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by AJRF 6y ago
I think these questions are bad for interviews because they cause so much anxiety for candidates. Minimising that will give you a better interview, as if the candidate is more relaxed that’s going to be a more accurate picture of a day to d
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by AJRF 6y ago
I watched a few people (Nat Eliason, Tiago Forte, Abi Abdaal) use Roam, EverNote & Notion and they spend so much time in a categorising phase, and the idea of a note having one "parent" topic really restricts cross linking of
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by AJRF 6y ago
True that the marketplace has some weird rules (I think there is an online instance of VSCode, that scrapes Github for plugins that have permissive licenses to show them in the Marketplace tab - essentially a forked marketplace) - but the b
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by AJRF 6y ago
One thing you really miss when leaving Medium is the audience. It is easy for people search Medium for a topic they are interested in and find it within the first couple of articles. If you are trusting Google to be your entry point for tra
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by AJRF 6y ago
Author here - Thanks for posting ve55! I decided to write this after reflecting on a failed project I created, Ottr (a local social network). I think that even though the project is "dead" there is a lot of value that can be built
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by AJRF 6y ago
Thank you for that.
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by AJRF 6y ago
Yes this is self promotion, but its also under a thread about people frustrated with note taking apps so I think it is ok - I made NitroNotes[0] because I was annoyed at even the slow startup speed of Apple Notes. You have 7 Dots, each one
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by AJRF 6y ago
This comment reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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by AJRF 6y ago
Hey - so I finally got around to this. Details can be found here for getting all the code and running it: https://github.com/afallon02/ottr-deploy-instructions
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Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords(youtube.com)
1 points by AJRF 6y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 6y ago
Yep - YikYak did let you do this after a while, but if you check the subreddit for YikYak they rolled this change out along with a feature that meant you had to give or an email or phone number IIRC. Huge backlash and people stopped using i
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by AJRF 6y ago
I really should just do this. So there are a few parts (API, App, Web, DB) to it - I wonder what is the best way of representing that? Just have the same readme with links out to the other projects maybe?
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by AJRF 6y ago
So I had a bit of a theory (it's stupid I know - you don't need to tell me) that meant that YikYak was to Ottr as Vine was to TikTok - as in; The idea behind YikYak was so good it was ripe for someone to come along and play of the
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by AJRF 6y ago
Hey - I'm the author (I self-posted this, I hope that isn't against the posting etiquette here). I wrote this post after a bit of a failed startup I tried making at the start of lockdown. It was called Ottr and it essentially aped
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Recreating YikYak with Postgres(adamfallon.com)
82 points by AJRF 6y ago|24 comments
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by AJRF 6y ago
Great to hear I didn't put you into too much difficulty! On reading my comment back it seemed a bit snarky - just want to be clear to all it was nothing Maciej said in his emails around the refund that made me think it was a pain to do
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by AJRF 6y ago
He does refunds, I got one from him, after a very short delay. I got the feeling it was a pain in the ass for him to do it, but he did it anyway. I later resubscribed at a higher price (I am fickle and decided I did actually want to use the
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by AJRF 6y ago
This sounds like Yikyak. I have a fully working Webapp, mobile app, dB and REST API from a project I worked on when lockdown started that I lost interest in scaling but I’ll make the repos public and edit this comment later with the links i
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by AJRF 6y ago
+1 - I tried using GraalVM for a Clojure(script) + re-frame application recently and it didn't work, changing back to OpenJDK works fine. It's a shame because the times were Graal does work, the start-up time is orders of magnitud
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by AJRF 6y ago
I would love to recommend The Peregrine by J.A. Baker if you've never read it before. It describes in fantastic and vivid detail every tiny nuance of how a peregrine lives, flies and hunts. The book is poetic in its prose and i've
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by AJRF 6y ago
Sorry but I entirely disagree with you here given the context - I am answering the question "Is there something substantial that Sublime users are missing?". What I described is a substantial benefit of using emacs over sublime te
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by AJRF 6y ago
I'll give two examples to showcase features other editors are missing - ownership over the editor, and the extent to which you can build on top of existing primitives. 1. Can you change where the command palette shows up in Sublime? In
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by AJRF 6y ago
I'd love something like nvAlt that has zero hierarchy, but instead offloads to blazing-fast search. The problem with nvAlt is discovery so bolting on some smart filters like LRU, MRU that you can access through commands in the search b
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by AJRF 6y ago
Federated analytics soon? - Google gives you a docker container and an API key to run that collects metrics on your public/own cloud, that gets slurped up to Google and you still get your demographic info.
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by AJRF 6y ago
I'm glad I finally no longer need macOS to have a nice developer experience. Docker & WSL2 are all I really need to do development these days. Back when I started using macOS, Windows seemed pretty dire for developers unless you we
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by AJRF 6y ago
There seems to be a universal law of software systems that if small, self-contained subsystems exist - someone will glom them all together into an Uber-system, and vice versa. It’s inescapable.
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by AJRF 6y ago
I would really hate to be learning Swift now. I started using it around the v2 release and I think it had nice syntax & was relatively small and opinionated. Now there are so many ways to the same thing it must be a nightmare to teach.
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by AJRF 6y ago
Building in plausible deniability so they can resume their HSBC money laundering services with impunity? Geniuses! Edit: In case you missed the story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269
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by AJRF 6y ago
Q4 this year and Q1 next year just have to be bloodbaths this year - but then again, I'm literally always wrong about this stuff. It really seems like I should be right. I say this because I think now that callbacks are starting slowly
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Powering a Blog with Notion and Netlify(blog.kowalczyk.info)
2 points by AJRF 6y ago|0 comments

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