It might just perceptual: it might be the case that days very into on of the two types are easier to recognize, tag and remember, whereas mixed days are not so vividly remembered.
I surely stop after a day of lots of little tasks and say "phew! What a day!" or after a big task is done "yeah! look at this cool feature you built today!" And even play with it a little. Normal days are not so reflected upon...
Very good question, I thought many times about this and could think that probably the beginning or how you start the day determines the rest of the day.
Finally, a nice piece on Zuck in Berlin, Axel Springer's CEO is quite a smart guy turned that dino corporation into something digital in few years.
There was another public thing on Facebook (Q&A town hall Berlin) where the German questioners had a) so-so questions b) some really, really bad English skills and c) just felt like backwoodsmen, all paired by Facebook's European head who is also German and must be in love with Zuck (he interviewed Zuck few times on the trip and asked odd questions—why does an FB employee interview Zuck??). Absolutely nothing against Germans, nice people, but especially this town hall speak was a bit embarrassing and gave a slightly wrong picture of Germans.
EDIT: Hey downvoters, please read my piece again, it's NOT against any nationality—it rather criticizes how the interviewers/questioners were chosen which might give a not representative picture.
Pretty sure you're getting downvoted (i did not) for actally praising one of the companies most reviled in Germany. See my comment below for details on why it's reviled. Edit: Facebook is also widely hated, since many germans have very strong opinions on privacy thanks to the history with Stasi.
Zuck is very articulate in this piece. He describes FB ops in a pithy sentence, and gives pointed answers to questions on Berlin's tech scene. I thought it showed his acumen quite well.
Admittedly the first guy to ask a question was kind of a joke but other than that the questions were pretty normal for events like this which are heavily scripted PR vehicles anyway.
Someone who got it and starts the README right away with advantages over Cygwin.
The '1/15th of the size' sounds fantastic—I installed Cygwin on a cheaper Windows notebook yesterday and it took 45 minutes (I could have installed a VM + an Linux image in the same time).
My dad had an IBM Selectric typewriter with a typeball head. I remember I was 9 or 10 and it was so satisfying how a soft key press let the typeball moving & rotating incredibly fast to the right letter and hammering the paper. Actually it was so fast you barely could see any movement. The printed letters were ultra crisp and clear (like a today's 2400dpi b/w laser printer) since it was kind of an one time ribbon. A total different experience to previous typewriters where you needed to hit the keys hard and the printed letters were of inconsistent quality.
Since then I was fascinated by devices with keyboards.
I don't care where I can find free WiFi. Nowadays, every damn coffee shop, hotel or mall has free Wifi—I care about fast and free WiFi with speedy up- & downloads and low latency. Well executed implementation though.
I didn't downvote you, but your post did sound rude to me. Finding free wifi may be easy where you live, but it's not the "wrong question" for many others.
I live in an European country, and while the bigger cities are well served, smaller towns and rural areas often only have one place, if that. If I didn't have a Fonera account, I'd be spending a lot of time looking for hotspots.
I don't care about fast nearly as much as I care about it not having ridiculous hoops I have to jump through to get connected. I just want to connect to the network and be on without having to first have my requests intercepted by their system until I register or click "connect". I suppose maybe this falls under "well executed implementation", but I think it deserves to be mentioned specifically.
While Nxweb looks very promising, my first question would be 'Why should I use it over eg Nginx?' It would be helpful to have some direct comparison to other servers on the landing page.
EDIT: Ok, there is a link to some odd benchmarks and it includes performance comparisons to Nginx and others which are not understandable (Nginx 141 req/s and Nxweb 200 / 121 req/s while it's not clear when 200 and when 121); moreover they compare it to Mongoose which is an ORM/ODM
Those benchmarks are well and great but with HTTP/2 support in nginx, do they even matter? I'm reasonably certain that nginx will out-perform for the average client in real-world, TLS-enabled testing.
I only spent a minute on the benchmark page, but it says quite clearly the reqs/s are given in the thousands, and explains each test, as well as the conditions.
However, that doesn't change the why question at all. Except it could be neat to not need the complication of setting up nginx with uwsgi for those who like the built-in Python/WSGI support.
I'm still mind blown every single day about the Node community—for me it's the fastest evolving dev ecosystem which is at the same time high performant and robust.
- I am ultra productive or...
- I am procrastinating the entire day