
Will he find the meaning of life, the universe and everything?
A semana passada também não me apeteceu muito. E também não tinha grandes sugestões. Esta semana talvez:
Até à proxima semana. Pode ser que eu traga a resposta ao mistério da Vida, do Universo e tudo o Resto.
Algures a meio de 2008 tive a seguinte troca de comentários:
PauloQuerido : @mvalente tenho feito tudo em js+css: http://tinyurl.com/6b7pbz
mvalente : @PauloQuerido Nao discuto :)… Em 5 anos o Flash vai estar no mm “nicho” em q estao as Java applets (ie. +- nulo)
mvalente : Ajax Animator is nice http://antimatter15.110mb.c… It does Flash but also Processing.js+canvas. 5 years? Make it 2…
Em suma: previa que o Flash estivesse morto daí a 5 anos (2013) e depois ajustei a previsão para 2 anos (2010)
Nos 2 anos entretanto passados, não tenho perdido a oportunidade de reforçar essa opinião cada vez que apareceram novos exemplos do uso de standars como o Javascript, HTML5, CSS, SVG, etc.
Também nos 2 anos entretanto passados, não faltaram “iluminados” e cépticos a discordar, com comentários tipo “o flash vai ter sempre o seu lugar”, “not the decline of Flash as jack of all trades”, “flash has its audience and its utility”, etc, etc.
E ainda nos mesmos 2 anos, também vi muitos cépticos e “iluminados” a virarem a casaca e passarem a ser arautos das boas novas. Os maiores fanáticos são sempre os recém convertidos…
Chegamos assim a 2010. O Flash está morto? Não. Mas pelos vistos vai bem encaminhado para estar em 2013:
GwtQuake: Taking the Web to the Next Level
A verificar-se a validade deste resultado (ainda não tive oportunidade de testar, mas tudo indica que sim, dadas as várias confirmações existentes) muita gente vai ficar caladinha a assobiar para o lado, a ver se passa despercebida. Só que eu sou um arrogante e não vou perder a oportunidade de dizer “I told you so”.
Esperei de ontem até hoje para escrever sobre o assunto mas, caso isto seja mesmo uma brincadeira de 1 de Abril, é inevitável que passe a realidade mais cedo ou mais tarde. Mantenho a previsão de que o Flash vai morrer: até 2013 ainda tenho tempo para ter razão.
EDIT: “Então e o o facto de o Google Chrome passar a incorporar o Flash?”. Amigos, isso é o que se chama um reverse takeover: o Chrome garante a compatibilidade com o Flash sem ser preciso fazer o download de plugins; e assim pode esperar que os sites passem a usar o HTML5 e quejandos; e se calhar no entretanto substitui a VM do Flash pela VM Javascript, com render do Flash directo para Canvas. Esse, aliás, é a provavel salvação do Flash: ser um conjunto de ferramentas que permite desenvolver aplicações tendo como target JS+Canvas+SVG; na realidade o Flash não é muito mais do que isso (o ActionScript não é mais do que uma versão de Javascript)
Ah, what’ s this? Yeah, excellent I love this kind of stuff.
Is this your track or is this, like, did you just put something on?
Yeah, it’ s nice.
No longer any place mother nature can hide now,
Far from space culture.
Dazzling, spacial
At the instant the omega point is reached, life will have gained control of all matter and forces.
Not only in a single universe, but in all universes his existence is logically possible.
Life will have spread to all spacial regions in all universes, which can logically exist.
We have stored an infinite amount of information,
Including all that is knowledge, which is logically possible to know.
No longer any place mother nature can hide,
Far from space culture.
Exude your phenomenon, exude the phenomenon.
Turn it on
Dazzling, spacial
The Mayan calendar, the most concentric figuration of recorded time.
You know the axis of the Northern Star shifts like two inches every year?
And it ends near 2000 and 11 on the nears of 2011th on the last half of hour.
Is, ah, when time speeds up.
Coming back,
Dazzling, spacial
Distant cosmos,
Exude the phenomenon.
I met, I need a power more than (…), that was really weird,
Oh man, that was (…),
And all these chicks, man (…) fuckin’,
You know what I mean? And I saw these dudes,
They’ re looking for Mick Jagger, you know,
like, I was, like, whoa,
I don’ t really know what’ s going on here?
And it was like, and Mick Jagger came out,
And he looked really scruffy,
And it was, like,
It was, like, he came up, man,
Cut, I tell you what, he came up,
And he went, like,
“Hey, man, alright.”
And it was, like,
“I s… I s… I’ ve seen the future, man.”
He goes: “Yeah, there is one.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_point
I highly recommend buying the book “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time”, with condensed versions of 100 very important business books. I might also refer you to the beast that “Business: The Ultimate Resource” is (>2000 pages, with lots of 1-page book summaries).
The recomendation isnt in full though, since some books arent included which I find really relevant for each category. So here are a few additions, some of them which are more of a personal nature:
YOU
Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto
LEADERSHIP
Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching
STRATEGY
SALES AND MARKETING
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
The 86 percent solution: How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the Next 50 Years
The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
RULES AND SCOREKEEPING
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
MANAGEMENT
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
BIOGRAPHIES
Howard Hughes – His Life and Madness
The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen
Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
High Tech Start-up: Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
NARRATIVES
Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace
INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking
BIG IDEAS
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
The Long Boom: A Future History of the World, 1980-2020
TAKEAWAYS
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values