I know a few people (no programmers) who "container" their food at night. Which means they steal still eatable stuff from the trash containers of stores, so they don't have to pay for food at all.

I also have a friend who lived in the basement of a guy with the alzheimers (no, the guy didn't forget that there was someone living in the basement for free). Some relatives told him, he can live there for free, if he looks after the alzheimers guy every day.

So if you find some sick people to look after, for free living and go out one or two nights a week and container for food, you cam live without a job or money at all.

Health insurance could be a problem in most countries, I guess. Where I live everyone get's it for free, so it's none of our concern...

If you're lucky, the sick person you're looking after has an Internet connection you can use. Otherwise you're have to search for open WiFi in the cities.

To be honest, I like this idea a lot. I don't think my girlfriend would go for it :/ In fact, I know she wouldn't, I just told her about it. Good idea, though.

Funny thing is, I use JavaScript libs like Ext JS because they don't impose HTML/CSS on me.

I can write the whole application in JavaScript and I just have to mess with the DOM and it's ugly friends when in trouble.

doesnt matter , they use it under the hood. and the fact that you have little control over how ExtJs actually uses the DOM will not make your app faster...

That's a two-edged sword.

If I rely on an API, which abstracts everything, I benefit of every performance improvements they make "under the hood".

If they are better with performance than me, I win. If I'm better with performance than them, I lose.

he's one of the people who partly (because he's still over 10 tabs) gets the current bookmark-systems in browsers.

For most users the bookmarks seem to be broken/too complex. Never had the problem, maybe because I'm going crazy when I got over 10 tabs and want to get rid of them ASAP. :\

Just looking around reddit you easily pass the 50 tabs threshold.

Bookmarks are far from ideal (at least in firefox) and technically you don't need them today since the history works well in case you need to find something (just typing related terms on the address bar) but the history is erased quite often so it's better to have certain urls bookmarked and using the aforementioned address bar to find what you're looking for (or the search on the bookmarks manager). It works for me.

I still bookmark, but only because it helps to make sure those results have a higher priority in the address bar.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I don't use bookmarks, I used to put things in there and never find them when I needed them, so I've stopped doing that.

I'll actually put things in there when I want to remember them. Firefox makes it a little better because you can attach keywords to them to help you search later.

That's the trick.

You get the people to pay for all eternity ;)

If you live in a (bigger) city you simply don't need a car...

I can drive to the store by bike or even walk there if I want.

I work in a different city than I live and travel to my workplace by train in 30min.

The only things I need a car for are travels to are tiny town which doesn't have good public transports or when I need to transport something thats to heavy to carry.

I'm in the same boat - I'm in a city of a half million, and I own a car, but it's a decade old, and I only use it 1) evenings and weekends when the bus doesn't run as often, 2) when I want to move heavy and/or large items, or 3) when I travel out of town. Between those I only put about 10-15,000 km on my car in a year, and at least a third of that is cross-country road trips to visit my family.

Cognitive load comes from "Cognitive Load Theory" (by Sweller), which is a specific field in Psychology.

Psychologist told me, "Multimedia Learning" (by Mayer) is taken more seriously by psychologist than "Cognitive Load Theory".

They hate IE SO much, they even made the drop a new major release.

This is what I call commitment.

Since people see jQuery as a solution for cross-browser issues, dropping some browser support is the biggest change imaginable.

Deprecating old-IE is the solution for cross-browser issues.

But isn't that exactly the thing about major releases? That compatibility may be broken. See also http://semver.org/

So Microsoft hate WinXP so much they made dropping support in MSIE a new major release?

I heared they switched from LGPL to GPL suddently, which filled the devs with fear, I guess :\

But yes, I use it for corporate software, since my company pays the license. Also it's strong in the table and charting parts, which are the butter and bread of many corporate devs.

I felt that ExtJS4s MVC concept was easier to grasp than Angular. But I had to replace parts of it with DeftJS to get it to do what I wanted.

Also you can make the decision on your own.

* read a book * extract what you think is good * throw the rest of information away