Is there anything stopping someone from abusing paid ad services for any of these platforms themselves to the same effect? This is assuming that they allow you to finely target the ads which I believe they do.
Methodologies exist only to shepherd delivery - don't make shepherding itself the primary focus of your day-to-day lest you lose sight of the real aim: to deliver projects on time with minimal bugs while minimizing the effects of inevitable bugs on revenue/customer satisfaction.
To what end? The inevitable outcome is that you have a hodge-podge of HTML and styles and if you want to replicate one you have to backtrack through a plethora of random posts to find the one that implemented it. I see zero value in a time capsule because it's not one. If he crafted every page from scratch - maybe, but to his own credit he's copy and pasting. That's nothing to aspire to.
I think we all look back fondly to the early days of HTML sites where everything was pure, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking it was the best setup for things like blogs. If you want to be a purist, do so by leveraging newer advancements like web components. Suggesting people copy and paste HTML/CSS for every post is a really bad suggestion for anything that isn't a weekend project that you will never touch again.
And also, isn't a HTML IDE the equivalent of a static site generator except lacking any of the actual features that make generators appealing?
Music has a very important role in a movie - if you cut that out and replace it with generic music you'd be left with films with great acting that feel muted and listless. I'm not sure you quite understand how much work goes into a score and how much the director's, among others, views and desires affect that score.
Given there is only so much time in the say I've always looked at productivity as a way to minimize wasting said time. Some people opt to fill in the time gained with more work and some people choose to use the time gained for leisure. Both are correct as long as you are still maintaining a healthy balance.
I think a tech demo is in line with this thinking - selling it first doesn't mean there can't be anything of substance. It means you didn't invest a year of your life taking the tech demo and making a full-blown product out of it before showing it to people. I think many products have substance that people would buy but the execution is way off and it makes it unappealing.
Krita + Gimp is a great combo - I'm extremely happy both exist in the OSS world! Hoping to use Krita more as I start getting into texturing models - it's been great so far for basic images though.
"They used to do market research by installing double-sided mirrors in department stores then taking notes on what people looked at."
I'm not so sure we have progressed that much since then. You search for something on Google, swap to Facebook and an ad appears for that same exact thing on the sidebar - not really any different than using browsing as a determining factor for desire to purchase.
A small aspect of ads, I know but I found it such a ridiculous truth that I can't imagine the rest of their systems are actually all that smart.
You can't control what other people do and say but you can control your reaction to it (obviously easier said than done and in some cases impossible without help). So many arguments in life are made because you've inadvertently gone against an expectation another person had based on their own experiences.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion that I believe one company manufactures panels in the U.S. but, for the sake of argument, if 30% more than foreign solar panels is the best price we can come up with than 1) that's not working and 2) a tariff will not solve pricing it only removes competition. Again, if they do not have to worry about lower-price competition, what incentive would U.S. manufacturers have to lower prices aside from a lack of demand? You seem to only be concerned about manufacturers in your statement and not the general public using these panels.
So in lieu of innovation the solution is to tax competitors? That doesn't exactly sound like a sustainable path forward - what would be the incentive for domestic manufacturers to innovate the price downward if there's a safety net preventing any real competition to force them to do so?
On another take, the amount of IKEA furniture I've assembled over the years has instilled some basic sense of design and structure which has aided my in building my own outdoor furniture. IKEA is, effectively, a DIY store and you aren't limited to the pieces they package together. You can really be creative with it.
Such statements (about customer support) are completely subjective though I'm not sure you can just fling that out there as a global truth. Project Fi, while perhaps an outlier, bucks your point.
I'm not really sure what other avenues one can go down that isn't powered by surveillance that takes the "ease" factor to the next level. Literally without humans there you have computers and the computers have to know who you are. What other possible outcomes are there?
Just as with anything it's evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Serverless is GREAT at starting something, testing it and then evaluating if it's even worth spending time to work on actual server-based stuff. You can get stuff going immediately with little effort without the overhead of setting up a box, managing deps and all the nuances that come up standing up classic servers (even in the cloud). Is it a silver bullet? No, though I'd say it might be for fleshing out ideas.
Not all jobs require this preparation-style. If you don't like it - shop around and find companies with different styles that match your preference. Interviews are equally important to the interviewee as the interviewer.
What does profitability have to do with an investment to bring a company to a region? I've never heard of a profit-sharing agreement between a company and city/local government.
As a web developer I haven't found any reason to use Rust yet but I have delved into it recently and I really love the language despite it being frustrating at times. Hoping Lambda supports Rust natively at some point so I can actually use it!
It seems the world today the timing is entirely based on the country. In the U.S. the time it took for regular mobile phones to be supplanted by smartphones is ridiculously small yet the same cannot be said for many countries in the world. It seems to me that countries slow to make progress in tech will be the victims of it initially. It won't take that long to do so once the economic and logistical aspects of are ironclad.