i recently researched this topic for a website I was building, and it led to reading of the actual laws US states have implemented in the past few years to take on the "designer drug" issue, and almost all of the laws I read always included "..or similar/derivative compounds that produce the same effect" clauses, which always seemed to me a fairly powerful catch-all that would seem to allow police to charge space-cowboys for whatever they may be tripping on...
" Another concluded: “some vc suit wants a maintainable-by-joe-programmer product. I hope he pays you millions.”"
so this guy is implying that we should be choosing our programming languages based on how hard and expensive it will be to get other dev's to work on it?
that is the most economically unsound and elitist thing i've heard recently.
yes...esp. if you are a backend dev and want to offer basic responsive designs to clients at a decent price point without having to learn yet another entire paradigm.
as someone who had a failed startup back in 1988 (we wrote multi-user BBS software pre-mosaic/www days) in straight C and btree tables (REAL no-sql), what I would find more interesting in this collection is a "what-am-I-doing-now" section, where the individuals who wrote these essays now talk about their lives.
trust me...failure bites but often you come back much better, wiser, and stronger than before, and those stories are often more interesting than the failure ones.
this "case" is so laughable it as to be a pubstunt for the NJ AG to get his name in the papers, using "omg it bitcoinz! look im 733T" to show likely voters that "darnit, I understand the "risks" here, although you don't."
idk...seems like self-serving justification to me.
young people delay adulthood,l i think, because their parents allow and perhaps even encourage them to stay at home. this may not be a totally irrational response to economic realities in 2014, but trust me as someone who had overindulgent parents in my 20's, it comes with potentially a painful downside eventually.
"What do I mean by stimulation and challenges? The most obvious example is higher education, which has been shown to stimulate brain development in ways that simply getting older does not. College attendance pays neural as well as economic dividends."
simply getting older? what about the "brain stimulation" that comes from perhaps learning new things for work or running a start-up? the idea that working adult somehow turn off this part of their brains is highly suspect imo.
it boggles my mind that people don't see this for what it so obviously is...a law of the plutocrats, by the plutocrats, for the plutocrats.
large corporation want to throw huge sums of money around to each other to control what their "customers" get access for...its that's simple.
do you think that when amazon loads in .4 sec and disruptiveStartUp.com loads in 2, that consumers won't highly prefer just going to the faster one?? esp. on mobile?