>> Still, the message seems to be that our chronological age really is just a number. “If people think that because they are getting older they cannot do things, or cut their social ties, or incorporate this negative view which limits their life, that can be really detrimental,” says Terracciano. “Fighting those negative attitudes, challenging yourself, keeping an open mind, being engaged socially, can absolutely have a positive impact.”
Yeah, realistically it would only work with sites specifically designed for that browser. Don't think interoperability would be the goal with something like this.
50 is too much. Reading about yoga these days. Seems like following 5 Yamas & 5 Niyamas or noble eightfold path may keep clear from most of the troubles.
Job description these days become reflection of complexity in new age tech stack. Know C++/Java/Scala/Enter_Your_Lang_Here with python and React/Angular/Blah/Blah with Big Data Technologies - Hadoop, spark, etc. with Docker/K8 and with Azure/GCP/AWS.
It is time consuming process to become expert of one thing, requires couple of years of continuous focus.
I don't know How many people are actually expert of all these and how they are going to perform when some issue pop up in production. Try that judging it 30-to-60 minutes of interview.
Almost no one. And you don't need an interview for that.
As you said, it requires a few years of continuous focus.
And most jobs won't give you that. So it's even more time.
And if a person with 5 years of experience sais he is an expert in a,b,c,d,e you don't need an interview do understand that this person doesn't even know what it takes to be an expert in one of these, because he obviously can't evaluate his skillset properly.
Nowadays you need very little to qualify to be "expert" or "senior".Sure there are exceptions, but in most cases, all you need is be able to use the technology. In most cases, people don't even understand how it works under the hood.
Just like with full-stack developers. Most of those whom I have seen know some front-end, some back end, and very basic database knowledge. And considering that in these cases both front-end and back-end are written in js mostly, "full-stack" here is a huge overstretch.
As lot of businesses do not reach that scale where architectural or design or quality issues may pop up, "full-stack" devs keep moving the wheel. I think that is good enough and good enough is OK.
I think this is largely representative of the real problem in web dev - the tech has changed, the complexity has grown, and yet the expectation that a web app is still something one person can build on their own using all the modern approaches hasn't changed.
You can still make something that works on your own, but not using all the new tech. You have to compromise somewhere. The notion of "full stack" devs is long gone. Making modern web apps is a team sport. You literally can't be an expert in everything you need to build a robust, scalable, fast, accessible web app anymore.
Another drawback of complex stack bites those people who have idea and money, but try to get product done through consultancy because they lack tech skill or does not have enough experience.
They read lot of 'buzzword' on the internet or heard them from their tech friend and ask for everything i.e. Microservice Architecture and cloud and all and etc. since beginning. Resulting in unnecessary huge team and tech complexity. An idea or poc which could had been easily done and tested in market with small techstack/small team. No wonder lot of these products fail.
They read lot of 'buzzword' on the internet or heard them from their tech friend and ask for everything..
Anecdotally, in my 20+ years of working for website and web app companies, I have never had a client who has even suggested a specific way of implementing an app. The closest has been when a client has asked for a tech proposal and had it sanity checked by a third party. These days I mostly work on "rescuing" apps that a client has had built by one company, found it hasn't gone well, and has come to the company I work for to make it work properly. All of the crazy tech stack implementations I've seen have come from developers who think they're clever, and never the client demanding something trendy.
It seems to me that simple devops decision making is becoming a forgotten skill outside of devops pros due to separation of concerns, whereas 15 years ago everyone knew how to install Linux or a BSD, set up required compilers and virtual environments, set up Apache or Nginx, set up a database along with database admin tools, etc.
Wasn’t any Ansible then, either, you had to write your own damn scripts.
The entire reason PHP grew so wildly in popularity was because hosting providers made it so you could just FTP a file with a .php extension to a server and it ran. Apache was the default web server for shared providers because you could do per account config like url rewriting by uploading a .htaccess file. Virtually no one was configuring their own servers or installing Linux on bare metal for websites.
That was a big reason, but I think another key choice was that the output format (HTML) and the input format (PHP) could be pretty close. If you were 15 and wanting to make a dynamic webpage, you'd look at an existing web page, copy it, and change one bit. PHP made that easy. The next change and the change after that were easy too.
In contrast, competing technologies started out with, "OK, learn computer science. Now learn how HTTP works. And then learn CGI. And some Unix. And then you can do 'Hello, World.'"
The funny part for me is that a lot of us in the latter camp didn't learn computers that way at all. We started out with BASIC:
10 PRINT "Onion2K is cool!"
20 GOTO 10
It had the same immediacy as PHP. The ease of making something happen was what drew us in. But somehow we forgot that. While also saying, "Here's something that will touch everybody on the planet. Let's all use it!"
How many people had rented servers for games? A lot. Now video game companies have turned game servers into a SaaS, whereas then they just released Linux server binaries. In the early 2000s there was a bare metal server rental company on every other street corner.
How many people had Linux/BSD network appliances? Also a lot. There was such a time when all you got from the cable or telco for your broadband service was a modem, and you had to roll your own router/switch. There were a multitude of run-from-a-floppy (or USB stick) BSD and Linux router distros back then.
Also, you're not correct on PHP. The entire reason PHP grew so wildly was because it was server side rendered, and both AOL and Microsoft intentionally hindered their browsers' javascript capabilities in lame attempts to monopolize the internet.
Sure you can, if you reject libraries and tools that were designed by large companies with a ton of specialization to serve the needs of those companies.
If you want to be effective as a small team, choose tools built for small teams. Rails is a great example.
The mind is difficult beast to tame and Simplicity is hardest thing to achieve.
Try to sit in meditation and focusing on breathing, first 10-15 minutes monkey mind does not even calm down and can't sit more than 30 minutes. Back starts hurting. Sitting on chair for so long and back muscles have become weak.
However, there are so many unprocessed emotions which keeps popping up when I try to sit down idle or try to 'not think', ranging from things read on social network (twitter) upto childhood emotion. Total Emotion roller coaster. Plus, awareness about shallow habit of mind of continuously judging and having opinion on everything. Worst is realisation that I don't event have control or influence on what is going around.
Blessed are people who have achieved control over thinking. The momentary calmness and freedom, I feel is simply liberating. But it does not last long. How can you live in this world and not be affected but it. It's tough battle with 'self' for now for getting into bad habits just because of not being self aware.
For guidance, that quote - "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away". Getting rid of bad habit one by one is starting point.
It's fairly easy to install multiple versions of macOS on your drive to test [0]. You could create a separate install of Catalina and test your applications with it before making the move (which Apple now thinks is a bit more urgent for some reason).
bold assumption ;) other options include being retired or having a partner provide for them
>how many hours people spend
I'm not one of them, but I'd probably guess it's anywhere from 2-6 hours a day. Depending on job, one could easily can work that in before/during/after work. /u/GallowBoob, the user with the most karma on reddit, actually managed to turn it into his job. He was originally a landscape architect whose reddit habits got him a job at those awful viral licensing companies, although now he does social media directing at an eSports company.
Damn. How many good product died or stagnated, because of stupid politics.