All these "Uber for" services, excluding Uber, just seem like things for people with too much money on their hands that are unsustainable and will fizzle out in a couple of years.
Many prominent investors and others in tech have come out and said that they don't think it's a bubble.
People overlook the main difference between the dotcom bubble and now: In the dotcom bubble many companies went public and average joes were quitting their jobs to become day traders. Now the new success model for companies is "get bought by one of the existing giants" rather than "go public", and the investment in these companies is all from VCs/angels, for whom it doesn't matter if the company crashes and burns, in fact it is their whole business model(invest in a ton of companies and hope a few are massive successes).
If you actually look at the numbers right now, it's laughable to think we're in a bubble.
Independent contracting/consulting, anyone? I'm looking into this as a possible occupation for the near future, it seems like it would allow me the opportunity to work hard but in bursts, and then take breaks in between to enjoy/pursue my own ventures. Anyone have any luck doing this, thoughts on it?
What is actually the advantage of using Octopress as a blogging framework instead of something like Tumblr/Wordpress, which are pretty much equally customizable?
Have you ever used a relational database? It would be much easier and faster for a dataset like this.
The general consensus on the use case for something like MongoDB is actually the opposite of what you opine. It works well for large, loosely defined datasets where many fields can be optional or empty, for example something like patient medical data, with few or very basic relations between objects.
I don't think that anyone besides the "evangelists"(shills selling snake oil) would tell you to use something like Mongo if you have a well-defined and predictable dataset.
Congrats on the success. Did you code the game from scratch with Xcode's tools, or did you use something like Unity?
Also, you said you started working on the game in March 2014, so it took around 9 months to develop? What aspect of the game would you say the largest part of that time was spent on?
No, we aren't. The conditions of the original tech bubble and today's conditions differed greatly, and several prominent investors have answered that it definitely isn't a bubble when questioned as such. People just use "bubble" to refer to any market that seems dubious in their likely uninformed opinion. Please stop saying this and fearmongering.
I tried Elementary about a year ago and uninstalled it after a couple hours. Everything was ridiculously dumbed down and unproductive, worse than anything I've ever seen. I'm a devout OSX user and contrary to popular opinion I don't find anything easier to use about OSX over Windows for general usage.
Hey, you still there? I'm planning on moving out to the Bay Area in February 2014 and looking for roommates. If you look at my post history I think you'll find we share some similar sentiments. Tell me if you're interested.
Why is everyone(including business journalists who should know better) screaming about a "tech bubble"? There has only ever been one, and the conditions under which it happened were much different than today's, and if you actually look at the hard numbers right now a bubble seems laughable. People who actually know what they're talking about(investors like Mark Cuban) have said there definitely isn't a bubble.
>That essay by Paul Graham about 'mean people' is looking downright prophetic right about now.
None of this crap changes the fact that Uber is a massively successful service and is beloved by consumers. Big companies get sued all the time. Apple(and just about every other company) manufacture the products people love in China where the workers are under horrible conditions, arguably ethically worse than anything Uber has ever done. So no, mean people don't fail any more than any other kind of person does. People just love to hate them.
Created a website whose sole purpose is to distribute copyrighted files illegally(and includes a very popular "Porn" section I might add), yet he complains about some "sexist" company sending scantily clad girls to distribute freebies at a party in Stockholm(in Sweden, who traditionally has been very laid back about that type of thing). What a blowhard.
I've actually tried both Postgres FTS and Elasticsearch(in conjunction with a Postgres DB) and found Elasticsearch easier for search. It's much more robust - for my specific case I needed a bunch of Japanese text to be searchable alongside english text; Postgres has very poor support for this - and its API is excellent and its very quick and painless to set up(documentation is not stellar though). You don't have to worry about things like vectors or indices with ES, you can just put the data in and it will be easily searchable, and it's miles more efficient when searching across large data sets. It Java-based so it is a pretty big resource hog though, so I can see the advantage of someone who just needed very lightweight search for their project using tsearch.