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I haven't met his younger sister, but she has children of her own and is preoccupied with life at the moment.

His younger brother is also at University studying.

It took David 25 years to take this project upon himself. As things grow, I would not be surprised to see his siblings take interest and get involved, but for the time being, traveling to the Amazon just isn't feasible for either of them.

Which aspects are you questioning? It's not my favorite piece I've seen published — I don't think it covers some areas in enough detail and leaves room for insinuation (e.g. Yarima was young when they met, but it wasn't until years had gone by that a relationship occurred. They (David's parents) have spoken as recently as ~7 months ago on a satellite phone, and Yarima has expressed interested on returning to America to visit on multiple occasions. She misses David's father and the relationship they had.)

David's relationship with his Dad is still strained from when he was young, there's no denying that (from my perspective). But as David's interest in Anthropology has grown, so has their ability to find common ground as individuals. I've seen him on the phone talking with Dad for hours, just like any other son.

If anyone has any questions, I'm close friends (roommates actually) with David and serve on the board of directors for The Good Project.

He just left for Costa Rica on a service learning trip, but I'm happy to answer what I can.

Treat domains like a trademark registration. You have x amount of time to show that you're actually using it for something. And that something has some kind of value.

There's issues with what's considered value, but our existing system is nonsense.

I'm still not sure what the benefits of waking up and being functional early are, besides a societal one.

Ignoring my possible work relations, what difference does it make if I respond to emails at 3pm, have breakfast at 5, work until 10, eat again, work until 2am, relax until the sun comes up, and sleep to do it again.

Again, society doesn't work this way and many times there are adjustments to account for this (early meetings, spending time with friends and family, etc.), but is early intrinsically better?

The issue with web (although this could be expanded to apply to most languages) is where it's used/interpreted. Browsers aren't a quickly changing environment (haha, IE 6). It takes a few years to adopt the latest and greatest. Shit, it took nearly a decade for us to see native curved corners (border-radius).

Again, not that I don't agree, it's just hard to stay up to date with the greatest while still trying to support outdated tech like html tables.

The W3C is the 'authority', but is really at the hands of the major browser manufacturers. Implementing an interpreted version of Python sounds great, but is it worth the time and effort? Will it increase my productivity or compliance compared to JavaScript? As of now, nope.

I'm happy writing bastardized JS (not that my code is bastardized, rather that's just the language [took way too long to understand == vs ===]) for the web right now. Every day new tools and frameworks are developed to make it easier, and I just don't see the advantage and overhead just to write a weird version of python that compiles into JS.

Why the hate on JavaScript? I know it's not the most elegant language in the world, but do we really need this? Instead of a program "x" run in "y", how about we just expand our horizons a bit and learn another language with different paradigms?

Python is great for some stuff, but let JS do what it does.

I have to agree with this. Yes, most people don't understand the enormous amount of data Facebook has, but in the next decade, it'll be common knowledge.

Between Glass and other projects, individuals will quickly realize how exposed they are and will either care (and these companies/groups will be forced to refocus on privacy like Facebook a year and a half a go) or everyone will just be 'OK' with it (like I am, I'm an open book, go for it).

I think sociology hasn't quite caught up with technology, and it'll be interesting to see where we go from here.

I definitely agree, I graduated with BS in Computer Science but never touched 3D (only 2D game design). Although if I had, I probably would be a lot further than I am now. High expectations, but the results could be amazing.

Yeah, agreeing with victorhn. Any frontend developer worth half their weight in chocolate can replicate an amazon page in a about 3 hours (making all the adjustments he has).

I'm all for creative new approaches to resumes (I did it myself to find in internship while in school), but this is lackluster at best.

I found myself okay with it because they'll send the developers a list of projects. From there I apply on ones I'm interested in, rather than the other way around.

We'll see how it goes this Saturday. As a freelancer I'm always open to new client discovery.