babyrainbow

First of all what do you see as "successful"?

A person can be interesting. I agree. But I don't agree that any mundane actions that this interesting person do is also automatically interesting.

Elon Musk is the Christopher Nolan of Tech.

Ok..What is interesting about this?

Eh? Two options for what? I was talking about how languages are different...

>The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @..

But those things are differences, right? Certain languages makes certain things easy and idiomatic. The differences in languages are all about that...

>For any line of python, there's a line or two of PHP to accomplish the same thing (same with javascript).

Python decorators? What is the counterpart of that in Php?

I am not sure. Do you read news for entertainment, or do you read it for truth?

Try to explain programs as a to do list for computers. This might be hard since her fist exposure to computers is HTML/CSS. kind of sad actually. How did that happen? Just curious...

Maybe show her that she can put dots of any colors on screen using html canvas and javascript. Show her how to draw lines. How to draw circles and color them. Show her how to move them....That should be enough to get her off from Html/Css and move to real computer programs...

May be just leave her alone..encourage her to spend less time with computers and go out and play with other kids..She is 10 year old, right?

> such that societies should maximize liberty of the individual?

This is required only because the controlling mechanism (the ruler/government) can be selfish and clueless in regards to what rules the subjects should follow for the well being of everyone. and also they are so detached from the problems of individuals....

Imagine a system where a ruler experience every pain and discomfort of every one of their subjects, real time (like in the body of a living thing). In such a system, I think individual liberty can be completely removed, because no one would not want to do anything outside of the rules anyway...

Sorry. Couldn't make sense of most of your comment. Can you explain how these exotic particles is relevant at all?

> The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured"...

Again, the need is not manufactured. But the need for constantly in touch, is manufactured. No one before social network wanted that. There was normal mails, then we had telephones, emails etc etc..all of which have solved this pretty well, even across the globe.

But none of these are 24x7.

The need for 24x7 "networking" is manufactured.

No. Social interaction between human beings has been going on well before these social networks.

The manufactured requirement is the need to reach to every person we ever know and share every little detail of your life with them, possibly multiple times a day, in return for their some kind of acknowledgement...

That is the manufactured need and that is what people are hooked on.

> social networking online...

Isn't this a manufactured problem/requirement?

EDIT: I mean, did people have this problem before social networks?