Hacker News: twfarland

New comment by twfarland in "Optimal quitting"

twfarland — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 05:10:40 +0000

Insufferable, patronising humble-bragging. This belongs on LinkedIn

New comment by twfarland in "Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?"

twfarland — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:26:42 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips"

twfarland — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:44:03 +0000

Brazil is becoming a parody of itself

New comment by twfarland in "Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming"

twfarland — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 01:39:12 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "The Rise of Edible Insect Farming"

twfarland — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:08:46 +0000

Yeah nah this isn't gonna catch on. Synthetic or simulated meats will mature commercially first.

New comment by twfarland in "React is the new jQuery"

twfarland — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:38:14 +0000

This is from the guy who posted recently about struggling to learn React.

New comment by twfarland in "Redux – Not Dead Yet"

twfarland — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:14:56 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "Ask HN: What do you do on long-haul flights?"

twfarland — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:43:01 +0000

If you take Air NZ, they are generous with the wine. I get amongst that while watching bad action movies.

New comment by twfarland in "One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means"

twfarland — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 06:11:44 +0000

I had a similar experience. The ID card in particular was the biggest hurdle. I gave up on it.

New comment by twfarland in "Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life"

twfarland — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 23:41:33 +0000

The names they give these things are so cool. Frothing spaceship, oblique glider waterbear, 10hd demonoid, weekender, loafer.

New comment by twfarland in "Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game"

twfarland — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 02:14:00 +0000

Estonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.

New comment by twfarland in "Estonia, the Digital Republic"

twfarland — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:11:11 +0000

I'm using gmail, which has a great spam filter, but have had a lot land in the inbox.

New comment by twfarland in "Estonia, the Digital Republic"

twfarland — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:30:20 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "Estonia, the Digital Republic"

twfarland — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:23:07 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers"

twfarland — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:34:02 +0000

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.

New comment by twfarland in "React 16"

twfarland — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:47:24 +0000

Ignorance revealed :) thanks. What's Vue's idiomatic approach for managing state at the top, outside of all components (like Redux)?

New comment by twfarland in "Things learned while running your own self-funded startup"

twfarland — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:18:07 +0000

I also use that billing strategy happily. There's another detail that helps with 'training' new clients on good payment behaviour - give them a small % discount on the next milestone if they pay early on the first.

New comment by twfarland in "React 16"

twfarland — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:52:09 +0000

Agreed. Pure views are much simpler.

New comment by twfarland in "Scenic Tram Simulator"

twfarland — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 05:37:20 +0000

Very calming way to start the day. Almost like a guided meditation.

New comment by twfarland in "Clojure will affect the way you think about programming"

twfarland — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:00:48 +0000

Scheme is a smaller language and has legendary beginner books. Start with HTDP and then SICP.