RickS

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by RickS 7y ago
I was contacted by – and took – an awesome job in Seattle via one of those threads. So glad I got out of SF.
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Already this is so helpful, as someone with only a partial high school math background. The visual "pouring" analogy alone made it worth the read.
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Here's a random idea I find interesting: Dating is a filtering problem with highly varied solutions. Therefore, a dating site should be a platform with highly varied filtering solutions. Create a broad, uniform spec for dating profile
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> I propose disrupting the space with even more aggressively Darwinian design. I'm curious what you'd do to make these apps more darwinian than they already are. I'm only going to use Tinder as an example since I think it&
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by RickS 7y ago
If conventional wikis are a framing hammer, roam is a nail gun. It's not just about the outcome, but about the ergonomics of creating the outcome. Lowering the friction of wiki creation leads to more and better wikis, even if you chang
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The interactivity also reminded me of this post from Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
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When the friction/anxiety cost of explaining your exit is higher than the cost of ghosting, you get ghosts. It seems the pressures that used to deter this behavior have fallen away, and ghosting is effectively free at the individual le
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> is anyone else disturbed by the fact that Whatsapp now shows the Facebook logo I'm disturbed because I dislike facebook, but reality hasn't changed – only become more visible. That's good. Especially for people who aren&
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Does this impact literacy? Are there any famous writers that lack the inner voice? I feel like yapping to myself all day was critical to developing writing/verbal skills.
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First, the other commenters are correct. Your tone is needlessly hostile. Would you talk to a cashier like this? Or a peer at work? I hope not. Anyway, related to your actual post – you said: > Buckle up and get it done, it's that s
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Difficulty regulating emotions is a component of ADHD. ADHD is a shortcoming of executive function, which manages near-term memory and keeps people "on task". "I'm going to endure this unpleasantness for a better future&
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Agreed. Presumably the only thing they'd be able to reliably connect to is things like xfinity hotspots. The idea that they'd have some kind of generic login for this would be hilariously insane and definitely make headlines. But
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I don't think that's true. You can get a new car for $15k in the US. "completely rebuilding" a used car of any quality, by any definition, is likely to surpass 15k in labor alone, unless you're doing the work entire
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IMO the better question is when data becomes too expensive to be worth it. There are currently no serious financial downsides to scraping, hoarding, selling, or leaking customer data. There is huge financial upside to doing or risking all o
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by RickS 7y ago
Right. I agree with all of that. My position is that I defer to the majority of scientists on the topic. The argument I'm making is a bit different, though: No amount of supporting evidence renders a topic exempt from scrutiny. Climate
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Parent comment: > extremely strong, emergent cultural pressure against certain results and certain questions, which has been holding back a wide range of fields and ensuring pursuit of severely one sided science for decades. Your comment
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by RickS 7y ago
I have a mixed position on this. Considered in isolation, the UK's API regulations are a spectacular boon for customers. Considered in the context of the rest of the UK's regulatory environment (porn filters, etc), it seems plausi
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Commenters with sleep apnea, what have you done to resolve it, and how has it worked?
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Agreed, sadly. I have a CPAP and it's just deeply unpleasant to use. It isn't worth it. Dismal compliance numbers say that many to most people who try CPAP feel similarly.
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> Are these for more than 40 hours a week? No > Is silicon valley really that expensive? Yes yes yes oh my god yes. Rent eats most of the difference. 300$/mo for a parking space, etc. However, non-local things (like amazon purcha
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by RickS 7y ago
No comment on the "shafted" aspect, but the "not geniuses" thing is exactly correct, and I wish I had realized it sooner. I didn't apply for google when I left college because I didn't feel like I would "m
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Harsh remote pay disparity was much more common ~5 years ago, but in my experience it's significantly better these days. There's definitely a large swath of companies that try to use remote workers to lower costs, and there's
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This is really impressive. Are you using separate sensors for humidity/temp/air quality? If so, which ones? Do you assemble these yourself (eg connecting a sensor to a network enabled board) or are they connected out of the box? W
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It wasn't mentioned in my post, but the "relatedness" aspect was definitely a big component. I felt like I was letting myself down by not working on what's important to me, but I felt like I was letting the team down by
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My experience is that there is. I tend to be really intense about my job, and as a result I've left almost all of my jobs due to burnout, usually related to frustration that my dept isn't prioritizing what I feel is important to b
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That's awesome! This space is still really, really ripe for tools. Looking at some of your past comments, it sounds like we're thinking about these problems / pain points in similar ways. One of the things I observe that&#x27
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I haven't used carbon as an engineer, but as someone working on design systems, they're overall pretty impressive. For a giant menu of options, see here: https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems Atl
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Depends on the company. Some design systems are comprehensive, mature, and general enough that they're suitable for use by hobbyist devs or smaller orgs that want attractive, versatile UI components but don't want to spend effort
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Are there changes to the web that you think would lift that burden, or make design systems less necessary? Two major drivers come to mind in terms of DS adoption: 1) Giving teams a common toolkit of resources so that they can design consist
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by RickS 7y ago
I work on Spectrum, Adobe's design systems team. >extremely difficult to maintain Often yes. This corner of the industry is in the wild west days, and we've yet to establish best practices for a lot of things. Most DS teams are

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