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In your example, if the number one song is classical and made up 0.1% of listening time, would you conclude that classical music is not popular?

It's like saying water isn't a popular drink because only 0.1% of people buy water in the form of 20 fl oz Dasani bottles.

Maybe procrastination is an emotional regulation problem and tying your self-worth to your productivity leads to more internal conflict between guilt of not doing enough vs fear of failure.

Maybe we could approach improvement out of a place of genuine interest or self-care, instead of treating ourselves like a computer on a cron schedule and then inevitably getting frustrated when we discover that we're human.

I've tried forcing myself, but it tends to be fragile. Go to sleep late just 1 night, have trouble forcing yourself to sleep the next day, sleep schedule gets worse again, get frustrated, give up.

What I've been having success with is a full spectrum LED light, which I use for an hour in the morning, and a blue light filtering goggles, which I wear from sunset. I can literally feel the goggles working as my eyes grow heavier a few hours from sunset, resulting in my falling asleep around 11-12 and waking up around 6-7.

Admittedly I've only done this for the past 3 weeks after reading about the full spectrum LED light from https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity. But it doesn't get easier than turn on light, put on goggles.

Is there any ongoing or planned effort to integrate web technologies into ReasonML (as in provide up to date and comprehensive typings)?

So it's an improvement but not entirely a fix.

In Erlang, I look at 'module_name:function_name' I can simply open the module file and look at the function definition.

In Elixir, I had to ask "Was this function aliased?", "Is it imported from a module? Which module?", "Was it imported/aliased through a use statement?" The code was more concise, but harder to read IMO. Of course you can simply reference functions by their full name in Elixir as well, which is what I'm doing with my own code.

sup on the other hand has a very small surface area of things needed to learn if you're familiar with shell scripting. I would definitely recommend it for smaller projects.

Obviously turning code into JavaScript at least once is a mandatory requirement for fulfilling the "web" part of "web scale" and running the JavaScript on JVM gives me the "scale" part.

/snark

My experience.

Windows guests: buggy

FreeBSD guests: buggy

Ansible provisioning: buggy

Windows support was incorporated from a community plugin. Now it's in limbo maintained neither by the original creators nor the (seemingly) lone dev from hashicorp assigned to vagrant.

They use DRM to protect their closed source proprietary plugins and it makes it a nightmare to build a version from source that works with said plugins. Building the installer is closed source for some reason.

After finally being able to run with modified source, I was able to monkey patch their paid VMWare plugin to add a capability so I could use private_network with static IP on Windows guests . I posted the monkey patch to github issues and it took two weeks for their paid plugin to be updated.

I wanted to love and contribute to vagrant, but the somewhat dishonest docs, unresponsive dev team, and DRM have turned me into a grudging user only because there are no alternatives.

Vagrant is definitely a wolf in sheepskin in terms of appearing open source and open to community collaboration.

1. VirtualBox shared folders performance is terrible.

2. VMWare Fusion is the only shared folders implementation I've found (tried Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare Fusion) that can follow symbolic links, making them look like normal files/directories on the guest (useful for Windows guests which don't understand nix symlinks).

3. IIS can't host applications off of VirtualBox shared folders for some permissions reason, which cannot be fixed.

I really hope VMWare Fusion doesn't die, as it's the only product I've found that supports my use case.

Pros: AJAX for loading content makes requests smaller making your app more performant.

Cons: The Javascript framework requires a 1xx KB download before content can be rendered, making your app less performant, hurting SEO, and breaking the back button (no, I don't want to scroll again from the top through the 5 posts I already read when I come back to your site).

You hate maintaining an entire application in Javascript so you get to learn all the joy of transpilers and a build system to build whatever not Javascript language you chose and your tens of module dependencies because you decided everything had to be done in Javascript or TypeScript or ES2015 or CoffeeScript or ES7. Oh and when a new language supersedes the language you decided to use, you happily spend weeks moving your codebase to a new language, thinking "Wow static typing in 2015?! My code is so much more maintainable now!"

It says it all that the benchmark for comparing frameworks is TodoMVC, a simple CRUD application for which client side rendering is unnecessary. People are not thinking at all about the pros and cons of client-side rendering and reaching for it for any web applications.

Google doesn't use AngularJS for Gmail. They use GWT to render HTML on the server. Side note: AngularJS 2 beta is 500KB. Fucking laughable. Oh and they suggest loading both the AngularJS 1 and AngularJS 2 frameworks on your page to help you migrate.

Facebook doesn't use ReactJS for Facebook. They use PHP to render HTML on the server. Edit: Yes Facebook uses ReactJS for a lot of side stuff, but not for big items like their newsfeed.

Twitter doesn't use client side rendering. They tried it but reverted, because the time to first see the content was too long.

People are building a mountain of abstractions and investing so much time to over-engineer everything in Javascript. WHY?!

When you read a Lisp one liner, to me it seems like there are many implicit details you have to hold in your head. "Ok after this parenthesis now you have a list of maps keyed by symbols with string values. Ok go up one parenthesis and now it's transformed to a list of maps with..." Continue unwrapping for 3 levels. Get messaged by coworker. "Ok. Where was I? Fuck."

Rich Hickey said something along the lines of "If a function only deals with mutability in local variables (for performance), it's still a pure function". I prefer reading imperative functions that are still pure in that sense and spell out each transformation line by line to reading highly compact code written in powerful languages. Maybe I'm just dumb.

I'm tired of web 2.0 ajax sites where you scroll through content, click a link, then you try to go back, and you have to scroll through the same things you didn't care about again. Or in Facebook newsfeed's case even reorders things.

It honestly feels like "Ooh look at this shiny new tech. Let's use it! Why? Because we need to improve 'usability'! proceed to throw other usability concerns into the trashcan"