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big_paps··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
A good mechanical UI is somewhat timeless. Touchscreens just look supercheap and tasteless in cars.
big_paps··on Stackoverflow Sucks
It 'sucks' because you expect to be completely babysitted and that doesn't happen ? Besides the fact it has helped millions of programmers billions of times ? That's plain ridiculous.
big_paps··on Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruptio
Well, okay then, i will take your precise data as a fact. All these scientists with their fake-data must surely be liars.
big_paps··on After 20 Years of Web Development, I Am Ready for Disruption
so what ..
big_paps··on The Art of Not Thinking
or : embrace the suck
big_paps··on The Art of Not Thinking
I dont think so. These monologs which hinder you from doing stuff by arguing with yourself are highly egoistic. So are the voices which try to convince the other voices ... The best thing is to just recognize them as narcistic white noise.
big_paps··on The Last of Us 2 epitomizes one of gaming’s longest debates
I never play games because of the story. If i want a good story i will go for books. If the gameplay and the atmosphere is fine, the game is fine (for me)
big_paps··on Ask HN: How much time do you spend deciding what to wear everyday?
None. I almost only have blue, white, or grey colored clothings, so i pull out the upmost shirt, underwear, pair of trousers every day and i always look superfresh and perfect.
big_paps··on Interactive 3D ASCII scenes
This is crazy cool. How do you create the maps ? After all, they are 3 dimensional not flat !
big_paps··on Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
its seems totaly legit to use hydrogen bombs for fighting against wildfires.
big_paps··on Ask HN: iOS developers, where did you learn?
I think the iOS Books from Big Nerd Ranch are really worth the money. Just build an app while you are reading it, and at the end you should have a solid fundament to continue learning.

Also the Stanford online courses are really really good.

But dont mix to many sources.

big_paps··on Ask HN: What systems do you use to stay productive?
sport shoes.
big_paps··on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released
I am really not at all wealthy (plus i have to provide for my family), but as a developer, i am always completely surprised about the peoples penny-pinching if it comes to paying for good tools. If you use good tools, you can identify with them, and are more likely motivated to learn their functionalities (shortcust,plugins etc..) so you become more productive. So after one or two month this investment will have been more than just payed off.

70$ is nothing for a good tool.

... and then some people wonder why a company can not afford to make marketing etc ...

big_paps··on VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
Still its one of the most interesting posts. x Joules per blink
big_paps··on Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach to programming
Looks like completely detached from reality. Its like a digital revival of electronics ?
big_paps··on A story of a designer learning math
this is a fantastic resource !
big_paps··on Ask HN: With such fast changes in technology, how do you update your skillset?
Can confirm fundamentals. The longer i work as a developer, the more i see the importance to have a grip of the basics. For me this is mysql, linux, math rather than new frameworks, languages and build tools.
big_paps··on Ask HN: Node vs. .NET Core
If the computation-part should run server-side, definitely use .net
big_paps··on Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies?
Stalker
big_paps··on People get “violently ill” from Soylent bars
I dont understand why people eat such hyperprocessed stuff like that at all. Go buy an apple ...
big_paps··on Visual Studio Code 1.5
This is simply not true. Beside Webstorm is a very good IDE, its much more precise with Typescript.
big_paps··on Don't add your 2 cents
uugh .. that would be terrible.
big_paps··on jQuery 3.0 Released
because its often less verbose than plain js, and its event-handling is great.

something like $("#wrapperel").on("click",".painbutton",cbfunction),is way more code in plain js.

big_paps··on Hey Apple, a Five-Year-Old Computer Isn’t ‘Sad’
No, this isnt a joke. The reaction of the audience showed that clearly. How pityfull they shook their head to confirm how "sad" a five year old windows computer is.

That part of the keynote was really so ugly-spoiled-hipster-narrow-minded that i really started to think about switching to windows for the first time after 12 years of apple usage.

big_paps··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
This probably also means Unity3d will soon be able to use an updated version of Mono, because Microsoft wants to back them and doesn't force them to pay the full licence price.
big_paps··on Ask HN: How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?
I would recommend learning steps like this:

+ Update your php knowledge to modern standards. (i.e. autoloader)

+ Learn just some sass and use bootstrap 3.

+ Use something like laravel as a php framework or even smaller like slim

+ DONT get confused by the plethora of JS-Frameworks. DONT use build tools in the beginning. Plain old <script> tags for the start.

Start building something nice.

sign up on laracast.com ;)

big_paps··on Io Programming Language (new website design)
I also miss a usecase. And speaking of the homepage: This looks untransparent and unfriendly.

I think the laravel homepage is extremly well made. Clean and very good documentation which you can use all the time without getting angry. http://laravel.com/docs/5.1

big_paps··on Building a desktop application with Electron
The reason for all this, despite the "man, js is terrible / slow" argument, is just that there are a lot of web-developers out there, with a big bag of tools, frameworks and "to-js"-compilers, wanting to create something, but just don't have the time to learn a complete new cross-plattform infrastructure, which JUST DOESNT REALLY EXISTS. You have to ponder if its just worth the efforts to build something native or go fast(in terms of development-time) and cross-plattform with sometimes reasonable trade-offs.

If there will be a "mostly unified" UI-Framework for android,ios,win10-mobile,windows, osx and linux for any compiled language, i will be the first to jump onto that waggon...

big_paps··on Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?
perhaps you should a) search for something exciting beyond your job, b) use your expertise for something new i.e. building your own company.
big_paps··on The Secret Nuclear Threat
Pressure under water is not the same from all directions. Otherwise a balloon rise under water.
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