kevin_rubyhouse

Kinda crazy to think about, but when China gets up to speed and communications between our countries are open, the scale of what he mentioned at the end will be huge. Today, you could be one of the most sought out programmers in the west. Imagine competing against another intelligent millions of programmers from the east too. I can't wait.

Why does Element.innerText cause the browser to "layout?" The author said he might explain this in another article.

If 30k is the inaccurate number, what's the accurate one? I'm curious as to what the realistic requirements are from your experience with the field.

What's the backstory on the author's tangent about the human genome? It sounded like the human genome project didn't actually do what the name implies.

Awesome! Loved JJ's Star Trek. It seems like everybody that grew up with the original hates it, but the original series feels so outdated. Maybe JJ's Star Trek is dumbed down to reach a wider audience, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am excited to see how he adjusts his Star Trek storytelling for his soon to be released movie, and am extra excited for Star Wars. On a side-note, I was really let down by SWTOR as much as everybody else. Oh well. They'll get it right next time?

"People who strike it big - in any market - do so by providing what other people are not providing; you have to be willing to say "I'm going to do what other people are not doing, because they're doing it wrong" and then be right about that."

That is a seriously good way to talk about indie/startup business.

It would break the experience. Wouldn't it also facilitate depression by constantly reminding them that they are on Earth and could leave at any time they wanted to?

I don't know of any, but worst case scenario is you could find a freelancer to take care of that quality assurance for you. I would be available to do this for you, and there are of course websites like Freelancer.com or Odesk.com too. You can email me at kevin.stubbs [at] therubyhouse.com if you want to talk more to me about it.

Could somebody with a background in economics explain to me why hukou was introduced in the first place?

Why couldn't they let natural market forces determine where people stay. And why would it cost 240 billion to change this? Is that how much covering everybody's medical, insurance, and all that stuff cost?

How is something like this done?

Couldn't we say that any solution that makes life easier raises the standard of living? A better interface, faster software, etc... Product & idea iterations improve the standard of living in the future because their effects snowball overtime. They are also stepping stones for their creators to move onto better and "more important" problems.

Truly important problems - the ones where a solution would make an immediate and significant positive impact in some way for the human race - would be things like solving multi-planetary existence (figure out how to survive a lifetime on Mars and grow), ending poverty, ending crime, ending corruption, ending world hunger... There's a lot. To me, these are the end steps of whatever these "important problems" solve. For instance, we can't end crime until we end corruption, have a government system that people don't need to circumvent for anything, and have everybody be satisfied enough not to commit even the smallest crime. I once read that in Soviet Russia, people would illegally offer their repair services to individuals and companies that didn't want to wait for scheduled maintenance or replacement (or something similar to that idea.)

The problems we solve today are steps and pieces along the way to reach these end Utopian style goals (living on Mars isn't Utopian.. but the other things I listed are.)

It's interesting how the bubble burst has influenced the professionals I've worked with in larger companies. The ones holding high positions were at peak points during this bubble.

Yeah, in Seattle.