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notNowon Building a product in the technical recruiting space? Read this first

I stopped reading at "I stopped reading at ..."

Honestly I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes thinking about it.

This sentence reminds me of the First-world problems lady meme, nothing to see here boys.

Your admission of being a transhumanist and social darwininst should dissipate any fears I have after reading your comment. The good thing you are not one of those Gaia nutjobs still better than nothing.

notNowon A world without work

Unfortunately, work esp in these current adverse conditions prepares people and teaches them invaluable survival skills that a vision of world without work could produce as an unintended consequence good-for-nothing slobs like in "Idiocracy" where they can't find their butt with both hands.

We need to teach people survival skills without working them to death.

notNowon A world without work

Are you a eugenicist and human depopulation advocate?

notNowon Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development

Reducing LOC is not always necessarily a good thing. I'd always favor a more readable codebase that takes some effort to explain its purpose than terse one that is vague and obscure that makes your head spin trying to figure out its raison d'etre

notNowon Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development

Here comes the Erlang/FP crusader ...

notNowon Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development

language?

notNowon SSD Prices in a Free Fall

Time to join the ranks of his FDD and CD-ROM buddies

notNowon Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial

Well there's a pecking order within musicians. Taylor Swift apparently is not treated like any other artist (America's sweetheart) out there and she must be appeased, and handled with extreme care and affection, and all her requests granted.

So, your analogy or comparison here unfortunately doesn't hold water.

notNowon Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial

Brilliant indeed albeit with one caveat, this news story gonna die off in matter of 72 hrs top unless Apple or one of its stooges pours more gas to the fire to sustain the action and publicity.

notNowon Visa Systems Issues

and IBM as well, true :)

notNowon Visa Systems Issues

What happened to "No one was fired for using Oracle or Microsoft" meme?

notNowon Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life

Hasn't the gamification and the application of Pavlovian behavior online gone already too far?

I mean this trend of employing FB notifications like Dopamine/Serotonin rewarding systems is getting out of hand and we need to address it properly.

notNowon How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer

How many books did this guy plug in his piece? I really lost count at 10 or so ...

notNowon ECMAScript 2015 Approved

I compile JS files to CoffeeScript now only for the readability boost when I need to understand the code very quickly without all those parentheses or brackets getting in my way.

notNowon Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership and Internal Structure

The "Great Purge" by Nadella to get rid of all of Balmer era old guards so Nadella & Co can reign supreme in Microsoft.

notNowon How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer

Why would a front-end system be more complex than its back-end counterpart?

It just doesn't make any sense.

notNowon ECMAScript 2015 Approved

It's underway already. Check out Kangax's amazing work here [0]

[0] ES6 COMPAT TABLE: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

notNowon U.S. Bans Trans Fat

"As for frying, palm oil is expected to be a go-to alternative"

That's like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, pun intended!

notNowon South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row

South Korea is taking the concept of Nanny State to a whole new level!

notNowon U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On?

Let me add to this amazing chain two important points

1) The FED is basically printing money out of thin air. 2) To close this open loop:

SF Landlords and Fancy Toast Restaurants -> IRS -> THE FED

notNowon UBlock Origin

Actually, if you paid for content or made a purchase driven by an ad, this makes you a "high value" lead for advertisers based on their estimation of your disposable income and therefore you are more likely to be targeted with more ads from them to make even more big-ticket purchases.

You can't really escape those pesky advertisers.

notNowon Tech Startups Woo Investors with Unconventional Financial Metrics

There's some truth to this though. As long as the population numbers are going up, real estate would eventually catch up with them

notNowon Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery

Actually semicolons are necessary. For example, try writing a rather simple script wrapped and stored in a Chrome bookmarklet without inserting semicolons and see your 100% working script crumbles under the weight of all those unexpected exceptions.

notNowon Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery

wrap elements in a node list

This is not correct. You may say that it wraps or outputs elements in a node list like object but it is not the real deal. If you examine the emitted jQuery objects using instanceof or any other method, you'd see that they are not related to NodeList in any way. They're just generic objects of Object type.

notNowon Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery

But I must say that I don't really like the list comprehensions syntax in JS.It leaves a lot to be desired.

notNowon How to Make Online Dating Work

Or Lennay Kekua for that matter

notNowon Berlin becomes first German city to make rent cap a reality

I'd like to add that the landlords would usually ask for more anyway and tenants would have to pay them "informally" i.e. under the table.

So, what the authorities did here in effect is just pushing more people to the gray/black market and shady business transactions to get things done.

notNowon Goldman’s Blankfein on Skipping School Work, Wishing to Be Chinese

Say, for example, that the 3.5 million truck drivers become automated out of a job then they work in finance, technology, etc., wouldn't society be better off?

Is this even attainable? Is a high-tech driven economy even a mass employer?

The primary (agrarian), secondary(industrial), ternary (services) sectors and economies served well the humanity over the past centuries esp accommodating and absorbing the exponential growth in population during the 20th century and onward but will the nascent knowledge based (quaternary) economy be able to keep it going or more than 6 bln humans have to suffer greatly to earn just to survive and have a sustenance level of income?

I have my deep doubts about this prospect and I believe that at least that having a knowledge based economy doesn't need all this amount of people on Earth to advance and that the transition from a consumerist led mass market to a non consumerist small one is going to be very painful if we haven't addressed the structural problems in the global economy esp. income inequality and wealth hoarding by the 1%.