"wibbly wobbly system which needs thousands of marketing companies which maybe fulfill their corporate promise"
I am afraid that's not how it works. This is not how the government tracks you. The mirror all traffic going brought your internet service provider, that's it. Then it's just a google search to see what websites you have visited.
Yup. Here's the thing too. When people troll online, they think hiding behind an alias is enough. You can still be traced back. I am sure the government keep tabs of all your history, even if you are not a person of interest at the moment.
i bought an iphone 7 specifically because it protected user's privacy a bit more than android phones. so i wouldn't say they don't matter at all. to some people they do.
I just bought an xps 15 running arch linux to replace my mba 13. The build quality is poorer for sure.
My main complains.
Keyboard:
- Cheap plastic that doesn't feel nice to type for long hours
- Oh I miss the mac keyboard layout, the control and alt keys on are hard to adjust on windows and linux especially when copy and paste puts your fingers in awkward positions
Touchpad:
- Good, but still a ways to go compared to macs. I am buying a MX Master to compensate for this.
Battery Life:
- Over exaggeration of duration in advertisement
Its aesthetically pleasing but the general everyday use just doesn't physically feel great. With a macbook, its very easy to focus cause every command is almost second nature. With the xps, I have look back at the keyboard all the time to see what's going on.
I need a linux machine so I don't have much choice. Or I can pay almost triple the price for a macbook pro for the same specs and even slower vm on top.
What's the problem with the XPS keyboards? I have an XPS 13 skylake (early 2016) and I absolutely love the keyboard. I'm saying this as a touch typist who actually used a Model M keyboard (best keyboard ever made, period; fingers just fly over it) back in the day. I found the XPS keyboards way better than that of Mac notebooks, especially the newer ones found in last year's 12" Macbook, and now in the Macbook Pros.
Judging from what you said. You need to learn to read the language rather than simply understanding the syntax. You need to understand what is going on under the hood.
Programming languages are just a bunch of random symbols and letters; each language has different syntax. But underlying them all is the same foundation of how languages are created. Learn to read your code like an essay rather than simply focusing on the sentence.
Pressure is given by yourself. As long as your are happy with what you learnt, then it's all fine.
I am in a similar boat, but I have a lot less pressure because I saved enough and even if it fails, I have gained so much that my salary will increase for sure. Although the thought of having to work for other people simply keeps me going no matter what.
Learning is super hard. Appreciate what you have accomplished.
Quitting your job isn't the problem. It's takes courage to do what you do. The problem is coding boot camps. They promise things they can't deliver. As a programmer I can tell you all the things you learn in those three months can be learn from any beginner textbook you download from amazon. $50 versus $10,000.
Some of the problems I deal with in programming can take months of thinking to solve and any course that says yo can become a professional programmer in three months is a joke. What happens when you stumble a problem that doesn't have a ready made answer for you or you encounter a bug take days to discover.
If you want to become a professional programmer, just start coding. You don't need certificates to tell you who you are. Programmer is an occupation based mostly on meritocracy, It's a well known understanding in the industry that the best programmers are self taught.
Start by learning some text books and doing side projects. Try and get a job from there. It will take you 4-5 years of hard work to get to the level you mentioned. And note. There are many bad programmers out there that stop learning after 6 months and just accumulate time. Don't fall into that trap. Learning is hard but the personal reward is great.
I am on the same boat as these people that can't afford a home with these property prices. But, I don't blame other people for having more than me. The concept of private property is that anyone can do whatever they want with their property.
That is not the concept of private property. You have never been able to do whatever you want with your property. You can't, for example, build a factory in a residential neighborhood. You can't make your property a fire, health, or safety hazard. You can't partake in activities that significantly disturb your neighbors. You can't build illegal or unpermitted construction. Your construction must follow fire and safety codes. You must follow ordinances about how tall your building can be, how big your lot has to be, and how far back from the street it can be placed. If you live in a historic neighborhood you can't decide on the materials, style, and color your house is. Your house can't be too big or too small. You can't be a slumlord. You can't build a dumpster fire in the backyard. You have to keep your house "up to code." If your property stays blighted for long enough the town will bulldoze it. (This happened to the house next door to my old house). You even may not even be able to water your lawn unless it's a Tuesday. You probably can't even let 8 of your college buddies move into your mansion[1]. If the government decides they want a courthouse or a highway where your house sits it will literally just take it away from you without asking.
About the only thing the government can't force you to do (in the United States) is quarter soldiers during peacetime.
Like the sibling comment said, you live in a society so we all have to play nice with each other.
[1] most cities forbid a large number of unrelated people from living together.
The fundamental flaw with this is, you don't exist in a vacuum. This all has effects on the city and on everyone else who lives in it. At a certain point, no, they can't do "whatever they want" because ultimately it does affect other people.
This "At a certain point" is, however, subjective. Who can say your "point" is right or wrong. Some people have more tolerance than others. Having a mob mentality of dictating what those limits are is dangerous in my opinion.
I would not oppose having a quantitative measure of how empty homes ultimately harm Vancouver's economy in the long term. I think that would be a much more constructive argument to implement measures to curb this trend.
We've kind of decided on using a democratic process, which indeed is a form of mob rule.
As for the danger of this approach....so multi-millionaires have one less global city they can buy property in completely hassle free....I think they'll find a way to survive.
"Ochlocracy ("rule of the general populace") is democracy ("rule of the people") spoiled by demagoguery, "tyranny of the majority", and the rule of passion over reason, just as oligarchy ("rule of a few") is aristocracy ("rule of the best") spoiled by corruption, and tyranny is monarchy spoiled by lack of virtue. Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term "mobocracy", which arose in the 18th century as a colloquial neologism."
Usus, fructus, and abusus have been recognized as pillars of private property since the antiquity. "Abusus" is the right to destroy or dispose of a property. Certainly that would include not using it.
But there are reasonable limits on those private property rights that are commonly accepted.
For instance, I don't have the right to set up a nightclub without permission from the city, and (if I'm not being an asshole) neighbours and other nearby residents/businesses that would be affected.
These limits come into existence because there was a problem that residents of the city felt needed action on. Leaving large numbers of properties empty is the extreme opposite end of everyone running nightclubs.
The new MacBook pros remind me of Walter Isaacsons bibliography of Steve Jobs. The first thing Jobs did when returning to Apple was cut all the products down to theee core products. In 2016, it seems to be going the other direction again.
I am afraid that's not how it works. This is not how the government tracks you. The mirror all traffic going brought your internet service provider, that's it. Then it's just a google search to see what websites you have visited.
https://www.ixmaps.ca/nsa.php
Government ID or not, you are being tracked quite easily by the government.