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by 600frogs 5y ago
From reading the other comments here, I have to say I think a single file may be easier to work with than the one-file-a-day we're currently using. For example, it'd be much easier to skim through a single file for the month/
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by 600frogs 5y ago
RE: Why track, I think it's for both: * I want to be able point to past achievements and see the value I'm adding (both for personal well-being and also CV writing/interviewing) * I want to be able to see what I've done
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Agreed on low-tech, low-tech can be great! My personal calendar is just a huge whiteboard I scribble on, and redraw at the end of every month. Physically crossing out tasks/appointments is rewarding in the way that a phone-tap or CTRL-
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I love the idea of a changelog, but that only works well if you're working on a single system for a long period of time - the nature of my work means I'm hopping between systems fairly frequently, so a changelog doesn't quite
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Agreed with matt_s - if you're looking to be distracted, just accept that and do something genuinely entertaining e.g. video games, YouTube, rather than finding some other forum with half-baked opinions to idly browse. And yes, I'
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by 600frogs 5y ago
In an ideal world using whatever ticketing system your company uses would be great, but I find in practice a significant amount of the work I do is untracked - attending/scheduling meetings, catching up with X about Y, etc. In theory a
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Ah if the files are in version control you're golden, but for personal tracking using a git repo seems a bit overkill and not frictionless enough. The email idea isn't bad though, simple and effective!
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I used Trello for a period of time, and the manoeuvrability (if that's the right word) of it was great - shuffling priorities around in a list, the satisfaction of dragging to a DONE column - so for tracking current tasks it was great.
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Interesting - it sounds fairly similar in terms of cutting plaintext TODOs into a DONE list, but with greater visibility on a macro scale. Do you never date anything in the DONE list though? I might have a hard time remembering when I achie
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Have they fixed the iOS jank yet? I was looking into this a few months ago, but at the time the demos coming out for iOS were appalling, so I dropped it.
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Ask HN: What do you use to track your tasks and accomplishments at work?
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I've never fully committed and built a solo product, so take what I say with a large pinch of salt, but from what I understand asking your friends "would you buy this" is supposedly a notoriously poor metric for market fit. T
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by 600frogs 5y ago
You've missed the point of a shotgun - DPS is irrelevant, it's how fast I can get you to 0 before you can get me to 0. And shotgun wins there, at least up close.
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by 600frogs 5y ago
> After about a year, atoms from your candle will have spread completely around the globe. How on earth is this provable?
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by 600frogs 5y ago
My instinct would have been that it's easier for the submitter (as they have less to polish and test) and more irksome for the reviewer as they have to go through multiple rounds of submissions, but naturally I'll take your word f
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I did read through this debacle when it came out actually, I'm thoroughly on team Greg. I suppose my question was separate from malicious patches - I was interested in knowing if this incremental "merge tiny patches as and when th
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by 600frogs 5y ago
So it seems to be it's primarily solving branching issues rather than providing any benefit of the incremental support, is that correct?
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the explanation. Has this style of development ever come back to bite you?
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I'm not hugely familiar with the Linux release cycle, can anyone explain why such rudimentary support should be merged in now, instead of waiting until it's ready?
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by 600frogs 5y ago
I'm always wary of claims like this as there's so much snake oil targeted at audiophiles that I can never tell if the product offers a genuine improvement or if it's an expensive placebo. Would you be able to tell the differe
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by 600frogs 5y ago
Meditation without yoga may be problematic, but is there any problem with practicing yoga without meditating, in your opinion?
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by 600frogs 6y ago
The author suggests that if I find email horrible to work with, it's my mail client that's at fault, but doesn't expand as to why this is or make any suggestions for what to use - can anyone help me out here? What am I missin
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by 600frogs 6y ago
Just be sure nobody mistakes it for the .idea/ folder intellij products leave behind and deletes it!
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by 600frogs 6y ago
I wonder what the Ethereum equivalent of trimming armour is...
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by 600frogs 6y ago
Interesting, that might be a dealbreaker then. Have you found significant slowdowns in working in a VM vs native, both in terms of compilation and day-to-day work, or has it been negligible/unnoticeable? P.S. thanks for making an accou
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by 600frogs 6y ago
That'd be super great if you could let me know how it goes, I'm tempted to make the same jump. Thanks!
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by 600frogs 6y ago
I did try VSCode remote running and debugging, but found it fiddly to work with and half-baked. Plus, I was sorely missing IntelliJ, so I quickly stopped trying it out - maybe I'd get used to it eventually, but it didn't seem wort
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by 600frogs 6y ago
Your set-up sounds exactly what I'm after - from my comment to a different reply: > I think my end goal is to have a contained development environment whilst not being forced to use specific tools (i.e. VSCode remote debugging, eugh
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by 600frogs 6y ago
Thanks for the links, some interesting stuff there! I think my end goal is to have a contained development environment whilst not being forced to use specific tools (i.e. VSCode remote debugging, eugh) and not sacrificing compilation times
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by 600frogs 6y ago
I'm definitely interested in WSL for developing, but last time I tried it a while back (WSL2 just came out I think), there was basic functionality missing e.g. I couldn't write and run my own SystemD services. Has the situation im

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