My 1st language was assembler in the 80's Sinclair ZX line (mainly ZX Spectrum 48k). Back on the time, i used count t-states (cpu cycles) and manual optimize assembler code. Good times prior internet and even modems where we exchanged assembler routines via normal post mail letters.. like heavy letters every 4 weeks or so, side by side with "almost girl friend" flirt letter.. oh good times when coming home after school wondering for new mail responses :D Anyway, back to topic i was lucky to start down bottom with assembler and then kept going up in abstraction.. i would risk suggesting its a good best practice no matter how fast is hardware or how much elasticity exists in parallel processing of data like with hadoop... in the end deep bottom everything still relies in pretty simple and basic constructs. Good Day everyone.

Above the best technical and contextual world best analsys, in fact we Humans need "Big objectives (again)". For me space exploration is (always was) the way for it. And for radical moves and accomplishment of great ideas we can't no longer discuss little technical details like billions for it, or etc.. Go ahead and reset the Nasa bank account, using a simple tn3270 transaction (takes 2 seconds) and voila, problem solved.. money is purely fictional and doesnt work in extreme critical panic seasons. Funny how sometimes this all look, as we were under Alien influenza or something.. but.. no, hey its just us .. humans. So cut the bad ones and promote the dreamers and the ones that enjoy doing things in the right way, instead of paying Millions to the ones that "talk the talk, instead of walk the walk". Born in 1969, I evolved reading, dreaming, working, on computer and related techcnologies, wishing that i would see a man travel to Mars, departing from our first lunar base. So.. its with extreme saddness that I start to see that this once again keeps being postponed. Meaning a dry and long desert time window till I hit the big sleep in 30 or 40 years. Postponing strong and important big achievements like space exploration, have a tremendous negative effect on the hopes and dreams of millions of people like me and lot's os Slashdot readers im sure. And as i try to pass on this post of mine, to all Humanity really. We need trustable leaders, and we need to quickly discuss a new model of sustainbility in everything around us based on true values (which rewards new knowledge and pleasure of doing things the right way). We can't no longer afford to pay Managers with srink thinking based on their own short timelife, used to work more as fireman then as motivational engines inside enterprises. And finally we need to start making thing in the right way, and forget about the old model of respecting deadlines and putting in production or live wrecked/systems, wrecked/news, wrecked/medicaments, wrecked/wrecked-stuff. "Living on the planet is not always easy, but hey, it includes several round trips around the Sun" or "Start looking to the sky and beyond it, Universe doesn't stop there" Or.. maybe i shall accept the reality of shifting political and economical to the East and just need to move into Singapure or China to continue to pursue my life time objectives, since USA is dying and will take much more generations to recover to the status of "Motivational Country that achieves big things" that made my teenager growup felt like a dream of achieving great things.