I realy like all the double layers he put into this :D Its a joy to read.

The simulator didn't work unfortunately but they did warn about this on the site when I started. After I had done the tutorial I landed on the Summer Academy page where you can do a 8-9 week course in programming. Very nice!

Then I discovered that this was certainly not for free: $5000 it will cost you. I must admit I was a little shocked. That is not a price every one can pay for this learning to code adventure. That was a part Obama did not mention. It feels like a standard marketing trap, luring in people to do your course, buy your software, etc. Only difference is the frontman of the show ;)

It's proved again: there is no such thing as a free lunch. Now walk on please, nothing to see here.

So I went to a more abstract approach by working visually in models. After some tries I discovered the OutSystems development environment for web applications and am working with it since on a daily base. The advantage of working visually is that I don't know or see what the compiler creates. (of course I encounter some SQL, JS, CSS and HTML)

However, sometimes I miss text based coding, so this year I looked around to see if the development situation had become better. In my opinion it has not. There seems to be less fragmentation but that's probably caused by the fact that only a select set survived. Besides that new initiatives have been started.

Personally I like the idea of using C as a cross platform language; because it already IS. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the lower levels of the used languages use it already in some form (remember it always needs to go native). Besides that, I think that if C would be the standard then within a couple of weeks you will have language X to C compilers and then have ABC->X->C and then have a webvariant WEB->ABC->X->C while undoubtedly someone will create a Javascript to web to abc to x to c compiler. And than there we are again where we started :)

So in my opinion the problem lays with the chains. Some abstraction is needed of course but not several layers on layers. I would like to see more direct to (e.g.) c compilers: JS->C, Web->C, ABC->C, X->C whereby it is not the goal to program in C but have it as an intermediate format.

I believe that software development has not grown forward enough. There is plenty movement left and right but not going forward. So, I am back to my visual modelling environment and will check later on...

As the last year proofs authorities are the ones that do the snooping. So if it doesn't protect us from them, what's the point of such a service. Also linking to Facebook and Skydrive that have government-backdoors seems not so private to me.

Does F-Secure really understand in which world we live in today? Oh well, neither do I, back to my coffee.

Seems a kinda hypocrite to me. "Look someone said fuck in haha, but I don't use that word, nono, not the F-word." I really dislike the term f-word. Say fuck if you want, say nothing if you don't want.

But, yes, funny idea.

Direct link to the article: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-diy-cyborg

Spoiler: there are no pictures of the biohack surgery

"We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links, especially the links in the slide. We do not provide any government, including the U.S. government, with access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform." [0]

[0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/google...