Why are you afraid of the truth
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"Smartphones" are only "smart" compared to what came before. Which to the youth is irrelevant, because before their day. To them a phone and a smartphone are the same thing. All your comment does is to let everyone know you are old enough to remember phones which weren't smart. Not sure what it adds to the conversation
The article is obviously about smartphones and social media
Yeah, welcome to the real world. We _all_ have to handle requirements like that, except maybe when we build our portfolio site
Kind of what is going on with Node / Deno... and like the chap who quit the Angular 2 team to start Aurelia hoped would happen to him (sorry buddy!). My guess is that he'll find out that there is more to a framework than rockstar developers. Like Facebook backing, or like UX designers being in love with your library because it reflects their approach to problem solving. Like CRA, hot module reloading and all that jazz. These are all things that put React where it is today
I mean, that's the whole point of hooks... they get the context of whatever host function scope they are in. That's why the 'reusable logic' spiel. So if you create a useLocalStorage hook, for example, you can then plug it into any function component and it will use. It's as if each function was an invisible class, with an invisible this.state
Firstly, the benefits they offer have often little to do with the architecture itself, but with the bigger picture (separating teams, CIs, allowing different stacks, managing costs, scaling, etc).
Secondly, unlike microkernels, not all microservices have to talk to every single other microservice. If you have a service to send emails, say, there'll be a few services that interact with it, but the majority won't. The same for an image resizing service.
So what you say doesn't necessarily hold
With FB, you simply go on it when you feel like / have the time.
I don't like the "always on" part of WhatsApp and the like. I like FB because I can go on when I fell like. Who are you to tell me what I should use?
Also, it all depends on how you use it. I subscribe to a lot of food based groups and art events groups, and share next to nothing about what I do. OK, some AI can infer that if I like Lebanese AND Mexican I am probably left leaning. OK, now what? What are they going to do with that info?
I use it to keep in touch with far away or unimportant people. Second degree aunts, ex schoolmates, etc. Without FB it's a nightmare keeping in touch the few times I want to (people change email addresses all the time). Also, many groups are useful
Basically smartphones are there to destroy all the gains in privacy and security made on desktop browsers (such as they are)
OP used "code is punk" as a metaphor for "just do it without getting bogged down by theory".
I have changed his metaphor to "code is jazz" to express that he's wrong, you DO need to learn a lot of the theory.
I am not quite sure how what you are saying comes into this.
Although I understand the spirit behind this, code is most certainly NOT punk. That's what the JS / PHP / Flash script kiddies from the early 00s wrote. Or rather, it shouldn't be punk if you want to build something that is reusable, maintanable, and solid.
The sad reality is that code is jazz - you can get started with Autumn Leaves or the blues, but if you want to go far you better be prepared to learn tons of theory.
But I agree, you don't necessarily need to do it upfront.