This is a great point, which is part of what the original speech linked to covers: Education and it's associated achievements require time and resources beyond what schools themselves provide.
Regarding people in a similar economic situation to yours, I wonder if taking on a modest amount of low-interest debt early in life to fund a more comfortable and convenient life while you study and achieve in the free university system would be seen as a valuable investment? I understand the fear of debt that may exist, but with a free uni system available, it seems like such a great opportunity. Imagine if (as Rory Sutherland has proposed in one of his talks) instead of calling it a debt, it were named an "education tax" that you pay back a bit at a time after graduation?
I believe ORBIS was created in 2011 and launched in 2012 - a time before many of today's browser capabilities had been made available. It's amazing how far web browsers have come since then.
Great project! I can imagine this may greatly improve web certain classes of scraping. @gavino I'm curious what tooling and architecture you used to put this together?
Rich Hickey has given so much to the world of software and systems design. The value exchange has most likely not been reciprocal. Nor has it been sufficiently respectful, based on this message. People like Rich that give so much are rare. And people that understand how to respectfully recognize that seem to be becoming more rare.
Of course, one can remember that life is not fair, and people are often shitty even without being conscious of it, and that Rich has freely chosen to pursue this path.
But this leads me to a few questions: If you agree with what I have written above, and what Rich has written in this message, then how can we tip the scales just a little bit further towards respect and reciprocation? What kind of gestures, gifts, and generosities do you think are appropriate? What improved efforts to educate consumers of open source software would be effective? Further still, what kind of culture do we want?
It is orthogonal to the Times article, but George Gilder's recent book "Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy" [1] offers a valuable perspective. His recent interview at the Stanford Hoover Institute [2] is compelling.
Great tool! I'd like to see you keep going with this. Quick feedback: it would be useful to copy the entire ruleset, including the selector and brackets (as an option). Further if you can reach into source via document.stylesheets, grab the selectors from source (as another option).
I think it is the same book. Personal review: This book makes the history of computing tangible, visceral, and fun to read about - covering all the important characters, and showing the network of connections among them, from Vannevar Bush, Norbert Weiner, Claude Shannon, all the way to Bob Taylor and Alan Kay. Licklider forms an important node in the network with his imagination, and actions taken such as this 1963 memo for the "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network" [1]