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by allenu 6y ago
I can see how popular free software can be more reliable since you have a critical mass that uses it regularly as well as can fix bugs as they come up. However, there's a bit of survivorship bias here. Free software that is unreliable
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by allenu 6y ago
I was genuinely confused when it was in her hand. It looked like a regular-sized phone or even slightly bigger than one.
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by allenu 6y ago
I like the overall concept and have used similar sorts of thinking in my life. I think it's useful to have a raw numbers audit of the costs in your life and to figure out if they're worth it or they're things you could elimin
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by allenu 6y ago
The act of having to book a meeting also just makes it feel so transactional. I have booked social meetings with other folks at work, and sometimes you have energy for it and sometimes you don't. The fact that the meeting is for a fixe
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by allenu 6y ago
I’m in strong agreement with your points. It always surprises me when I read people trying to come up with a more optimal algorithm for testing one’s retention when there are so many factors out of one’s control that would influence the for
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by allenu 6y ago
The principle of using skepticism is a sound one, but what do you do when the majority of your users don't employ that practice? Just let misinformation spread and just be okay with the ramifications on society because "it's
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by allenu 6y ago
I don't think it's the lack of feedback that's the issue. I think it's more that people are less willing to risk using the language wrong as they get older (regardless if there is or is not feedback coming). Growing up i
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by allenu 6y ago
I think this post boils down to two things: finding meaning in one's life and using external validation to define oneself. I think the shift to "competing with oneself" is an attempt to move away from the external validation
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by allenu 6y ago
Seattleite here. It's a common thing that people who move to Seattle experience and can describe. I've experienced it as well and ended up mostly making friends with people I worked with, who themselves were from out of state. I d
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by allenu 6y ago
+1 to your points. I think the thing to remember is the "patterns" that are novel. Remembering approaches to solving problems, ways of thinking, are the things that help with creativity. Remembering specific solutions to problems
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by allenu 6y ago
Agreed. Being reliable and getting things done is not memorable. Someone who is actively getting in people's faces, pushing along agendas, meeting with others, and on the whole being "visible" as projects move along is more l
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by allenu 6y ago
Thanks for the tip. I have not tried that. One thing that I will try as well is to plug the USB-C power cable into the right side of the laptop. I've read that surprisingly CPU utilization goes up when it's plugged in on the left.
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by allenu 6y ago
I think another take-away from the story is that the domain you work in will dictate the solution you come up with. If you are a high-level exec, the domain you have, the levers and pulleys available to you, are asking your direct reports t
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by allenu 6y ago
The list of all annoyances in one day is an eye opener. I should try that just to see what I have been putting up with. One of the main ones I have is using macOS. My work MacBook pro (an expensive piece of equipment!) will just randomly ha
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by allenu 6y ago
It looks like an internal incubator (i.e. small startup-ish group). I would treat products from such teams with a grain of salt. I've had previous experience with such teams and projects at another large software company. I think such
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by allenu 6y ago
I do mobile app development and I love it. At work I do that and a little bit of backend and web frontend development and I just don't enjoy those as much. There's more overhead in getting things done there, whereas with iOS devel
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by allenu 6y ago
I still enjoy writing software. I mainly do mobile development on iOS. However, after 20 years in the industry, I grow tired of the corporate life and how projects are run. I can't complain about the pay or the hours, though. I've
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by allenu 6y ago
I don't know what I'd do if my iPhone didn't have physical volume buttons. When I watch videos on YouTube now, as soon as an ad starts playing, I just mute it by using the volume button and look away for a few seconds as I ca
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by allenu 6y ago
Kind of neat how it's so far away that there's really no foreshortening of the surface since relatively speaking it's all proportionally the same distance from us. The surface just looks flat and not rounded like a sphere.
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by allenu 6y ago
Unfortunately, Mastodon doesn't have a lot of things Twitter has going for it, such as search or trends. These two things make it easier to find others and to get a pulse on what's happening around you. I just tried searching for
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by allenu 6y ago
I really like the interview process the author lays out here. As someone who has been working for about 20 years in the industry, this feels like a better, more direct gauge of how well someone will fit in the role than of seeing if they kn
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm not sure if this will help, but what really helped me when I got started was making something I really wanted. My coding skills were not great, but I was obsessed with building things and that forced me to get better. You start to
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree. I’m slowly starting to realize that a lot of videos are filler myself. Because there are so many videos out there and I find they are often too long, I just skip skip skip ahead until they get to the point. That or just drop out of
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm have about ten years experience with macOS and iOS development. I have not yet taken the plunge to do SwiftUI development exclusively, but from what I've seen, it's the future of UI development on iOS and macOS. If you&#x
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by allenu 6y ago
I think it's debatable that OOP is "easier to understand and leads to more maintainable code". It depends on size of project and experience of developers. There are still certainly benefits to using FP in JavaScript from a de
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by allenu 6y ago
It genuinely feels like being on dial-up in the old days. I frequently visit reddit using Safari on my iPad and it often takes a good 3-5 seconds for the new page to load after I tap on a link. If anything, it at least dissuades me from was
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by allenu 6y ago
This is great practical advice! As a non-designer, I’ve found it hard to find good, succinct resources on color theory that actually gets to ground-level suggestions like this. Well done to the author.
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by allenu 6y ago
It's actually a flash card app, not a journaling one, so the text entered is quite short. I haven't played around with the compression idea, but it sounds like it could be useful for large text entries.
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by allenu 6y ago
Interesting! I wasn’t aware of that feature. I actually built out my idea first as its own toy database with journals and later added SQLite as the storage mechanism. Patchset could work for this, but I’d have to play with it a bit. Off the
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by allenu 6y ago
I've built out a journal layer on top of SQLite for a flash card app I'm working on. I wanted to be able to sync data across devices but I knew that I'd always just have to handle a single-user/multi-device scenario and

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