m_fayer

25 ms·

331.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Watching Android descend from a place of dorky stability to sleek sealed glitch-city, kinda makes me think it's the institutions, as opposed to the tooling, that's behind the plunge in the quality of mainstream software.
332.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Definitely more memory hungry. But I see it as a good deal. I feed it all the memory it wants, it gives me stability, xplat, and an embarrassment of riches as far as features and conveniences. It's earned that memory.
333.
by m_fayer 7y ago
We're up-front about this test being part of our hiring process. The test is also not the first step, but follows an hour-long interview. We don't want to waste anyone's time either, so we only give it to people who really th
334.
by m_fayer 7y ago
I looked into Auth0 (and some competitors) a few years ago, and eventually figured out that, outside of a narrow usage band, it was extremely expensive given the not-trivial nature of integrating it and its various downsides. So, compared t
335.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Their computer isn't meant to be opened, so even if it's possible, installing Linux would probably be a lot easier.
336.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Basically Skype and a browser.
337.
Ask HN: Is Linux the best way to get my elderly parents new cheapo Dell to work?
2 points by m_fayer 7y ago|9 comments
338.
by m_fayer 7y ago
We do basically what OP said, but we ask the candidate to spend more or less 4 hours on the exercise, in one sitting or two. We also give them a fairly large project to do and say "We know you can't remotely complete this in 4 hou
339.
by m_fayer 7y ago
My partner is a new doctor in an underserved lower class area. The hospital is barely getting by from lack of resources, and on top of all that, the patients are often mistrustful and hostile. You work frantic 12 hour days for a lower middl
340.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Most software is streamlined automated bureaucracy. Not in the pejorative sense, but in the "basic infrastructure of a human enterprise" sense. Seen that way, it's absolutely criminal for software to allow the highest bidder
341.
by m_fayer 7y ago
I was thinking of situations where the "causes" can be additive. "Why are we consistently late?" CAN be caused by broken technical processes AND understaffing AND bad product design. Did not intend "root" to be
342.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Thanks, it's nice to hear from people who know. In Germany - once you finish medical school (6 years) you can practice medicine and be paid for it but you're not yet specialized. Specialization is achieved via a 5-year hospital re
343.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Thanks for writing that, my heart breaks too. My girlfriend is a second year resident in Germany, which is different in many details but, for doctors if not for patients, surprisingly similar. I'm watching her passion, ethics, social l
344.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Luckily I think day-to-day corporate dynamics and complex LOB business apps, where I think most of us earn our daily bread, are less likely to confuse our intuitive powers than something like mathematics or physics or philosophy.
345.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Absolutely. I would add: remember that we can all be right. That problem or dysfunction may have 3 root causes, not just 1, and that engineer, lawyer, and BA can stop debating about who diagnosed it right - they all did.
346.
by m_fayer 7y ago
How we tend to overvalue and overinvest in reason and undervalue and underinvest in intuition. Intuition is powerful, mysterious, and a pleasure to wield. But developing and then trusting intuition is anathema to our metric-fixated process
347.
by m_fayer 7y ago
It sounds like you've been through some things. How'd it all work out? I'd honestly love to hear it, you're a great writer.
348.
by m_fayer 7y ago
That video introducing this project, oh my. Your delivery and what you're saying are just such a pleasure. Totally convinced me to take this for a spin.
349.
by m_fayer 7y ago
The hangover of depression, agitation, and anhedonia is real, but it just lasts a day. The conversations, connections, and epiphanies you may have had last much much longer.
350.
by m_fayer 7y ago
The benefit would be not just a different language but the entire .NET ecosystem. If that ecosystem holds no compelling benefit for you, then I guess nothing. I was just answering OP's question looking for a concrete understanding of w
351.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Just take a look at Blazor for education-by-example. It's a framework like React&friends, but in C#, running in the browser via wasm. Build a SPA in C# - as practical as you can get.
352.
by m_fayer 7y ago
I've spent some time in Vienna and gotten a general vibe that the past lives on in this city in a way that's particular and charming and unaffected. This includes the cool-but-nerdy computer-geek of the mid 90s, running a bunch of
353.
by m_fayer 7y ago
I've seen what you describe happen. But it doesn't have to be that way. A wise lead may prefer a different path to their predecessor but respect the decisions that were made before them and realize that it's counterproductive
354.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Long time C# dev and team lead here. Can't say I agree with you. C# has become a great language for the "functional core, imperative shell" way of doing things. That means it has to be a hybrid language. F# is more tilted tow
355.
by m_fayer 7y ago
This looks great!
356.
by m_fayer 7y ago
Maybe it's particular to my local culture (Berlin), but many people I talked to said they would pay a premium to support a small business and to acquire independence and privacy. They're not technical, but they understand the rami
357.
by m_fayer 7y ago
I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, et
358.
Larry Page Is the Tech World’s Dr. Manhattan(theverge.com)
2 points by m_fayer 7y ago|0 comments
359.
by m_fayer 7y ago
The only slightly less alarming source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0
360.
by m_fayer 7y ago
We're doing it. It's (misleadingly) called server side Blazor. The UI is seamlessly and naturally web, while 95% of the logic is plain old C# running on the plain old core CLR.

More ›