I dropped my standard hours down to 24 just recently and it's been rejuvenating. I do pick up the odd freelance/contract job whem it suits (pay/hours) and spend the rest of my time working around the house and generally relaxing.
It's done wonders for mental health and stress levels. No more sitting in traffic all day, missing half my kids' life, stressing out about not getting stuff done around the house, eatimg crap food on the fly, being too tired to do much in the weekend, and most of all I can spend more time with my wife, which is awesome.
I'm on the move do don't have any sources for you, but from what I understand php 7.x benchmarks pretty close to HHVM. I wouldn't be surprised if 7.2/3 surpasses it.
Depends on how it's written. I'd suspect they've done a pretty good job on eeping the engine as decoupled from their code as possible. It'd probably be just a matter of rewriting a translation layer.
To 99% of the population, Bitcoin is the only crypto currency. They don't care about the other 500 alts, they don't understand them. If/when it goes mainstream, BTC will be the USD of crypto.
No matter what happens, a win for any crypto alt is a win for Bitcoin.
No, another cryptocurrency (the word crypto is already used to mean something else) can gain steam while the price of BTC goes sideways or down, and eventually win. Just saying the statement "no matter what happens" is false.
Can is not the same as Will. 500M people could download the Lyft app tomorrow and stop using Uber, but they won't. I can't predict the future for BTC, no one can, but I'm skeptical of it being supplanted. It's got a huge lead in public awareness, and the public doesn't understand crypto currencies and isn't looking for new ones.
The reason designers use them is because 95% of their userbase values form over function.
You're obviously in the 5% which values function over form, but surely you can understand most people want things to look pretty, plus the company wants to have a cohesive brand.
I used to be a function-over-form advocate but was converted somewhere along the line after working with some awesome designers, doing lots of a/b testing and talking with the end user.
Both form and function are equally as important as each other.
> any stats? I'd say it's the opposite. It would seem to me people want things to work, first and foremost.
It is important to test these kind of assumptions. That's the reason why A/B testing and other analytics tools are used(not to mention communicating with the end user).
