Zelphyr

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811.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I find these days I spend less time coding and I end up with better applications because I think through the design before coding. At the risk of going off-topic; every new/kinda-new/wish they were new engineer can learn volumes
812.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I've read that this is also true in the sense that many young players are opting out of physical sports. Coaches are complaining that the kids don't want to play a game they can't reset when it's not going well for them.
813.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I agree but the author seems to be very specific about traveling to Southeast Asia. Or Africa first, if its May/June. I actually like your ideas better!
814.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
> You're going to get blasted by 100 degree heat, power-wafted by smells of the most amazing street food one minute and an open sewer the next, assaulted with music from a thousand bars, and crammed into a tiny room overlooking it a
815.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I've heard how Amex can be from a friend who has them as a client. They refuse to let her host their instance of her product on AWS because Amex's security team supposedly hasn't vetted AWS yet. This despite the kinds of cu
816.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
My wife just bought a brand new Toyota Highlander and I can confirm that the nav system is terrible. I can only imagine how much that turd increased the purchase price.
817.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
Same here. I deleted my account four years ago and haven't missed it one bit. I think people would be surprised at how much they don't need Facebook. That said, I also don't want to be using it in my workplace and will ve
818.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I think its a perfectly valid part of the discussion. Facebook holds a great deal of power with the kinds of personal data they possess so I don't have a problem whatsoever holding them to the highest standard possible when it comes t
819.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
For most people, the thirteen years from age 19 to 32 involves a great deal of maturity and in many respects I imagine the same applies to him. But if he started out as somewhat unscrupulous, what evidence do we have that the pressures of
820.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
What evidence do we have that he has matured? It's not a matter of being an immature college kid anymore. In many respects he has a financial incentive to abuse people's privacy now.
821.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I use Tower on Mac daily. I initially recommended SourceTree for the Windows users in my team (they were all new to Git) but after using it with one of them I rescinded that recommendation. It is awful. If Tower for Windows is anything li
822.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
That sounds so unfulfilling. I can be an expert at flavor-of-the-month technologies? No thanks. I'd rather create something.
823.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I have to disagree. In my experience, the frameworks get me to 80% completion but I'm not spending the next 20% on achieving completion. I'm spending orders of magnitude more than that fighting the framework, trying to make it f
824.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
You don’t pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental. —Ted Dziuba
825.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris is another good and very approachable book on ACT.
826.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
I have serious reservations about IBM's involvement in Swift. I spoke with someone very high up in the Sun organization once who said IBM was the worst thing to happen to the JDK. Which is saying something since IBM wrote most of t
827.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
If you're @pmarca I imagine you can get someone on the phone at Twitter pretty easily who will delete them for you.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Check Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). It's a form of CBT that has been particularly successful in treating anxiety-related issues.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
They seem to want to do the opposite. I think those yellow circles around the lenses are part of the glasses. They seem to want to highlight where the cameras are.
830.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
The best product I can think of is this: don't cock-tease your readers like this. I don't understand why they're so insecure with their product that they have to trick readers into coming back for more? The other articles I&
831.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
The problem is, it has become popular in our industry to equate new with "quality". So, while you're correct that jQuery isn't dead and in fact is more mature, there are too many who won't use it almost because i
832.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
Seems to me OP is stating the exact opposite. That the JS ecosystem used to be more egalitarian with a much lower barrier to entry than (ironically) what frameworks like React and Angular provide.
833.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
This is exactly why I don't buy the argument that frameworks are so much easier to use and learn than languages. I look at the state of JS these days and shake my head in disbelief. When did it get so needlessly complex? More import
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Good point. Does anyone know if there have been any studies on only eating in-season fruits and vegetables and how the body reacts?
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Also, it tastes like ass. Bigfoot's ass.
836.
by Zelphyr 10y ago
Maybe their murders went to 11?
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Eve-style clock demo in Red, livecoded(red-lang.org)
5 points by Zelphyr 10y ago|0 comments
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
While I agree that it would have been nice had he given examples of why React is bad and/or Web Components are better, I don't see anywhere in the post where he suggests React is bad simply because its developed by a for-profit co
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React Is a Terrible Idea(pandastrike.com)
61 points by Zelphyr 10y ago|37 comments
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
I finally developed a daily meditation practice by starting small and focusing more on developing a habit first. I read somewhere that if you do something every day for 45 days you create new neural pathways. I don't know if the resear

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