groundhogday1

I'm confused about the need to have a web app that 'runs anywhere' when you know exactly 'where' it's going to run. When you spin up an instance, don't you get to decide what OS and services you're going to use?

I could maybe see the advantage if you had no control over the environment that the app was going to be run in like you might have with a downloaded executable for example. However, if your product is just some kind of web application, I don't see the need for containers.

Isn't this what Rails did/does?

There is value in understanding the history of a thing if the goal is to maintain. A lot of people get paid a lot of money to maintain a thing. At some point the thing becomes obsolete or less valuable and somebody gets paid to patch the thing.

I think we have seen so much more value created by people thinking perpendicular to the norm. Do you need to know the history of the taxi industry to create Uber? Do you need to know the history of the grocery industry to create Blue Apron? I would argue that knowledge of the history can bog you down and influence your approach to solving problems.

Do you need to know the history of monarchies to understand that the person who was born into power is not representing your needs? Knowing the history doesn't help you decide that being governed by somebody who you and your peers are able to elect would more effectively represent your needs.

I would argue that ideas aren't born out of a historical perspective, but that they're born out of current need and that the historical perspective only serves to tell you why you can't do something.

I don't know much about this type of technology, but I'm assuming that in it's current state, fMRI machines can't be compacted to the point where it is comfortable to wear on a daily basis.

I know that in their current state, MRI machines are huge and cost exorbitant amounts of money. Is there any other emerging tech that might allow users to go about their daily lives while capturing brain activity at a resolution that's useful to neuro-scientists?

Maybe i'm grossly oversimplifying this, but wouldn't it be easy to have participants in a study wear an EEG cap (maybe some work needed to put it in a fashionable form) and keep a X-second sliding window of data? They could then use a smartwatch or something similar to notify the system "hey! i just experienced deja vu!" The EEG data could then be passed back to neurologists so that markers might be identified.

I think if climate friendly options were available in more chassis options and body styles, people would adopt them faster. I think people want to do the 'right' thing in switching to an EV/hybrid option, but there isn't a climate friendly, cost effective pickup/SUV option available.

Tesla has the right idea in offering a low cost EV option that doesn't look stupid with the Model 3. If there were Camry/Corolla and Accord/Civic EV options with the same off-the-lot price tag and same exact body style available, I think we would see more widespread adoption.

Additionally, if we were to see more electric utility vehicle options available with body styles identical to the gasoline powered ones we see on the road today, I believe that would capture another large swath of consumers. Of course, this hinges on the manufacturers to offer these options in spite of their gasoline producer friends urging them not to.

I'm about the opposite of you. Not a good programmer, but I excelled at the 'formal stuff.' Automata theory, regular expressions, compilers, operating systems, discrete math... these are all areas where I did well. Labs and programming assignments held me back. Although I will say that I feel infinitely more comfortable working with memory allocation in C than I do with anything involving JavaScript.

I also don't think the overall grades were bimodal. I guess I was in the second mode in programming intense courses and the first mode in theory heavy courses. I also feel that most of my peers were either the same as me or the reverse, like you. Wouldn't that create a single mode bell curve?

Of course, this is all purely anecdotal

So the assumption being made here is that students either get it or they don't based on genetic predisposition? I, for one, don't particularly subscribe to the notion that every CS student needs to score an INTP on the Meyers-Briggs to be successful.