> I'm guessing you don't do it often (understandable if its not working for you).
For me pair programming accelerates development to much more than 2x.
The value of pair programming is inversely proportional to the expertise of the participant. Junior devs who pair with senior devs get a lot out of it, senior devs not so much.
GP is probably a more experienced dev, whereas you are the type of dev who says things like “I’m guessing that you…”.
I don't agree with this at all. Pairing where there's a big skill gap isn't proper pairing, it's more like mentoring or hands on training.
In pair programming as I learned it and as I have occasionally experienced it, two individuals challenge each other to be their best selves while also handing off tasks that break flow so that the pair as a whole is in constant flow. When it works this is a fantastic, productive, intense experience. I would agree that it is more than 2x as productive. I don't believe it's possible to achieve this state at all with a mismatched pair.
If this is the experience people have in mind, then it's not surprising that they think that those who think it's only for training juniors haven't actually tried it very much.
As a senior dev, when pairing with junious I get a more skilled team. Then I can continue to give new teams the skill and we all grow as people and companies.
> I'm happy to have something like SSE but the protocol needs more time to cook.
Just how well done do you like your protocols? SSE has been part of the WHATWG standard for almost 20 years.
Every protocol requires some sort of data encoding. For SSE you need to either restrict yourself to payloads that can never conflict with the message structure (e.g. an enumeration of short strings to indicate different sorts of events), or you need to encode the data.
It sounds like you are trying to send raw, unencoded data and are surprised that it sometimes conflicts with the message structure. Well of course it does! You can’t blame the protocol for that.
Every other protocol I've used has a standard way to encode arbitrary data, but especially text data, usually using some kind of escape sequence. SSE does not.
Just because it has been around for a long time does not mean it is well thought out or complete.
If this were a cash grab, why in the world would a scammer post this to Show HN, instead of targeting a much larger, less savvy customer base via a crowdfunding platform?
Anything is possible, but I don’t know why you would jump to that conclusion without taking the opportunity to engage with the OP.
> I have a Flair and I'm not that happy with it. It looks beautiful but I feel like they pulled a fast one by providing the, cheapest ugliest power brick ever.
What power brick? Flair makes manually operated, lever-based espresso makers. You heat the water in a separate kettle and you can buy whichever brand of kettle you prefer.
Are you referring to a Flair grinder? That seems irrelevant to the gp’s point.
No, I'm referring to a flair 58 lever espresso machine that has a heating element and power brick. The older type of flair doesn't have that, instead you are supposed to take out the metal core and submerge it in hot water every time which sounds even more annoying.
I don’t usually say something like this on HN, but you are completely and utterly wrong. The obesity epidemic cannot be reduced to some simple moral failure. Multiple twin concordance studies have shown 70%+ inheritability. Those of us who are fortunate enough to not struggle with obesity do so not because of some skillset that we have, but because our bodies do not maintain the same homeostasis.
For those of us old enough to remember what society looked like before the obesity epidemic kicked in, it’s hard to understand how something genetic can suddenly result in a dramatic change over a period of years. Our genetics didn’t change. Our food environment did. Experts disagree on what factors are responsible for this, and any random person had their own pet beliefs.
But this flat-earth-like notion of reducing obesity to an issue of basic willpower needs to be recognized for the drivel it is, along the related notion of calories in & calories out while ignoring the overwhelming role that basal metabolic burn plays and how it dynamically responds to changes in diet and exercise.
If you want to educate yourself, read Posner’s Burn [1], which is firmly grounded in empirical measurements of doubly labeled water to measure true metabolic consumption. Look up the reporting the NYT on past contestants of The Biggest Loser.[2]
> The obesity epidemic cannot be reduced to some simple moral failure.
You're the only one to bring up morality so far in this comment chain.
> Those of us who are fortunate enough to not struggle with obesity do so not because of some skillset that we have, but because our bodies do not maintain the same homeostasis.
That's just utter bullshit. Homeostasis is heavily influenced by lifestyle choices.
> But this flat-earth-like notion of reducing obesity to an issue of basic willpower needs to be recognized for the drivel it is,
No, your incessant need to convince yourself and everyone else that something as straightforward as controlling your calorie intake is in fact a complex and naturally intractable problem that requires drugs and counseling is what's flat-earth-like drivel and utter bullshit.
> If you want to educate yourself, read Posner’s Burn [1], which is firmly grounded in empirical measurements of doubly labeled water to measure true metabolic consumption.
You're cherry picking terrible studies that happen to fit the preconceived notions you desperately want to believe, because they make you feel better about being undisciplined and weak-willed. Your understanding of nutrition, exercise and health are also clearly very minimal.
If science can one day make a convincing case for a multiverse, would there be any difference between that reality and innumerable simulated universes?
Would there be a difference between existing in a universe created by a divine being and one created by a species advanced enough to create a simulated universe populated with sentient beings?
I think maybe they’re implying that if the experiment lacks value, funding for it will dry up and our simulated reality will get shut down. So it’s only the end of the universe as we know it. I’m sure that doesn’t matter…
Presumably, it would let you dynamically update the SVG the same way that React lets you dynamically update HTML. As simple examples, imagine an SVG clock or some map-based data visualization.
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