Having a planet's atmosphere to burn up flying space debris or at least being inside of a cave in an asteroid (as long as it is really a cave) can provide a lot of protection. A high-speed space rock could easily tear through the one foot of protective wall in your space station, and all of the pretty plants and oxygen in your biosphere will be dead from having been almost instantly frozen, even if you patch it up.
If we want colonization, we not only need orbiting stations/stations at Lagrangian points, we must be colonizing big rocks. Once you perfect your shields, it's another story, but we are nowhere near the energy requirements or technology of a ship or viable station that is safe for humanity to live in long-term. Even if I live to be 1000 years old, I'd never want to take my chances in a station or ship that isn't at least in orbit, protected by a large planet on one side, for any great length of time. And our orbit is filled with space junk- not very safe.
Now, if it were a Firefly-class ship, that'd be different. I'd live in that in a heartbeat. Or the original Enterprise or the Tantive IV.
> and all of the pretty plants and oxygen in your biosphere will be dead from having been almost instantly frozen
This is a myth. If you remove the air from a spacecraft you don't instantly freeze, nor almost instantly freeze. Without air there is no means to conduct the heat away from your body, so you'll stay warm until you radiate your heat away.
The effects of sudden decompression are more an issue than freezing. The moisture in your mouth and eyes will start to boil off, the dissolved gasses in your body fluids will start to come out of solution. But if you can fix the decompression issue quickly enough most things will survive.
I don't believe in the concept of a "meaning game". It's not a game.
There really is very little to understanding life's meaning, regardless of age, despite all the philosophers and theologians still trying to figure out the details. It comes down to this:
Life is first and foremost about loving everything and everyone. I don't mean that you have to be happy, but if you show your love through your actions, and they are not selfish, but you still take care of yourself, then you will have done all that you can. If you've not been given the ability to interact with the outside world, that's ok too- you just do the best that you can.
If you have been given the ability to do something that is better than your other abilities, you should try hard to use that if it shows your love. Your love may be playing triangle in a death metal band, and that's ok. You may not always have that ability, and if more people did what they did best for the benefit of their craft and others, the world could be much more interesting. You often don't have to quit your job to do it, though quitting is fine also.
If you get to the point where you become less able to do something, don't dwell on that. Just do the best you can do with what you have. You might fail, miserably. It's not a guarantee of success, but if you do your best and keep doing your best, then you'll have few regrets. You may have wasted many years- it doesn't matter. You may do incredible things through small interactions with people that no one may ever learn of, because all of us see only a small fraction of what's really going on. Whatever you do, just don't give up.
> Life is first and foremost about loving everything and everyone.
For you. The real truth is life has no meaning other than the ones we each assign ourselves; meaning is entirely subjective and as such there is no one answer, there's billions of answers.
A life without direction is like a car careening down the highway without anyone driving. Sure, you could do it, but it can be dangerous to yourselves and others. I've personally been affected by people that have lost direction, and affected others negatively whenever I've been without direction.
For those seeking a reason to why we exist, there is no better reason than to love. Trying to get us off of the planet and explore the universe is love. Taking care of the homeless and hungry is love. Saving some animal species is love. Having dinner with a neighbor and listening to them tell their stories is love. Doing your best at your job to help others grow is love. Calling a family member or friend to see how they are doing is love.
Personally, I believe in loving others and loving my God and trying to do the best I can with what I have. That's my meaning and that's the real truth for me, and it could be for a number of people.
> For those seeking a reason to why we exist, there is no better reason than to love.
Again, for YOU. Don't project your desires and need for purpose onto others and presume we're all like you. YOU think there is no better reason than love, that doesn't make it true for everyone. YOU have a need to understand why, some of us have no such need because we recognize the question is invalid, there is no WHY because that presumes purpose which doesn't exist objectively, only subjectively. The meaning is always subjective, your reasons are not my reasons and you're speaking as if it is, as if all people need such things and that's simply not the case.
My point is, don't tell people what the meaning of life is because you're going to be wrong; that's YOUR meaning for YOUR life and that's it.
I'm over 40 and I didn't understand this post. Maybe someone else can summarize it.
I think the only dirty secret when it comes to passing 40 as a software developer is that you become more and more in the minority and notice that there is a greater percentage of older people looking for work. So- it's a little scary.
As an over-40 developer, I haven't really experienced that latter. However, I have experienced the feeling that I've passed my due-date, culturally, in more-or-less the way the article describes. People look to me to provide answers, now, even when I don't know them off the top of my head, and accept my answers as correct even when I preface them with conditionals and hedging. I know exactly the feeling that I am now responsible for creating culture for those under 30.
People have been looking to me to provide professional answers almost since I started my career - I've historically been the best, or one of the best, developers everywhere I worked.
Younger people I've known are typically headstrong in the ignorant way of youth - they can't help it, they don't know what they don't know. I haven't seen young people pay particular attention to what older people say.
But young people aren't usually very interesting, so not being culturally relevant to them doesn't really affect me in any way.
In addition, Stratasys is also not a consumer peripheral company. They primarily make software and printers for the industrial 3D manufacturing market. But making the mistake won't hurt them much; they're still well seated in the industry.
They also don't have to worry about losing MakerBot because 3D printing/additive manufacturing is going to be freaking insanely big. Companies want to shorten R&D time and generate new products quickly.
