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by m_fayer 11y ago
Microsoft seems to be working hard to keep the forces of the universe balanced. Whatever good will is generated by their foray into oss must be immediately offset by ill will produced by windows 10.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
The more things change the more they stay the same, I agree.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
We should not judge the potential of a technology only by the worst-case scenario for which it may be used. If a promising technology has a high likelihood for serious abuse but also a highly desirable upside, instead of tossing the baby wi
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I happen to know a few people who have grown up stewing in a sometimes-violent sometimes-cold conflict. They are openly and honestly essentialist racists, and if given the red genocide button would likely push it, or so they say. They are o
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Absolutely. I had it installed for some time and mostly thought "this is really neat but I could live without it." And then there was a monster merge with significant conflicts all over the place. I don't think it would have
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I know what you mean, and yet this buzzword heavy cosmetically obscure quote, when realized, results in an IMO simpler, clearer, and more elegant end product and developer experience. Funny, that.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I feel exactly the same. For me Win8.1 was the pinnacle of Windows. The whole "tile-world" part of the system was misguided but ignorable, and didn't harass anyone. Tile-world aside, it was one of the most stable and performa
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by m_fayer 11y ago
You've gone through significant effort to PAY for content because you enjoy it and respect its creators, yet you are nevertheless rebuffed. They don't want your money, simply because of where you live (nothing personal). You can n
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by m_fayer 11y ago
As a Xamarin developer, I'm really hoping that this plays well with Xamarin and thus liberates me from having to deal with the buggy and invasive Windows 10. I'd much prefer to be on Mac but once you're used to Visual Studio,
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Rational or not, it's somehow creepier when an OS is doing it, as opposed to most of the crunching being done on Google's servers. If you have any feeling at all for how an OS operates, Windows 10 with default settings has the air
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Jumping from one relationship to another with barely any time (if any at all) in between, each relationship failing the same way as the last and doing ever more damage, convinced the next one will work even though no fundamental changes wer
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I would also add that it's pushing risk on those who would avoid it if they could. As GP said, even if the company owners are the ones who would usually shoulder the risk - at least they signed up for it, and are possibly better suited
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I usually work as a consultant and my income is highly variable. Of course in our field when I earn it's nothing to complain about, and my average for most years is certainly nothing to complain about. Financially, I'm lucky. And
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by m_fayer 11y ago
* Offline mode: If you have large amounts of structured data and high performance requirements for it... well, good luck.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I've met (only a few) devs who are as you describe, but instead of socially incompetent assholes they were committed to humility, cooperation, and professionalism in the best sense of the word. They were better leaders than what you de
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Really? "Rock star dev who's also a jerk" is typically driven by ego, whereas the actual leader should be driven by the needs of the business and the needs of the customer, and be talented at balancing the two. He should also
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I think FRP is one of those technologies where going full-hog (all the things are event streams!) results in confusing code and a dogmatic, difficult, and unpleasant development experience. However, if you apply it just enough, you'll
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Something interesting about this project: It showcases what has so far been a mostly below-the-radar effort to overhaul and modernize WPF. WPF has an incredibly broad and powerful API, tied to a fairly inefficient and poky rendering stack,
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Same here, one thing that sometimes works for me is making sure I have no browsers open at all. Then the inevitable speedbump of opening a browser and waiting for my machine to recover from the 50 tabs all suddenly coming to life keeps me f
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by m_fayer 11y ago
The devil's in the details. The handbook emphasizes Growth Growth Growth. So when your small focused obsessively cohesive product saturates its small niche and your growth is suddenly not-so-exponential, if you're a startup you st
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I think "unicorn" is strictly reserved for the Ubers and the AirBNBs of the world. Anyone who calls the company that gets fusion energy working a "unicorn" will probably be laughed out of the room.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I'll second this, it really is a "scene." When hiring or looking for contract work, people reach out to their network first and it almost always produces someone. Reaching out to the open market is seen as a last resort and r
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by m_fayer 11y ago
This looks great, thanks for the tip!
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Unlike the DHH rant linked above, I'm not condemning the Big Startup / Growth / VC approach. At a societal level, it has managed to spin up many game-changing companies very quickly. I think it's a movement that will go
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Yeah, I also say it with some distaste. This is the path I'm personally pursuing though, and I'd love to have some better terminology to describe it. I wouldn't call it a "small business" either because, to me at le
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I wish there was a similar level and quality of resources for what I think are called lifestyle businesses. By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market posit
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by m_fayer 11y ago
As the op said, there is no "Europe" and talking about it as if there's a single entity is, to European ears, quite ignorant. Practically the only thing Italy has in common with Poland has in common with France has in common
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Dear boulos: I'm saying this to you but it is a general message to the Google Cloud division. I'm an early GAE adopter, still running a system in it to this day. I've seen your kind come and go many times. Sometimes it's
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I try to avoid commenting on App Engine related posts because I'm afraid that, despite myself, I will end up writing a long angry rant and come off hateful and bitter. When I have a bad experience with a given technology or providor, I
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I just highlighted the phrases that made me interpret your statement as I did, but I misinterpreted. Wasn't intentional, thanks for the correction.

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