spectralflux

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by spectralflux 6y ago
Agreed. Especially since the actual biggest individual contributor (for people living in the developed world) is having children, and we really don't want this kind of individual focus to land there.
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by spectralflux 6y ago
...and its already sold out. One thing I like about this and the OP-1 is they hit that retrofuturism, Tokyo-in-1985 kind of vibe so well with their marketing, its really well thought out.
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by spectralflux 6y ago
I think its pretty damning for the guy who literally wrote the book on making tech products more addictive ( Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products ) is telling us the technology isn't the problem, we just need to solve our inabil
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by spectralflux 6y ago
I've seen a lot of that kind of thing in non-Spring code (I can think of at least one codebase where they rejected using Spring as terrible, but their hand-rolled alternative eventually grew to something much worse), and honestly good
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by spectralflux 6y ago
Old code and programmers with old ideas hold back "real life" Java projects quite a bit from what they technically could be in a more modern form. Complexity and bloat definitely come with that, I think some folk get used to build
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by spectralflux 6y ago
Speaking as someone who technically would fall in b) in your community list: Java has all of those nice features and tooling now of other static languages, and when I tried out Go I found it tedious to work without them, especially generics
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by spectralflux 6y ago
I think in summer you might find the mosquitoes too annoying to be outside with, and in winter -- you have to keep in mind its not just a shorter day, its also permanently sunrise/sunset on sunny days (depending on your latitude, it co