Yeah but you're not sitting out on the break babbling on about work or doing selfie video calls to your partner. That's annoying enough on public transport, in the surf it would ... well it would make stand-up paddle boarders seem cool by comparison.
Lots of people talking about their preferred IDE/editor here. It's great that we can use what we choose, because the underlying standards - languages, runtimes, repositories - are so standardised. I sometimes swap to and fro on the same project. Not at all like UI development in the 80's and 90's, where you picked between, say, VB, Delphi, Omnis etc. and that's what you were stuck with.
I use WebStorm/IntelliJ for my daily drivers. Tried Atom a while ago and have been liking VSCode more recently (good for Rust) and was very impressed, but still prefer WebStorm for JavaScript. Recently prompted to try Atom again due to the plugin for Marko.js, and was pleasantly surprised. Performance on my 2013 16GB MBPro is fine and it seems overall cleaner and snappier than I remembered. Just installed this new IDE plugin and it's instantly impressive. Good to see that the underpinnings of IDE functions are also becoming standardised thanks to LSP.
That does seem like a better approach for helping people understand what their rights and obligations are. Whether that aligns with the interests of every system provider is another question.
I mostly work from my home, which is self-sufficient for water (rain tanks) and heating (firewood), produces its own electricity (solar), has its own septic, produces some of our fruit and veggies and all of our eggs, with virtually no food waste that is not fed to the animals and low amount of landfill waste (you really think about it when you take it to the tip yourself). I occasionally commute to the local coffee shop by bicycle, or drive to the beach, and work digital-nomad style on mobile internet.
Then I jump on a plane to my employer's office every few weeks.
Yes that says quite a bit about how highly he was regarded, plus he did also assist in promoting the survey of the town, opening it up for development. Parkes was central in many aspects of development of the colony over his lifetime, including bringing to an end convict transports from England, providing universal education, commissioning landmarks such as Martin Place and Centennial Park which frame modern Sydney, and above all getting the various colonial states around the table to form the great nation of Australia.
Interesting that despite this being an Australian speech reported on an Australian site, there is no mention of Nightingale's role in the development of nursing in Australia, at the request of the great Henry Parkes. Here's his granddaughter (herself a nursing educator) on the subject:
I have a similar feeling about Vuex in the Vue world. Trying to recreate the Elm architecture without Elm ends up being a bit awkward. It's not just immutability and pure functions, as others have noted, it's even more down to a lack in JavaScript of algebraic data types (tagged unions) and pattern matching. Without those, and other Elm language features, you end up getting some quite obscure looking and verbose code and "magic" strings all of which is difficult to type-check (e.g. Flow). Good old-fashioned singleton state modules work better for me.
I did a lot of Flash/Flex work - it was the bees knees of front-end dev in the days before JQuery, Firebug, Chrome etc. and was the most consistent across platforms, as the same plugin was used on each, as opposed to trying to make your web-standards-based app work on several incompatible implementations. HTML/JS/CSS didn't come close at that time, but there was hope that it would develop to make Flash obsolete - which it now has.
People always complained about how Flash "drained batteries" / "crashed browser" / "allows all this intrusive advertising". A case of blaming the technology for the way it was being used. People would say "I can't wait until Flash dies and we have the open web standards instead so we don't have these problems any more".
So, fast forward a decade or so, Flash has been replaced by open web standards and ... guess what? We still have those problems...
For the individual spouse there may be some disadvantage (at least in terms of risk) to being the homemaker. But for the aggregate of family households it's not so clear. A previous HN comment speculated that much of the economic gain from increased female workforce participation - or more accurately double-income households - flows to capital, as it increases both labor supply and overall consumer demand, leading to downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on price of consumer goods (plus huge demand for child care). By contrast the value delivered by a stay-at-home spouse (of either gender) flows largely to the family. Not a very PC analysis for either the "left" or the "right". Wish I could find the original HN comment, or see further research.
I am older, have family and mortgage, time and financial pressures. But I still get excited about new developments in my trade as a primarily front-end dev, including package managers and frameworks. And the experience, capabilities and track record of success that I bring to the table act as a differentiator between me and my younger colleagues.
Not to discount your point, just to say there's more than one way to look at it. For some, they reach a point in their lives / careers where constant change is wearisome. Others continue to adapt and thrive. I have no idea what underlying factors would cause this.
You are reinforcing David's point about the creation of echo chambers and its magnifying effect on social divisions. You want to cut out seemingly superficial (but sometimes serendipitous) communication with people that you don't know or who are not like you in order to go deeper with "your" people.
If you give it a try, you may find your brain more adaptable than you think. Mine seems able to parse the same code in my editor (with this font) and in web-based repository viewers (with some other monospaced font) without problem.
With debt to GDP ratios at all time highs around the world we do seem to have reached (4). But money markets aren't free markets, being effectively controlled - and distorted - by central banks. They hold interest rates low to attempt to spur investment in productive capacity. But business investments are motivated not only by interest rates (and labor market "flexibility") but by perceived demand, which, in part due to aforementioned low wage growth, stays weak. Capital and debt flows instead to bidding up asset prices.
As I understood, it boils down to: Quality is the cutting edge of experience, which is the totality of any "reality" we can know. Things like science, religion, etc. are static value patterns that we assemble to explain that experience, and that allow us to use a process of "static latching" (from Lila) to climb higher up the mountain of quality.
Whilst possibly a gross over-simplification, I do find this perspective a really practical philosophy for personal growth as well as a good basecamp for approaching other philosophical viewpoints.
I used this many years ago with friends (a touring band) on the side of a German autobahn on a ~10metre coach that was shearing its wheel studs, not so much as a shim but to hold the new studs in place until the nuts torqued up. We all enjoyed drinking the beers required to get the job done too.
Agreed, Zen and the Art has real narrative value - including considerable suspense - whether you buy the philosophy or not. And frankly I do, despite understanding why some call it hippy pseudo-psychology. His second book Lila goes into it more methodically - but the literary narrative there is not so taught, kind of sadder.
I have upvoted your comment, regardless of the technical accuracy of your wording. In the edition of the book that I first read, Pirsig included this information in an afterword and although it wasn't a core part of the original narrative it certainly was expressed as an update or continuation. And having travelled the journey with father, son and ghost until that point, it was a heartbreaking epilogue.
Marginal utility is from the perspective of a consumer not a producer, so cost doesn't come into it. The analogy that stuck with me was eating bars of chocolate from the initial one which tastes delicious, and thus has high MU, until the one where you puke, by which point the MU has become negative. Cost is pretty much constant throughout.