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My new MacBook randomly crashes and the touch bar is a real nuisance. The wretched USB c only ports is a real pain for me. It's slower than my former MacBook Pro (which is strange) and the battery time is worse too. The most ridiculous thing though is that I need a bunch of adapters with my iPhone 7 to charge and sync it using my machine. If only there was a positive side to it I would probably be less unhappy but I cannot think of a single one. I do. not. understand what apple was thinking when releasing it. I'm not the only one at the office that have these issues either so I'm not the only one. And no: we don't have any weird stuff on it. It leaves me super conflicted: MacBooks used to be the safe choice for a high quality laptop. Now I don't know what my next device would be, but certainly won't be an apple product.

I loved my Mini Cooper: it was surprisingly versatile, had arguably beautiful estetics (me and my wife felt cool while sitting in it at least), was fun to drive in the small alpine roads, etc For us: 2 (at the time) DINKs living in the middle of Europe, it was a thing of beauty. I bought one with 0 fancy gadgets and I loved that about it. By far the best purchase (albeit expensive) I've made.

Just throwing this in here: https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API

Mine too :/

Yeah, so this is a pr stunt. However there are many really good startup scenes here in Europe in my experience. Stockholm is one of them: "everything" in the heart and kids departments taken care of. Lots of ambition and talent. Comparatively low vagues so less burn. Lacking VCs, but the startups that have made it invest a lot here (time and money and mentoring). Compared to the craze in sf, i would say this is the perfect place to start a small and successful business. In particular in the b2b domain. So, if you can live with being well off and not insanely rich, and looking to move out of the us - you should give Stockholm a chance.

Yeah... I learnt this the hard way a couple of weeks back... Sigh...

Really: "With the Brexit, many Euro companies near to defaulting"? Didn't know this was a fact already? Besides, most "Euro companies" are not located in the UK and I doubt the effects of the Brexit is only contained to or affects Euro companies.

I would argue that many countries in Europe is better for living (family time, vacations, work-hours, gender equality, free education, healthcare, freedom of own body (abortion)...) and have been for some time. However, I suppose that depends on who you are and where you come from (and whether you care about/agree with any of these things I list) - home is home after all. Also Europe is not one country: Spain is different (not worse - different) from Sweden (but then again: New York is different from Rockport, Texas too).

There seems to be less VC money in Europe, but maybe that's where we're going either way. Again, some places are better (Geneva, Switzerland VS <Small-City>, Greece) off than others (just like Silicon Valley is better than many, but maybe not all (?), places in the US). But, I'll give you that.

Who's to say it's not going to change though? As you pointed out: Brexit had a huge effect. To me this election feels like a much bigger deal.

Anxious to see how the market in general reacts when Trump either: a) does what he said he'd do (wall, nato, ...) or b) fails to do what he said he'd do. Let's hope it's only me who's anxious though. If not, I suspect there will be a negative reaction in the market: anxiety = uncertainty = risk after all.

In any case: the chance of this happening (market reacting negatively) combined with the effects of it (economically, jobs) >> the chance of Russia invading "Europe" (which I assume is what you're alluding to) combined with the, albeit devastating, effects on the lives of the people living there.

I'm don't even feel like going to the US on vacation anymore before somebody figures how to fix the police violence, the guns, the endless suing and the racially biased incarceration. Being afraid of the people around you, has a crippling effect on my life quality. And I don't seeing it becoming better under Trump. I'm willing to admit I am particular in my views here though.

My point here is that: you might be missing out if you truly believe that the US is an absolute better place than Europe. In some aspects, I'll be surprised if you didn't feel that it was the opposite.

Wow, congrats - this looks really interesting!

Fexprs should be fun, it stands for fun-expression after all... Right?.. I am not a lisper though...:D

"we choose to go [...]; not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard;"

For a client I built a custom one (~150loc) that uses react templates and builds files from markdown on contentful. By using react templates, the static website and frontend code can be written in the same manner and our designer can start with something then hand it off to our frontend eng without fuzz. The designer wanted to learn react so she's technical enough to write jsx (which might not be the case for everyone). Ping me if we should see about OSS.

I don't think you have been to Norway? A hundred years ago Norway was significant exporter of timber (and no: we didn't cut it all down). Related fun fact: the Christmas tree at traflgar square is donated by Oslo (the capital of Norway) though I think this is a token of gratitude for helping us out during WWII, it's not by coincidence that it's a tree.

This made me chuckle a bit. Also a huge sbt fan, but I see were the gate comes from (the learning curve)... :)

Exactly the same for me! Got bash for Windows up and running with i3 on vcsrt. Ff is running in i3 and it is relatively smooth (I have a beefy specs). Almost all my settings have been ported. However, emacs is struggling because of some weird issue not going fullscreen and there's lots of issues with other execs (GUI in particular) because of dbus (I think)... There's also a super annoying issue with the windows button which I normally use as meta key for i3....

