I think wysiwyg editors are also only useful in certain cases - CMSs, blogs, DTPs - the sort of systems where the data entered is the information you will see. There are large categories of applications, however, where the data entered is first aggregated/manipulated before it is useful for any sort of output - in these cases, wysiwyg is just not the way forward.
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
I think with the amount of coverage this story has gotten, everyone wanted something big to happen. Instead, we just get something mundane in some carefully crafted words that seem designed to give no information whatsoever, while still ensuring nobody can be sued any further. I kind of get the feeling that they are all trying to say "Nothing to see here....move along....cows turn themselves inside out all the time".
Personal anecdote - I had an issue with Visual Studio inverting colours and removing toolbars a few years ago and couldn't fix it even with re-install. I eventually (after going though official channels) emailed Scott and he spent a fair bit of time emailing me back and forth to get all the details of the problem and then put me in touch with a few other people in MS who helped me fix the problem.
Michel Thomas is excellent - I learned enough French from his course (having never learned any French before) to have some basic conversations with people I was staying with in France. Nothing groundbreaking or deep, but general basic chit chat about the weather, what to do, where to go, how to get there etc.
I work in healthcare. Basically the stuff I do has a direct impact on funding given to vaccinations initiatives, disease prevention and disease management.
Doing this, in my experience, is easy - find an organisation that does meaningful work and go work for them.
Go back to university and study more. I would probably start with arts - literature, music and move towards psychology, philosophy, medicine, economics and if time permitted, some languages.
I could happily spend my days learning.
I'm of the opinion that your data structure should model your data. If your piece of data is best represented by char or varchar, then use it. I'm not super familiar with Postgres, but among other things, modelling your data correctly helps when another developer has to step in and maintain your app. They can easily get a sense of how the presentation layer should look if you've done so.
From what I can see, they only accept money by bank transfer which means, unless you have an EU based bank account, you'll be paying transfer fees. Pity.
The no change of clothes angle seems to be overshadowing what I think really made their experience - that of no itinerary. That said, I think people mostly over-pack for holidays/travel. I once had all my luggage stolen at the start of a holiday when camping in France. I ended up buying a jumper and a change of underwear and the rest of the holiday went swimingly :)
What about simply DRY? isn't that what you're aiming for - having code sharable between client and server such that you don't have two pieces of code that do the same thing in two different places?
Interesting read. I really think that the SEO problems faced by SPAs will eventually become a non problem......web crawlers will adapt to the technology that is rendering web pages because indexing is their "product".