I did not know if this person until today, very glad for their monetary success.
However, the technological choices that he makes seem fine for the type of web applications he's building: seemingly simple, one-off projects to which he adds more features as needed.
I don't know if that approach would work on maintaining a large code base in the case of a meatier project that needs to be maintained for the long term. My own experience doing web dev (which is not my specialty) is that HTML,CSS,JS quickly become unmaintainable when you try to scale them without a well though out architecture and some prior experience.
From my personal (limited) research and observations. I am in no way an expert.
Unions originally seem to have made a very positive impact on the working conditions of workers. Just think of the horrible situation of steel workers (and others) during the start of the industrial revolution. Workers organized to make a change and improve their lot.
Fast forward a few decades: Unions seem to have become self-sustained entities whose incentive have switched from helping workers, to sustaining the union's economic interests. They also sometimes help some workers, but it's not free.
There is a very well known case in Quebec, Canada. It's the Gaspesia debacle:
"Work on the mill conversion began in the spring of 2002. From the beginning, the project -- established as a limited partnership 50 per cent owned by the Fonds de solidarité with the SGF and Tembec each holding 25-per-cent stakes -- was plagued by delays and mismanagement. The FTQ was accused of blocking workers affiliated with other unions from getting construction jobs on the site. Contractors complained that workers were paid for eight-hour days, but put in only three hours of productive labour."
This is only the tip of the Iceberg, and illustrates why there seems a negative perception of unions.
- Women do most of the shuttling of kids? I've yet to see any evidence of this.
- There are differences between the genders, but 'genetic behavioral differences' is a very broad and deep assumption regarding nature vs nurture and opens a whole other spectrum of basic questions.
- Over representation of a gender in some particular field. Being equal does not mean we all have the same aptitudes and interests.
I wonder why no one addresses the lack of representation of males in some highly female dominated sectors. For example male nurses are a minor fraction of the number of female nurses.
I'm an (veteran?) Software Dev with close to 20 years experience. I've never had a portfolio, I always thought a resumé and a list of successfully completed projects was enough. HR usually only looks at resumé, freelance customers usually couldn't care less of it seems. Only devs would care about another devs portfolio (in my opinion).
A long time ago, the printed word was the way to influence and disseminate ideas. Some ideas good, some less and most people could not read.
Then came Radio with it's ads and shows. It was another way to nudge the masses and shape the 'public' opinion. Everyone who had a radio could tune-in.
Television, the moving image! The joy: everyone could watch an endless stream of shows. This was not lost on advertisers ,corporations and propaganda arms of the states.
Now comes FB, Google, Twitter and all these attention hoarding 'services'.
I am not a user of any social medias (not do I condone their use), but how is that different from the previous innovations which allows mass communication? If anything it seems to me that Soros and others might find it decentralizes and weakens their power of media convergence? Would Soros think the same if he had been CEO of FB?
Of course I am sad of seeing so many young people wasting their attention on their illuminated mobile screens, and certainly see the harm in it. But Soros, what is you 'beef' with FB? I doubt that the devolution of humanity makes him loose sleep at night.
Yeah, early in my career I was making simpler 'kids' games and was dreaming of working on AAA titles ... That's until I actually shipped the first AAA and it's ball of mud-like code. It's funny because the impression I had before was from all the GDC talks from big studios always seem to have an awesome codebase that was refactor mercilessly. Not so ... I know now ...
I could read stuff like this 24/7 ... something visceral about plowing though some ridiculous constraints and finally making history really gets to me ...