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I have some documentation how to do that here: https://www.freshcardsapp.com/help/sharing.html#import I will say that the Anki import isn't 100% at the moment, but works reasonably well for simpler decks (ones tha
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I'm still working on Fresh Cards[1], a flashcard app I've written for iOS and Mac. I'll admit that it started out as "yet another spaced repetition flashcard app" but over the past few months, with constant UX refin
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> It would be hypocritical for me to say that it’s foolish to want to prove yourself, because feeling like you are qualified and worthy deeply influences how you do what you do [...] Something I've been working on in myself is being
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I was confused when I got to the end of the article and it didn't mention what social engineering was used. Was it just chatting up someone who worked there and then just standing around after?
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That's a great explanation. I've seen the "[Person] will stay on as an advisor for the next N months." so many times when execs or leaders at companies decide to leave. It's a kind of "[Person] has decided to s
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Cool demonstration. If I understand correctly, the one piece flow process is better because it eliminates the waste of putting the item away and picking it up again. We've overlapped the "putting away" of one stage with the &
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> In the ideal world, people should be empowered to be able to retrieve what they are looking for when they need it (people pull and filter information, rather than being pushed information). I think we as engineers are biased to think t
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I’ve been thinking about this recently because so many trending topics on twitter are about “the greatest band” or “best film of 198x” or whatever. I think if I were younger, I would be excited by such discussions, but now it seems silly. M
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Amen. I try to do things fairly rough and allow myself to quickly pivot if I’m feeling like what I’m building will take too long and there may be other more important tasks. The one bit of process I do follow is I generally write up some qu
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Snark was what attracted me to Gawker (the sister site to Deadspin). The general tone was something like "these elites and celebrities aren't as great as they think they are" which made it a guilty pleasure read. Reading it (
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Shaka, when the walls fell! I watched that episode in the last year and didn't make the meme connection until I was reading someone mention it somewhere. It would be interesting to have a modern take on that episode. The thing with mem
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That’s not so bad. In my 20+ year career I’ve worked on a ton of projects which were internally killed, so essentially we poured our hearts and souls into products that never saw the light of day. I’m sure I’m not alone in this experience.
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Maybe "well thought out con" is a little strong here. I see it as more likely the consulting firm has learned this behavior over time and it has rewarded them well. I imagine that if they're normally dealing with large contra
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Even on a regular laptop screen, it took a little too long for my eyes to grok what I was looking at. My initial impression from the photo is that this company is selling some SaaS and not a physical device. In my opinion, the original page
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A few weeks later, WebAgency called a meeting to share updates, but they hadn’t made any progress on the logo or branding. Instead, they spent the whole meeting showing me design ideas for the website. “To be clear, the projec
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> A lot of people say they have a passion what they have is an interest. Anyone who has a real honest to God burning passion is going to be doing it regardless of anything else just because they love it. This reminds me of a part of a Ke
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I've noticed this too in the indie hackers community. Some people look around and realize they're part of a gold rush and then realize it's more lucrative to sell shovels. The more shovels you sell, the more successful you be
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This is so true. I think the fantasy that we have the capacity to do amazing things in our lives, but there's some external force stopping us, is a lovely, ego-saving one. I've always thought, I have some great ideas and if I&#x27
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For me it was The Jackson 5's ABC that would play as soon as I plugged my phone into my car. That opening "A buh-buh buh buh" is ingrained in my memory forever.
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I had a similar situation recently. I've been doing daily meditation and starting to notice my moods and feelings more. On top of that, I've been reading up on CBT techniques and trying to re-frame how I talk to myself. This helpe
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Yes, Swift has assert statements. I tend to use them a lot as well, but in shipping code, they don't terminate the app. There are still some places where I'd prefer to terminate the app early rather than continue on. To be clear,
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I'm a big fan of the "crash early" strategy. I write in Swift primarily, and if I suspect a state is impossible to reach, I'll add a fatalError() so that in development, if it turns out I'm wrong, I spot it right aw
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That idea of "losing purpose" after winning the race is really interesting. I've often got caught up in external goals (praise, promotions, shipping an amazing product that everyone loves), and I've noticed that when I&#
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> a problem in our society or species in general that people simply do not read things thoroughly. And when confronted with a problem, instead of going back and reading things thoroughly, they blame someone else. Is this really a "p
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This is it exactly. It opens up the door to even more complexity in the design... Now that you can unselect floors, if the elevator is on its way to the 5th floor and you unselect it, should it skip that floor mid-movement? If there's
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Some of this might be a function of your seniority, experience, and overall care about the business. When I was a more junior dev, I really didn't care about any of the specifics of business decisions. I cared about high-level things t
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It's frustrating that searches are now "whatever we want to promote to you" instead of real searches. Something similar happens on Twitter when you search for something in the "Top" tab. It doesn't show you res
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I also used yahoo mail during that same period and am disappointed to see all my emails gone as well. I can understand the reasoning, but man, what a blast from the past it would to see what college-aged me was emailing 20 odd years ago. I
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I often wonder if it's also due to different communication styles. I remember in high school a friend and I would always chat about movies and tell each other what we thought after seeing one. My friend would always use language like &
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I've encountered this so many times in my career, having worked on a lot of UI that product and UX designers came up with. At first I would spot potential missing pieces in the UI designs as they were proposed and would work with PM an

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