m_fayer

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by m_fayer 8y ago
Great analysis, thanks. Your points make me wonder... If you're running a small successful and independent sass, that respects its users, and you want to move on. What do you do, if your only options are selling to a large company that
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Reprogramming T-cell function and specificity with nonviral genome targeting(nature.com)
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Yes the weirdness introduced by TS, especially around vuex, is really jarring. But then again, last time I tried a new medium-sized Vue project in plain old ES6, I went running back to TS, weirdnesses and all. And bit by bit, especially wit
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by m_fayer 8y ago
A decade ago I would have thought your comment was over the top. Then I moved to Germany. And was surprised to find an utter lack of spammy phone calls, no crowd of ubiquitous scammers vying for my attention, no surprise mystery medical bil
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by m_fayer 8y ago
While I haven't read the actual scholarly anarchist stuff, I hung out with some bookish lefty radicals in my college years and early 20s. What I saw then was a lot of attempts at alternative and non-hierarchical forms of organization,
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Governments are what happen when a group of people live in a community too large and complicated to be governed by an ad-hoc group of elders talking it out. Governments are what happen when humans want to trade in an organized fashion. Gove
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by m_fayer 8y ago
My job got me a newer XPS 13 i7 8550U model. I also dislike it: conspicuous coil whine, heat issues wherein you get to select between "high-perf/hair dryer", "ok-perf/annoying", "slow/silent" mod
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I used to agree with you. But over the last few years, in their own ways, Apple and Microsoft have dropped the ball on their native desktop UI toolkits. So, whereas the argument for native used to be "rewrite your client once per platf
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Yeah every 10 years our system will become more twisted and polarized as whoever's in power at the time uses the last decade worth of technological development to draw ever more bulletproof maps. If the Republicans control the majority
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My "home stack" is .net core, and ts+Vue if I need a gui. While I genuinely love and enjoy all the aforementioned pieces, I do not enjoy messing with webpack and friends, and every once in a while even Vue and ts reveal themselve
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Believe it or not modern browsers are a clear winner when it comes to graphics performance. Sure WPF has a slick animation API that can do all sorts of things and a super-flexible "lookless controls" model, but the second you try
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by m_fayer 8y ago
If you're a small or medium sized non-tech publisher who outsourced the building of your digital publishing system 5 years ago and have been cruising along ever since, you might not be very motivated to spend real cash on a big new IT
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by m_fayer 8y ago
On the one hand I think this is a great sign that the GDPR is being taken seriously. On the other, I see this as corporate speak for "We're not sure if ensuring compliance makes business sense for us and this notice may actually b
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by m_fayer 8y ago
No I think Germany really is far above average when it comes to honestly reckoning with historical wrongdoing. It's exactly because of this that hate groups have been pushed very deep underground, which makes them unusually cultish and
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by m_fayer 8y ago
It's not empty. It's an enormous, unique, and beloved park that is starting to become as major an icon of Berlin as the Fernsehturm.
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This year's build is rather underwhelming.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
That's why we have permission APIs at the OS level. Better than nothing. Also you say you only trust foss software to not only not maliciously spy on you but too keep your data secure. Do you really check the code for security flaws or
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by m_fayer 8y ago
The server side crawling in Pocket Casts means it's always instantly up to date with my 50+ feeds, and perfectly synced with its web client. Seems like a full service to me. Also in my experience, relying on small-scale FOSS apps means
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by m_fayer 8y ago
It's that vanishing breed: designed well but not overdesigned, technically solid, no hidden agenda or ecosystem to push, all for a fair upfront price. Hope they don't mess it up.
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Nah. I miss single life while knowing perfectly that my life is better with my partner. I miss getting lost in video games and having a wide circle of low-stakes friendships, while knowing perfectly well they my life is richer and more rewa
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Right on. I don't suffer from depression but my partner does. Because I don't have much experience with it myself, at first I was completely clueless about how to be helpful and supportive. Eventually I realised that just being ar
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I resist updates because so often they are driven not by the need to incrementally improve a product in terms of features and design, but by some "high up the chain" decision to turn a perfectly good product info a "platform&
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I know the situation in the US and here in Germany, and if I had dark skin I'm really not sure which poison I'd choose. In Germany a Westernized dark-skinned person will feel quite comfortable, but when it comes to things like com
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Many tech stocks pay very little in dividends or none at all, even if the company is quite profitable. In tech it's all about share price.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
A millennia of trial and error vs a century or so of methodical science. Certainly the science is much more effective, but there must be some gems in that great big pile of trial and error too. Also we shouldn't underestimate the heali
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Usually personal sites and social media accounts for such people are quickly taken offline, so reliably that I've wondered how it is that there's always someone with the authority and access around to quickly pull the plug. Not in
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Right on. From watching my pets, I know that when they're healthy, happy, and bored - they will start doing lots of random shit "for the hell of it." Same applies to humans, and often to apex predators. Perhaps we're too
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The countries that best embody what Americans think of as "European socialism" are actually the Nordic countries, which are relatively prosperous, innovative, and not corrupt by Western standards. Italy, to the best of my understa
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Berlin's culture is proudly post-national, cosmopolitan, and bohemian - a place that doesn't care where you come from, and doesn't ask, you're accepted simply for partaking in the low-rent offbeat way of life that's
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by m_fayer 9y ago
It took a while to feel unwelcome in Vienna, and it was really a pileup of small things that didn't sit right with me, many of which on their own would be easily dismissable. It may also be my particular heritage that made it more diff

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