I love PostgreSQL, regardless of the version as far as it's >= 8. Super efficient and reliable RDBMS yet less "enterprise" that Oracle. I always wondered why MySQL gained more popularity.
I worship the creativity of the author to connect Tetris, Czech Republic, Marc Andreessen, Dungeons & Dragons, Mortal Kombat, Clinton, Trump, and Putin.
I find that relatively quiet and less complex music works better for me – such genres as downtempo, nu jazz, trip hop.
While I enjoy a very broad spectrum of music in general (from classical music to death metal, and from avant-garde jazz to hardcore gabba), fast, complex, loud or noisy music seems to get pretty distracting in many cases.
But that might depend on your job, actually. If you are a football player and you spend most of the time working out or outdoors, energetic music may work much better. Or, if you are a factory worker, where you have to deal with 120dB noise over your shift. I don't think ambient would be a good choice there, rather thrash metal or hardcore. :)
If you need some specific examples of "calm" music that works for me, please let me know, I probably could recommend something in particular.
Could you please add screenshots? I myself was a huge fan of FastTracker and Impulse Tracker back in the 90s, but I don't think people are going to download this tool just out of curiosity without seeing pretty pictures of the music app in advance.
PS I apologize if there were screenshots, but I just failed to find them.
Can you please elaborate what you find so "special" in those screenshots from the article? I mean how is it really different from most of the modern apps/websites?
I am so sorry to see that there are people so much limited in their way of thinking and with how they treat their and the others' lives. Hopefully you will learn your mistakes over next years. I will pray for you. :)
I am afraid that I have to say now that most of the things you have written are objectively wrong. Too bad you don't seem to comprehend that... But it's good that it doesn't really affect me and my life (which I consider pretty happy, by the way :) ).
You could try to go outside and talk to different kinds of people more. Maybe changing multiple occupations wouldn't hurt either. So you could meet and perceive people from different worlds. That usually helps broaden your mind.
You know, a few years back I had exactly the same attitude towards Git. I hated it, tried to approach multiple times and still hated it. But after working with Git on multiple projects, and having developed some deeper understanding of how things work there, I honestly think now that Git is one of the best tools that have been invented over last 20 years for improving the development processes and engineering excellence. I don't really want to defend it, the learning curve is apparently pretty steep (at least it was for me), but I would just recommend to not give up and keep trying. There are some good tutorials how to handle it and why it's helpful (Atlassian's Git book, for instance).
Nope. I can only reiterate that you've completely missed the point. It actually was that people may have different opinions, regarding their priorities in their lives as well. And it's only up to them to decide what those priorities are. Whether you like it or not.
I am not operating on that principle, actually. And I don't recommend anyone to follow it. I am not sure why you have come to this conclusion. My point was that saying that "all the successful people got successful because their personal things mattered for them more that their business" doesn't seem to be correct, and I gave the example with Steve Jobs. I don't really admire him, I never met him, and had no idea what kind of a person he was. I honestly just don't care because it doesn't matter. The key point I was trying to explain to you guys is that people are different, some of them think and behave differently, some of them may have different values and priorities. But we all live our own lives and make our own choices clearly understanding what we do. So, you just can expect from people around to live different lives with different view and goals (regarding all the things - business, families, food, hobbies, education, etc.). And that's okay.
Unfortunately, you still couldn't get the point I was trying to deliver.
By the way, please note that I never argued with anyone here regarding their beliefs and personal views. Neither did I give them advice or ask to do something. I just pointed out that various people can live, think and behave differently (some of them a lot). I never said anything regarding what is right/wrong or good/bad. I prefer to let people decide for themselves. And I believe this is very important for people to keep open-minded so the humanity could continue developing itself and thrive. Make mistakes, learn from them, improve, and so on.
Do you really think that people can treat seriously what you write and feel respect for you when you constantly tell them what they "have to do", or make such references as "baloney", "stupid", or ask them to "seek therapy", and stuff like that?
I respect what other people say and do even if their views are totally different from mines. Sometimes I learn something from them, sometimes they learn something from me. But whatever they, or I, think and do is our personal choice, and no one can tell whether it's right or wrong.
You sound very judgmental, but it doesn't make you right (or wrong). It's all still only your personal opinion. Is Trump the future of the USA or its doom? Is Putin a rescue for the whole world or evil? There are both supporters and haters. Who is right? I am not to judge. And neither anyone else, I believe. The future will tell us. I respect your way of thinking, and will appreciate very much if you start doing the same (regardless of whether you agree or not with some particular things, and towards all the people around, not me specifically).
I am afraid you are still not getting what I've been trying to explain. There might exist completely different perspectives and things can work differently for different people, different relationships, etc.
