checkoutmytrip
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4:12 · 7.2M views · Feb 24, 2009
A clip of Louis C.K.'s bit "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy," about how quickly people take modern technology for granted and complain about it. It is a comedic riff on impatience with air travel and gadgets.
Posted constantly in threads about tech complaints as a reminder to appreciate how remarkable modern technology is.
20 comments from Hacker News
Refuse? Refuse? You can fly to the US - some 4000 miles away in 7.5 hrs for the East Coast and 11 hours for the West coast. You then may have a little bit of a wait at immigration (or not as the case may be). I've gone through in 5 minutes and one time it was 45 minutes. Seeing as you state you're in the UK, you also eligible for the VWP which means you can travel to the US whenever you like. Just consider what it was like to travel before the invention of the airplane, or the steam ship. Please appreciate that you live in a time when travelling the world is very very easy. And please watch this video
Plus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter. NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment? You might want to see this: this video
Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy Maybe we need to watch this tube to see things in a more balanced way: this video
Berkely DB is NoSQL under some, let's say literal, definitions of NoSQL. neo4j currently is also such a db, a non sql db, a NoSQL. Normally, though, people expect something more from this NoSQL "movement". People want "scaling", and elasticity. We live in the world where today you have 2 users, tomorrow you have 2 million of users, the day after you have only 1000. We also live in a world were people are expecting everything to be working always, and are pretty pissed of if things doesn't respond in seconds (watch Luis C.K this video ) It's not a surprise that all this hype about NoSQL came out when a number of db implementation were developed which handled replication, sharding, dynamic resizing (add remove nodes) etc Now put a little bit aside the issue with the word "SQL" per se. Let's focus on the "partition tolerance" feature. I was always frustrated with the fact that no matter how great my product could be, how perfect the implementations would be, how great my db would be; if my machine/rack/datacenter or section of datacenter wen't down, switches break, network connectivity goes down etc. the users of my application are not able to use it, for them it's down. This kind of NoSQL, the one that handles partition tolerance, gives you the hope that eventually you will be able to make great software, resisting to this kind of events. I'm not sure whether by these tools (cassandra, riak etc) I would be able to write an application that actually works better, even in the other
when I read this I instantaneously thought about this rant from Louis CK [Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy] this video Linux Mint and Windows 7 take 10 seconds to boot on my laptop with a SSD. That's amazing. Just a few months ago I would go make a sandwich while my PC would boot. If you have a problem with splash screens alt tab to the browser of your choice. If you think your PC boots to slow take out your smartphone and play with it. This is not to say developers should be wasteful with users time. Especially web developers know how import page speed is. But it's a complex program just give it a few SECONDS. Also one should mention Steam (the game distribution platform). If you are bored in between rounds you just bring up the steam panel and use the embedded browser to browse the web or chat with friends. But those at times minute long delays. Sure you could embed a email client in the OS the comes up long before the main GUI is loaded but you wont get to read much in 10 seconds.