I suppose there's nothing stopping one for doing that tho? I was sitting here and thinking about trying it out with i3. If that works then it is only missing a decent pkg mgmt (in my opinion ofc), at least on the technical level. I sort of enjoy the thought that my current setup (arch) is entirely OSS and hackable though (not on a hw level ofc)... It makes me smile every time I log in :)

I understood the concept of literate programming of a way to organize _source code_ in such a way that it 'flows' better for a human, i.e. it starts with the methods/functions/modules/blocks where you naturally would start if you were to explain your code and then on to the next method/function/module/block that you would explain. Perhaps some comments here and there to explain where to start and what are special points of interest. I should have read the wikipedia article I suppose where it seems to be actual prose... :) Now I am not sure I like the idea - always found well-written source code to be easier maintainable and understandable than prose...

Good read! Maybe it's my swiss blood but I have been thinking along the exact same lines this last week.

Here == for me :), as a Norwegian living abroad (in Sweden)

Same situation and same sentiment here.

To get "cheap" (or as "cheap" as elsewhere in Europe) software devs to join them in their startup?

This may come off a bit snarky but is there really plenty of Java games out there? If so, anything anybody might have heard off?

I seriously caught myself thinking: ok, sure... will try this... tomorrow! :)

Something that is always surprising me when visiting the US, as a Scandinavian, is how many employees there are in a given shop (or coffee bar :). I don't think a Starbucks/shops/coffee bars needs as many people to operate as there often (in my experience) are in the US (at least in the 10 different cities/places or so I have been to on the east & west-coast/mid-west).

Assuming Scandi baristas are about as efficient as their colleagues over the pond, it is probably the time to complete a coffee-transaction that suffers, though, as with software development, I am not sure if throwing more people at the problem necessarily solves it quicker.

As an example, I remember one time, when I was waiting for a coffee (in the US) and there were no less than 5 employees more or less just hanging out discussing something more important than making my flat-white-double-soy-extra-machiato-caramel-coffee-like-beverage (which I could mean sarcastically, but I don't since I was waiting for a flight and not in a particular hurry) for a pretty good amount of time.

I suppose you could arrest me on this being my own experience (and you wouldn't be wrong), but I am feel confident that there must be some numbers that back them up because the difference is so flaggerant.

Apparently unemployment rates are as high or higher in Sweden for example, so there should be as high a demand for jobs at Starbucks here (in the case profits suffers from this). Intuitively I think that you'd rather hold off, take the well-fare and wait/prepare for a good job than taking one at Starbucks if you got a (good) education. This in turn (again my hypothesis), has made it the norm for that relative extra minute (or whatever) for coffees in Scandinavia, thus that job (as barista number 5) doesn't exist here at all. The price of a barista would also be higher, because it is harder to fill those positions. Which also makes changes the margins on how much more sales the barista number 5 would need generate for it to be profitable.

In any case, finally, commenting on the comment above :) I think that, in some places, many of those jobs do not exist (anymore) and it is still pretty OK to live here...

I wonder why people are in such a hurry to teach their children CS/things? { rant: `One of my primary complaints from (engineering) school was that we/I never had the time to absorb knowledge and become intuitive with anything (the French engineering school I attended was particularly bad). We were spoon-fed knowledge. In order to sink enough time into a topic and understand the parallels with other things (at least in engineering science/craft) you need a lot of time and focus. This should (must?) not come from discipline but from curiosity. I would argue that (though I am a layman in this subject) adding another exercise to a child's schedule with soccer, birthdays, school, PlayStation, ... doesn't make them more curious. It makes them tired and unfocused just like a grown up if they have too much to do. Give them time to learn and grow instead! Give them the chance to experience mastery and to feel confident, be it playing with rocks in the yard or programming. Let them be bored. Give them time and focus. Do the things you like together so you can share of your experience. If that's is programming then fine, but do it with the tools you like or create so they can see how enthusiastic you are about something. If you like these learning tools, then go for it, but don't force it if you don't. If they are 18 years and still haven't learned to program: relax, there's is plenty of time for that! I suppose this is controversial, but in my experience the hackers that I know learnt coding really young aren't necessarily better than those who learnt it later. Those who have a genuine interest in coding are multiples of their peers.`}

I wonder if this will create create a market asics and FPGA when the lasts drops of perf has been squeezed out of the cpus (and GPU)?

Aha, I didn't understand that the kestrel 4 was an April fools joke? Blazemonger support? :) I was seriously dreaming about doing something similar but kestrel 3 is real afaics :)

Just yesterday I was dreaming about doing something very similar! I wonder how he have had time to get so far - it is extremely impressive!

Wow - I can't remember this game (had the amiga not the c64) but the link sure is pretty awesome!

I suppose that says more about Fedora than Arch :) (context: happy with Arch - haven't tried Fedora)

Not sure why this downvoted? This is precisely the reason I went with Arch too: it is nothing more than a package system, systemd and a huge wiki that lets you grok how everything works. For everybody else there's a huge amount of distros that does the job fine (better?) without having the hassle of having to know how things are configured and what not...