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aesthetics1on Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

Are there some more in-depth demo videos? I'd love to see how/whether it is able to interact with databases, for example. Can I see records directly in my code?

Looks like a neat tool.

aesthetics1on Woman recruited by Google four times and rejected, joins age-discrimination suit

It's possible to be contacted by multiple recruiters at the same company, no?

aesthetics1on Career Advice for Engineers and Designers

How do you get into something like that, if you don't mind me asking? What's your specialty, and where were you in your career path 20 years ago that set you up for it?

aesthetics1on Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

I'm worried about a few things:

Where will Edge take us? Is Edge replacing IE, or is it parallel?

I feel like this is going to cause confusion. Why did they choose a modern evolution of the Internet Explorer logo (Blue "e" with an orbit)? Everyone is going to expect that this is the new Internet Explorer. ActiveX plugins don't work - are you using Internet Explorer? "Yes! The blue e!" Eek.

If IE is going to co-exist alongside Edge, I feel that we will just be forced to support another new browser.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

aesthetics1on Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

Something about the icons used in Edge feel unfamiliar to me. The back, forward, and refresh arrows even feel alien. I think they have deviated away from recognizable icons for the rest of the toolbar too. Something just doesn't feel right

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

I think that's an interesting observation, and I agree.

I feel that the FB posts are just as annoying and unwanted as those FW: FW: FW:... emails of yesteryear.

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

Precisely my point!

aesthetics1on Investing Your First Dollar

I feel like this is terrible advice. If you have $10,000, there are safer ways to invest it. If you are using a short blog post to plan your retirement and ultimately your future, you are in trouble!

Check out mutual funds (managed) and index funds. Get your feet wet slowly in something with a low risk. Don't jump into the stock market and just choose companies you like across different industries. This is a recipe for disaster.

Get started by learning about the market instead of throwing money at it. Don't invest until you know who you're giving your money to, and what expectations you should have.

Some beginner sites that helped me out:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/18/how-to-make-money-...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/06/07/where-should-i-inv...

http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

I absolutely agree. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the first Google app to feature "cards" -- which has obviously made its way to almost every other IP that Google owns. The UI is slick, and it felt very fresh when it debuted.

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am.

Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out.

Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find that Google has stitched them together into a "story" -- including where you were when you took photos, who you were with, etc. It's a nice way to relive the memory.

Circles is also a very simple concept for social network security. It's easy to understand, and I like that Google left it out in the open as something you should definitely do. Facebook has a similar feature, but it's not in their best interest to highlight it.

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

I really feel like it is just to cleanse it of the connection to Google+. The product should have been an evolution of Google+ Photos, but they are clearly trying to de-couple services from Google+.

Look at the Inbox vs Gmail experiment for example. While not tied to Google+, Inbox runs parallel to Gmail and accesses the same things. Just a different window dressing. I'm sure many at Google want to see Inbox take over Gmail at some point.

This is one of the reasons I doubt we ever see a Material Design Gmail. I think they'll run with it until Inbox is "ready".

aesthetics1on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days.

A bit off-topic:

I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase -- probably due to familiarity and complacency -- and Google just can't disrupt that.

Facebook has turned into a pretty strange place compared to its early years. I don't see much but 'news' posts, spammy pictures/articles, and clickbait ("DOCTORS HATE HIM, CLICK TO SEE WHY!").

Other platforms are much better for connecting with friends and colleagues, but no one is leaving Facebook. Feels like Microsoft's 90's/2000's stranglehold. Personally, I hope to see a Facebook exodus sooner rather than later.

aesthetics1on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Differently Based on Program's Name

I believe this has been going on for a long time. There used to be an old trick to get crossfire working for games that did not support it yet -- just change the name of the .EXE to match a game that did have support.

I do not think this is a case of "gaming benchmarks" -- This is just AMD trying to optimize gaming experiences based on the application.

aesthetics1on Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN

I agree that the problem is the league's negotiations locking the content down to specific viewing methods, but I disagree with your second point.

I think creating a good solid product wins. Something like www.ballstreams.com is much better than NBA League Pass. HBO Go is a better experience than your cable + HBO Subscription.

Good products and services win out in the long run. That's why this is even a debate - services like Netflix are destroying the cable companies. It's only a matter of time.

