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by m_fayer 9y ago
Uh, yes. I don't know what news you're reading but Germany is an oasis of tranquility compared to most other major Western nations.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The anxiety isn't rooted in simple personal safety. It's caused by the feeling that the state is erratic and unstable, and one can expect negligence and malice from all corners big and small at any time.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I know many American expats here in Berlin in the high-tech and academic worlds. Many say that the current political climate in the US greased the skids for their expatriation. No one says that the impetus was only the political situation,
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Ask HN: Quickest way for an experienced developer to learn WordPress
1 points by m_fayer 9y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 9y ago
All the midrange Android devices I own get out of control all the time if you switch between heavy apps too quickly. And every once in a while while I wait for the system to become responsive again, some low level process like "Android
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by m_fayer 9y ago
> Going forward, I’ve asked that every injury be reported directly to me, without exception. > ...so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better. I will then go down to the production line and perfo
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Cities Can’t Afford to Let ‘Rogue’ Bike Shares Run Wild(citylab.com)
1 points by m_fayer 9y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 9y ago
A lot of times a "freemium" application is really just developers rolling their own "try before you buy" solution. A few bucks makes sense for something trivial, but if I'm charging north of 5$ for something that wi
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'm 33, young-ish but I still have some nostalgia for the early days of the internet. I miss the lightness and innocence, when viruses had silly graphics and at worst screwed up one computer. When the biggest internet companies were st
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'd also add to your list of value that you begin to understand, embrace, even love the full depth of human fallibility/frailty. Sounds like you have a good thing going.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
This is brilliant and needs to be extracted into a library of its own. Thanks for surfacing this!
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I like the analogy to body maintenance. I think we should just admit that therapists have two modes - an acute mode for treating the mentally ill, and a "personal trainer" mode. With the latter, therapists do the same for the mind
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by m_fayer 9y ago
You can't wish them away, no. But if you change the right habits of mind (not saying that's easy) you'll have less negative emotions in need of unpleasant metabolizing in the first place.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
"Bro culture" also usually involves people without the humility and communication skills to properly band together and rise to the occasion when the going gets rough. Yet another reason to avoid these companies.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
He's a 3 year old floundering idiot who happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Vue is the first library I've worked on where I've had multiple moments of "ugh, this problem is an awkward fit for this framework and this is going to hurt" quickly followed by a skim of the docs and finding an API that
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Agreed. At some point, if your language(s) of choice are decently powerful and you are decently good at them, you don't feel yourself shackled by a lack of agility, expressivity, or capacity for producing something of quality. Rather,
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Vue has the best implementation of Material Design I've ever seen: https://vuematerial.github.io/#/
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Just my intuitive impression: The VueJS community is already so big that I think its reached escape velocity. It's bigger than Knockout ever was. By now, there's enough invested in vue-based apps that if anything were to happen to
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Ask HN: Which libs will get you closest to the VueJS model on Android/Kotlin?
6 points by m_fayer 9y ago|2 comments
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Either ssh into a real server, or use (or ssh into) that clunky behemoth gaming desktop I have sitting under a desk, which I sadly use way more for work than for gaming.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I really wish that the company that makes .net and azure could be split off from the rest of msft.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
If you first instinct is to address these problems with some sort of startup, I think you've got a hammer-problem going on. These are societal problems that the market has shown no appetite for tackling or capacity for actually resolvi
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Yeah, please, no. Jetbrains have been a consistent, effective, and mature presence in this world for a long time. The last thing I would want would be to inflict Google's capricious approach to acquisitions on such a valuable player.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Right. Fundamental flaws in the architecture that they try to paper over with some half-baked library that stays stuck in beta forever, is poorly documented, has major bugs and oversights, and in the end does much less than what you would e
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by m_fayer 9y ago
It is much easier to squeeze support out of Xamarin than Google.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I can only say I'm way more productive in Xamarin than I am in Android native with Java, I do a fair bit of both. I'm excited about Kotlin and will definitely give it a try, but Xamarin does still retain some advantages over Kotli
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by m_fayer 9y ago
As someone who's become adept with a few modern statically typed languages (C#, TypeScript, F#), and still sometimes has to write (pull teeth) crufty old Java for Android development, I can tell you that I'm happily pitching into
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I'd like to see you maintain your "cry me a river" perspective when the doctor tasked with saving your kids life is burnt out and going through a divorce because of his chosen career. And even if I were to agree with your pre
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Yes I think this is an important point, medical culture plays a big role in this. The only place I've seen a similar culture is in the army. If you're exhausted or in physical pain or have a cold, you not only power through it but

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