Hell, me too! I use SkyScanner quite often and it's a great product, but the price still seems out of line. Maybe there's more to it than users see. How does it monetize its users?
Peter Thiel summed this all up perfectly: "We were promised flying cars but all we got was 140 characters." I found his talk [1] about the state of technology very accurate. And after watching it I turned on Bloomberg and happened to see Snapchat s IPO for a few billion.
Can't one populate the initial state from the server to skip the extra round trip of the ajax call? Eg. dump a json somewhere on the page and have react load it from there, like a global JS variable.
I second this. Every
time I drive by a big corporate building and I see groups of employees joking while having a smoke or coffee, it makes me envious. I joke about it saying that I m something like Batman who always works alone. Lately I ve been doing short trips to the client's offices, about 2000km away (on my expense) just to get the teamwork feeling.
Very true. There is a lot of information we re missing to just say all german auto makers are making the wrong decision. They could as well time their entry into EV market in order to make the most of it. Wait for battery price to go cheaper, infrastructure to get better and so on.
They really did push the envelope, but not always in a good way. I think it was not Wells Fargo that invented recurring cross-sales, adult sites have been efficiently doing it for ages. It s just that it s so tabu that people don t really talk so much about it and just swallow it.
We don't handle the payments ourselves, they re all handled by high-risk merchants so we don't need to worry about being PCI compliant. Fees are bigger than the usual merchant ones though, lots of fraud and chargebacks.
This. I work for a mid sized adult company for over 4 years now and it definitely feels like a start-up. We try new things a lot, very little bureaucracy and a lot of interesting challenges. The industry is indeed secretive because of the way outsiders see it. But that can also be an advantage, you don't need to worry about a VC funded startup that will kick you out of the market by burning a ton of money. Only thing I worry about is the label I'm getting but I guess I will find out later on about that.
Tbh I really see this might happen. They have internationally widespread devices (unlike banks which don t usually operate in too many countries) they have superior technology, much easier for clients to use and also a better reputation than plenty of banks. Then the remaining issue is regulations, can they solve it? Would an european country back up < 100k deposits for Apple? :)
Could you please elaborate? I've looked over the Kurento[1] Media Server page but I didn't find it that 'easy'. Would you use a tool alike or implement the negotiation yourself?
In my opinion their secure communication acts as a double-edge sword for WebRTC. Now one-to-many streaming is complicated since you cannot easily add a man-in-the-middle streaming server like you'd do in a normal setup. Trying to broadcast to >5 users on a Chrome tab really heats up my laptop.
I fully agree with the above. Maintaining a live streaming website which still uses Flash unfortunately, I was really excited over this about a year ago until I saw that I can barely use our beta with my remote co-workers, different network setups are a pain. I stopped and sworn I ll never touch it until I see one of our bigger competitors adopting it. Seems not much has changed since.
This 10x! Car manufacturers are reinventing the wheel. I wonder how Tesla does this though, its display looks pretty cool but never had the chance to play with it.
Free market also figured out a 400$ per hour prostitute is more valuable than plenty of engineers and musicians so that argument doesn t really stand. Value and money are not always correlated.
Ha, same problem here with an ideapad z500 and Linux Mint, latest NVidia drivers prevent my laptop from booting. Now I have to resort to XServer and adjusting brightness via the command line: xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 1.0
I kind of think that in case Tesla runs into serious financial issues in the future it might get a hand from the US government in some way or another, because of the long term benefits of Tesla succeeding. Just my opinion, no sources for that.
While I really appreciate the realism in your post, I wouldn't call webdev/back-end dev shit though. After all, that's what brought us here in the first place and are still heavily needed.
Not really, but have seen plenty of real-life examples.
Main point is you can NOT gain muscular mass at that age unless you take supplements or start eating protein foods like crazy! Both will mess up with your metabolism, do you agree? I m not saying going to the gym for exercising is bad per se, just early mass gain.
In my opinion weight lifting shouldn t be done until 18yo unless you re a professional athlete. Chances are you will get injured sooner or later since your body is not fully developped for it. Also gaining muscular mass at a young age can cause metabolism issues later (after 30), gaining weight easier and such. Studies show it might also stunt your growth in height. Practicing sports only till about 18 then slowly moving towards weight lifting will ensure a fit&healthy body, those big biceps all kids want will come up later in life, no need to speed that up.
Working as a dev for a company In the industry I fully agree. This has been an issue forever, companies use high-risk billers like Epoch and pay higher fees due to the huge amount of fraud involved and the lack of competition. Also, there was a case a few years ago when ING decided to close down a company's bank account just for being in the adult business. I wonder what's so shady about just a very big entertainment industry like this one.
My business is writing code, so basically automating processes for other businesses. Not sure how I can turn that into a passive income. My tasks are hardly automate-able. What I started doing is teaching programming to others and partially outsourcing tasks to them but it's not going so fast :)
Doing pretty well from consulting these days, however I can't manage to generate any passive income. Having saved about 30k in the past years doesn't seem to help either, interest rates are ridiculously low. Stocks and bonds are not really my area of expertise so I decided to stick to cash. Investment funds might be an option in the nearby future.
Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival.
So why do people believe that competition is healthy? The answer is that competition is not just an
economic concept or a simple inconvenience that individuals and companies must deal with in the
marketplace. More than anything else, competition is an ideology—the ideology—that pervades our
society and distorts our thinking. We preach competition, internalize its necessity, and enact its
commandments; and as a result, we trap ourselves within it—even though the more we compete, the
less we gain. - Zero To One, The ideology of competition
But is it ok for competition to kill the value of developers work (in the benefit of managers/founders and whomever else)? The actual point I think is to get developers to understand they need to lift the bar higher because it's now set too far from the value they actually create.