I understand your point. I use a text editor usually, but lately I've used Eclipse with java for a fairly big project (with a team and svn ecc).
And it seems to me that for the way web application are moving toward client-side, the bulk of the code will be on javascript in the future or a greater chunk of it.
What I liked about Eclipse&java is of course code completion (for the logWordsJavaUsesForClassesAndPackage) but most of all the order it brings to all of that comlpexity (classes, packages, enums, the use of different patterns ecc).
if think the more we go toward a complexification (does it exists in english ;P) of javascript projects, the more we are going to need something that bring order in the chaos.
Otherwise we will be a bit overwhelmed by the code of a language not born to do what we are using it for today.
if you think economy lives outside a state, you are not paying attention to the number of laws you have to respect. And, by the way, there is no economy without States.
Well, if you think fishing and hunting are economy, go with that.
Business lives in a community of people , a State. We, as the People, can decide the rules.
Economy has no rules outside the square we create. So, there's no such thing as Economy per se.
You have to remember that the reason a group of people doesn't go out and take what they want is that there is a State, there are laws, there is a monopoly of legitimate force (the police): all of this can survive only if there is a contract between state and the people. All the people, not just the rich or who has a job or <put a category here>
Value creation is bullshit. You create job when
a. you need a service
b. you can't do it with the resource you have
c. you can't automate with a machine
d. you can afford hiring someone
d. the income you generate can support it
Value does not exists per se.
You are so simplicistic here, guys, when you talk about rich and poor.
I know you are not so young, but sometimes it seems you are a group of small kids talking about life.
That's the OPPOSITE of the beginner's mind. And the beginner's mind is the zen way.
Jobs didn't see his choice just because was the only one: it is that the other people had already discarded that option because they were "expert player"
And by the way, zen is not about knowledge is about leaving the words to the dogs to eat and being in touch with the present time.
I think people should use software like oracle and look and read (some of) its enormous amount of documentation to understand what it can do BEFORE saying it is shit.
Oracle is a very very very good database. Stop with this non sense
It's stupid.
Economy doesn't exists in a vacuum. It' very influenced by politic. And saying politic I mean the way a society decide to use its finite resources AND the rules a society define for his citizens. And an Economy simply lives there, in circle of rules.
So if minimum wage let some people out, the same happens not letting children work. And why taking care of people with physical problems (no hands? no legs? why the State, using public money should care? You are a problem just let you take care of yourself)?
You set the rules of your society. It doesn't exists something called free market. The market is defined by the rules of the society AND the society change in time AND space. So the market change in time AND space.
And these Friedman bullshit are the same you hear over and over and over.
I think you have some problem connecting with his view of the society how-it-should-be. You move in a given universe and you accept the rules: you by the way want to use that rules and accept the consequences on society and mankind of those rules. He think differently. He, among many others, think rules are wrong and the outcome is a wrong society.
Dismissing what he says is dismissing philosophy or sociology, disciplines that for their very nature do not accept the status quo and want to test the rules our world is based on.
By the way, after reading some of his writing, I can say that he writes really damn well.
Banks are not government provided. They are private. And all the time saying that is Government fault when the market turn to shit, it means that it is not science just something you want to be true, no matter what.
Companies are about money. Countries are about people. Taxes build services that are used by people. "Web Services" doesn't count too much as a service. I would live without google search no matter what people say. But what about hospital, street, public transportation, cheap houses for poor people, and on and on and on...our society is based on taxes. The reason why people have to pay taxes is to build a better society. Look at what is happening in Britain with Cameron: no money to fix the deficit. Poor people take it all over their a@@#@.
And, to put that simple, we are not talking about a couple of thousands dollar a software engineer is not paying: we are talking about millions (billions?). Greed is bad, is fucking bad. And all this talking about disruptive innovation is usually a bunch of stupid Internet Services to play with. I think the hacking community is overestimating its value.
No cancer cure. No cheap energy. No cleaner air. Just some web app, iPhone app, something app.
Google taxes would fix a lot of problems, just letting millionaires a bit more poor. I can live with that, why you can't?