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The base models are an absolute scam. You get far better specs with far less money (the gap is way bigger than usual for apple). The higher spec models are pretty good tho.


Bitcoin is a scam inflated by cryptography and currency illiteracy. Same category as flat earthers and Anti vaxxers.


What a strange “sought after” company, where guidelines are not written and people just reject prs without a good reason.


To a certain extent i agree with your statement. But if young people dont’ explore and develop skills early then they will lose later in life. Instead of “living” they should probably explore wether art or tech or construction or whatever is more suitable for them personally. Then once they have a career they cam travel and live as they have the skills to support that life. If you look at instagram then you will see how many live their lives and have no skill then they complain about why they camt pay bills.


There are few guarantees the skills you develop today will mean much to the market by the time you can afford to do any living.

Ten years ago learning to drive a truck meant a long-term stable career, even if it's not the most glamourous. Today, we're discussing the short-term viability of automating that shipping system. Five years ago in Alberta, getting into a trade that was in demand in the oil industry meant a lifetime career with a pretty great salary. Today, the industry is on shaky footing and many will have to retrain.

In software, while it might not be near or certain, there are plenty of discussions about automating most projects since so many of them conform to common patterns and publicly accessible, free code already existing. We don't know any better how large much of the software development industry will be in ten years time. Many of those skills might be as obsolete as some IG "celebrity".

I think OP is at least correct in that you sort of have to weigh these things yourself. Sometimes that life experience in other facets will inform your future more than picking up a skill that is just enough to put you into someone else's employ. It's pretty difficult to know. You can apply any kind of probability measure you want, but the gaps in between any sound reason are just attempting to know the future before it happens.


That is partially correct. Developing the skill to drive a truck at an early age gives you the skills to operate vehicles at a later stage, and that is transferrable knowledge. Not to mention work place interaction skills, and time management. In terms of software, indeed repetitive tasks can be automated, but 100% of development never will be.


And if it wasn't bad enough that the site is using Laravel, that framework is also exposing a ton of sensitive data about the server. Perhaps disable dev mode? Anyway horrible choice of a framework.


> Anyway horrible choice of a framework.

I love unsubstantiated attacks on software.


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You went to the trouble of creating an account just for anti Laravel dribble. Please enlighten us.


I've had an account for years and I agree. I find it hard to justify using PHP for anything in 2019.


That's fine. The year is almost over and plenty of other developers can justify using PHP for many things in 2020.


Can say the same shit about any language.


Laravel seems to be crashing (not surprised). But isn't HTML5 a decent replacement for flash already?


Yes, but tooling is no where near as integrated an experience. Especially for animators and game creators.


Are you here just to make attacks on Laravel?


And you are here only to defend Laravel.


I think my two replies to your comments are the only ones I've made on the subject of laravel in my entire time of being on hacker news.

So no, I'm not here to defend laravel.


Yes, you can use screen cap software, and then convert it to ASCII or gifs.


Romania has moved over from communism to a crime centric country - the culture and everything is dominated by it, so the only “billionaires” are dodgy people with a shady past. Went from communism to kleptocracy, rather than democracy.


We have a new government, same German president, and most "powerful" politican is in prison


I know, i am from the country. Came back after years of living abroad only to find a big fat deception, a culture of crime and corruption, cheap nationalism, conspiracy theories in every aspect of life, pseudo sciences, incompetence at all levels and lame “pride”. Naturally there is a handful of great people but too few to make a difference. I for one cant wait to get out of here. Oh and that german president apparently has a criminal history of buying properties illegally (he apparently lost a case in this regard), but is better than the other candidate.


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