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You can get an extensive screening for around 120 here in Amsterdam. Probably more expensive if I go through official doctor and have to pay it with eigen risico (first few 100 euros of healthcare you pay yourself).

You probably know her, but in case you dont maybe Terry Wahls books are useful for you

I always wondered why we are overly focused on the conditions that created life on earth. Arguably it makes sense to see similar conditions lead to life. But do we really know enough to assume that's only way?

Some of them were indeed clueless. But also a bunch of them were great developers. I remember one who came from Flash and easily adopted the react.js SPA mindset without really understanding HTML/dom. For him almost never was it a practical problem, but it was interesting to see sometimes and he would have a completely different approach to the web. He for instance didn't understand at first why I wanted URL's to stay the same and meta title's to be correctly set. I don't have a principle problem with it. It's just an interesting development.

Agreed. I've worked with quiete a bunch of frontend developers on react applications (with serverside rendering) who didn't realise that in the end all it does is render HTML pages. And didn't have any or much experience with old school HTML and vanilla javascript. This only became a real problem when there were edge cases or external scripts needed to be integrated that didn't fit in the framework.

To not need many custom helper functions like this I still prefer to throw in jQuery for "small" more serverside oriented projects. It gives a well documented and standardized API.

Spending a lot of time with Tibetan Buddhism it led me to conclude our Western view on human rights is very very special and not natural at all. We should really cherish it.

It is probably, and often, tied to the evolution of Christianity and Western humanism that led to a special view on the rights of the individual. Which for instance led to the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. Which to us is baffling someone even ever though slavery was ok. Yet it was the standard for millennia.

When you read a summary of the Buddhist doctrine this Western view of individuality seems to fit perfect. Yet the cultures housing buddhism didn't yet seem to have evolved to support this view of the individual.

This might have something to do with the fact Buddhism started in a more complex society in India and then moved to more tribal places like Tibet. Yes India had a feudal type of cast system, but also had a very high level of philosophy.

This is an argument that's also sometimes made by scholars to explain certain differences between the word of Jesus and the more tribal verses of Mohammed.

Coming back to Tibet, even though it was far from perfect, there a still gems to be found in Tibetan Buddhism.

And to give them some credit there have definitely been attempts to reform in Tibet. Not every monastery was about politics, some teachers created their monasteries far away in hard to reach places to avoid the politics. For centuries the Tibetan writers already speak of dark times, so at least a few were aware.

Thanks, still curious about data management, vendor lock in, what to do when complexity grows etc. Im sure they have all been thought off, will look into it.

That's not the main pitch, that's the standard dynamic cloud/container hosting claim, this is their pitch:

"Software is eating the world. Unfortunately, most businesses still can't deliver software successfully, much less do so at the pace needed to stay competitive. For those who wish to keep up, let alone lead, software delivery & operation must be radically simplified."

Maybe I should dive more into it, but everytime I read a project that claims to be "serverless" I have a really hard time to understand what it actually does or solves.

What is serverless about? Is it the next big thing? Or just the new buzzword?

The idea of bullshit jobs started a few years ago mostly based upon the idea that the people doing themselves felt like they were doing bullshit jobs, and therefore not feeling fullfilled.

Certain type of humans have been exploring since beginning of times, thinking of the vikings, but also the colonial times. But also the early tribes that moved over the whole world. Seems to be a an innate trait for some people, to go out and explore. But human curiosity seems to need to be tickled by potential and that potential seems infinitely greater in space then in the oceans.

At the same time why we can't do both?

Yes I think the not feeling attacked part is a responsibility of both parties. And therefore sometimes unavoidable.

Not in my experience.

The devs in teams I've worked with (including me) are most of time all quiete aware of the places where their code en setup is lacking and as long as they don't feel personally attacked are very happy with people who come with implementable solutions.

The not feeling attacked and implementable parts are key.

Maybe we don't have to move certain things, like "design", into the area of technology :).

Frontenders at the the time didn't see themselves as engineers.

Some people just get development. I had one close person who was able to learn webdev and become and highly skilled freelance developer in 0.5 to 1.5 year (having played with computers his whole life), I had another friend who after 3 to 4 years still struggles to do a simple loop, let alone grasp a recursive function, at the same time he makes great designs and has good skills to implement them frontend wise. Different minds, different talents.

I've seen few organisations where there was a group of frontenders specialised in html/css. Even integrated in continious development. It's a fine line, but with backbone.js and sass they could manage, but with react and postcss the line between templates and logic disappeared.

But it's less specific then that. When 6 years ago hiring a frontender they needed to just know html and css, now they need to be full blown devs.

At the same time "startups" are also not able to reach any of the tangible results musk is producing.

He seems to be able to benefit from the resources of a big company, while at the same time keep the fresh mindset of a relatively small company.

I meant more in the sense that different people could do different jobs.

Non-developers/designers were able to do a lot of the frontend stuff. With the "new" complexity of frontend development that's mostly gone.

I've seen it a few times with my own eyes that in teams the 1-5 frontenders specialised in html/css had a really hard time switching to react, at the same time more seasoned developers felt like fish in the water.

Considering the scarcity of developers that's actual a big deal, more work for developers while at the same time less work for traditional frontenders.

The downside to that is that I've seen a lot of old school frontenders who 5-7 years ago were able to just dus html/css and sass haven't been able to keep up, it just got too complex. In that regard the old situation had better seperation of concerns.

Incredible.

Also Tesla seems to be extremely focused on r&d.

How does Elon Musk push and run his organisations so differently that he seems to be one of the only few, if not only one, capable of running big organisations that are able to accomplish this extreme level of innovation paired with tangible results?

Im surprised with how much certainty you make such a claim.

Next to that it's not only the side effect of extinction of one species, but also the unforeseen side effects of the technologies used to accomplish this (extreme) extinction.

The whole point of technologists is that they really have to much faith that we both understand these complex ecosystems and complex technologies we just started using.

To try to put a technology on grand scale that you don't fully understand and can't control once in the wild is really stupid.

Thinking of ways to reduce mosquitos populations are understandable, and many organisations are working on them, but this proposition to completely eradicate them, mainly with certain technologies, is borderline insanity.

The problems eradication solves are obvious and important to solve.

The problems eradication might cause are less obvious and are potentially disastrous.

you are right, first and second paragraph had no connection, just 2 random thoughts poorly written :)

Yes true, was inspired by this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319800

If I still could I would change the title to correctly reflect it's age.

PRC's influence is shocking. I remember that some Taiwanese officials attended a conference in Amsterdam called "we make the city" and even local neighbourhood politicians were not allowed to officially meet them, let alone take pictures with them.

Thanks, interesting! Shame they didn't start in the south in februari, could have made a difference.

Yes article from March. By now also published about by Nature (at least online), and also part as of the signals they are looking at in the NL

South-korea, Taiwan and a few other Asian democracies have shown great organisational skills in this crisis.

The title "catching it early" suggested to me that the article would be about macro solutions for societies to "catch it early".

For instance sewage detection: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/coronavir...

From my experience there are very strong currents in a group that are very hard to go against as an individual. Only very contrarian people will go against the grain in formal meetings with high level executives or other individuals with status in a group. This is why often big organizations are able to produce decisions that the team behind it doesn't agree with and that look silly from the outside. Many people in such a team will not feel personally responsible because they feel like they didn't have any influence on the decision making proces, even if they could have said something. There are other dynamics at play I think, but this is one of them. (The contrarians seem to not survive long in the corporate world)