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Android w/out bloatware is not an "essential" OS. Let me own my OS and I'll think about spending $700 on hardware specs that I can get for $200 elsewhere.

I am concerned. People think AI = Skynet but in reality, the next couple of decades, AI = millions of humans out of jobs. I am concerned the change will be too fast for us to adapt. Not only do we need to invent a lot of new jobs, we may need to re-learn basic paradigms like job = goal of life = success. I suppose we can imagine millions of humans that are freed from work to devote their time to hobbies, art, sports, entertainment, etc. What if that does not happen? We plug them to media and keep them calm? Bored jobless youngsters are dangerous, no?

What about @? It should have its own key already. Smart phone keyboards make it readily available in login forms for a reason.

Books?

I quit Windows a few years ago (I'm fine now thanks for asking!). It took me a couple of hours from what is this Linux thing to dual boot, and a few months from everything proprietary to everything open source. Freedom feels awesome.

I long for the day where I can have the same feeling on my phone.

Javascript frameworks/libraries: you master one and two years later it is old news. Must master a new one or won't get jobs.

Whatever Elon is working on...

Aside from the obvious: code something that solves a real problem, you need someone to go out and sell it. Make him/her a partner/founder. That formula worked for me.

I've read that too. Myth busted I guess.

Nothing

Isn't this how the mob works? Pay us to protect you from us.

Marginal unit cost of production moving closer to zero, the sharing economy, AI replacing human labor, descentralized crypto-currencies, universal minimun income, autonomous transportation, clean energy, space travel.

Fresco was right on the mark.

RIP wise man.

AMP was born dead no need to kill it. As the webmaster of many websites, the last time I heard customers complain about rankings in SRPs was ten years ago. Their main concern nowadays is likes, follows and shares. I keep telling them: put some effort on your website, own your audience, you do not own your FB page much less the fans and likes there. They don't listen. Trapped in the hype.

In this light, how do I sell to them the idea that investing in AMP content (same trap different server) will help with rankings/performance where they do not care?

Sadly enough, the Internet is happening inside social networks, Amazon and mobile apps. AMP is late to the party, no?

I've pasted my ultra long pwd in the username field and hit enter. It happened more than once on logins where the form is split into two steps (I am talking to you Google). Why do they split the u/p fields into two steps? Does it add security? Better UX?

Lesson 1: don't use Windows. Lesson 2: be it a web resource or your pc, make sure you can restore all your data/sw from clean/current copies. Lesson 3: test lesson 2 periodically.

By plain logic: if there isn't a formula for success, there isn't one for failure either.

Sit down and dig this: in my country the State owns sunshine. Yep. They even made sure it was included in the last Constitution. So, if this tech ever becomes cheap enough for the masses, government will be ready to tax it.

Dexie.js (a wrapper for IndexDB) just stopped working on all browsers running on iOS 10.3.1 (apparently a webkit bug).

Lesson: always test cross-browser before commiting to a js library

Go one step back: why desktop app?

Top-right corner of my Android.

Will I be root on the boxed droid if I am root on the Linux system or do I still need to root the android system?

I guess it depends on your cultural background. We latinos tend to be a lot more connected with family and friends. It is also the economic incentive. In a poor country, a Whatsapp over wifi call is basically free. Furthermore, a key selling point for most carriers down here is: unlimited Whatsapp and Facebook.

I've faced the same dilemma and ended up stuck in Android bc of one single app: Whatsapp. A phone is (still) mostly a communications tool and 99,99% of my contacts use Whatsapp as the primary tool to chat/call/share. So, unless I want to be an e-hermit I need a phone that runs Whatsapp.

(For a little while, there was an unofficial Whatsapp API which I used to bridge chats to my Firefox OS ZTE)

List down 25 products/services you consume regularly. For each, ask whether a better version could be done. Yes? Do it.

Here's one case: the local/popular site to search for used cars sucks. It is slow, hard to see/compare all options, silly reloads the page on each added filter, filled with outdated listings, flooded with ads, and pic slides take forever (all of this on my slow phone over a slow 3g which is how most visitors must be using it). Furthermore, car dealers (who post most listings) complain about service and price. So I built the proverbial mvp and put it in the hands of my marketing partner (you won't sell a line of code if you do not partner with a person/company dedicated to push your stuff) who's already working on a deal with the used car dealers association, pitching a novel business plan, hopefully making some passive income for both of us.

What VPN provider do you guys recommend?

It depends entirely on the SAAS. A non-programmer friend of mine paid peanuts to an off-shore programmer to build an über simple slack-clone with Firebase + Angular + Phonegap. He has two paying customers so far. Will this scale? Probably not but if he reaches 20 customers he'll have the money for the rockstars.

This friend is a sales ninja, the tech is not an obstacle for him.

99% of real-world apps out there could be implemented with a BAAS and some simple JS MVC framework (good ol' BackboneJS in my flavor, if not jQuery fancy). I am not talking about building million-user-base facebooks and twitters, I am taking about a fuckzillion apps with a dozen at best concurrent users that will thrive in Firebase's free tier, a damnzillion worpress sites that never-fucking-ever get updated and would do just fine with good ol' static html, forever spared from bitcoin ramsomware.

Simply put: we forgot how to be engineers (the right solution for the problem). We are all Zuckergified into the fucking hype. Aren't we? We forgot that it is WE the experts that should tell clients how to solve their damn problems not just echo some buzz words so we get the damn contracts.

This post is NOT satire. It is the very state of current affairs.

Finally! This was the feature that made me go with parse.com when I started making backend-less apps. For Firebase apps I have to spin-up tiny node.js bots to capture events and do some cloud code magic.

Will start testing now!

I'm sorry, I have to:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

In this clever visualization, space is 1702774 pixels wide. At 1366 pixels width of my screen, the printed version would be 1246 screens-long, that is roughly 500 meters (0.3 miles). I am able to scroll horizontally the total screen-width in roughly 200ms, that is, my mouse can travel at 2500 m/s.