I dropped my standard hours down to 24 just recently and it's been rejuvenating. I do pick up the odd freelance/contract job whem it suits (pay/hours) and spend the rest of my time working around the house and generally relaxing.
It's done wonders for mental health and stress levels. No more sitting in traffic all day, missing half my kids' life, stressing out about not getting stuff done around the house, eatimg crap food on the fly, being too tired to do much in the weekend, and most of all I can spend more time with my wife, which is awesome.
I'm on the move do don't have any sources for you, but from what I understand php 7.x benchmarks pretty close to HHVM. I wouldn't be surprised if 7.2/3 surpasses it.
Depends on how it's written. I'd suspect they've done a pretty good job on eeping the engine as decoupled from their code as possible. It'd probably be just a matter of rewriting a translation layer.
To 99% of the population, Bitcoin is the only crypto currency. They don't care about the other 500 alts, they don't understand them. If/when it goes mainstream, BTC will be the USD of crypto.
No matter what happens, a win for any crypto alt is a win for Bitcoin.
The reason designers use them is because 95% of their userbase values form over function.
You're obviously in the 5% which values function over form, but surely you can understand most people want things to look pretty, plus the company wants to have a cohesive brand.
I used to be a function-over-form advocate but was converted somewhere along the line after working with some awesome designers, doing lots of a/b testing and talking with the end user.
Both form and function are equally as important as each other.
This is not specific to programming, but personalities in general. There are people who love the journey and others who love the destination.
People rarely switch from one to the other. It's part of our core ideals.
However, there is a large, vocal, percentage from both these groups that will always voice their opinion against an opposition opinion. It's not a competition and there's no correct answer. It's purely subjective.
Proper full stack devs are rare, but they do exits, and they're worth their weight in gold to any company with under 50 staff. I've been 'full stack' my entire career but it takes a long time to actually become a competent full stack dev.
A proper full stack dev can make design and implementation decisions at all levels, while being able to visualise the affect of those changes over the entire system, in detail, at low level. They're also able to communicate these changes not only to a uber-low-level introverted developer, they're also able to sit with the CEO/CTO and rationalise their decision in terms of cost and savings.
And of course, they're able to drop anchor, exit the elevator at any level and get on the tools.
I'm not sure if a South China Sea bubble in the 18th century can really be used as a valid comparison here.
We're talking about the rise of a self-contained, decentralised currency and transactional system, all rolled into one. It literally has blatant potential to be a game changer, 100%.
In saying that, I wouldn't be surprised if it all falls apart in the short term.
I like the clap feature. I wasn't quite sure what to think of it at the start but it definitely better than a binary 'like'.
It gives me the ability to drop 'claps' as I'm scrolling through an article and liking certain parts. I get to the end and there's a total of however-many claps I've clapped.
I hope medium are tracking the position each clap was made, along with certain things like if a user genuinely read the article - opposed to those who just clapped from the front page or at the top of the article without scrolling.
This is what I do. Friend of a friend is a dealer. He's at the auctions every other day. I just put in an order with him and he'll call me when he finds something good. I trust him. Having had a bad deal yet. Charges $400.