But doesn't that framework need to be built by programmers? So in reality you still need developers or programmers to give the ability to non coders the ability to build something like this...unless I am missing something.
I am looking at getting the Nexus 6 and its threads like this that make me think twice about leaving the iPhone. I prefer android, I love my nexus 7 but issues like this are the reason I left android to get the iPhone 5 from a Droid X2. Now, I thought if getting a Nexus google would support it more because my main issue with the Droid was that it was never updated...but now I am concerned.
I can buy that he saw a lot of things that made him mistrust the government. What I have a problem with is that it seems as though he took jobs and looked for positions that would give him access to even more data. If he was really just working and saw this stuff that is one thing to go in and try and steal it is another, whether or not he did the right thing is up for debate. Selling USA secrets to other governments is espionage no matter how you slice it. If it was just leak it to the USA and the world at the same time then sure I could buy the whistleblower if it is go run and hide in Russia or China and sell information that is a different story. I dont think anyone has all the facts about this though.
It really is interesting when you think of it that way, you have a lot of rules in school. Then college you have nothing, then onto the real world where you have a job and all of the sudden you have a lot of rules again. It would be interesting for larger companies to see if their productivity increases if they follow a structure like this or something similar, or if productivity takes a dive once you allow people more freedom.
I am very scared about this new trend in, hey you like tech/programming and want to be an entrepreneur skip college join/start a company. While yes you can be very successful and you can learn a lot, if you fail or the company fails you are stuck with a resume where you have no degree, no formal education just a job where you may have learned a lot but a lot of the time that cannot get you in the door of the next company. I worry that people who went to these top schools MIT/Harvard/Yale etc are telling people to not go to school, if you take a very smart person and they drop out of a top school that is completely different than having a 19 year old kid not sure what to do with his life and he enjoys programming.
It just seems like a scary trend that is cropping up in tech, sure you can learn a lot if not more from a startup than your college education but the degree is what will get you in the door to a lot of places in your future.
That degree is the base for your career, its great to join/start a startup but if that fails you have nothing to fall back on, if you think you can get an interview with no degree to a top tier company and you dont have some kind of crazy resume then you are clearly living in a dream world. A single job where your company failed will not be the same as a degree.
(all assuming that you dont become a billionaire from this startup)
I tried to register, and when I get the email and try to fill out the last 2 fields (username and name) it tells me my email address is already taken...not sure how that is possible...
I think that a single page resume especially in a technical field is difficult if you want to have projects, jobs, schooling etc all included. A two page resume I would say is the maximum size a 5 page resume would be way too long and probably has a lot of extra fluff (unless you are including publications those take up a lot of space)
I have my local git files saved in my dropbox folder and use git for version control and dropbox to make sure that everything is backed up and on multiple computers at the same time. Doesn't solve the bandwidth problem but unless they are massive changes I think the bandwidth/cpu/memory usage should be very minimal no?
I think the combination of git and dropbox works great.