I am sorry, but this list does the exact same thing that a thousand Vogue or similar magazines do for whatever topic is trending. Substitute "successful" with "sexy" or "slim" or whatever and you get the same packaging.
It does feel like shoehorning people into fitting some particular "pattern" that the author believes to be the "secret" to obtain said goal.
I always find it surprising that such short (relatively) articles, choke full of relatively difficult to apply advice gain a mass following and plenty of readers.
It does remind me of the rather stupid advice that depressed people get every day: "pull yourself up!"
Amazing how we do seem to forget the complexity that riddles our minds.
I do not think this is a rational response. I get that the "knee-jerk" reaction might be one of total disgust (I know because I also had it reading this), but there should be a bit of rational thought put into what would be the consequences of this.
Because AI growing humans and the Matrix becoming reality is a little bit on the "surreal paranoid" side of life, given the current state of scientific knowledge.
On that same train of thought, but with a more realistic outlook, we could just think of the many difficult pregnancy cases that women might face that this development might help solve. And by difficult cases I mean situations where women who want a child face complications during pregnancy.
And generally (even though I'm a natural pessimist), I think it's best to have a positive outlook towards the products of our own curiosity. They might bring trouble, but there are very few other natural catalysts to progress other than curiosity. War comes to mind as an alternative, but I believe that is less than desired.
For some companies, open-source projects or contributions to open-source projects are a pretty strong signal that you: a) are commited enough to work on a long term project; b) have had some experience in working on a team; c) have worked on a project that has real-life use.
Colour me biased (I'm romanian) but I think that Cluj is the perfect town to be based in if you have a well paying remote job.
Great internet (like everywhere in Romania btw), nice town, cheap living, nice places to hike to in the surrounding countryside, university town (aka lots of girls).
English centric view to say the least. If the "speakularity" comes, given the current state of transcription and voice recognition software it is very probable that only english speaking people would be "affected".
I could think of an application in which there would be minimal disk interaction and just lots of network action and in-memory processing so hypothetically it all depends on how the CPU handles parallelization through its cores.
I will try to test if those "servers" would be good for task processing. Example: let's say I have a ton of websites to crawl (high IO, not much CPU, ideally parallel). I could use a couple of these to cheaply do the job.
I am guessing that any job that is not CPU or memory hungry would fit the bill. Like crawling, sending a massive amount of emails, simple text processing, maybe even as a RabbitMQ server.
slightly off-topic: if you didn't watch it yet, you should rush to see this documentary about Alan Moore. They mind of this guy is a fascinating universe.
While the technical achievements are impressive, I am not convinced how "playable" this game will be in the end.
Almost all the games in existence have at least 2 core elements: story and character purpose.
I have not seen evidence of either in this game (no, "space exploration" is not exactly a purpose).
A great addition to this graphical engine would be a scripting engine that would allow independent writers to create their own quests and method to submit them to the players.
I have a bit of a science fiction scenario. Bear with me for a little bit.
Let's suppose for a bit this approximate series of events was the actual goal of Mr. Varoufakis and company.
Why would they want this and who would want to risk the fate of an entire country and their own reputation on a "gamble"?
Because they started the negotiation game with a huge disadvantage and there was no way that they could bring something new to the table. So Tsipras and Varoufakis chose to "play the dumb communist" scenario that everyone was painting, stretch the canvas a bit and get new offers on the table and start with a different negotiating position.
This hypothesis, which I will check the following days, proposes that the Tsipras government and Varoufakis knew and understood very well the nature of the political and economical forces that pushed on them from outside of Greece. Knowing those forces and playing on the predictions laid out by the other side (Germany was already unhappy after Syriza won, expecting to have a difficult time negotiating with them) they followed to the line the "predicted" course. Difficult negotiations, huge differences in views, big political declarations and discourse, etc. The goal in the end was simple enough: get a cleaner slate.
Both the turbulent negotiations, with Varoufakis playing the evil marxist scapegoat, and the referendum, after a week of bank closures, were used as a ruse to lead the European leaders through to a "clean slate" phase. It was a very risky move, but I believe that the various contradictory signals that Tsipras sent just before the referendum confirm that it was a game. Like poker player that accidentally reveals his weakness just before he pulls a full house. The resignation of Varoufakis today is the next piece in their scenario: just take out the nasty opinionated communist and all the european parties will clearly feel more relaxed. I believe that this move was planned from the beginning and Varoufakis was used to "stir up" the pot a bit, while apparently being discarded as "peace offering" after a while.
So what was gained by this daring gamble?
First of all, the markets were calmed. The negotiations were so desperate from the start, given the position of the two parties that everybody was sure of the Greek default. Now, with the financial markets accepting the default event in itself, any new deals on the table will have to take this fact into consideration. It's not "looming" anymore, it is here and it is indisputable.
Second, the situation now allows for a much needed debt haircut. Refinancing is all fine and dandy, but everybody agreed that the debt could not be sustainably repaid. So now everybody is suddenly ok with the debt reducing.
Third, the Tsipras government kept its word with its electors. They "fought" valiantly for the good of the people. Actually with the cards they got dealt by the previous government, they played quite a good game until now. And their general appeal has definitely risen from 36.3% (plus affiliated parties) to a 61% (as shown by the referendum).
Fourth, the european hard-liners were blind-sided and the rules for the negotiation were changed. The deal before this referendum was "behave or we will strangle you". Now, it's quite a useless threat given the actual default. So Tsipras most certainly will be able to have better terms.
Sorry for the long post, had a bit of thoughts to get out. :D
This guide is pretty good and gives you a comprehensive view of Elasticsearch, but to me it was a bit confusing when I first read it. If you are looking for a more "tutorial" style book, with some examples and use-cases, I would recommend "Elasticsearch in action"[0].
I might be biased towards Manning books, but I find their style and ELI5 wording to be very helpful as an introduction to a subject.
It does feel like shoehorning people into fitting some particular "pattern" that the author believes to be the "secret" to obtain said goal.
I always find it surprising that such short (relatively) articles, choke full of relatively difficult to apply advice gain a mass following and plenty of readers.
It does remind me of the rather stupid advice that depressed people get every day: "pull yourself up!" Amazing how we do seem to forget the complexity that riddles our minds.