Surprisingly, Oklahoma was also a major sphere of influence in American Socialism, although the 1917 Green Corn Rebellion has been largely erased in populist history.
I also came from a XAML background to React and had the same feeling.
This is a long shot, since most people have a love/hate relationship with the VisualStateManager, but I have been trying to build a declarative visual state thing over at https://github.com/jgable/react-vsm. It's not done, only messed around over a couple weekends, but the gist is there.
Seems like the author combined the spec side of mocha with should.js and a stub/mocking library, focused it on node and polished it up with some neat conventions and utilities.
I'll probably give it a shot on my next project. I'm interested in finding out if it went the route of throwing exceptions for error reporting like mocha, or something else.
I didn't followed that approach, matchers (like in RSpec) returns a boolean (or a promise of a boolean value). Errors raised in a matcher will be catched and, as in RSpec, will flag the test as errored (and not as failed).
I've always found it more useful to detect when something went wrong in your test setup than failures.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. What if sleeping on the floor and not showering made you think better and your body healthier? It's not simply a privation technique, he seems to be doing it to hack his body for better performance. Although kind of anecdotal evidence, the article mentions several mood and energy changes when not on the soylent diet (I think those things could just as likely be a change in environment/routine though).
What-if I'd exercise and drink less coffee? It would help me both feel and sleep better. Am I doing either? You bet I don't. Point being that people derive pleasure from things that aren't rational, so rationalizing a soylent diet ain't going do a thing to facilitate its adoption (which was iirc one of his stated goals). It's a truly interesting experiment, but it's from the same category as a polyphasic sleep.
What if sleeping on the floor and not showering made you think better and your body healthier?
There is almost certainly someone, somewhere, claiming that sleeping on the floor and/or not showering makes you think better and your body healthier ("The Cave Man Sleep Technique....we didn't evolve in cushy beds now did we?")
99% of these sorts of stories are outrageous pseudo-science looking for an easy fix. Mood/energy changes from diet are interesting reading, but hold astonishingly little value because of the Hawthorne effect, and the simple reality that again people want easy fixes: His description of the perilous decline of his mental capacities when he regressed to normal food sounds like the standard nonsense you hear from people pushing energy bracelets.
Like the GP, food is one of the glorious luxuries of life. Next he'll be chemically castrating himself to save the annoying time waste of sexual congress.
> There is almost certainly someone, somewhere, claiming that sleeping on the floor and/or not showering makes you think better and your body healthier ("The Cave Man Sleep Technique....we didn't evolve in cushy beds now did we?")
Oh and showering to often is linked with everything from fungal infections, dandrufs, psoriasis and acne. Definitely not healthy according to lots of lifestyle strategists out there.
Like the GP, food is one of the glorious luxuries of life.
The great thing about having values is that each person can value what she/he wants. You and GP value food, soylent green dude seems to value experimenting and optimizing his body/brain with food (lack/substitution of food?). I'm not hating on either one of your values, but pretty much everyone thinks "food is good" (to put it simply) so that isn't really gonna pique everyones interest like soylent green guy over there.
I was the technical reviewer on a recent book called "Design for Software". It's a good introduction to design with a focus on an engineering audience.
I'm the author of Design for Software. Chapter 5 in the book is dedicated to creating proper wireframes. I also have some freebies on design4software.com that might help. cheers!
I also came to post a link to that book. I thought it was along the same lines as the OA, but at times I found Crawford bordering on being a Luddite (the remark about bathroom sink sensors IIRC). How'd you feel about it?
He didn't strike me as a Luddite. I think that's because he spends a lot of pages glorifying manual labor for its spiritual and liberating side rather than mourning the jobs destroyed by assembly lines for economic reasons.
I don't think he is as much a luddite as he is against mindless and seemingly pointless "work". Unfortunately he is walking that thin line along the whole book. He is not against the industrialization of the world or "the machines" although he does states that those events broke men.
In the book, he complains more that skilled artisan were chained to assembly lines while Luddites were replaced by assembly lines. Again, it's a thin line.
Assembly factory workers and data entry monkeys are one and the same for him.
I think his main practical argument against white collar job is pretty weak because he takes it from his personal life and he was a qualified mechanic, not a skill-less minion. So he colors much of the "manual" experience. He is a mechanic, a masculine glorified profession (insert coke adv.), working alone for hours (and for himself) on something deeply engaging and getting some kind of meditating and enlightening and relaxing experience... he's not a wielder working on some tubes along the road with a chief supervising his every actions on the job. Also he's deep into philosophy so I hardly buy it he has the same experience as regular mechanic trained since his teens as an apprentice and whose definition of culture is the latest blockbuster. He isn't one of the typical manual worker he describes in the book.
I wish he had shared his thoughts on software engineering and how it compares with 'code monkeys' and data entry clerks.
What bothers me most is that he didn't expand much outside of the "life of a mechanic" and life of a "mindless encoding drone in the publishing industry". The essay falls short on that.
Personally I read that book at a time of my life when I was fed up with webdesign/webdev and wanted to do something more real. I'm in the process of retraining myself to get a bachelor in industrial and electronic computer science and I am more than happy to deal with real wires and boards and huge factory machines now. I will revisit the book in the future.
To make it short: I believe that industrialization is good because it frees men from mind-numbing jobs, not because it saves money. And that's certainly a naive white-collar opinion :(
I am not sure I was really coherent, I'll clarify if I can and if needed.
I'm not going to pile on in the GH issue, but I'll at least confirm that his reaction may have been a little over the top. You had good form on your PR and specifically mentioned the "feature request" nature of it.
To be fair, he looks to have had a pretty bad experience with other people doing in-line file changes straight from Github and trying to push them through as PR's (see the other open PR). He was probably just frustrated and lashing out. He needs a CONTRIBUTING.md in his root to explain his preferences.
