TobLoef

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by TobLoef 2y ago
Good points, all of them. Especially the last one is just a painful reality of the process. I think it's somewhat similar to the scientific method in that regard. Often your hypothesis is just false, but that does not make the attempt
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by TobLoef 2y ago
To me this is one of the differences between making a wheel for learning or a wheel for innovation, as I mention in the blog. The latter can truly be reinvention, while the former is indeed often more like simply making your own wheel.
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by TobLoef 2y ago
Yes, it has to be balanced appropriately. I didn't emphasize this a lot in the blog post, but this is really important in a work setting, compared to when working on personal projects. I still think wheel-reinvention has its place in p
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by TobLoef 2y ago
Meant to say "DIY" (Do it yourself). Thanks for letting me know, I've updated it now!
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Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)(tobloef.com)
213 points by TobLoef 2y ago|98 comments
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Ask HN: Where do you go to ask broader questions about programming?
1 points by TobLoef 8y ago|0 comments
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by TobLoef 9y ago
Looks pretty good, I'm looking forward to trying it out. The UI a bit more cluttered than I would like, but it's nice to see something like this more fleshed out than what I posted.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
This looks great, I'm really looking forward to giving it a try. I've been using Trello to accomplish the same thing for a while, but it hasn't been ideal. Thank you for posting that.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
I'll see what I can do to improve this. At the moment you can click "Lock all" under the "Mind Map" menu to lock all the nodes in place.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
I think that might be a problem with the caching. I'll look into forcing a cache refresh.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
Good idea. I added a link to a mailing list, which'll do the job until I make something better.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
There was a bug with the styling, that should be fixed now.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
Yeah sorry about that, it's fixed now.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
Whoops, that should be fixed now, as soon as GitHub Pages updates.
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by TobLoef 9y ago
Thanks. I use it as I would a normal mind map, to organize ideas and sometimes visualize trees of data. I just find the text-based approach to creating mind maps a lot faster and simpler than using the various other online tools, even thoug
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by TobLoef 9y ago
That's weird. What antivirus do you use? And does it say anything about what caused the block?
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by TobLoef 9y ago
A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup
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Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps(tobloef.com)
323 points by TobLoef 9y ago|99 comments
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by TobLoef 11y ago
An Acer Chromebook 13. It's really easy to run Linux on it, which is all iup personally need. It's light, cheap and has great battery life.