Thanks for chiming in!

I have a question. Where are you guys at with this issue?

The thing is, literally every retina resolution Macbook I've tried this on (3 different machines) resulted in massive CPU hog with 4 tabs open on a few basic websites. Let's say they are reddit, hn, and youtube.

The Awesome bar is slow, switching tabs is slow, computer warms up in 15 seconds. Fans kick in, the rest is history. New profile, existing profile, it doesn't matter.

That goes for every single release after 57, including Developers, Beta, and Nightly builds.

15 inch ones are worse than 13.

This doesn't happen when I use external screen.

My feeling is in order to reproduce the issue one has to - Find a Macbook Pro released after 2012. - Open Firefox with aforementioned websites - Try to interact with the websites

Are there any active issues for it?

I remember this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

All dependent bugs are fixed, but alas, it made no difference.

Is there's anything I could do to help resolve this?

Mac re-design sure looks like a 3rd party Firefox theme from 2014. I know it's subjective, so that's my personal opinion.

But is it in line with Material design? Or is Chrome not subject to these guidelines?

If you open settings, or downloads window in Chrome, you'll see it has blue bars, rounded edges, shadows.

Compare to this re-design, large radius rounded edges, entirely flat looking buttons and inputs.

I honestly though for a second I opened Firefox accidentally with another theme pre-installed.

You are talking about enabling insider preview which takes around a day to kick in and offer you the update. Since bash on windows is not included on the stable "branch" you have to go through the hoops to get it. This has nothing to do with the feature itself, which takes even less to install than pulling the Ubuntu image off docker hub.

I found it really clunky. I wanted a thing, and it made me wait nearly two days to get that thing; and it was confusing, to boot; I kept following the instructions and not seeing the service I expected to see. I now understand the process and what it was doing during all that time (er, actually, I still don't know what it was doing during all that time, but I understand it was working as designed in making me wait), I just think it is a clunky process that exhibits one of the bigger weaknesses of Windows. Windows simply handles updates and packages extremely poorly compared to Linux.

It's interesting that the answers I've gotten about it being a poor user experience are all basically of the form, "No, that's how it is supposed to work. It isn't a poor user experience." Have y'all not used Linux before? I mean, apt-get and yum are really something special, if you're coming from systems (like Windows or Mac OS) that don't have good package management. Having one universal method to install and update everything on your system, including OS updates, is just wonderful.

Nonetheless, Windows 10 is the best Windows I've used (ignoring the privacy concerns among other things), and I like WSL. It's cool technology and fun to play with. I'm probably installing Linux tonight or tomorrow, but it was a fun week of tinkering with something new to me.

>I found it really clunky. I wanted a thing, and it made me wait nearly two days to get that thing

That "thing" isn't officially released yet, hence the hoops.

I started freelancing and definitely think more about a self sustainable paid service, and have more time to work on it too. I'm trying to improve myself as a consultant but think I'd prefer to concentrate on a product. But a bit short on the ideas. Would love to hear some examples you'd think was not a stupid idea to work on.

Tap into a smaller sector that you can develop software for. Something that will automate things for them or software that will make them money or save them money.

I would suggest starting with the clients you are freelancing for. My first SaaS came about from a freelance gig.

Every article on fats vs. carbs dilemma stresses out weight management issue, none of them mention any other effects, but weight. As a skinny guy, what are the dangers of say french fries, honey, and fast food? What about when coupled with active life style and moderate exercise?

As with everything, it depends largely on your genetics and natural inclination to becoming insulin resistant. Insulin resistance (IR) can occur in normal-BMI individuals. This is typically accompanied (caused?) by a large amount of visceral fat (internal, around your organs), which isn't what we typically see when we look at an overweight individual. IR is really just the first step to full type 2 diabetes.

Exercise and youth can negate much of a bad diet, but it will likely catch up to you eventually. Better markers than your weight might be HDL (should be high), triglyceride levels (should be low), and fasting blood sugar. If those are optimal, you're probably doing fine, but there isn't really a case to be made that you should continue to eat poor food choices if you can avoid it.

Fellow skinny guy here who's working my way out of it. I don't know if you relate to this, but when I used to eat french fries and fast food, I would have bouts of lethargy and mental dullness. I just sort of thought that's how life is. When I started eating healthier, I enjoy much better mental clarity. It's a world of difference, and it gives me 2-5x more quality time to do my best work.

Taleb - Black Swan

I had similar views, until I did some contract work for distributed systems platform. I have written a demo app that connects to twitter stream api and pushes data to elasticsearch instance running on Apache Mesos. One thing that struck me was separation of concerns principle, starting containers on a cluster with Marathon and Mesos is such a breeze. No complex deployments or package management, everything is isolated from each other very neatly and thoughtfully. Of course, the complexity is by orders of magnitudes higher and this tech comes with its own bundle of "joy", like maintenance difficulties and monitoring issues, but what new tech doesn't?

Good examples and loads of tutorials. I just started playing with it and circular dependencies make me cringe. Game object initiates subsystems that in turn get their dependencies through game object, which is a requirement for initialising aforementioned subsystems. What is this pattern? It's really tough to compose things with it.

Working with it professionally, I agree. You pass the game object everywhere, no matter what. The variation if factory methods is also frustrating. It's ridiculous trying to reference how to create things when all the examples use game.add.<whatever> and sometimes you want to construct them separate and use .add.existing. But the standalone constructors will take different sets of arguments (including the game object).

With ever-increasing exposure to opinions and personal anecdotes / experiences on the internet these days , it's more important than ever to make your own judgements. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952875 This was posted today and encourages to take it slow and rationally.

Even thought both articles imply different contexts of 'fast' and 'slow', being caught in the impulsive decision making cycle is very easy, because, as the referenced book "Thinking Fast, Slow" states this is the natural, energy-efficient mode.

A friend of mine went to visit some of the biggest startups in SF (we are from Netherlands) and was shocked with the working culture. Things are going at insanely fast rates, people are irritated and the environment is extremely charged. Comparing to Europe, the work culture is more relaxed, a lot of people work part hours. I wonder what effect it has on productivity, accomplishments and satisfaction with life?

Magit is so good, I nearly forgot how to use git commands anymore.

Navigation is intuitive, diffs are great, discarding and commiting hunks is superb, and it's snappy. It's really an outstanding interface for git!

> I nearly forgot how to use git commands anymore

This is my one fear. I am however willing to put up with this decay given the increase in productivity. It's up there with org-mode as an emacs feature.

After more than two years using Magit, I can only think of one instance when I didn't recall a git command when I needed it. It took about 5s of googling to find.

You can always see what command Magit is running behind the scenes by hitting `$`, in case you're curious -- I've learned a few things this way.

Yes I agree and the mappings are largely one to one. As you say magit-process with $ is great.

Next up to play with: whazzup.

Going to give it a try. The git command line is so arcane I can't remember it anyway, so this could only be an improvement.

It won't save you from having to understand git, but it will make life quicker.