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That's one way, I hope it works for you. There are other ways to get to our correct number.

What I am asking is, why so negative for one persons way, offered freely. We all have a different path. Mine could still not lead me where I think it will. But it's more likely to get me close if I am methodical (boring but fun in its own way) and consistent (repetitive like refactoring that annoying method and throwing a unit test onto it for good measure) in checking the roths -and 401k's twice a year, buying and selling my house when it make sense to and not panicking when the market takes a shit.

For all the naysayers about the articles specifics are you really not planning for later on, when thing change as the inevitably do? Instead if tearing down what kinda sorta worked for the random old person - why not discuss other, more relevant strategies for your place and times. What works for one person surely will not work for another but if you don't explore all the options and how will you learn what works for you? How will you learn from the past? Are you willing to repeat it just to tear someone down who is not perfect?

Question for all the folks who have negative reactions to the authors thoughts.

What's your advice for a accumulating 2-3 million by the time you are ready to retire? That's my number because I want to 'retire' from regular, year round employment when I am 55. And I still want to be able to afford healthcare, a nice meal out and few weeks vacation somewhere fun. Your number may be different though cause individual taste vary. That number is roughly what my wife and I will need if we want to informally exit the workforce in out mid-fifties.

It seems like the point that is being missed is this: if you want a comfortable retirement you need a plan/strategy and you need to reliably, consistently execute on it. The earlier you start to do this the better. The author offers an opinion for something that would have worked for them. Ymmv but if you think you will just wake up with the means to 'retire' and move onto a different phase in your life when the world moves on and the ecosystem changes without planning, executing and routinely re-evaluations your progress, please re-consider.

Maybe it's a Colorado thing? It reminds me of the same coffee shop conversation I used to overhear: 'I just love living in Boulder, it's so diverse.' Said by white person to other white person on a day I went only saw white people on the way to the office with all white people before I went home to a largely white community.

I'm sure they were great people and I loved my neighborhood in the suburbs but it and Boulder were anything but diverse from an ethic or cultural point of view.

I work with a Texan. Really nice guy and smarter then me but he never talks down to me. He phrases his suggestions as questions and the thicker he lays on the drawl the more likely it is that his opinion will turn out to be good advice.

I did sign up. My customer service experience was robotic at best and didn't help me. I canceled the account.

M-x butterfly-mode

Your thinking about the guard/prisoner scenarios and it's effect on people? Likely very true. But, I wonder if there are some types of people who actively seek those kinds of roles and others who actively avoid them. In some people, with all the information the might not participate.

Idk - just thinking out loud, I am not aware of any research the back up my hunch.

Do you plan on having children? Will your grandchildren's grandchildren wonder where they came frome and what it was like?

If only I could query the daily activities and conversations of my great grandparents or query thousands of photos and movies for people, places and moments that my have been talked about when I was a child. I could understand my family better. Educate my daughter more fully and with better context other than telling her: well part of your family comes from the abruzzi region in Italy and another part comes from Germany, I think. And your mother, I don't know much about her grandparents let along great grandparents.

It's not always about us, or right now, that is important in the scope of life a cross generations. We don't always know which of the ephemeral things in daily life are worth passing on to the next generation. Sometime they ( the next or several generations on down the line ) identify or rediscover our best moments long after we are gone.

Then we make products like the nest that sit in out houses with cameras in them, tie into facial recognition software and alert the police. Or, even better recognize that intruder is not on a white list and owners are not home and use automated home protection to disable them.

Those kinds of situations are the driving force of many thin a: warheads & bunkers and safes & crackers quickly come to mind.

Perhaps scam is the wrong word? Like the online affiliate model, there was quite a bit of fine print that I did not read. Notably the part (I'm paraphrasing here) where I get charged and continue to get charged if certain conditions are not met. As a 10 year old perhaps scam is the wrong word. But, to me, it feels very similar to the affiliate model of advertising online today.

To a certain extent this behavior is nothing new. The 12 CD's for a penny scams I fell pray to as a child come to mind. The people who think like that have just moved online.

One thing I don't see getting much attention here is the section on regulation and the lack of interest by tech companies who provide the platforms for people like this to exploit on.

Quoting part of the article, "... the tech companies that carry those ads tend to throw up their hands an declaim that the web is so huge that no one could hope to monitor it all."

This section of the article, where Edelman is quoted several times, stood out to me. It made me a little more sympathetic to regulation. In that, if there is no incentive inside the large tech companies to identify and punish or eliminate the Jesse Williams of the world from their platforms, why shouldn't they be held accountable for the consequences of the behavior enabled by the platform they developed?

One more quotes that stood out to me and made sense:

- "If Jesse Williams is responsible for the bad things his contractors did, why is Google not responsible for the bad things its advertisers did?"

