m_fayer

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721.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Nope, I'm also on a late-2014 MBP. It's no slouch.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
To clarify... I'm on a Mac. Tried it scoped to console and evaluations were not instant, but decent. Certainly slower than the Mono REPL. Then tried it scoped to Android and even after everything was warmed up the evaluations were stil
723.
by m_fayer 10y ago
And Donald Trump is president elect.
724.
by m_fayer 10y ago
In some ways it's nicely ahead of C#, but it's still missing some extremely desirable language features, namely async/await/yield.
725.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Wow, I did not know about this. I just spent 30 minutes playing with it and am intrigued and hope this will reach its full potential, then it could be something rather special. For now though... Evaluation is painfully slow, especially when
726.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Do you really think something like this: Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>> foo = new Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>>(); Is prefferable to: var foo = new Dictionary<string, Tuple
727.
by m_fayer 10y ago
The Visual Studio REPL is much more polished and feature-rich. It has basically the same code editor and intellisense as what you get when working on a C# file. Multi-line history with editing, file-system aware imports, and a lot of other
728.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Xamarin studio is in many ways lighter and more asynchronous than vs proper, so there is some upside. But it's missing visual studio's absolutely killer feature, which is the superb c# repl. Add that and my windows virtual machine
729.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I've gotten great levels of code-sharing, but you don't just get it out of the box. You really have to architect for it. See: MvvmCross and ReactiveUI.
730.
by m_fayer 10y ago
My experience with Xamarin is mostly on the Android side, so that's what I'll mention. Spoiler: mostly positive, with some big caveats. In no particular order: Stay the hell away from Xam.Forms, unless it's improved drastical
731.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Get the FODMAP-guide app from Monash University, it's on iOS and Android. It tells you exactly how you should treat most foods with a red/yellow/green system and a textual explanation. For garlic: "1/2 clove contain
732.
by m_fayer 10y ago
If you have Spotify, there's a playlist there published by Spotify called "This Is: Leonard Cohen", it's one of the best sweeps over his career that I've seen so far. He may not have been as prolific as Dylan, but h
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I agree. And as someone who works with telemedicine, I can say that even video pales in comparison to in person. Our body language reading machinery is weak and ignorable when a person is reduced to a small 2 dimensional image, let alone te
734.
by m_fayer 10y ago
This is all right on, but I would add one important point. Which is that some people cannot be retrained. It's the rare fifty year old who can adapt to a whole new field, learn all the theory and practice all the application, and then
735.
by m_fayer 10y ago
This also bothers me. There's something soul-sucking about screens once you spend more than 4 or so hours in front of one. And because I can't really put my finger on what it is about screens that has this effect, I can't com
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by m_fayer 10y ago
My pet theory: the digital world is just real enough for us to inhabit without feeling alone, while removing a few crucially difficult elements of in-person interaction. Because we can't escape the reality of being social animals, we g
737.
by m_fayer 10y ago
This struck a chord with me. Unlike the author, I think I still like computers, but only in their essence. I like programming, the detective game of debugging, learning new paradigms, getting lost in abstraction, the thrill of watching powe
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Only us engineers still see the internet as the internet. To most of humanity, what it really is is the media, a communications medium, and a few other things. We sw engineers are the roofers, plumbers, and drywallers keeping this invaluabl
739.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Berlin here. A lot of the suburbs and villages just an hour north in Brandenburg don't even have 3g, forget 4g. And we're not just talking spotty coverage, there's just nothing, you'd be lucky to check your email.
740.
by m_fayer 10y ago
As someone who's only used high-level UI stacks (DOM, WPF, Android view system, etc.), I would love to read a great article that's a "Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming", these are basics that I'v
741.
by m_fayer 10y ago
No one other than Lenovo in the Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
742.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I wouldn't be totally surprised if this was a hit with many consumers. But for many devs including myself this is a nonstarter. I'm sure Apple knew this and decided the loss was worth it. What I don't get is why no one, not A
743.
by m_fayer 10y ago
It's a consumer-level gimmick jammed into what's supposed to be a professional tool. Sad.
744.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I had the same experience with "Be Right Back", the first episode of season 2. I thought the show was cynical, cutting, ruthlessly executed and a bit too polemical. And then there was this episode, which leaned on a common sci-fi
745.
by m_fayer 10y ago
There's a spectrum of risk here that IMO we don't like to acknowledge. It's uncomfortable to say that accepting a certain quantity of seriously injured or even killed children actually does come with benefits to those who are
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by m_fayer 10y ago
No I have several activities, but they're very coarse-grained. Similar to how a large SPA may consist of a grand total of 3 or 4 pages, and routing works within pages, not just between them. Also, I'm currently using this techniqu
747.
by m_fayer 10y ago
It's been over a decade and over 10 major releases since Google acquired Android. If they still haven't managed to completely absorb it, culturally and technically, then I've underestimated just how dysfunctional Google is.
748.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I think you're right. Or at least, they're not devoting a certain kind of talent to Android. Look at Google's efforts on web frontend - GWT, Polymer, Angular 1/2, embracing TypeScript, RxJS, and so on. In other words, th
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I agree completely. After a while I abandoned fragments completely and started using custom views everywhere. Life got much easier and I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop - decreased maintainability, performance, robustness... somethi
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Otherwise known as the "lolcycle".

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