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Lived here 10 years, can verify. You feel it even if you're not in the know. It's like NYC in the early 80s, but now mixed with a startup scene.
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Ah, the good ol' Star Trek TNG computer. Even in the show people were constantly annoyed with it.
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I take pains to "configure" my consumption of their content, and best I can tell, the quantity of the high-quality stuff has declined. A meaty well-researched article hits the world/business/tech/science sections on
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I don't want to denigrate the contents of this article. But has anyone else noticed that over the last few years the NYT has slowly become more and more of a "lifestyle blog" or "thinkpiece farm"? This sort of writi
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Bit of wisdom that's an oldie but a goodie: Try not to be preoccupied with the outcomes of things that are outside of your control. Make the best choices you can in the present moment and then be ok with the chips falling where they ma
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On the consumer side of things, their eyeball-holding core is "the platform". This includes search, news, youtube, docs, Play, etc. Search is just a component of that. It's not very different from FB: acquire eyeballs to look
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I'd bet on "if you can't beat em', join em". Reactive component-based architectures a la React/Vue have won. The DOM has won for the view layer too. And with wasm, you get your bindings to multiple languages.
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Maybe in 5 years one or two of those BigCos will be humbled by an upstart, or the state, or the market, or a previously humbled BigCo (cough Microsoft). Then, by necessity, their design systems will become once again driven by the needs of
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I think this peaked some time around 2015. Back then, I remember many developers getting up in arms about following Apple's guidelines to a T, or insisting that Android apps look like a hyperactive stack of colorful paper cutouts under
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There's a huge appeal to what happens in those places where the Earth is underpopulated. Wilderness, strangeness, beauty, all those things. A fully populated Earth is one enormous suburb dotted with cities, there will be no breaks, no
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Totally. I wonder if the wrong people at Apple and/or Google drank their own cool aid. Maybe they truly believe that the majority of their users wait for the next OS version with baited breath, ready and willing to incorporate whatever
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We're exploring using server side blazor for a desktop app. You just bundle the "server" right into the app together with a webview to show your UI. No performance issues because there's only ever one user and you'r
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Trying to have the sorts of long lasting introspective unidirectional conversations needed to really work through things with your partner will either fail or screw up your relationship or both.
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I agree and disagree. Full blown major depression or panic disorder or what have you should absolutely be treated like physical health issues. But, there are many of us who are perfectly functional and decently happy who could still use cou
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Investigating Blazor now. It's very rough around the edges but is no less accessible and browser-friendly than React and friends.
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Just to add some anecdata - same here. I've had moderate-to-mild anxiety issues my whole adult life - with a big somatic component. I've realized that I'd rather just live with it than deal with the downsides of any of the dr
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It works wonders for me, but I can only afford it about every other week.
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Instead of junk food I go for super unhealthy but high-end food, rarely. A huge steak, excellent bar food, extravagant cake and baked goods - that sort of thing. Nutritionally bad for you in a way similar to junk food, but minus the mysteri
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I'm in Berlin with a failed startup behind me, I was a cofounder. Doesn't seem to be a problem. When asked about it I tell the truth with no spin, and I feel like all I've gotten was props for trying. Where in Germany are you
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https://flurl.dev/ is your friend. Generally while C# doesn't have the wealth of OSS libs like JS or Java, the depth and quality of what is there is often surprising.
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Also very skeptical, and I try to test carefully. So far, it seems that Passionflower extract does boost my sleep quality and helps with early-morning-waking style insomnia. In the evening, CBD helps me downshift to a relaxed "end-of-d
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This column, both in concept and in content, is pure gold.
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> ...as long as their core syncing tech. remains functional, I just want them succeed. I feel likewise. But I'm afraid their core tech will slowly fall into neglect as they cast about for new revenue streams - and in this particular
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> As long as software is tied to a company... I hope you're wrong, or at least wrong enough to leave room for a few "small is beautiful" outliers.
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We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism(nytimes.com)
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Dynalist - it specializes in hierarchical lists like Workflowy, but with a lot of rich functionality layered on top. I've been using it daily for over a year.
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In most startups, there's going to be that one engineer that's over the team's baseline as far as skill, sense of responsibility, and willingness to hurt themselves. Since most startups habitually commit potentially mortal st
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I'm not totally sure what you're doing here, but I like it.
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One of my favorite examples of life imitating art.
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If that was really MS's reasoning I find it risible. There are many perfectly good reasons to have synchronous IO APIs. Yes, in the wrong hands they can make for janky UIs, but then the problem is not the tool, the problem is the devel

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