To extend on that and not just limit this to Google - Uber recently got some bad publicity in LA. One incident where someone was charged several hundred dollars for what amounted to a cab ride home to from a bar and another where an uber rider left their cell phone in the car. Then the driver held the phone ransom for several hundred dollars and still never returned it. In the one case Uber suspended the drivers account and was trying to help the phone owner.

The point I am trying to make by bringing up Uber, who is not an advertising company, is as follows. Technology extends and scales human ability. But the onus is still on people to use technology morally, ethically & responsibly. The double edge on technology's sword is that not all people make choices with morals or ethics in mind. So, is a technology provider responsible for self policing their platform? Idk but reading the Atlantic article sway my opinion in the direction of, If the technology provider won't or "can't" be responsible then they open the doors for regulation without any sympathy from me.

I don't know a Clojure. Why should knowing understanding one language imply that you automagically know another? If you know Spanish, Portuguese May look familiar but it won't be exactly the same. Does that mean you should understand Korean or Japanese?

From the little bits of dabbling with various lisps in have done a functional language is different enough from my bill paying regular languages (JS, php, Java) that without a focused study on a project that hits several layers of a typical stack, I fully expect the language to be foreign to me. Until I know the 350 core language operations by heart I'll not be able to play with them. If I cannot play I'll never be able explore the language and use and misuse it until I can make it do what I want it to do.

So the fact that it looks encrypted to you is a good thing. It's a code waiting for you to break it. It's a problem waiting. A small group of extremely intelligent people are responsible for the family of lisps. That tells me that if/when I do dedicate the time and effort to understanding the lisp tools it will be worth the effort.

Please, please tell us what that is from.

No access to images and you can only email an image or export a collection to pdf via several channels: Google drive, computer sync, iBooks.

I noticed that too when I colored things fast. It was fast enough for most things. The most frustrating speed issue for me was when painting with watercolor brush where the variable speed changes the effect of the ink.

Thanks for the tip re: Upad! I'll check it out.

I'm a paper user. Here are my pros and cons:

Pros: - easy to get started or back into drawing - easy to sketch UI concepts and send them around - easy for my daughter to play with

Cons: - fixed canvas size; you can scale an are a tiny bit but not much - no layers - customer support has shown an indifference to existing technogy (with pressure and palm detection) even for the styli they support. - customer support seems to have a (IMO) arrogance in how they respond to things on the forums. - including the upgrades makes Paper 2x as expensive vs Procreate which has more drawing fools and the abity to customize and save my own tools.

It was a good app to have and my daughter still uses it. But for my own doodling or quick UI concepts at work I switched to procreate. The wacom creative (http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/) stylus was on my Xmas list u until I saw the adobe tool mentioned. I'll be checking that out.

Technically, isn't the professor the one being paid by him?

Can you point to some example that are a bit more complex in nature? My issue (that I identified with the backbone tutorials and re affirmed with the Angular tutorials) is that simple apps are easy to do with x, y or z. But if the new one or that one is going to replace the old one there should be 37 signals level complexity type apps out there. While I can't speak for Meteor, I don't see anything running on angular that's at that level.

Caveats: I glossed over the fact that angular is not a full stack, I have seen a few angular videos where teams have demoed and presented on complex angular apps.

I can't name anyone offhand that uses a tablet as primary, but anyone who produces with a computer very likely uses something like the Intuos5 drawing tablet. With a tool like Procreate or one of the Autodesk apps the only difference between drawing on a computer and drawing on a tablet is that with a tablet, the tablet directly connect your pen to the digital medium and you just need the stylus.

When it come to making music, absolutely - for professional grade content one would need to use proper tools. I'm barely an amateur and while I enjoy recording my songs and adding to them with garage band, I'm more interested in spending my precious free time doodling with sound than trying to make a living with it. It's better than watching commercials on network tv. Professional do use it for creating though: one example is this - http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/22/trent-reznor-... but there are other pros whom are turning to devices as a way to extend their creativity and enhance their performances. So, I believe that we are not far away from a device powerful enough to record, generate and mix professional quality sound for a fraction of what a recording studio of similar quality cost.

I do think I understand your position and you are likely correct. However there is this anecedal observation I have: people of my parents generation, when they use a smart phone; tablet or computer are very likely to consume with either email, web surfing or one variant of the addicting games that are free. However, being overly optimistic and observing my daughter and her peers as they grow up with device first and computer second I hope/believe/think (not sure if any of those words are correct but they are close) that they will have little choice but to learn to use it as the tool it is and push that to its limits and then extend it for their own purposes.

For the record, while I am an apple customer I'm under no illusion that their products are better or more successful than the other consumer electronics makers out there. It works for me and mine and that's why I stay with it. When it doesn't any more and I need to move on to something else, I'm glad there are robust ecosystems out there I can explore.

I would wager that Steve Jobs was not very interested in drawing or painting. I'll bet he would understand someone who was into drawing and painting who used a stylus, especially a pressure sensitive stylus.

