Many of my friends and family are coal miners. I worked at one for a summer. There are fatalities, but the frequency with which they happen is so small that driving to the mine is more dangerous than the actual job. With heavy machinery doing 95% of work in modern mines, and having worked in one, I can tell you that the constant grind of producing code is much harder than sitting in haul truck or laying explosives. On top of that, most programmers don't stop working when they go home. With the constant flood of new technology and best practices, it takes a lot of effort to even stay relevant. Coal miners don't go home and read about creating cheaper explosives or more efficient haul trucks (ok maybe some do, not many). Mining outside of US, is certainly a different story.
Agree with the author that this is easier to change, and in JS it will keep you from accidentally leaving a trailing comma. That being said, I find it to be very unreadable(which is where most your time will be spent) and most text editors/IDE's make it a burden to work with.
While I agree with making code editable in single lines as much as possible, I think this is a particularly bad example. I do prefer the comma first style for arrays and objects, but not for variable declarations. I used to use this exact style a couple years ago, but now I prefer to explicitly declare every variable with `var` to prevent any possible, syntactically correct, error that would result in a global variable.
Normally, these slideshares are difficult to follow since the subtleties of an actual presentation are missing. This is not the case here: kudos to the author. After reading the comments that I can transfer over all my .bash_* information, I will be doing so.
Yeah but I think it is silly to suggest he has retired on a 25k a year pension. I mean have homeless people retired? Have people on food stamps retired?
One of his themes is to maximize frugality/stinginess. He claims to have no debt. He has some assets, has some income. Still, I doubt it's as easy as he makes it sound. But OTOH, there are a lot of optimizations I know I could make, yet have tended to ignore.
Two years ago I had to deal D&B's flagship product, which came packaged in a Java applet. I remember one day I upgraded to the latest version of Java(a security patch) and it broke their tool. After contacting them they said the only solution was to downgrade to the Java version with a known security hole...
It looks much better than the previous iteration. One thing I don't understand is why businesses reveal a product like this before making it completely available. For those who don't already use it, how many are actually going to check openerp.com in ten days? It seems like the spotlight is wasted with these sort of unveilings. That being said, I might, if I remember.
