and I'm glad to see him being mentioned on Slashdot. He, imho, brings a lot of joy to those nostalgia suckers like myself. I wish more content creators would be like him, publishing quality content and being far from bias and drama.

So far these models are yet to prove their value. The only thing they are doing is consuming tons of energy with dubious results and leeching tons of data. Thanks but no thanks.

Thing is that it's not true. If you injure yourself or become disabled in an accident, it incurs costs to the taxpayers... Either disability payments or taking care of your kids if you have any at young age or even offering counseling to people that might have been traumatised as bystanders. Worse case, if you die, it's extra efforts of cleaning the guts from the tarmac. So no, it's not as simple as "let them die".

If you want to do something about this shit that apple is pulling off, help Louis Rossmann (search for him or just check his YouTube channel). He is doing a lot of heavy lifting to fight for the right to repair. Do something, at least inform yourself and spread the word. It's not only Apple that is a problem, but they are an unfortunate role model.

Depends on the market around you. Ignore all the haters here saying it should die etc, they know nothing and fanboyism is clouding already ill judgement. PHP grew a lot, it's a very powerful scripting language with a rather easy learning curve, as long as you have decent programming skills because otherwise it will also make it easy to have unmaintainable mess. YMMV. Other than that, for most of web applications, and yes big multi billion â ones too, it will do way better than java or python. Don't get me wrong my main development language has been python due to professional reasons but fuck me it's becomes a mess when maintaining big projects, even split by mid sized services. And it's fast, very fast since 7.1. Judging php by WordPress is stupid. WordPress is a hell of a mess that SHOULD die, yes, with this I will agree. /nd

I live in central Berlin and own a car. Not for everyday use tho. And after working hours, weekends there is not much of an issue driving and parking. Plenty of bikes and Carsharing too as well as good public transportation. If all is balanced, it works for everyone.

Same here... With a clasical skin :)

Imho both things are positive. I'm working for on of the biggest startup generators in the EU and currently as a team lead for something similar to amazon marketplace. Our project employs about 70 developers spread around 8 sub-teams. Each team practices both pair programming from time to time, like couple of hours a week per dev and we also do code reviews per feature for each other, randomly, across all sub-teams. This ensures both knowledge spreading and better code quality. I can't imagine anyone doing it all the time but I don't see this subject as one VS another.. I'd rather have both moderately. For us it works very well.

I wonder why people would immediately bash on Windows and keep defending apple's crap. Somehow double standards here.

Quoting Lufthansa CEO here. "In a joint press conference on Mar 26th 2015 Germanwings and Lufthansa stated they are shocked having to accept that according to cockpit voice recorder the first officer locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately steered the aircraft into terrain. Pilots undergo detailed assessment and psychological tests. The first officer started training in 2008, worked as a flight attendant, continued training after undergoing another assessment, passed all tests and started his pilot career as first officer on the A320 in 2013. The CEO of Lufthansa explained, that if after the extended code to enter the cockpit has been entered, the pilot in the cockpit receives a signal and has the ability to open the door or lock the door. If the pilot in the cockpit does not react at all, the cockpit door opens upon entering the extended code after some time. If the pilot in the cockpit selects to lock the door, the door remains locked for 5 minutes. Within the entire Lufthansa group there is no standard operating procedure requiring another member of the (cabin) crew to enter the cockpit if one of the pilots leaves the cockpit. The captain was permitted to leave the cockpit in cruise flight, e.g. for a toilet break."

Honestly I'm really tired of reading over and over again about how PHP is bad and is better. I'm working for one of major European companies that have e-commerce businesses all over the world and pretty much everything is developed in PHP. Properly developed. Currently we employ around 3000 devs worldwide and somehow the products are stable, reliable and security wise, we still haven't had much issues except for some mishaps from system administration side. Our code is not all written from scratch because we employ some frameworks that indeed force most of the people to write better code.. Add constant code reviews from professional team leads, some tools that help you hunt bugs and you get yourself a proper platform. And I've seen it all.. Java development, C for embedded systems, .NET for medical development. There is shit everywhere when there is no discipline, so please spare me all the mocking. Don't blame the tool.. blame your laziness for not doing things properly.

It's just a never-ending bitching about windows this and windows that. It if suits your tasks, use it, if it doesn't don't. I use KDE 90% of the time at my job for coding, testing, deploying, etc. At home I use windows to do some freelance work, code some shit for ARM devices and watch movies/play games. I'm a windows user since 95, and while with you on most of the 8.x metro problems, they are solved with a tiny tool called startisback or start8. And those are the guys who made a fucking fortune with all this situation. Every problem has a solution and while 8.x shouldn't bring all this inconveniences, it's a fucking stable OS that works A-ok. KDE crashes way more, Gnome is the same shit... Unity, well that is a fucking abomination. As for OSX, I just don't like it on a personal level so I won't comment on that. Get over it and stop bitching, don't like it, don't use it. If you have to, fix it. Anyone who asks for help, well you can earn an extra bucks with them.

"The Muffin Tops" Seinfeld episode...

http://www.startisback.com/ You won't regret it..

More professional points of view: http://avherald.com/h?article=464ef64f&opt=0