My daughter can create music with Easy Beats 3, she likes the auto drumming thing in garage band because she can record her own songs. She also likes to paint pictures with Paper, she has hot own books so we can keep our drawing separate and so we can print them out or share them. Finally, she makes little animations with Hopscotch. While these are all creativity generators she and I both refer to them as games.

I do use the iPad for Flipboard and netflix and games but just as often when I reach for my ipad I reach for my stylus to draw or headphones to create a song. I know I'm n of one but one of the things I'm teaching the next generation is that this one thing is a tool that can adapt itself to almost all of her tasks in school and beyond, when she wants to play, when she wants to create or when she wants to learn in a non school context. I don't know if most people look at it that way, but those who do will have more opportunity than those who see devices purely for consumption.

I absolutely agree that two focused, creative minds solving a problem are 110% better than one. But I have also experienced a dark side to 'pairing'.

Let's say you are on a team with more blackened engineers (Java for example) and the business needs more front end development for a while (AngularJS and build tool and testing friends). In this implementation of agile the senior blackened folks need to shift to doing a bit of front end work. Never mind the CSS stuff, let's just get the app foundation built and ready to ship.

I saw two types of pairing.

First there was the pairing with a backend engineer who had jumped in for a week, understood the tool chain and had questions related to applying Java concepts to the 'AngularJS' way. This was good and productive for both of us.

Second was the Sr/team lead type who wanted to pair on a task. They had spent zero time setting up the tool chain and AngularJS. I spent several hours walking them through this. When it came time to address the task (modify the HTML and logic for a directive) I had to tell them what to type. Verbatim. I found myself feeling a bit guilty for thinking the whole afternoon had been a waste of time, it would have taken me only a few minutes to make the actual changes and the sr engineer would have been much better off spending time learning the ecosystem and trying to understand how it was similar and different to what they were familiar with (SpringMVC).

So I think it's a double edge sword: an excellent way to share khef/ken (in dark tower parlance) while creatively solving problems or a poor way to spend limited time and resources on an agile team. The biggest caveats I see is the one I have no control over: the personality of the folks you pair with on your team.

Hopefully those said experts will also out their money where their mouths are and get busy making a competitive alternative that addresses the issues identified.

As bad as the critics make it out I wonder if they have seen it used in the wild by someone non-technical. My mother in law asked me about upgrading her iPad on Sunday. She did so and I expected a bunch of confusion and questions re: photo's and email; the two apps she uses most (besides mindless games that aren't affected by any OS changes whatsoever).

Her comment last nigh? "It's really different I really like how they organized my photos for me."

So that's an n of one. But it's closer to observing it in the wild vs. a small circle of tech savvy perfectionists.

If the critics want me to take them seriously they should not focus on themselves so much but the average person and their experience immediately after upgrading, a day later, a week later and a month later. Otherwise, IMO it's just a whiney tech pundit fishing with link bait.

Got it and I understand your comment a bit better. I hadn't thought of the fingerprint lifted from the phone scenario.

You do have a very valid argument.

And the social aspect? Is it common for you to obtain the image of the correct finger and then the phone from a stranger?

How do you approach that part of the problem?

> and culturally if you're typing away with your headphones on its very similar to working with your door closed.

True. But, as with all things that have pros and cons, if your culture doesn't respect that you have headphones on it's not at all like working with your door closed. There is no barrier to a tap on your desk or shoulder with 'a quick question.' This happens quite often where I work and I find myself guilty of doing it as often as it is done to me. Speaking for myself, a cultural barrier is much less inclined to stop my behavior than a real physical barrier be it a cube with walls or even better an office witha door.

I have worked in a variety of situations the past 10+ years some cubes, once I had an office to myself and open floor plans the past several years. I think my optimal preference would be the shared office approach, with 2 or three individuals in the office. In a small group, it's much easier to request and establish a smaller customized set of things related to mutual respect for differences in how we all work.

> users have been trained

I'm not sure about that, users are just cheap in general. That's why sales and discount mega stores are so successful.

Speaking for myself, the more apps I buy, the more I'm willing to spend on a well crafted or useful piece of software with the expectation that gimmicky ads will not be there and the in app purchases actually do add value on top of the purchase.

Two apps in the $8-$20 range that I regularly use right now are Gaia GPS & Paper by 53 (although I'm slowly swapping that out for Procreate).

It's not free but Gaia GPS works well on my devices. I believe they recently released an android client. Besides the various Topo maps they have an osm layer that's available via internet or for offload cache.

I use it for when going to a rural area I'm not familiar with, since Internet and phone signals is still non-existent or very slow in those areas.

Is this a question or a statement? Modern battle and war have very little in common with business. So, it is my opinion that the use is such terms waters down an otherwise reasonable well thought out comment.

No personal hang ups. Just expressing an opinion on the use of words that I think are overused and therefore watered down in today's environment. You clearly have a different take on it. No need to belittle me for my opinion.