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by m_fayer 7y ago
Hopefully that last xaml framework is avalonia, it's definitely gaining steam.
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by m_fayer 7y ago
Don't mean to be disrespectful, but that sounds an awful lot like the standard corporate non-reply of "Thank you for your feedback requesting the dead-obvious thing that everyone wants and that we know everyone wants but we are no
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by m_fayer 7y ago
A Windows UI framework that's modern and performant (so not WPF), at least somewhat competitive in flexibility and expressiveness and tooling with HTML/CSS (not WPF or UWP), and does not have a sandbox or mobile-style process life
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by m_fayer 7y ago
I have really high hopes for Avalonia but don't know anyone who's used it for anything other than kicking the tires. I'd love to hear of any experiences. And I really hope MS is neglecting WPF because some key insiders are lo
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by m_fayer 7y ago
WPF never quite made the leap from data-binding and MVVM to a component-based + state-management architecture like React&friends. A consequence of that is a hairy overcomplicated mess of a binding system that's full of footguns. Bu
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by m_fayer 7y ago
Does any of that sound like it's even in the neighborhood of what's needed to you?
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by m_fayer 7y ago
AFAIK, those efforts are just trying to make it usable from Core 3.0 - they're not doing anything to address the verbosity and performance issues.
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by m_fayer 7y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted I think it's dead on. Yeah desktop's always been fragmented, but it hasn't always been in today's state of utter neglect. Look at Windows - wpf was powerful, elegant, and ahead of i
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by m_fayer 7y ago
> Still, Altman insisted there’s a better argument to be made for thinking about — and talking with the media about — the potential societal consequences of AI, no matter how disingenuous some may find it. “The same people who say OpenAI
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by m_fayer 7y ago
At least we in tech can easily practice our craft outside of the startup world and remain financially secure.
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by m_fayer 7y ago
It warps and stifles artists and the art world. An artist knows that only maybe 5% of artists manage to survive financially off their work, and maybe 1% become wealthy. Knowing that there is that lottery ticket, and that the odds can be boo
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by m_fayer 7y ago
https://dataintensive.net/ I can't recommend this book enough. I have a CS background, and still had quite a few "I can't believe this thing has been hiding in plain sight!" moments while reading it.
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by m_fayer 7y ago
There's no easy way to automate/schedule this, and you have to do it one conversation at a time. Long-running multiyear conversations produce unwieldy multi-MB files. They're not even doing the bare minimum to make data porta
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by m_fayer 7y ago
I agree, insightful and powerful, thanks for the link. The medical system in general is a perfect case study of the contradictions and cruelties that have emerged from our present technological and institutional status quo. Maybe a baromete
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Hear hear. It's like the programming mindset has been applied to day to day life. Ruthless pursuit of efficiency and automation, maximum and continuous delegation to the system and machine - these things suffuse everything and are even
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by m_fayer 8y ago
"Utterly destroy" is a little over the top, but I get your drift. I don't pay much more for my flat now than I did when I first rented it here in Berlin over a decade ago, and I never will because of rent controls. I should m
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Same experience here. Also found it to be hideously expensive while setting all dials to minimum for experimentation and exploration. There may be a way to configure it for an affordable trial run, but it didn't motivate me to stay and
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Sometimes I think the same thing about what I do. Then I work with a junior and appreciate the difference that a decade+ of accumulated knowledge, instincts, and intuition makes. Yes, most of us don't gain ability the way a surgeon or
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by m_fayer 8y ago
You can have a few coal or gas plants on standby for those rate occasions when reserves are insufficient.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I don't have much interest in Japan or Japanese culture, so I don't really have much in the way of bias or preconceived notions on the subject. In the last few years my Japanophile flatmate has brought multiple Japanese people int
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by m_fayer 8y ago
TS isn't a first-class citizen in 2.x, and you'll need to go through a couple of awkward maneuvers to prevent Vue from negating many of the benefits of TS, but it can absolutely be done. This sample project sums it up nicely: htt
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Fundamentally, I see religion as an enterprise that defines the structure of existence (metaphysics), explains how humans in their "base state" are deficient within that structure, to their detriment and that of others, and finall
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Don't get why this is getting voted down. This scenario is on the gloomy side, but also insightful and a little too plausible for comfort.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I spent the last few years grinding my teeth with both Windows PCs and increasingly dysfunctional Macs until I finally switched to Linux. Found a machine known to play well with Linux (Thinkpad), and with stock Ubuntu 18, I'm delighted
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Way more free time because of mandated holiday and a culture of taking it. Better maintenance of a rich social life post children because of a more handsoff attitude toward child rearing, and higher prioritization of "adults only"
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Huh? Why? I'm an American who had traded America for Germany. It's no panacea but it is a marked improvement along multiple axes. That's real and unambiguous. Which is, I think, worth discussing.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Sure, that would be great. Will there also be endpoints for voting/favoriting/commenting?
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Fair enough, though for what it's worth, I'm not interested in making an HN app that would make it super-smooth, pretty, and compulsively browseable, but rather a couple of power tools to make it easier to participate in and track
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Funny that the same can be said about the subject of the article.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
A well designed official API would go a long way toward letting a thousand flowers bloom. I know there's web and mobile apps already out there, but IMO the average quality is not great. Which is not surprising, given the awkwardness of

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