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by m_fayer 10y ago
There's a lot of wisdom in your list, but I would take issue with the men/women point, that one is a bit of a straw man. No one reasonable is advocating for a mandated perfect 50/50 split. The reasonable take on gender equali
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by m_fayer 10y ago
While I don't accept work or labor as intrinsically good or necessary, IMO occupation is. Feeling needed and useful is central to having a sense of purpose, and without that, you get solipsism, anomie, and eventually social unrest. In
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by m_fayer 10y ago
A lot of young Israeli artists and designers are in Berlin too. When I go outside here, what I hear is a mix of German, English, Turkish, Italian, and Hebrew - not a mix I ever thought I'd encounter.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Also, you have to work twice as hard to acquire a fraction of the money that you would in SV. Raising a seed round requires one of the founders dedicating months to elaborate spreadsheets mapping out the future of your company for the next
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Here in Neukölln Berlin, 4 weeks is normal for whatever DSL provider you choose, O2 tech support treats you with utter contempt when THEY fuck up, and connection quality is all over the place. Cable is barely available.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
This looks truly useful and innovative, well done! Two things come to mind, apologies if they're already addressed: The sidebar jumping around in the corner of my eye sounds really distracting, I wonder if there's some way to manu
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Yep, surprisingly good. My only criticism is of the implied simplicity of the "backend". In reality the choices are vast with a huge long tail. That's because backend, as opposed to frontend or mobile, is really just good old
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Absolutely. A face will change in subjective attractiveness depending on the mental temperature of it's owner. Benevolence, tranquility, conspiratorial crackling wit, real empathy - seeing these on people's faces makes them immens
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Because Microsoft and Apple have both dropped the ball on their native UI toolkits. Right now I'm doing web frontend with TS+VueJS+nice CSS toolkit. Yes there's plenty of complaining to do about the fragile convoluted toolchain an
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The vendor's way of doing things is just one of many possible ways, the vendor is often not right, the vendor often has their own agenda, the sky will not open and smite me if I don't go the vendor's way.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
This is the kind of "accessible take on fundamentals that you might not have even realised were fundamentals" documentation that I'd like to see more of. It took me a few years of web development to even start thinking about
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by m_fayer 10y ago
At least for me, I have a high-sensitivity gut that sometimes verges into IBS territory, if I mistreat it. I can't tolerate beans or similar in any quantity, so I'm left with pretty much tofu as a non-meat protein source. And I ha
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Meat is the easiest form of high quality protein. Not everyone's digestive system is amenable to high quantities of non-meat protein sources or to high-carb diets.
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Exactly. In addition, I am thinking of the many television shows starring educated urban people's educated urban problems, or how often the lower classes, when they are represented at all, are treated with either some condescension (Fa
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It's also very simple "sour grapes" thinking. Most people can intuit that knowledge leads to status and privilege, so when they don't have it themselves, their ego suffers when adjacent to those that do have it. So, in a
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Then again take a step back and look at what's being achieved. You are delivering, nearly instantly, a sophisticated and responsive fat client application to the user without any installation process. This fat client is running in a ne
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by m_fayer 10y ago
This is probably not a popular opinion, but checked exceptions can actually be used for good as well as evil.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I have the feeling that a big problem with VS is less about raw performance and more about old school blocking code, ironic considering how good C/F# are for async programming. VS just tends to "freeze" where other IDEs would
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I do a huge chunk of my development with physical devices. It would just be nice to have a quick and reliable emulator as a fallback for those times when you don't want to carry a development device, or when attaching it to your machin
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I wouldn't lay the blame solely on the fact that Java is a compiled language. The loop is way faster both in iOS with their simulator and even with C# on Windows Phone/UWP, even though all those platforms use compiled languages as
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Yeah, bit by bit a lot of the rough edges are being worn away. The one thing in addition to the bananas lifecycles and execution models that really gets my goat is how hideously slow the modify-deploy loop is, and that there's no good
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by m_fayer 10y ago
For dead-simple parallel execution of a handful of jobs, IMO nothing beats mapping data to tasks with Linq and then "await Task.WhenAll". And if they have to share data, use something in System.Collections.Concurrent.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I don't know about AWS SES, but I know that compared to Mailgun, SendGrid is a more complex and larger product that has features for marketing campaigns, and it's not API-only - it also has a web UI. It's like a cross of Mail
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Should have phrased it as "the blocking wait will consume resources (keep a thread busy) for 1700ms whereas the async one will not." Hard to stay both accurate and extremely simple when talking about concurrency.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Exactly. Here's another simple way to think about it: Handling a request usually invokes a couple of layers of your code until you hit some IO - database, file system, network, etc. If that IO is done in a blocking fashion, this reques
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Yes, but I think he also meant things like the TPL, PLINQ, TPL Dataflow, RX, Akka.NET and so on. I have been happily using one or more of these to write tons of event driven and/or parallel client-side code and haven't touched a l
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I mostly agree with you and I'd like to take the leap, but Javascript. I've tried to love it, and Typescript is a big improvement that I use happily. But in the end I'm just always going to be way more productive (especially
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And creating a multiplatform coherent, attractive, and performant UI on top of an infinite catalog of music, with recommendations, shareable playlists, "radio stations", and on and on - is no small feat. Apple shows no capacity fo
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by m_fayer 10y ago
You make it sound like sex-driven marketing is the picture of fun, healthy, body and sex positive thinking. Instead, this kind of marketing usually sets the viewer up as somehow too deficient to achieve the awesome sex on display: too fat,

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