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by m_fayer 10y ago
The emotion API is quite accurate and easy to interact with, but painfully slow.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I thought everyone loved SQLite! It's tiny, no-fuss but full-featured, performs well, and works great as a data-interchange format. I use it in all my simple ad-hoc personal apps, and where would mobile be without it?
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Absolutely. The basics of liberalism as we see it today - rule of law and representative democracy, are young. How many presently-unthinkable violations of liberalism were committed by a Western nation within the lifespan of someone who is
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I've been waiting for the WPF/UWP/XAML grid to come to the web for years and am delighted to see that it's finally happening. Best layout container I've ever used.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
The idea that the political system was "deeply broken" before Trump is a popular meme these days, one that IMO is utopian, ahistorical, and increasingly destructive. Rule of law and representative democracy, as we know them today,
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by m_fayer 10y ago
That donation has also been on my to-do list for a few days, you guys just kicked me into pulling the trigger. Replicated.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
As an American living between Berlin and NYC for 7 years now, here's how it feels to me: The migrants in Germany have created some tension and isolated incidents, but the political and interpersonal climate is the US is significantly m
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I'm already seeing this in Berlin. I know multiple engineers and academics who have abandoned career moves to the US because they "don't want to live in such a toxic environment."
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Trump administration freezes EPA grants and contracts(theverge.com)
3 points by m_fayer 10y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Hololens was always somehow the thing that made me suspicious of Magic Leap. Because Hololens has the smell of "amazing things we can actually do." It is indeed amazing, and at the same time dorky looking and quite imperfect, much
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I often have complex animations and embedded video that will not survive the PDF export, and am sending presentations to people who can't just be asked to install libreoffice.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Portability. If you have to send a presentation around, embedding fonts in PowerPoint only works if the viewer is on a Windows machine, and keynote is not an option if your viewer is on a PC.
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Ask HN: What fundamentals does a veteran mobile/backend dev need for front end?
2 points by m_fayer 10y ago|1 comments
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I've met plenty of successful business people for whom profits and tactical considerations do not override ethics, loyalty, or basic decency. There's no physical law that says that the business context automatically inflicts the k
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I've realised that when you're solving a hard problem (complex data logic, extreme performance requirements) with SQL, you end up systematically experimenting and thinking very deeply within a rigidly
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I've come to realise that I suffer from this phenomenon in an odd (and possibly funny) way. While I unapologetically consume plenty of fiction and television just for entertainment purposes, I seem to be on some mission to find only th
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Are you implying that I'm being flippant about the trauma and suffering caused by muggings? If so, I can see how my comment could be read that way - I wrote too quickly, this was not my intention.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I grew up poor/working class and spent a lot of my youth in the nastier parts of Queens and the Bronx in the mid 90s. And I absolutely would! One reason is that my background gives me a realistic (as opposed to hysterical) view of the
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Stop feeding the troll.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Why not? We're all facing the choice of moving to Europe, or, given the troubles there, a remote cabin in Canada. Musk has apparently, and admirably, considered and rejected those options. Once he's made that call, the only thing
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Indeed. What if your body harbors some dormant weakness that originates in some old injury or some unfortunate genes? And so what if it was your divorce that was the last straw, and now that weakness has manifested and is now a Real Problem
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Yup. I decide on form-factor primarily based on whether I can easily bring the device on a brisk 30 minute bike commute without sweating (too much).
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I've met very very few genuinely lazy people. I've come to realise that people who may appear lazy are usually somehow impaired or beaten down. In one way or another, they have lost or never gained faith in their ability to push t
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I very strongly agree. In the very much socially just rush to get women in the workforce we've lost sight of the damage done to children by separation from their parents, and the damage done to relationships by the staggering workload
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Immune System, Unleashed by Cancer Therapies, Can Attack Organs(nytimes.com)
1 points by m_fayer 10y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I don't have a pixel but I've had a bunch of other flagships. The real test, that they all failed, is longevity. Android just doesn't seem able to survive a year of full use without deteriorating into a mess of glitches, one
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by m_fayer 10y ago
The business case would be to have a phone os that people love, like Apple does. Android would be my preferred os, if it actually worked properly. Most lay people I know feel the same. A new Android device is a joy for the few months before
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by m_fayer 10y ago
The only native toolkit I've ever tried that I thought could compete with web is wpf. It was slow and cludgy but way ahead of its time, and the web is only now starting to approach its power.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
That's exactly the problem. If I'm in "work mode" I'm after the thrill of tackling a meaty challenge. Then I don't procrastinate. But when I'm dealing with some tedious dependency hell/build glitches&
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I mostly use Azure for hobby/small/exploratory work, but I'm generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the C

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