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This is a really serious indictment, folks: “Also, they were doing some unusual things, such as storing JSON strings in a text field in a PostGres database”

You forgot hotdog professional. Hated how frontpage mangled the code!!

Haha that site was what drove me to flash/actionscript. There was another site too that made 3d popular and I got rabbitholed exporting stuff from 3d studio max into flash. Complete waste of time - clients only wanted boring splash screens and you had to talk them out of it.

I can relate to that to some extent. A good rule of thumb that I try to apply to weights is to pick a weight where can do 8 reps but where 10 would fatigue me. Same thing, if its cardio, I try to pick a pace where if I run for 10 minutes, I will need to rest. These two tricks help me at least improve my health incrementally.

Keep going. It took some experimenting for me to realize what kind of strength training and cardio I liked. Try different things until you find something that is tolerable and then take it to the next level.

Interesting observation. I dont feel the same urge to drink when I lift heavy. I’d be interested in understanding the science behins it.

I cant second this enough. I echoed a lot of the same enthusiasm initially when getting into crossfit-style exercises but have slowly realized that heavy barbell/weight exercises is not that great for 5x a week training. I used to wear myself out to the point that my joints were aking so much that I had to take 1-2 weeks off just to come back to my old volume lifts. Its very easy to get too enthusiastic and it hurts more and more the older you are.

Interesting. I heard the exact same story but it was about 'a wealthy American businessman I know' and an Italian restauranteur. Modern fables.

10k steps worked really well for me but I would plateau a lot and not lose anymore. It was also hard to find the time to put in the 10k, it would typically mean walking somewhere for lunch and coffee and almost all the time I had to run 2-3 miles in the evening.

The thing thats worked better for me and actually led to noticeable changes in body composition has been olympic lifts and intermittent fasting. I try to at the very minimum do 3x5 of any of the big lifts at high intensity, and barbell complexes 3-4x10 for volume about 4-5 times per week. It helps having all the equipment in the garage.

This was really good to know, had no idea.

Didn't know that. Here in US, Ive mostly seen lager on tap.

They're probably most known for their lagers/pilsener, maybe he meant he also likes their wheat beers?

Bredbands-Jesus!

This is a crazy coincidence. Me and my sister are trying to get help for my mom right now for the very same thing, and our grandma was a WWII refugee from Finland.

Isn't it a bit of a stretch to run something like this on rails when you need cheap concurrency? Go, Rust, erlang would come to mind.

I've stopped the urge to create repos, buy domain names etc, and started just diving into Sketch to do mockups to flesh out ideas instead.

It gives me pause to think about features and to show people to get feedback. You can also use it as a sales tool to sell an app you are thinking of building without investing weeks and months.

Nowadays its so simple to do nice mockups its so easy to find stencils for SemanticUI, icons etc. Makes it a breeze to get an interface going and I have never been this productive in the 'idea' stage before.

On an unrelated note - does anybody know the name of the color scheme for the snippets? I'd like to try it in vim.

I would look at Culture and Financial. A lot of other things are fixable.

I love flying Norwegian.

I found a round-trip from Ft Lauderdale - Sweden for just $380 bucks in may but you have to be flexible around the dates.

You just can't find prices like that with other carriers.

Wow. Who knows what he could have accomplished if he lived to twice his age.

I encountered this argument all the time when I came back to Sweden after living in the US for 15 years.

Would you rather have Putin or China run the show?

> failure at leadership 101

"A fish rots from the head down"

This is an awesome question :)

Maybe I can offer some tips.

- If you get leather shoes, I can recommend Cole Haan Zero Grand - http://bit.ly/2sQPdMe .. they are really comfortable.

- For collared shirts, get the no iron ones and save yourself some trouble in the morning.

- Stretch jeans can be a nice compromise between slacks and jeans and look something in between.

- The last one may be seen as shallow.. but invest in a nice, timeless but not blingy dress watch (and a matching belt).. It pays over time and shows discernment

- especially if its a corp job. You can buy vintage watches for pretty cheap.

- Last tip.. (edit): go shopping with somebody else to challenge your own preferences and conventions.

> they would just be accused of "embracing and extending" the technology

Well, that didn't happen with TypeScript. I think the perception of Microsoft has changed a lot since Nadella took over because they have really worked really hard to avoid the IBM trap.

I can see why the author is drawing this conclusion...

I wrote ASP.NET controls for a long time, and I see a lot of similarities in how I structure react components and how I would have written WebControls in ASP.NET.

I think in hindsight, my conclusion/realization from reading this article is that the lost opportunity for Microsoft was to re-invent the whole presentation layer with things like WPF and Silverlight, instead of trying to make it actually fit within the technology stack that people had settled on (HTML/CSS/JS).

I've never been furious about Taxis before I heard of the medallion system in Chicago and New York.. Sounds like something the mob would cook up together with crooked politicians as an alternative source of revenue.

I know its heresy, but for a while I was actually getting hooked on F# succinct way to write/support OO. On the surface at least, it looked a lot cleaner and more concise than C#.

I wish there were more F# jobs - its a very interesting language.

Everything is relative. I think its hard to generalize. There are lots of startups that are much more lenient with remote work, and many that embrace the basecamp-style company values. In general, if you are not in SV or maybe NYC, big open source job markets, you tend to hit a pay wall pretty quickly.

It is much harder for me to find a startup that pays as well as a more traditional IT shop would pay me. I can find a 130-140k job in .NET here in South Florida with relative ease. For open source, there are maybe a handful of companies willing to pay that kind of money. In general, these enterprise places will offer very good benefits (vacation/401k w contribution/paid healthcare) and the work is not hard in comparison.

At startups, its just spottier. Last place I worked paid me same as before but didn't contribute towards my healthcare.. That was an extra $1300 / month that had to come out of my paycheck and an expensive lesson.

> even worse developer experience.

Ha ha I actually had to work with it 6 months ago at a late stage startup.. What they needed was a simple apex trigger.. it took 30 min to write on a demo account.

.. but it took us a week to find out we couldn't do it because of the version of SF that we had, and an upgrade would 6x the cost of their monthly licensing cost.

It was a really bizarre dev experience. Really crappy errors!

I'm going to pass somewhat :)

.. This was 6 years ago and I didn't work with it enough to really have an educated opinion. The department that used it thought it was revolutionary technology but honestly most of their devs were rejects/burn outs from the 'more real' engineering teams, to put it mildly.

What we saw in our team (.NET) was that data became siloed and was awkward to use. It was also really challenging to build responsive applications when you had to interact with clunky web services. User experience was absolutely awful the times when we couldn't just send it async.

... that said, if I had the opportunity to architect something like that, I would have rather opted to keep the data elsewhere and just push it to SalesForce when it changes.