Why does the writer present Superdad's problem as unavoidably exposing their child to violence by having them at work and not the fact that they have their child at work?
Why do they make solemn vows about not creating overly violent games with their new company and not vows about not having their developers work 80 hours a week?
Why is virtual death more important than the death of the working week and developers' social lives and well-being?
Why, in an article supposedly about creating a better future world, is development being a terrible industry that chews up and spits out people complacently accepted as a foregone conclusion?
All the examples highlight how well a super-minimalist site works when you have very little content. What about restaurants with more than just a half dozen menu items though?
Yeah, I even wrote my own MVC framework for a small project and I still don't know what MVC is "supposed" to mean because every single implementation example I see is completely different and at odds.
The obsession with 3d printing vs more practical methods has everything to do with privileged white nerds and their obsession with the "information economy" over actual knowledge and skills (and physical effort, which they reject as blue-collar). Lathes and machining require refinement of individual workmanship, while refining 3d printing resides entirely in the realm of the printer manufacturers with the end-users reduced to the role of consumers.
If you'd actually spent a few weeks using it, you'd know. Windows 8 is a solid improvement on 7 that requires virtually no change in usage patterns. 99% of the time you're on the same old desktop and the other 1% you hit the windows key and start typing, same as always, only 8's search is about a million times faster than 7's.
Like virtually all technology fetishists, he completely ignores the realities of class dynamics and global neoliberal hegemony to pretend that any theoretical singularity will benefit everyone and not just those at the top of the value-extraction pyramid without radical societal upheaval beforehand.
It's like the people hailing social media as the guardian of democratic action and claiming it's responsible for things like the Egyptian uprising when an absurdly low percentage of Egyptians had access to a computer of any kind. The white western middle class blinders are so strong that they are incapable of not projecting their own privileged lifestyle as a global norm.
The US military has spent a decade murdering over a million civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and more and taken to labeling every male over the age of 16 as a "militant" in order to try and salvage the statistics a fraction.
There are hundreds of far more terrible things happening every day that do not make the slightest dent in the public consciousness. It seems incredibly premature (at best, woefully naive would be more accurate in my opinion) to pretend this is good news and sure to bring about change.
The article mentions that before colemak they weren't even touch-typing qwerty. Simply making the effort to learn to touch-type will certainly match the speed improvements they noted, regardless of layout.
Alienation is the word being sought after here, not distraction. Alienation is the defining characteristic and goal of late capitalism, because alienation drives consumption.
Everything about the suburban commuter lifestyle is characterized by how it further alienates us. Homes are disconnected walled gardens inside other walled gardens, training us to fear what lies outside. Transportation is done in individual disconnected boxes to jobs that are spread far and wide and businesses that are giant faceless boxes surrounded by oceans of parking lots. Genuine communal shared experience and community interaction is replaced by tv culture. Individual interaction is replaced by 140 character soundbytes and bumper sticker philosophy facebook statuses.
None of this is an accident, and none of it is even terribly recent, it's just the culmination of endless efforts to alienate you from the people around you and increase your anxiety and fear because it means you'll buy more shit to try and fill that void.
This is Marx 101 stuff, I recommend David Harvey as a starting place if you're looking for an examination of present society along these lines.
If you're using Chrome 22 (stable) on Win8, note that you need to switch to the beta or dev channels as the Win8 version of Chrome doesn't have web audio support until 23.0.1270.0
Technology ripe for abuse in the air over an area already subject to one of the most brutal, reactionary gangs of thugs ever to be handed the reins of power in the US, Oakland PD. Yaaay
That's been the case for almost 15 years now and any sign of a clue materializing has yet to be demonstrated. Just look at Netflix's slow death spiral as its content library keeps shrinking in favor of overpriced walled gardens.
Valve is virtually the only major media company to understand that the only way to win back dollars from pirates is by offering a compelling service at fair prices.
Whitewashing and cheerleading a legacy of genocide, rape, enslavement, and the theft of land and resources is "bad", yes. Further, establishing the history of the conquerors as the dominant narrative is a time honored tradition for stamping out native history, language, culture, and values.
e.g. In the US there is no "white history month" because EVERY month is white history month, white history is simply called "history" and is treated as a norm with only token attention paid to what lies outside it. This establishes an unconscious acceptance of white superiority and historical priority in both white and students of color and is a cornerstone of systemic white privilege.
If you're going to take ketamine, please be careful, it's a very dangerous drug because studies show repeated exposure puts you at high risk of accidentally liking dubstep.
I manage a website for a small business that doesn't want or warrant a full integrated blog engine. Feedburner allows the business owners to write news/announcements on blogger.com and display them on the front page of their website with just a single line of js. This puts authentication and security all on Google instead of the website and still provides a simple WYSIWYG interface for easy tech-illiterate updating.
Why do they make solemn vows about not creating overly violent games with their new company and not vows about not having their developers work 80 hours a week?
Why is virtual death more important than the death of the working week and developers' social lives and well-being?
Why, in an article supposedly about creating a better future world, is development being a terrible industry that chews up and spits out people complacently accepted as a foregone conclusion?