twfarland

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Comment · 4 years ago
Insufferable, patronising humble-bragging. This belongs on LinkedIn
Comment · 8 years ago
Prague, if you live outside the tourist area. Very healthy arts/music scene. And you're a short train ride from Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest, which have great scenes of their own.
Comment · 8 years ago
Brazil is becoming a parody of itself
Comment · 8 years ago
Had a similar experience - started as a teenager and now it's automatic. Also dreams are becoming more abstract, more visceral, and more epic as I age.

Sometimes wish I could turn it off, though - it can be exhausting. I'd like sleep to be more restful by default but have a way to choose to have a lucid dream if desired.

Comment · 8 years ago
Yeah nah this isn't gonna catch on. Synthetic or simulated meats will mature commercially first.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is from the guy who posted recently about struggling to learn React.
Comment · 8 years ago
Redux has been great, but after a few years, I've had enough of the action creator and reducer boilerplate, and now just use Proxy objects for external state (with a listener on the handler's setter). It's mutable but hasn't been a problem in practice.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you take Air NZ, they are generous with the wine. I get amongst that while watching bad action movies.
Comment · 8 years ago
I had a similar experience. The ID card in particular was the biggest hurdle. I gave up on it.
Comment · 8 years ago
The names they give these things are so cool. Frothing spaceship, oblique glider waterbear, 10hd demonoid, weekender, loafer.
Comment · 8 years ago
Estonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm using gmail, which has a great spam filter, but have had a lot land in the inbox.
Comment · 9 years ago
There seems to be a fair bit of tech work here, at least, but the average salary is low, and the personal tax burden (with social tax) is high.
Comment · 9 years ago
Terrible experience here. Endless problems with the ID card, slow, unhelpful support, clunky company admin portal with poor translations. Got spammed by random accounting firms as soon as I was on the company register. I gave up and decided to just continue using my NZ-based company in the end. They need to do a better job if they want to live up to their self-congratulatory marketing.
Comment · 9 years ago
I would want the inverse of that, where the application logic is in some high-level language, and the rendering is done in WASM, i.e. react-dom and the diffing parts of react are in WASM.

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