m_fayer

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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'm an American with mediocre German living in Berlin, I've been here for a decade. I don't feel like a foreigner whatsoever. My social circle is 70% German and the rest is a mix of nationalities. I would absolutely feel like
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Don't shoot the messenger but take it from a first-generation Russian who has spent time there: peace-loving is a stretch. Ask yourself what it says about a nation that has a leader who is an authoritarian chauvinist, openly espouses p
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by m_fayer 9y ago
ASP.NET Core. VueJS on the frontend if it's a webapp. Jekyll if it doesn't need to by dynamic.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
To expand on your thought... I think "one crash will kill the industry" would have been true if this industry had continued to behave in a cowboy caution-to-the-wind (see early Tesla, Uber) fashion. But it really does seem like co
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by m_fayer 9y ago
There's a new batch of SVish companies coming from China. SVish in the sense that they move fast, spend large amounts of investor money, worry about profitability/sustainability/legality later, and leverage unproven technolog
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The EU needs all of the above. I value its capacity for producing sane sustainable companies. But it also needs a healthy dose of the SV ethos. Yeah, that ethos is nuts, high risk and high reward, can chew people up. But it also produces ra
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'm an unabashed enthusiast for high-level languages that require complicated runtimes and tooling. I thank the heavens sqlite is written in C and if anything is to ever supplant it, I hope that's then also written in C.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
As of 2.0, ASP.NET Core does finally feel ready for primetime to me. I've been revisiting the whole picture periodically for 2 years, and finally the tooling seems to be complete and performant, and the end result and developer experie
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I had to leave the beta channel to get the device functional after a recent update. Some kind of error loop about "a recent update has not finished installing."
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I borrow the office Rift every couple of months to play around for a weekend and see how the field is progressing. Unfortunately what I've mostly seen is a bunch of regressions, technical and ux, as they update their platform.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Nothing Anglosphere about hipsterism. Plenty of that from Southern Europe and East Asia. A typical member is youngish (born early 1980 and forward), secular, educated in tech, media, the arts, sometimes (social) science, left-leaning, with
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Make fun of hipsters all you like, heck it's not hard. But that won't change the fact that hipsters, a cultural group like any other, control a big chunk of the tech world, especially in Berlin. Meaning that you flippantly ignore
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Not exactly an answer to your question, but I have one folder in my inbox called "biographaphical" where I archive any personal communication, even the mundane stuff, but not bills and invoices and alerts. I plan to set up somethi
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I agree about it being a lovely city to visit. But as someone in the startup scene in Berlin, I think many here would be hesitant to open a satellite office there, simply to avoid inviting cultural conflict between the typical Berlin startu
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by m_fayer 9y ago
As someone descended partially from Jews from that area, calling the attempted rewriting of some very personal and painful history "hype" strikes me as malicious and insulting.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
It's bad here but it's not nearly that bad. If you're a good full stack dev you can easily make 50k, and 9k rent+utilities yearly will buy you a very reasonable lifestyle.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The 5-star movement is, to me, one of the biggest mysteries of contemporary politics. I've read plenty about it, but I recognize nearly nothing. It's Euro-sceptic, but also left-wing. Anti-nationalist and anti-migrant. Anti-author
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I found this interesting after spending a few weeks there this Summer on a whim. Everything about it is just so improbable. Tiny ancient place, Arabic-descended language, Mediterranean climate, built environment like some cross of Crete and
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Uh, really? So then you either have no plans to try to make Fuchsia OS a major commercial success? Or, do you plan to offer multiple first-class-citizen ways to write native apps on Fuschia, not just Flutter/Dart? Because if the idea i
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I don't hate Dart. I hate Google's presumption that their new client GUI platform will be so irresistible that it will convince me to use an unloved no-community language that's not usable in any other context. And... why? Th
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I instinctively like these arguments but I think we should be careful about indulging them. A big part of the human animals biological advantage is just how damn versatile it is. The range of diets, climates, and lifestyles which we tolerat
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I completely agree. When I'm unhappy with my productivity, part of my self-assessment involves taking a careful look at my emotional state and seeing if there's anything there that isn't compatible with the calm/attentiv
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Nihilism is a high-brow thing for high-brow people. You're right that it is a dangerous thing, but I think before nihilism, for most it leads to depression, anxiety, anomie, and then all sorts of destructive self-medication.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I feel like this can't be said enough. Various kinds of minimalism, which are really just different ways of being left in peace, are now pleasures that are only reachable by the privileged classes. So of course these pleasures find a l
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'm in my mid 30s and I think I'm in the middle of the pack as far as productivity/focus/procrastination go. From that perspective and from your own description of yourself, I would put you below average, and much more i
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I also cycle to work and in addition to being good exercise, you also get to experience some fun wizzy speed, wind in your hair, and fresh air. I arrive at work energized and cheerful, even if it's cold or rainy out. If I commute to wo
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The GDPR is going in the right direction by creating a "bill of rights" for your data, so ownership is firmly delineated and all 3rd party use of data revolves around clear revokable granular consent. What we need now is a "b
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Microsoft also shits all over auto-updates by grinding underpowered computers to a halt and making powerful computers sound like hair driers while their auto-update runs ngen, grinds out msi executions, consumes disk space that isn't l
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I think you're exactly right. I learned my way around computers as a kid because I wanted to do the same stuff that kids today want to do. Play games, prank my brother, talk to random people online. And I just followed that thread unti
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I am not a fan of this. Browsers by now have awesome text layout and rendering support, highlighting, screen reading, zooming. Individual images can be seen/copied/saved, user scripts and styles and browser plugins can access the

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