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by allenu 6y ago
Yeah, you will soon burn yourself out if you try to do the best in everything. It's really a matter of choosing a few key place to focus your energy and put in extra effort there, but to make sure you leave enough to do other things in
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by allenu 6y ago
With experience, you realize that minimum effort in the key places that bring maximum result is the name of the game. Obviously "minimum" differs from situation to situation. Just enough effort, but not more than needed, but not t
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by allenu 6y ago
I think these types of posts are important to read, to contrast with the success stories we typical see online. Read enough success stories and you start to believe that success is a given if you just work hard enough. I'm reminded of
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by allenu 6y ago
This reminds me of the famous Keynes quote, "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." Even if you have the greatest idea, you can't predict whether people will even want to try your produ
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by allenu 6y ago
I wonder if them releasing it today is affecting developer.apple.com as it's timing out for me. Unfortunately, that means I can't be quite as productive as I'd to be right now.
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by allenu 6y ago
I can see that. When I interview, I often compare the difficulty of the questions that different companies. I have noticed that I feel a little more respect to the companies that ask the more challenging technical questions (not puzzles) vs
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by allenu 6y ago
In a similar vein, someone previously created a "Very Slow Movie Player" using e-ink.[1] I always thought this would make for a nice little art piece in a room. [1] https://medium.com/s/story/very-slow-mo
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by allenu 6y ago
I love the design of everything (web page, app screenshots, copy). I'm going to take notes for my own app. :)
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by allenu 6y ago
I've gotten that question before and I agree it's a bit rude. I wonder if questioner has any understanding of how much dev work things take or if they just think that it's trivial and so why not just share it with everyone.
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by allenu 6y ago
I wonder how much of the software pricing side is people not seeing the person working on the software? Maybe we assume all this good software we use is built by some large corporation and so are more likely to not toss them some coin, wher
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by allenu 6y ago
I just released an app in Apple's app store a week ago and am seeing this attitude as well. I'm charging for it and don't provide a trial since I think it's worth the price for what you get (maybe even priced too low). A
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by allenu 6y ago
I think for the general public "debt" has negative connotations. It's something that they feel must be repaid later. It definitely can be a financial tool and can be neutral, but I don't think most people think of it tha
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by allenu 6y ago
2000 also had the "hanging chads" issue and confusing ballots that potentially caused people to choose a different candidate from what they wanted.
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by allenu 6y ago
When I was younger, I used to take the Greyhound a lot between my home town and the town I was doing an internship. The stations were definitely in the not so great parts of town. If you were there after dark, it just did not feel safe. Of
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree with your assessment. Using the language "tech debt" makes it appear that there is a correct way to design something and that if you're not doing it that way, you will need to pay a debt on it, now or later. The reali
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by allenu 6y ago
Microsoft did that too. Now I'm at another company and we do it here as well. I'm not a fan of it, but having someone else write up your review sounds like a wonderful dream. The way I see it, you write your review, it goes up the
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by allenu 6y ago
Nicely done. Is it still possible to change the cursor appearance? Might want to look into that.
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by allenu 6y ago
That's how I treat note-taking today. I keep a physical notebook that I jot down ideas and draw diagrams in. It's sort of my canvas for sketching things out and seeing if I understand the problem and solution I'm working on.
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by allenu 6y ago
I also think we consume more information that we need. I think we also tend to overvalue getting that information and retaining it. The HN crowd is biased towards analysis and information, but just look at the abundance of note-taking syste
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by allenu 6y ago
Thanks for doing the math. I always found it funny that Apple was advertising how they were doing such a great service to the environment by not packing in a charger. If they really cared about the environment, they'd avoid updating th
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm using SM-2 at the moment, although I do plan on modifying it as I learn more about what works and what doesn't. The main thing I do differently, however, is I attempt to predict your retention score instead of having you self-
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm Canadian and when I was a child in the '80s, we absolutely just hopped on our bikes and wandered around without parental supervision. I don't know how accurate it is, but there's this idea that child abductions and v
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by allenu 6y ago
Thanks! If there's enough interest, I'd love to look into Android or Windows one day. I don't have plans of open-sourcing this.
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree that there could be so much more to how cards are reviewed. For instance, what if some cards were made dependent on other cards? You could have some cards that have basic vocabulary and then another set of cards that use that vocabu
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm actually about to release my own SRS-based flash card app in a few days if you can wait a little bit. [1] I'm just putting the finishing touches on it and will release to macOS and iOS. I think Anki is a great tool, but I thi
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by allenu 6y ago
Yeah, to me there's a natural progression in understanding of system design. When you start out, you just write code and don't think about how things interact with each other too much. Then you learn that you're rewriting a l
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by allenu 6y ago
Honestly, this confused me. The number immediately made me think he was submitting fake orders for that amount. I don't know to read it any other way.
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by allenu 6y ago
I also think the strange name had an effect. Whenever I read about it, first I didn't know how it was pronounced, nor what it was exactly, nor why I would care. The ads would show someone watching a video and laughing, but... we alread
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by allenu 6y ago
RIP. I remember going to The Amazing Meeting (skeptics convention) years ago and running into a coworker there. It was his second time attending and he spotted James Randi and told me, let's go say hello and that he's super friend
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by allenu 6y ago
That video is one of my favorites as it really hits home for me when I try to learn something new. You can know what makes something good, but you don't quite have the muscle memory or skill to reproduce it and it's frustrating. Y

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