The people you visited probably had nothing but the best of intentions. But to expect all those other thousands with similarly elevated privileges to behave similarly as such would be..short sighted indeed.
lol you mean he stole a further £300.
Fines are not there to teach a lesson. Poor people can't pay so steal, rich people can afford to pay so do. Who does this arrangement benefit if not the victim?
It's a, what, 7th, or 8th generation product?
Let them move on. Of course it's going to settle into a more MacBook style cycle of steady, measured updates (no pun intended).
Going bigger is clearly a 'we've done what we came here to do, now lets mop up what we can from the high end to fund our other projects'. I struggle to knock them for that.
1. They will start saving: No. They won't. They will have what little money they have put into a system outside of their control and systematically syphoned away.
2. The benefits of saving are not something people need to learn; the benefits of saving money are harder to justify to someone who isn't already wholly dependant on it (and maybe even perceives it as a tool used against his people for centuries).
3. True, but I fail to see a major difference between a government and corrupt middle men. Most government people run businesses, is that the same in India? Conflict of interest?
4. The 2000's called...give it a couple years and whatever legislation you think protects the poor will be watered down, eroded away, or completely worked around.
The textbook justifications for predatory capitalism don't work anymore. I'm sorry, but the more involved the poor are in finance, the more they are preyed upon; because there is opportunity and reward. Taking candy from a baby.
Depends on what you want out of your career as a developer; again, personally, I try to make things that I want/need myself because I find doing it the other way (looking for a hole on the market and filling it, for example) doesn't give me what I want. The motivation is all wrong and I get no satisfaction from that kind of success.
The difference, to me, is whether you're focussed on the product or the reward.
I try to focus on the product because that's the best long term strategy in my opinion.
"good development should improve the overall human condition"
uh - that's a lot of pressure. I just want to make stuff. Not everything we do has to have a goal, a target. Just build.
I develop for iOS first because I want to. It's the platform I choose to use. I, personally, don't care for Android. The ONLY reason for me to develop for it is money. That's a recipe for shitty work. Does it have to be more complicated than that? If I'm making a mistake, so be it. What do you care?!
ugh.
Publicising your pie in the sky ideas is not impressive.
Watch:
FLYING BREAD MACHINES
Where's my kudos?
Anyone can 'work' on interesting, crowd leasers like life extension and internet for all, but until they do something they're essentially just jacking off. And we're footing the bill (well, advertisers are - silver lining...)