VladimirGolovin

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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Awe. It happens very, very rarely, but when it does, it's unforgettable. For me, it happened when I was learning Haskell. (As for the Lisp enlightenment, I havent yet learned Lisp deep enough to feel it, and maybe I'll never will;
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Heroin is already way past a reputational point of no return, but people are still using it.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Also learned the same thing in my late 40s. It is surprising how many days that I would previously deem as useless (hangover, tiredness, "not in the mood", other "reasons") turn out to be really productive. All I needed
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Alliteration makes the names more catchy.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I did a complete 180 on my approach to personal productivity, and that change is similar to the transition from Productivity 2.0 to 3.0, as described in the article. Before that U-turn I kept everything in my to-do list and had lots of recu
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Not the GP, but what works for me is taking long, low-effort hikes around a small resort town in the mountains.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I absolutely do that, and I noticed that I do it to compensate for 'autonomy deficit', as I dubbed it. When my day was dictated by external demands, I play PC games in the evening, because they provide the illusion of autonomy and
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
In Russian, it’s the same word, transliterated as “баг". And the same is true for “feature”: it’s also transliterated directly to “фича".
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
You never finish a to-do list. They are endless. You will always have stuff to do, and it literally never ends. My solution is to be at peace with the fact that it's endless and I'll never be able to stop and say, "that'
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
My maximum is about 8 hours for a creative / cognitive task, but that requires pushing / forcing yourself on a level comparable with Apollo Creed's training montage.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
As for now, the development is paused. Currently the only way to "sync" is to export the database on one device, and import it on another. We're looking for ways of implementing a proper sync though. Synching is not an easy p
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Founder here. 6 years ago, in 2015, we set out to build Matterlist ( https://matterlist.com/ ), a to-do list app to replace Wunderlist (and Astrid, if anyone still remembers it). Here’s my old HN comment about it: https:&#x2
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Show HN: We're releasing Matterlist, our Wunderlist replacement, as a free app(matterlist.com)
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I noticed the increased frequency of mentions, but who is pushing?
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
115 soviet rubles is approximately what my mother and father, both engineers, received as a monthly wage. Their wage was 120 rubles per month. So if I wanted to buy an MK-52, that would mean that our family income would be halved for a full
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
https://www.sonantic.io/ voices which Obsidian used in The Outer Worlds sound pretty decent to me. I wonder, would that be affordable in a small indie project?
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Workflowy is fantastic for keeping project journals, which are my form of incremental note taking. It's great at "behaving like memory" and documenting "a story of how I arrived at the ideas". Currently, however, I&
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
To borrow a definition from Andrei Konchalovsky, art is that which imparts feelings. If a game does that, it's art. Many "gamey" games don't, and this is perfectly fine. Consider two games, Inside (a great art game) and
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I've been there a couple of times. I haven't found a cure, but I do have some bits of advice that might help: 1. A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, e
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
As someone who has been designing stuff in native file-based apps for 30 years, I consider Figma a godsend -- because of their collaboration / multiplayer features. And I don't miss files at all, though of course I understand that
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
My pet armchair theory: that's because nuclear power requires humans to be consistently superhuman (smart, precise, meticulous, thinking ahead). Solar, wind, oil and gas don't -- a normal human can run all these things perfectly f
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
The article talks mostly about lighter-hearted movies, but I'd still want to recommend my favorite examples of "burdensome beauty" (as they put it) by Tarkovsky: "Зеркало" (The Mirror): https://www.youtub
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
Takeout is NOT great, at least in my case. I never once managed to fully download my photo archive, despite my repeated attempts. I gave up, so my current "strategy" for keeping my photos safe is "Never ever do anything that
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
Interesting. One of the blurbs got my attention: "Brilliant....It works the brain in a way that is nothing short of exhilarating." ― Richard Dawkins.
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
A quote from the article: "Network-attached storage (NAS) devices hold several large hard drives and quietly do their work safely storing your files. You can keep using your favorite OS, but you don’t have to worry about bit rot anymor
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
I’m also in my late forties. I did learn myself some Haskell, and it was literally mind-blowing. The last time I had so much fun learning a language was in my late teens when I was learning class hierarchies in OOP.
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
Russian here. Guys at my company still use Far ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager ) as their primary file manager, and I'm not aware of any people other than us Russians who are still using Norton-like file
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
BTW, does anyone know why there are so many good Depeche Mode / Dave Gahan remixes? Does the band specifically encourage remixing by providing samples, voice records etc.?
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
This is exactly why I love airports and flying -- and I always buy the window seat too.
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by VladimirGolovin 6y ago
The Man in the Hole structure is essentially Joseph Campbell's hero cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wond

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