They're totally worth it.
Readit Newsfultonfaknem42 commented on Ask HN: Are Herman Miller chairs worth the money? · Posted by u/ykevinator
fultonfaknem42 commented on Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking fs.blog/2020/03/chesterto... · Posted by u/imartin2k
I can't help but thinking about the 5 monkeys and a ladder.
https://www.wisdompills.com/the-famous-social-experiment-5-m...
(Even if it is bullshit)
I was under the impression that on average the brain/body needs around 9 days of no caffeine consumption to get back to its natural baseline. I can't seem to find the source of that study right now...
You could do the math if you look up the half-life of caffeine. Via a quick Google search it looks like it is 4-6 hours. So if I understand it correctly, it's 4-6 hours for 100mg to become 50mg, then another 4-6 for 50mg to become 25mg, etc. So like if all you did was have a single cup of 100mg coffee, then its like 12-18 hours for it to go away. If you're me though, you drink like 3-4 a day. This seems to be about 28 to 42 hours. Withdrawals could take up to 2 weeks in my experience, and are proportional to how heavy my intake was.
I would love to produce my own ClearView.
fultonfaknem42 commented on Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft laptopmag.com/news/rip-wi... · Posted by u/benryon
> They have obstacles to overcome, and then there is just the glaring fact that they had so much momentum with Win32.
Do you feel the same about the macOS Carbon-Cocoa transition? Nobody misses Carbon anymore, and Win32 is as old as the classic Mac Toolbox.
Eventually they have to shed the old API.
I can't answer your question exactly. I came around only after Cocoa was established.
This does make me wonder if the transition from Carbon to Cocoa is analogous though. Win32 comes off as more of a "functional" approach to programming (C) and UWP is looking more object oriented (as to C++). It makes me wonder what kinds of conceptual advantages are being brought on board by moving from win32 to UWP. I think that conceptually I am in favor of the transition, and I'd wager that all the issues that arise are common to a functional to object-oriented transition.
But that real questions: What are the benefits? Is it conceptually easier to grasp thus promoting more developer interaction? Are we expecting speed benefits (are the performance losses expected and in range?) Is it a false dichotomy to only look at Functional vs OO? Maybe a context-oriented data approach is more appropriate?
Dunno.
fultonfaknem42 commented on Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft laptopmag.com/news/rip-wi... · Posted by u/benryon
The weather app was literally the only UWP application I was using of my own free will and it was because of its live tile. I liked being able to check the weather by opening my start menu.
I hate the other UWP apps. They're slow, they lack features, they have horrible UIs and they don't integrate well with the rest of the OS. The only reason why I'm using the new "Settings" app or the new calculator is because Microsoft forced me to it.
It's such a shame that Microsoft refuses to acknowledge that UWP was a mistake and keeps porting apps to it.
They have obstacles to overcome, and then there is just the glaring fact that they had so much momentum with Win32.
My biggest gripe is that startup times are just too long. So many times I've gone to launch something like calculator only to have a beefy machine hang for almost a second, if not a full second. It's likely an engineering obstacle that can be overcome but it just makes UWP look like a bad move perf wise.
fultonfaknem42 commented on “The Grid” AI website builder disappears with millions of dollars in member fees · Posted by u/seibelj
It looks like no one even cares about the drama of this.
We've written a custom compiler from C# to Java and JavaScript based on Roslyn. Over time it gained more features and target languages as well (Python is in progress, we can also emit a working GWT wrapper for the JavaScript output, we can emit TypeScript typings or just normal TypeScript as well, etc.). For us this helps us in offering our products on various different platforms without having to write the code in different places anew. Since our product is a library, not an application, we couldn't really take advantage of existing conversion tools that mostly take the path of converting IL to hideous code and an entry point.
The whole thing is now used in basically every library build we have at some point, even for the C# versions, as it ties in with our documentation writing process and places the correct API names and links for that product into the documentation, even though the docs start with mostly the same content for each.
I agree that lack of documentation makes working with Roslyn a bit daunting at times, although the API is very well designed and oftentimes it's very obvious where to look for something. I was also very impressed by their compatibility efforts. We started while Roslyn was in beta and upgrading through the releases worked without a hitch.
I'll second the API being very well designed. It is incredibly legible from a technical perspective and it has actually been generally a joy to figure it out, as opposed to just being told how it works. That being said: I need some bathroom friendly reading material every now and again.
> the overall size of your code has increased a lot over time, causing performance issues due to issues that have existed for a long time, but weren't being felt yet.
Not really. A simple empty project displays the same problems. You can try going back to 2017 right now with any project you're working on, you'll feel the difference instantly.
Intellisense simply takes longer to respond, and likewqise other editor functions.
Their feedback forums have hundreds of similar reports.
That is interesting and counter to my experience. Consider looking in to alternative causes (uninstalling plugins that may not be playing nicely with your particular version, background updates, etc.)
I get the exact same thing.