If you haven't watched this, it will change your life. Even if you have, it's one of the few youtube videos that is worth a re-watch. The book is just as good if not better.
Spoiler:
It is a former CS professor at Carnegie Mellon named Randy Pausch. He had terminal pancreatic cancer. This is a dying professor's last lecture. It is a father sharing life lessons for his kids when they are older to watch.
Some relevant quotes:
- “As you get older, you may find that 'enabling the dreams of others' thing is even more fun.”
- “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
- “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
- “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
Quite frankly, if a person has any sort of formal education in their background such as college or even taking coding classes in high school, they are then entirely unqualified to offer such an opinion.
It may be easy to learn new languages online due to having learned the foundations, but unless you can say you learned all the foundations online, this type of comment isnt helpful. As many others have mentioned learning is a science and it takes a lot of work to structure learning in a digestible manner.
Quite frankly, if a person has any sort of formal education in their background such as college or even taking coding classes in high school, they are then entirely unqualified to offer such an opinion.
It may be easy to learn new languages online due to having learned the foundations, but unless you can say you learned all the foundations online, this type of comment isnt helpful. As many others have mentioned learning is a science and it takes a lot of work to structure learning in a digestible manner.
The author is actually a fairly junior developer (graduated in 2013), but I must hand it to them for taking the initiative of getting published by such a large entity (oreilly media) and locking down speaking engagements (GopherCon) so early in their career!
They have a bright future even if this article does not contain the most accurate advice.
I'd like to add the only optimistic response I can think of. The only benefit of deregulation is the opportunity for disruption of monopolies. Especially so in a landscape of tech.
If provider A starts providing terrible bandwidth, incredibly high prices, and terrible service, it means that that provider X has a lucrative opportunity to provide better bandwidth, better prices, and great service.
I hope these rules aren't used to help entrenched monopolies, but provide an ripe opportunity for the space to innovate.
I hope these rules will be on the wrong side of history, but there is little stopping anyone from using the free market to their advantage.
Secondly, I think this is incredibly important moving forward with the proliferation of messaging channels. I want to be able to use one program for all of my different chat sessions. Whether that be adium or pidgin or mIRC or even weechat/bitlebee in a docker container. It would be great if there would be common plugins for common chat clients provided off the shelf. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Spoiler: It is a former CS professor at Carnegie Mellon named Randy Pausch. He had terminal pancreatic cancer. This is a dying professor's last lecture. It is a father sharing life lessons for his kids when they are older to watch.
Some relevant quotes:
- “As you get older, you may find that 'enabling the dreams of others' thing is even more fun.”
- “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
- “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
- “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
- “People are more important than things.”