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by a_c 2y ago
Magnificent! Curious how the zoom interaction is managed? Do you load assets of next level once zoom level hit a certain threshold?
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by a_c 2y ago
I'm in a local parent group where people share second hand stuff all the time. It felt pretty efficient to me. I don't know, do we really want every interaction a big platform thing?
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by a_c 2y ago
The starting point to me is I don't need it. Until it clearly isn't
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by a_c 2y ago
If you are to cook with a rice cooker, take the starting ratio of rice to water 10:11 by volume, adjust base on other factors. The one knuckle rule works because in most families, the environment of cooking the rice, the tool, the people to
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by a_c 2y ago
The biggest bug is the thinking that your proverbial calendar app is the next billion dollar application but in reality no one gives a wink. That's the root of all problems
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by a_c 3y ago
What about making it slow? One byte at a time for example while keeping the connection open
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by a_c 3y ago
If one can get everything average, one becomes very not average
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by a_c 3y ago
Abstraction rediscovered
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by a_c 3y ago
A corollary is that the tools also reflects the org structure. A siloed org with have several tools doing the same thing, each used by different teams
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by a_c 3y ago
In my past experience building internal tools, the customer (colleagues) is one major source of feature requests. It rarely ends well. From their perspective, feature requests never get addressed. What was built is rarely what they perceive
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by a_c 3y ago
Knowing is one thing, wanting is another, and then there is acting. Sometimes it is peaceful to embrace who you are. Sometimes it is liberating to push to your limits. Most of the time, I'm giving myself excuse to be lazy
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by a_c 3y ago
I think we should "invert, always invert", as Charlie Munger put it. Why do we expect a N-session by M-hour interview be a reliable signal that a candidate is someone you want to work together with for at least a month or two. And
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by a_c 3y ago
I wonder how is he doing lately. Not much update from his blog https://www.joelonsoftware.com/author/joelonsoftware/
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by a_c 3y ago
Laziness, make stuff that goes with the flow.
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by a_c 3y ago
The last I heard companies using the naming convention version XXXXXX.extension where each X is a feature flag was in 2023. Bringing source control into practice was an controversial ideas. No, I didn't work there
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by a_c 3y ago
I'm the lucky 10 thousands, thanks! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by a_c 3y ago
Didn't know him before. Googled his blog in case people are looking https://feld.com/blog/
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by a_c 3y ago
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Engineers (and scientists) often boast ourselves as master of causality. We solve problem by understanding the domain. We la
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by a_c 3y ago
Side topic, I understand "agency/agentic" means "taking matter at own hand" but I have problem understanding why. In principal-agent problem [1], an agent is someone acting on principal's behalf. Conflicts aris
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by a_c 3y ago
Things go in cycle. Search engine was so much better at discovering linked websites. Then people play the SEO game, write bogus articles, cross link this and that, everyone got into writing. Everyone write the same cliches over and over, qu
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by a_c 3y ago
Haven’t tried htmx. Have you heard of phoenix liveview? Are they similar concepts?
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by a_c 3y ago
Would be great if we have a service chronicling all the promises an individual made. I would use it personally as a commitment device
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by a_c 3y ago
Some angles for me to see this phenomenon - focus on the fundamentals rather than the particular brand of tools. HTTP, tcp, HTML, OS, CPU, filesystem, etc will almost certainly out last a language, framework and SaaS - See beyond the assump
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by a_c 3y ago
Your logo demo is very satisfying to look and play at. Very cool. Just want to let you know
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by a_c 3y ago
This is also why I think and hope electric vehicle is not the global solution to the too much ICE cars problem, nor is archieving self driving on those cars. A popular solution doesn't make it the best one, it is just the best solution
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by a_c 3y ago
How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425570-how-will-you-me... I always feel uneasy with the notion of work-life balance. At the same time I always want more
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by a_c 3y ago
Put your frozen croissant into a cold oven, make coffee, get washed, listen to audio book. Maybe it took 30mins, but it is a daily ritual I enjoyed
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by a_c 3y ago
I think the message is very profound. It is one of the message like "eat your veg, exercise, sleep well, love your family". On surface one would respond "yeah who doesn't get that". Who doesn't know software is
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by a_c 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. Was wondering how did future pan out for someone talented but hard to work with. Would they have a rather tumultuous career, or have their talent recognized hence very successful or even if they started their own
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by a_c 3y ago
Curious to know how is he doing now

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