Purely anecdotal, I had developed some back and neck pain a few months ago from sitting too long at work. I did some workouts (freeletics) and within 1-2 weeks all the problems went away.
Coming from windows to mac I just love the simplicity. In windows you have so many options, so many updates, preinstalled apps which I never use. I open the mac, click the app in the dockbar, that's it. All apps scale nicely on the screen, unlike windows on a 4k display, terminal is great.
I use a few platforms, including airbnb, when I look for accomodation. What makes airbnb better? The only different thing I noticed is that they validate my ID.
You're also making a lot of assumptions. I started working in 2004 and in 2006 I was already doing 'microservices', I was responsible for a few web services (.NET) (with a few endpoints each), other colleagues had others. These web services where part of a bigger system (out of the many that we had). Emphasis here is on few endpoints, the services where split on functionality, some services talked to other services, some directly to the database. One of the reasons for the split was also because we were using Visual Source Safe and multiple people working on the same code was hard. So yes, I think 'Microservices' is a buzzword, it's been driven by the use of containers, deployment automation, and the assumptions that people have done monotliths because they didn't know better is wrong. Every sane engineer who has put too much functionality in a service which at some point caused problems with scaling, agility, etc, would take measures to address it.
I keep seeing in remote job posts for US companies that you need a work permit, they don't mention the option to work as a freelancer. In the Netherlands a lot of people work from their own one person company.
Don't be so happy about it. I'm like you but 5 years in the future when it's time to look for a new job. At the beginning I was keeping my skills sharp, but after a while you become lazy. Especially when you see everyone around you not doing anything you sort of lose your motivation to do work.
Indeed they help you most often during turbulence, I think that's more common than a crash. I was traveling recently with my 2 children, 1 and 2.5 yr old. When the child is over 2 he needs to stay on his own seat, but the seat belt does not shrink to the size of the child. I think it was at least 10cm loose and they refused to give us a baby seatbelt because of rules. Simply stupid, with all the safety measures that you have in a plane why is this being overlooked?
We have this already in the Netherlands. Albert Heijn is the biggest supermarket here, they have raw ingredients grouped in boxes for different recipes like soups, lasagnas, etc. I know I pay more than if I bought the ingredients one by one, but hey, sometimes you do it. They also do home deliveries, have express checkouts, and now they will experiment with something like Amazon Go.
It means Satya has a privilege to be the leader, but that can be denied by his people if they leave, because there are plenty of opportunities, so that's why he treats them with extra respect - un unpaid volunteer is a way of saying the people are doing him a favor.
Well, Aldebaran sells the Pepper robot through it's partners. I know because the company where I work bought 2 Peppers with around 15k each. I've been told it's around the same price in Japan, the difference is that there you pay a small sum at the beginning but then you pay a monthly subscription.
Boston Dynamics robots seem an order of magnitude further ahead than Aldebarans'. Aldebaran has these tools available because their business is selling these robots who can do tricks and are easy to program, while BD seem to push technology and make mobile robots useful. There's a mistake in the article, a Pepper robot is around 15k not 1.6k.