Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Why would you use any of those technologies to build a TODO app?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't understand the analogy either but I do know that when I'm doing iOS development it's almost always all in Swift. Sometimes some C or Objective-C or even C++ smattered in but that actually kinda proves my point becaus
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
There's also something to be said for us working hard at getting rid of the complexity in web development.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Not to mention; web developers are constantly having to context switch between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Old school days they also had a backend language like PHP or Perl. Many still do. Then there was/is SQL. By my count, that&#x
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I think Jet.com tried this. If my memory serves, they were trying to be the Costco of online retailers where they generated a significant portion of their revenue from membership fees which would allow them to charge lower margins for thei
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Not to mention the times my face shows up in a picture someone posts to Facebook. I'm under no delusion that Facebook actually deleted my account. They know what I look like even though I haven't had an account in years.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
My experience tends to confirm this. I have had two personal therapists, one was of the "Why do _you_ think you feel that way?" ilk with some kind of counseling certification, and the other was an evidence-based practitioner with
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't know why this is getting down-voted because it is relevant to the article. People have had it with the caustic posts on and outright lies about privacy by Facebook so they're moving to Instagram. Facebook appears to most
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't think he was referring to harsh sentences or punitive measures when someone breaks the law. I think its more that when its life and not the Government that is going to punish you for failing, you're going to work harder a
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
My previous employer and I had a conversation about the open office he wanted to set up in our new office space. I kept telling him it was a bad idea. He really wanted to encourage a "vibrant and collaborative environment!" I k
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Finding swing voters is what a lot of these companies really want. I worked at a company about six or seven years ago that had a Conservative pollster as a client who badly wanted to identify the swing voter. They told us they didn’t care
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
If you peruse through his keynotes ( https://allaboutstevejobs.com/videos/keynotes ) it seems like the famed turtleneck outfit actually came fairly late in his career.
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What are the trustworthy ones?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
> I suppose it's hard for companies to recognise when they're at "peak function" and to just stop changing things This is so true and really becoming a problem in tech. Another good example is Google Maps. The browse
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I think the idea behind the exercise, from a Stoicism standpoint, is to mentally expose yourself to the fear of being homeless (or whatever about the exercise creates anxiety for you). Eventually you desensitize yourself to that feeling an
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
One major con, as far as I'm concerned, is the increasing ageism that exists in the industry in general, but especially at startups. My father-in-law is 68 and can barely get an interview, much less an offer. He is very technically
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
If did this very thing after my hairline and bald spot became prominent and don’t regret it one bit. It’s easier, cheaper, and, given the fact that I can count on one hand the number of haircuts in my life I actually liked, looks better on
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Uber is a prime example that the “Move fast; break shit” mentally that Facebook pioneered and the Valley companies so love is now costing lives.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Hopefully advertisers are waking up to the fact that Facebook is as much a bait-and-switch for them as they are their users.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
On the one hand, I agree. But with the increasing scammers on Amazon, this policy is going to bite them. I ordered a Nest Protect a few years ago and what I received was a cheap First Alert detector inside a Nest’s box. Did I get flagged f
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I read an article a few years ago, the name of which escapes me. It was something like “Idiomatic Vim” or “Linguistic Vim”. I would love to find that article again, if anyone happens to know based on the sparse info I’ve just provided, I
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't know about when typewriters were new, but up until recently, many people were actively scared to use a computer. I worked with people who would physically shake when they would use a computer because they terrified of breaking
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Kind of an apples to oranges comparison on Carmack's point though (no pun intended). Keyboards were invented 100 years earlier than the mouse. People, especially older adults, instinctively knew how to use them.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This story, to me, highlights Jobs' notorious ability to change his mind when presented with information that pointed to the right way of doing something, even in the face of social pressure to do otherwise. He could've been more
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Funny how the phone numbers they wrote down were only seven digits--the area code was assumed. I still remember parts of the rural area where I grew up where you only had to enter the last four numbers. The town was so small, the phone sy
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I'm looking forward to the Red[1] C3 project[2]. Red is a powerful language. I think they stand a chance to do some interesting things in the blockchain space. 1: https://www.red-lang.org 2: https://ico.red-lan
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Very much so. I've worked with major corporations that are still standardized on IE9. Meaning, every employee's computer has IE9 on it. IE6 is still used by a lot of companies simply because they have too much ActiveX code they
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
After over twenty years of the abomination that is browsers produced by Microsoft, I'm ready to beg them to stop making a browser. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they release a new version or new name of their browser, they say, "But this
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This has been my experience. Serverless is frustrating beyond belief. I haven’t deployed to production yet so maybe we’ll realize benefits enough to warrant the frustration at that time but so far I have serious doubts.
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I don't mean to knock this project because it looks interesting and I wish the developer all the best. But, why does every damn project announced have to be "lightweight"? Even the ones that are definitely not light anyth

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