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by allenu 6y ago
At some point in your career, I think you realize that you have to separate yourself and your passion from your work, especially if you are working for someone else[1]. There needs to be a clear delineation between what you believe is the r
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by allenu 6y ago
That's a good point about the scale of the "making the world better". It doesn't have to be huge. I think at the end of the day, it's really about finding meaning in your own existence, and such a large part of that
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by allenu 6y ago
That's a good way of looking at it. This discussion point reminds me of a Sir Ken Robinson talk (not sure which one, but he has many). After a friend's musical performance on stage, he comments to his friend that he'd love to
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by allenu 6y ago
I skimmed through maybe 50% of it, but a really great read. I'll try to re-read in-depth some more later. Some really good nuggets of wisdom in there, even if you are not planning on retiring early. I'm kind of in the same place a
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by allenu 6y ago
I don't know how well it handles units vs. Google but it does convert as you type, say "5inches" immediately shows it in cm but you can keep typing "5inches in m" and it'll do the math too.
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by allenu 6y ago
I used to do that until I realized on Mac, I can just cmd-spacebar to do Spotlight search and type my equation in there.
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's the absolute biggest contributor, but learning to unicycle during this period has helped me a ton. I love learning new physical skills like dancing or figure skating, so picking up the unicycle has been great
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by allenu 6y ago
Buying a home for me as well. I bought mine in December '19 before COVID hit. Before that I had been living in a small apartment with thin walls, which meant I could hear my upstairs neighbor all hours of the day. Going from a 1-bedroo
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by allenu 6y ago
The demo should be the first thing on the page! It really gets to the point.
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by allenu 6y ago
Companies can and do ship low quality because when you do the cost-benefit analysis, it makes sense to get it out the door, warts and all. Also, when a company gets large enough, basic things like this fall through the cracks because everyo
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by allenu 6y ago
Immutability and mutability of content, and expectations or conventions surrounding it, seems to play a large role in feasibility here. The successful examples listed are generally cases where content is immutable to the general audience (s
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by allenu 6y ago
Wing Commander II is quite memorable to me because as a child I could never get it to work properly and it introduced me to the world of autoexec.bat and HIMEM.SYS. No matter what I did, I could never get both the in-game speech and the mou
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by allenu 6y ago
I think there's a lot going on here. Some of it is just general maturity and experience. Things that were novel when you were a child wear off when you're older. Those achievements that you aimed for as a child (having 'perfe
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by allenu 6y ago
Simplifying the data into bite-sized formats is prone to bias since you have to essentially editorialize raw data, picking and choosing what information to bubble up into the reports and what to ignore. How do you plan on ensuring the integ
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by allenu 6y ago
I think it depends ultimately on the target audience of tools like this. If the target audience are people with a steady income flow that can bounce back from losses, then mistakes along the way are useful long-term. On the other hand, if t
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by allenu 6y ago
You're assuming that the only purpose of the post is so people can copy the palette outright. I see it more as a way of educating oneself of what others have done to see what works and what doesn't. If you like an artist's wo
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by allenu 6y ago
I stopped using Twitter last summer and have had similar feelings as the author here. It definitely warps your view of the world because it's biased towards certain types of posts. It's terrible for any nuanced discussion. For me,
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by allenu 6y ago
I was going to post that on my personal projects I'm intentionally fast and loose with git and then saw your post which sums up my thoughts. With personal projects, the most important thing to maintain is interest and momentum. Best pr
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by allenu 6y ago
> Ease of use is the most important part of a language. It's really a matter of who your target audience is and what they're trying to achieve, though, isn't it? You might make a language easy for the whole world to use, b
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by allenu 6y ago
I think one aspect we're not mentioning is the nature of the projects themselves. This spectrum of Really Care vs Just A Job isn't entirely accurate. A lot of projects are honestly just hard to "really care" about. The t
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by allenu 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. It just goes to show that even the best of us can find it difficult to effect change in a big company. The nature of a large organization is it requires lots of communication, alignment, and on-the-ground politics t
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by allenu 6y ago
Oh, I totally agree that companies do it. Where they choose to differentiate in price or pay is based on their whims, so it's not a question of fairness, IMO.
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by allenu 6y ago
It's ridiculous to me that a company can say, "Hey, where you live requires less pay for a baseline standard of living, therefore we'll pay you less" but they would never, ever consider saying, "Oh, you live in a to
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by allenu 6y ago
I prefer the smaller footprint because it means I don't have to reach too far to the right when I use my trackpad. I've been using a HHKB for the past 3 years and have gotten used to not having to stretch my right arm to reach the
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by allenu 6y ago
I rarely listen to the news now. I swear that I hear “Democrat” or “Republican” within the first few words whenever I turn on the radio to hear NPR. It drives me crazy.
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by allenu 6y ago
I feel this too. I've been working in industry since the early 2000s and for me I've known for a while now that I do not want to be a manager. There have been times where I've considered it, but like you, I find organizing, p
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by allenu 6y ago
So the idea is everyone who buys late can sell high and jump off the ship at the same time? Maybe I'm missing something, but if a whole bunch of people offload a stock, wouldn't that drive the price down, meaning a lot of people o
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by allenu 6y ago
Is it actually explicitly disallowed in Apple's guidelines? Their wording almost makes it indicate they want you to only ask for a rating when people are happy with the app: https://developer.apple.com/app-store&#x
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by allenu 6y ago
It looks more SNES to me, including the controller.
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by allenu 6y ago
In the late ‘90s I had an internship at IBM. Sometimes you’d need to go into the server room to do your work and I remember the white noise from all the fans in there being perfect for falling asleep to. Granted, that wasn’t the goal, but i

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