Neither, really. I'm a developer and nothing in front of me is completely new, but taking a product from idea to completion has a fair amount of Coastline Paradox involved. Not looking for a "how do I do this" solution, more along the lines of, if I want to tackle this, here's a list of tasks I'll need to make sure to cover.
For example, creating a user account creation flow is easy enough, right? You just need a form for a username and password. And password complexity checking (client-side for UX, and server-side for security). And something like bcrypt server-side for hashing (and make sure to follow best-practices in hashing and storing). And you'll want to verify emails to cut down on spam, so you'll need some sort of way to send emails, probably a service because rolling your own email server is....a lot. Oh and where are you going to actually store the user data? MySQL/PostgreSQL or something like NoSQL? Managed database, or are you going to handle the setup, backups, hardening, etc yourself?
Congratulations, we've finished creating a user account! Except for password reset, session authentication tokens, rate-limiting login attempts, CAPTCHAs, and everything around the admin side of handling bad actors (account suspension, IP and/or email blocklists, etc etc etc). ;)
"Society creates government, not the other way around..."
And government supports and enriches society. It's symbiotic, not parasitic.
"claim credit for what people have created on their own"
Nobody creates anything on their own. Full stop. Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.
>Nobody creates anything on their own. Full stop. Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.
America's fastest growth rate was in the 1800s, when public spending was extremely small compared to today, so clearly the current level of spending isn't necessary for achievement. Especially given most of the US budget is spent on military and welfare.
> Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.
And who do you think is paying for all those initiatives? The government doesn't create, it only redistributes. Transportation, education, etc. would exist perfectly well without the government getting involved. Their "contribution" consists solely in taking the money that would have gone to those things—or other things that people considered even more valuable—and channeling it through their own programs. There is no value-add, just concentration of power, curtailment of viable alternatives, and a much increased scope for corruption and general inefficiency.
> And government supports and enriches society. It's symbiotic, not parasitic.
It's not a pure parasite, true, but even if a symbiote happens to perform some necessary function for the host as a side-effect that doesn't imply that the host wouldn't be better off fulfilling that need some other way. This is not a healthy relationship. The point is to maximize the value to the host. The needs of the "symbiote" are irrelevant, yet it actively discourages competition and violently resists being removed or replaced.
So many assertions, so little evidence. Surely there is value added by basic research funded by the government, technology created for space or military purposes, and providing the enforcement of laws necessary for people to want to start businesses in the first place!
Raw, uncooked tofu may be tasteless, but I'm not really one for grabbing a raw chicken breast either. Marinades go a long way with tofu, as does which method you cook it.
I'm hoping the Burger King trial goes well so we can get nationwide expansion, in large part to help bring the price down. That premium is still a little rough, Impossible is in a lot of restaurants but doesn't have the in-store presence that Beyond Meat has at the moment. Scale, scale, scale!
"First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat."
Hi, nice to meet you! Vegan for almost a decade, the smell of a burger on the grill in the summer gives me hella cravings. We exist.
"Second: When I tasted an Impossible Burger, it was awful. It tasted like a horrible veggie burger."
I'm jealous, you must not have ever eaten a truly horrible veggie burger. I had a Gardenburger in like 2005 that literally tasted like cardboard. The Impossible Burger is a miracle of science.
The cravings are probably a sign that you are missing something essential that is in the burger. It tastes good because it is nutritious. I would eat a burger occasionally to stay healthy.
No, it doesn't taste (or smell) good because it's nutritious. The cravings are a psychological reflex of remembering something you liked the taste, nutritious or not.
There's people who doesn't consider charring meat having a good odour, and that doesn't make it less nutritious. There's super tasty things which are horribly un-nutritional, or even poisonous. That goes both for smell and taste.
This is specious reasoning. A whiff of cigarette smoke can trigger cravings for nicotine. That doesn't mean one is missing something essential or that its nutritious. (or that one should eat a cigarette occasionally to stay healthy ;)
Yes, it is better! Part of the goal is to provide a "gateway patty" to make it easier for meat-eaters to reduce their consumption. Good for their health, good for the environment, good for the animals.
(Also, I've been vegan for years and _love_ the Impossible burger.)
Also the impossible burger has about the same amount of calories as an 80% lean ground beef burger, so it's no better as far as calories are concerned.
This is false and serious FUD. There are a handful of vitamins/minerals that aren't found in meat-free diets (B12 is the big one) but they're all easily covered by fortified foods and/or taking a daily multivitamin. "Protein from animals" is absolutely not critical, and protein is found in all sorts of meatless sources. Nuts, leafy greens, etc.
My wife went vegan and it caused her to become anemic. She talked to two different doctors, and tried different supplements. She is far healthier with a little meat in her diet than without. I'm not claiming this is the norm, but you should realize that not everyone tolerates a diet completely devoid of meat.
"It's going to annoy everybody who likes things to happen fast all the time because Face ID will definitely cause a delay and frustrate every user at some point."
It doesn't. FaceID is faster and as reliable as TouchID was for me. Not to mention, with winter coming, have you tried using TouchID with cold fingers? Spoiler alert: it mostly fails.
"The lack of a home button is probably the worst design decision."
Disagree. App switching is faster than ever, the new gestures stick after ~30 minutes of use, unlocking my phone takes less time.
"Half the time when I start scrolling near the bottom of the screen the control center shows up."
The control center isn't accessed by swiping up on iPhone X, it's accessed by swiping down from the upper right "ear" of the screen. So this is a non-starter.
Source: I've been using my iPhone X with FaceID since Friday afternoon, iPhone user since 2008.
> Cherry-picking one profession to claim low salaries are because of gender is absurd.
Community/support roles are still widely considered "soft skills", and thanks to a century or two of patriarchy, are indeed considered womens' work. (This is, needless to say, bullshit.)
You seem to be implying that there is an "infinite supply of highly qualified" community/support folks; hence the low wages. There is not.
For example, creating a user account creation flow is easy enough, right? You just need a form for a username and password. And password complexity checking (client-side for UX, and server-side for security). And something like bcrypt server-side for hashing (and make sure to follow best-practices in hashing and storing). And you'll want to verify emails to cut down on spam, so you'll need some sort of way to send emails, probably a service because rolling your own email server is....a lot. Oh and where are you going to actually store the user data? MySQL/PostgreSQL or something like NoSQL? Managed database, or are you going to handle the setup, backups, hardening, etc yourself?
Congratulations, we've finished creating a user account! Except for password reset, session authentication tokens, rate-limiting login attempts, CAPTCHAs, and everything around the admin side of handling bad actors (account suspension, IP and/or email blocklists, etc etc etc). ;)