Since when it became fashionable to use a wrapper of your web site? "Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications, better keyboard shortcuts, and more." I think Firefox is perfectly capable of doing any of those. I just hate it someone comes up and says 'Look we built a native app' I'm sorry but no you haven't! If I wanted to use your web page I can do that I don't need you to wrap it and ship it as a native app. Disappointed.
Saw this earlier this morning but just had to use it and boom! It worked perfectly. I really like the idea of using things on the console and the user interface is nice and sleek. would love to see this getting even better over time!
Will the rate stats include the history of rent increases? Or for that matter how the landlord behaved when the previous tenant moved out? Rental market in London is an absolute car crash. Most of us don't even bother doing anything about how we're treated and so the next tenant will have no way of knowing what they'll encounter within or at the end of their tenancy. I hope this app will make some difference but the best fix to London rental market bug is to move out of London.
Apart from the highly rewarding business model I've gone through exactly the same path as you have. I have no appetite for coding now. But at the same time I don't know what else I can do. I don't want to give up the lifestyle I have now but starting from scratch will mean getting a pay cut. It's a vicious circle.
This depends on how people learn and perceive information. If I hadn't learnt programming before I was taught Maths and Calculus, I probably wouldn't have understood some of the basics like Functions, Matrixes and Series etc or it would have taken me quite a while to grasp the idea.
For me Maths is boring. It's abstract and you don't have any interaction whereas programming is more fun for me. I never truly understood some of the physical and mathematical concepts I was taught in school and uni until I came across programming/software development problems that are solved with those and only then I realised how useful they can be.
I also find Math studies by themselves to be quite boring, at least that is how I perceived it for most of my education. Yet I had one teacher who worked really hard to show how Calculus is applied in reality. He made all of his homework and test's real world problem solving oriented. He was also a part time scout for the Seattle Mariners and he would do all of his in class examples using either base ball or real estate. This really helped me put into context many of the concepts and the multitude of ways they can be applied, not to mention it was a really exciting and enjoyable class.
After experiencing that I saw Math in a new light. I simply wish that my K-12 education was more directed to the applicability of many of the concepts we learned as I believe it would have made the subject not only much more approachable but enjoyable.
Indeed, programming something is a great trick to get a deeper understanding of it. It means writing everythin down to the details that even a dumb machine can understand it.
I guess this is like understanding something better by explaining it to others. Just that this "other person" is a machine. It is also well-known that it even helps to explain it to your own, by writing it down. For example, PG noted that in the introduction of http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html
It is a very personal thing how each one learns, of course.
On my case, the tools provided by abstract math and CS (algorithms, data structures, calculus) allow me to think outside of the box and quickly adapt to any programming language.
> "That's what I understand if I see "Thanks" instead of "Many thanks!""
That probably says more about you, or the particular dialect of your region, than him. "Many thanks" is not the predominate phrase for expressing thanks anywhere in that I have been in the continental US.
"Thanks" is only passive aggressive when in a context that makes that clear. It is most often used sincerely. That word alone is never "the tell" for insincerity; something else about the situation is.
