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It happens. I also had a few people come back. An entire team quit (4 people) to go work for a competitor. Two came back when the competitor screw them over, offering higher wages just for 3 months, and then linking the wages to an impossible schedule. One manager quit because of stress and came back a few years later for a similar job with a few less responsibilities.

modern web? Lynx Web browser is still being maintained!:) You can use it to search google or wikipedia. You can run Lynx on a 8086 CPU. If I remember correctly, Lynx can display images, if you download it one by one:) If you want video, but not go with an Amiga with a modern add-on card, you're probably looking at a Pentium PC.

The biggest advantage of using RAW SQL is that you learn it 'quicker'. You will make mistakes, but hopefully those will be found before they make it to production. If you get used to ORMs, you probably won't know how to optimize your queries..

RAW SQL of course. * Create the database for the queries you will use, then, for the admin panel, you can use an ORM (but why would you mix the 2?), but for front-end I always use RAW SQL (PDO, to be exact).

On some of Italy's highways, they calculate the speeding ticket from gate to gate:) Meaning that if you entered the highway at 12:00 and you exited at 13:00 at a gate 120 miles ahead, you get a fine.

Sometimes, I see people who like to speed, just sit it out at a parking cafe next to their exit.

There should really be a law against this sort of thing. Security researchers are needed and they provide a valuable service to the world, but please don't get ahead of yourselfs. In recent months there were many instances where people just disclosed vulnerabilities without making sure there are fixed available. This is wrong and legally should be equivalent to hacking.

In the past, when vulnerabilities with no fixes were disclosed were after months and months of trying to contact the developers of said software and patch it... Nowadays it seems everyone is eager to ride their 15 minutes of fame...SAD :)

Distributed systems are ideal for many applications. Distributed systems verified by many 'miners' is even better, but at some point, we have to admit that the technology is flawed in key points: - power consumption, considering global warming, is a huge waste; - the speed all nodes communicate between each other (not even counting the great firewall of China) can't be improved after some point (BTC lightning network is NOT a real solution - read an article about how exactly it works)

Proof of stake is a VERY BAD idea that creates more problems than it solves. All I have to do to take over the chain is buy 1 coin more than anyone else on the chain..

All other problems could be solved in the future (reversible transactions, regulation/privacy etc), but with these 2 major drawbacks, blockchains are not feasible, in my opinion.

You're right. Like all things in life, one should use common sense when interacting with the world. No one (i hope) wants to spend their budget irrationally. So in your example, I would let the doctor decide if that $100 is spend better on curing rather than preventing. And that 1% reduction you came up as an example is not 1% for the entire population, it may be 1% to me and you, but maybe 50% for someone older, or with a specific condition...

I did read it and I get the angle of it. it's not always cost effective, like all things in life, one should use common sense. But in general terms, preventative care does work well and costs the state less, at least in the UK.

But of course it saves money.. on the long run. Yes, it does cost more upfront, and yes, people will be using the 'free doctor' more, in the short term, but over the lifetime of the patient, it costs considerable less to prevent, than to 'fix'. Of course, you could say that people who 'suddenly' need fixing will live less, so overall the state will save money cause they will be dead sooner, but i'm pretty sure that's NOT the point of healthcare.

Make your MVP in whatever language you know best. Don't chase after buzzwords or trends.

I personally use PHP, mySQL and Redis with nginx proxy, cause I know these the best.

Probably nodejs would be a bit faster, but then again, I would probably make 100s of mistakes, not to mention god knows how many bugs, because I'm not 100% familiar with the language.

I agree that pensioners don't do this:), I meant people 15-40. I did run a chat on our site, and as one commenter noted, I also took a stock girl photo as profile pic. The thing that socked me in this article is actually my own ignorance. I got ,probably, just as many nasty comments, but I blanked them out completely. When someone was being a jerk, i would just close the chat, ban the user, and that's it. It didn't even register as a particular problem, or sexism, for that matter...

It doesn't really matter how it's NOW, the fact that it can become congested very quickly and go to $20 in fees and hours or days for 3 confirmations, it's way more concerning from a business stand point than any other benefit blockchains can have. ...and i'm not including Ripple, as it's not a proper blockchain.