards to seed boxes..
What is happening at the moment is that IMMENSE quantities of skill development and time is continually flushed away everytime Google/Microsoft/Take-your-pick-software-company decides to retire or dramatically rewrite an app. The situation is even wilder in the closed gardens (Android/IOS) and cloud/web-only where perfectly fine software disappears overnight and then.. that's it. Wake up, we're throwing our mental resources down the drain on a completely unprecedented scale because no systemic solution to this issue exists!!
It is simple Machiavellian protectionism applied at rapid pace. Back in the day it was done within the purposely obscure UNIX environment (not just anyone can be sysadmin!) and now its being re-applied to web environment.
Those others do not include Apple as anyone who's been indefinitely waiting for "installing" OSX updates can confirm - and the OSX fixes needed have the same weird incantation like qualities as the fixes for Windows updates (i.e. remove update, then restart, then run again, then panic, redo-sequence). No particular hate meant for Apple or MS.. but seriously, learn how to write a basic update mechanism that do not include random-fail-over.