Also, 3D printers for the purpose of manufacturing products won't be big in the home anytime soon. Why? Except for the new HP Multi Jet Fusion printers which are a small step towards the end goal with their ability to use different agents within a single part, most 3D printers only have the capability to print in a single material at a time. This is great for parts, but not good for consumer goods which are made of many different materials. Today's 3D printer is very far away from a Star Trek replicator. There is a lot that goes into part design, determining how to best build the part, doing the design of the build which is different than the part specification so that parts can be built as designed, knowing how to use the printer along with maintaining/dealing with quirks caused by how the parts are built (which depends on technology/machine/material used and many other things), and removing structural supports and power/resin from parts after they are built.
Even when all of that becomes less complicated, and it will, home technology will almost always be behind the level of technology that exists in a company dedicated to manufacturing. Consumer 3D for most products is just not going to be a good market anytime soon.
The exception is food. Food is not nearly as complicated of a product as other consumer goods to make, and people love to make beautiful custom food at home, so 3D food printers could very easily become a staple in the kitchen. They could be every home within 40-50 years and in many food production facilities within 20 years.
> Personally I think all companies should be using pair-programming or contract to hire
You should qualify that with "all companies by which I want to be hired", because not all teams/developers pair program or want to pair program.
The team I'm on does a phone tech interview, then an in-person interview where we dig into history, then a mix of problem solving, pseudocode problems, OO/schema design, and web app design/technologies/approach, and then more interviews with the extended team. While we will sit with each other to help out at times, sometimes for hours, we don't strictly pair- that is just when help is needed. We rely on some up-front design and all PR's code reviewed for quality control, in addition to QA and approval by application owner.
That's because Win95 is running on top of Bochs. Bochs simulates every x86 instruction in software. Getting Bochs to run on Apple Watch is itself impressive!
It's unfortunate that qemu probably can't run on iOS due to its JIT code generation. qemu (without KVM acceleration) doesn't run nearly as fast as native, but it runs orders of magnitude faster than Bochs.
tcg (the qemu code generator) does have an interpreter - you could probably run qemu on iOS with that - though it would obviously be a lot slower than the jit.
The entire OS is slow so whilst it is emulated some responsibility lies with Apple.
It's a pretty poor effort on Apple's part to have an ARMv7 CPU at 520Mhz with a PowerVR GPU be completely incapable of rendering basic animations without dropping frames, minute long startup times for some apps and general sluggishness.
> I'm really surprised nothing like this has existed before
But how would you monetize it?
Unlike an RSS feed, you really don't know how the JSON response would be used, so you can't inject ads into it.
And if you charge for it, wouldn't people assume it would continue to work, but site "scrapers", regardless of how they are configured, are likely to break, so it would be tougher having customers pay for something that could break at any time leaving them having to figure out if its the service that's changed/broken or the page that's changed.
Don't get me wrong- some great businesses have been/are based on "scraping" in one way or another. However, as cool as this is, it's just another way to "scrape". If the person hosting the page would provide an API or JSON view instead, you'd be loads better off.
Freemium, professional support, expanding it into an abstraction layer above the APIs for multiple services, selling a version that larger companies can run on their own servers which they might need for data security...
>However, as cool as this is, it's just another way to "scrape"
Isn't that the point? The demo seems like it'd be a lot easier, less verbose, and probably less brittle, than using cUrl/xpaths or otherwise parsing that HTML yourself.
They've been slopping about for the past several months, and it looks like they've finally given up on it.
Really, how difficult is it to have a site and service that stores links and tags? Even at a high volume of data, in this day and age it should be trivial unless the money's not there to support it.
According to http://blog.delicious.com/ , they cancelled the premium service in January, attempted to monetize it again via sponsored links in RSS feeds in March, failed to revise the site successfully in March, then had "site problems", and finally said this month that they would be transitioning back to del.icio.us, but they seem to have been unable to do that either. Now the site's either down or stating that it has too much traffic. They've completely screwed the pooch.
Yeah, I made the mistake of continuing to collect links via the site while its been slowly getting more broken. Been too busy to write my own simple self-hosted version.
Now I realize — obvious in retrospect — that I should have simply jumped to Pinboard as soon as I had managed to export my bookmarks a few weeks ago. (Or years ago when Delicious got "sunset" for the first time, and Pinboard first came out and everyone else but me switched over…!)
I agree. And it goes beyond just being cooped up.
Having a planet's atmosphere to burn up flying space debris or at least being inside of a cave in an asteroid (as long as it is really a cave) can provide a lot of protection. A high-speed space rock could easily tear through the one foot of protective wall in your space station, and all of the pretty plants and oxygen in your biosphere will be dead from having been almost instantly frozen, even if you patch it up.
If we want colonization, we not only need orbiting stations/stations at Lagrangian points, we must be colonizing big rocks. Once you perfect your shields, it's another story, but we are nowhere near the energy requirements or technology of a ship or viable station that is safe for humanity to live in long-term. Even if I live to be 1000 years old, I'd never want to take my chances in a station or ship that isn't at least in orbit, protected by a large planet on one side, for any great length of time. And our orbit is filled with space junk- not very safe.
Now, if it were a Firefly-class ship, that'd be different. I'd live in that in a heartbeat. Or the original Enterprise or the Tantive IV.