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Recommends smiler · 2011-02 · on “Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US”

Refuse? Refuse? You can fly to the US - some 4000 miles away in 7.5 hrs for the East Coast and 11 hours for the West coast. You then may have a little bit of a wait at immigration (or not as the case may be). I've gone through in 5 minutes and one time it was 45 minutes. Seeing as you state you're in the UK, you also eligible for the VWP which means you can travel to the US whenever you like. Just consider what it was like to travel before the invention of the airplane, or the steam ship. Please appreciate that you live in a time when travelling the world is very very easy. And please watch [this video]

Recommends batista · 2012-09 · on “iPhone 5”

Plus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter. NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment? You might want to see this: [this video]

Recommends tomaszkubacki · 2012-09 · on “Everything's broken and nobody's upset”

Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy Maybe we need to watch this tube to see things in a more balanced way: [this video]

Cites swombat · 2010-05 · on “Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to death?”

I hate to agree with you but... Wait, no, I don't hate to agree with you. You're absolutely right. "Died from too much hard coding"? Yeah right. Coding is hard intellectual work. And, as you point out, if you're not happy with the trade-offs at work, you can always start your own business. It's really an awesome situation to be in, compared to what we could have been doing a hundred years ago. Everything's amazing but nobody's happy: [this video] PS: I doubt the coding is what killed "John".

Cites jamesbritt · 2010-08 · on “Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?”

"If we're into social commentary, I'd point out that as we become more and more pampered, we become more and more infantile. I expect to push the button on the iPhone and have the pizza show up 15 minutes later. I expect to be in contact with all of my friends instantly via text message. I expect to have college paid for and a warm house with the folks if things don't work out." [this video]

Cites timf · 2010-09 · on “There is a Horse in the Apple Store”

When the tiny pony is a negative thing, many call it Creeping Normalcy [1]. Sounds like the same phenonmenon to me: adjustments that come slowly enough do not get appreciated. Louis CK has a funny bit about it [2]. [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]

Cites ithkuil · 2010-10 · on “Stonebraker: Clarifications on the CAP Theorem and Data-Related Errors”

Berkely DB is NoSQL under some, let's say literal, definitions of NoSQL. neo4j currently is also such a db, a non sql db, a NoSQL. Normally, though, people expect something more from this NoSQL "movement". People want "scaling", and elasticity. We live in the world where today you have 2 users, tomorrow you have 2 million of users, the day after you have only 1000. We also live in a world were people are expecting everything to be working always, and are pretty pissed of if things doesn't respond in seconds (watch Luis C.K [this video] ) It's not a surprise that all this hype about NoSQL came out when a number of db implementation were developed which handled replication, sharding, dynamic resizi

Cites siculars · 2010-12 · on “Web Programming Is Hard ”

When people complain to me about so and so technology related I tell them to relax, breath and consider the millions of things that need to go right in order for you to watch the latest Lady Gaga video on youtube. I am constantly reminded of this by Louis CK [this video]