If ESPN built their own platform that was simple to use, worked wherever you were (without a cable subscription), and maybe most importantly did not have blackouts, I think they would make a killing.

aesthetics1on Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN

Vote with your dollar. These companies need to know what they're doing doesn't work anymore and this is the only way we can show them.

aesthetics1on How I optimised my life to make my job redundant

This almost made me sick. This article is pages of bragging basically. "Check out all my things", "I have money and can buy other people's time", "I quit my job", "Here's a pic of my wife".

His tips? Give me a break.

aesthetics1on Show HN: Nestor – Your team's intelligent assistant on Slack

"Your messages are not stored on Ask Nestor's servers and actions are only taken on direct messages to Nestorbot and messages that include Nestorbot."

You have to DM or @ the bot.

aesthetics1on Ask HN: What do you do when you are lethargic?

I find walks to be instrumental in keeping my mood up. I take a 15-20 minute walk in the mornings and in the afternoons -- I time it around those "will this day ever end" moments that come around 10:30 and 3:00. Getting some sunshine, focusing on other things, and getting out of the cube for a bit can do wonders.

I work for a government outfit as a programmer and I don't have the cool frameworks to play with, the pool table in the break room, etc. Sometimes you just have to get out of the space for a bit and let your mind wander.

aesthetics1on Starfighter, Summer 2015

I felt the same way, and I'm happy that I happened upon your post. It just doesn't sound interesting to me. Maybe I had my hopes too high, or maybe my idea over the course of dreaming about this ballooned to be something completely different. Or perhaps I just did not fully understand the concept at the time of that first blog post.

aesthetics1on The boring front-end developer

While interesting, we cannot all be BFEDs. The reason the BFED exists is because the non-BFEDs pushed the envelope years ago to make what the BFED now relies on standard.

aesthetics1on Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

I also thought this was a great listen. Season 2 - not so much. I feel like they really dove too far into the back-and-forth between the founders and I personally find it much less interesting.

aesthetics1on Chrome address spoofing vulnerability proof-of-concept for HTTPS

The URL shows https://www.facebook.com, and a green shield indicating a secure connection. What is displayed is not from facebook. Maybe you're missing it? Ad or social blocker installed?:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/musalbas/address-spoofing-...

aesthetics1on Chrome address spoofing vulnerability proof-of-concept for HTTPS

That's precisely the point. It seems to have tricked even you.

aesthetics1on UI Design Dos and Don'ts

I feel like this is a poor attempt to try and craft some cohesion in the app store. Google has done a much better job of writing guidelines with their Google.com/design site, specifically the Material Design Guidelines[1]. In my opinion, Google has really shown that it has a stronger design sense than people give them credit for.

[1] https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduct...

aesthetics1on Ask HN: What are you working on?

A truly informative post. Thanks for telling us something about your niche.

aesthetics1on The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole

That's actually really interesting. Imagine having a feature like this built into browsers for dealing with long articles and text. Yes, we have 'zoom' but that typically breaks things at a certain point. Easily swapping the background and even the left/right bias of the text is a pretty neat tool to include, even though it isn't that intuitive on the site.

aesthetics1on Sleeping Beauty – Keep track of what’s where

It appears to be cookie-sized. At least, that's the only scale I was able to see.

aesthetics1on I have something to hide

uBlock is constantly blocking things that I actually would like to see. Wasn't able to download msu packages from Microsoft's website without turning it off as recently as last week.

It seems to hog less resources than AdBlock/etc, but I still find it breaking a lot of things. Maybe I need to tweak the settings, but with that in mind, I don't consider it to be "just working!"

aesthetics1on 11 Sublime Text Plugins – Not Only for Newbies

SublimeText isn't "free" - it very clearly can be evaluated for free, but you must pay to use it under the agreement:

Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.[1]

[1]https://www.sublimetext.com/buy

aesthetics1on Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10

I think this comes from being unfamiliar with it.

Want to know what you can do with network adapters? Run Get-Help AD to see every cmdlet containing AD, and narrow your search from there.

Get-Help auto-updates itself. See a command, but want to know all of the ins and outs (syntax etc) of using it? Run Get-Help [command]. Use the optional -Examples flag to see several well-explained examples. You can even add -Online to get the technet article to launch in your default web browser.

I would think that nix users would feel at home with powershell. Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. They even set up aliases for common nix commands. Don't type 'dir', just type 'ls' - It works fine.