Not spending a lot of time with your family doesn't necessarily mean having bad relationship or having troubles with your relatives. Moreover, if your partners accept what you do and how it affects them (sometimes maybe in an unfortunate way), it actually can make your relationships much stronger.
What will happen with the next generations - no one knows. I think it's a bit irrelevant and idealistic. I live my own life. I want to make the best out of it. For myself, for my family, and for all the other people. What will happen after my life ends won't really matter for me (I am an atheist/agnostic). I am not saying we shouldn't invest our resources in the next generations, but instead of hoping on our kids and putting all the burden on them, I firmly believe we first should do whatever we can ourselves.
I am afraid your examples actually play against you. Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.
Please just try to get a bit out of your personal mindset and try to think and look at these things from a different angle. If something seems to be bad or wrong for you doesn't really mean that it's bad or wrong for everybody.
There are some valid points in what you are saying. But they all depend very much on tons of personal things. E.g., on your relationship with your spouse and kids. I probably got lucky, and my wife understands what I am doing and why, and why I don't spend a lot of time with her. She just accepts it, and we've been together for 13 years already. Or, say, if you enjoy doing whatever you are doing more than anything else.
I am not saying that all people should follow that. Again, my point was that there are people who try starting/running a business, who are in love with what they are doing, whom you may even call insane to a certain extent, and who expect to find (at least at early stages) people who completely share their goals, vision and beliefs. And who won't hire a person who thinks that there are things more important, regardless of whether it's their family or a weekend hiking.
I've read while ago that founders of some startup (AirBnb?) had spent about half a year to hire their first employee, and the question they typically asked the candidates was "Would you take the job if you knew you would die in a year?", or something like that. So, I personally understand and share that approach completely. As you can see, at least I am not the only person who treat these things that way.
And, again, I am not saying that it's for everyone, but people should keep in mind that it can totally be the case when they apply for a job at a startup. People are different. I agree that most of them feel about life same way you do - treating their families or some personal hobbies as higher priorities. But not all of them. Some people approach their lives differently.
I am not an investor, but a startup founder. Please don't take it the wrong way, but I would have never hired a person who thinks the way you write. I am sure you are a great person, skilled and experienced technically, and all that stuff. But when you are trying to get a new business off the ground, you basically risk your whole life. If you surround yourself with people who don't share your beliefs and goals, who you can't rely on, who care about other things more than about building a successful business, you are totally doomed from the beginning. There is nothing wrong, by the way, with the way you treat such things. Most people on Earth are not entrepreneurs, so it's expected. The point was that if you think that way, you should never even think about joining a startup (at least not at the initial stage).
Regarding the skills, the motivation is much more important (I believe, at least). Say, if you don't know a thing about software engineering, but you love the industry the product targets at, and you are willing to learn, I would be happy to hire you and reject all the experienced engineers from Google, Facebook and other fancy companies who don't give a damn about the product, regardless of how skilled they are.
Brave Software incorporated more than 1 year ago. They raised $7M (?) over its existence. But no one practically knows about them. And who cares about ads and Bitcoin? I personally just ignore them everywhere, have kind of immunity already. The other people use AdBlock. Why would anyone want to pay for removing ads on web, use another browser for that, or pay for that with Bitcoin (who cares?)? I guess, I am missing the whole point of what those guys do and why...
I've tried to read the article, but it was crazy difficult to me, incomprehensible. I could be just stupid, of course, or lazy. But 4,000 words to explain the idea doesn't seem right to me, really.
So I went to the main page and tried to watch the video (it's just about 2 minutes, I think). The things did not get better.
I am a fairly technical person but I am always trying to look at any idea from the consumer perspective. So here we go...
1. I generate content, say, videos. I upload them on YouTube and I know how it might potentially get monetized. I mean that for X views and Y ads I may get Z dollars. All these Bitcoin/Blockchain kind of ideas always explain some kind of technology improvements but they never touch how the end user would actually benefit from it. Saying "everything will be better", "you will get fair profit", "no piracy anymore", and stuff like that is close to saying nothing. No one usually tells "why", "how" and "what" I would need to do as a user.
2. There is YouTube. There is Vimeo. There is Facebook which is constantly trying to make video integration more efficient. Instagram. Twitter. Etc. So, if the idea is to build another YouTube with some different technology behind the scene, then my question is - who would follow? I won't. Seriously. Because YouTube works, and there are millions of people there. If you build a network with different content, different functionality, different user experience, I may consider switching or using it at the same time with YouTube (YouTube also sucks a lot). But I will never care, as a user, whether it's built on MySQL, Big Table or Blockchain. That's not my business at all.
So, the technology might be great (I am not to judge), but the application of it looks still blurry to me. People just don't seem to come up with any good idea how to apply Blockchain, and they are trying to take any random industry and build a solution which "should work better" than existing ones. But from the user point of view, it doesn't matter.