With the amount of technology and automation we have, and how productive we have become, we should be heading towards 4 day weeks, and month long vacations.
No shame in taking a break at all here. Also, work to live, don't live to work; or you'll miss out on everything important.
^^^ This is a good point. I knew he'd fail at the first line when he claimed to know everything. That's not a good attitude to jump into any situation.
The web has always had different screen sizes and very different capabilities of machines. Heck, having to code for IE6 should trump any difficulties faced in mobile.
I concur. It's much easier to plug in functionality and DB objects into a finished UI/UX than the other way around. Also, it allows the hacker to just work on the core functionalities instead of worrying about how their code is supposed to output to fit into an unpainted canvas.
Obviously if you're working on an API, this doesn't apply - but you'd be surprised at how fast the hacking sprint can get when you know exactly where to plug your code into.
Maybe politically correct people don't think others are stupid, but smart or not, there are definitely some morons out there.
I for one, do not need to be PC to be smart. I don't claim to know everything, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who know less who also decided a long time ago to stop learning/embracing new ideas.
Finding life will be the prequel to finding intelligent life. You're right that finding life itself won't change the views of people who choose to close their minds, but it will be the start of many realizing we're nothing special, but rather, something very common.
Also, I'm almost certain there are life in other planets in our solar system. It'll just take a few (relatively speaking) more years to prove it.
You're right - they have been able to spin things to their advantage. However, to my understanding, many are still based on the geocentric view of the universe and that we are a very special exception to every other planet we've observed w/o life.
We are just now discovering that planets are actually abundant and are all around us. A thought that seemed alien just years ago when we thought every other star lacked planets.
While I can't predict what aliens will be able to teach/tell us when they arrive (or when we find them), I do feel that a real "first contact" will change or make a lot of people rethink what they really think they know.
For those that think they can control EVERYTHING their children will ever see, hear and experience - I have news for you, you're going to fail. Not only will you fail in your attempt, your children will most likely be handicapped living in your bubble that lacks critical thinking.
Also, while you may be a Christian/religious person here on Earth, I don't see how that applies to a future with aliens, other planets, etc. With the way things are going, it's almost guaranteed that religious power will be a thing of the past as soon as we can prove other life/civilizations exist besides the one here on Earth.
One obviously does not need religion to have good morals or good values. Different doesn't mean wrong, and certainly not in this case. Homosexuality, polygamy, asexuality, and natural gender change (clown fish) already exists here on Earth in one form or another. It's not hard to conceive that these behaviors also exist on other planets even if we don't get to witness it firsthand today.
Anyway, if you want to live in a bubble, make yourself blind and deaf and just don't buy anything. If you choose to interact with the growing, ever changing world, expect to learn something new when you do it.
Why are you in stealth mode? Is there technology that is hard to duplicate, or too easy to duplicate? Building in a bubble is not a good sign whether you have competitors or not.
> Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.
This is true, and it could easily happen to you (the OP) too.
With the amount of technology and automation we have, and how productive we have become, we should be heading towards 4 day weeks, and month long vacations.
No shame in taking a break at all here. Also, work to live, don't live to work; or you'll miss out on everything important.