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by allenu 6y ago
Interesting photos. The artificial lighting makes many of these look like Star Trek: TOS sound stages, especially the one of Moel Tryfan.
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by allenu 6y ago
I had a similar reaction. When I would see Pollocks in books, I would dismiss them as being overrated, but when I finally saw one in person, I was really overwhelmed. There's something about the presence of it that really pulls you in.
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by allenu 6y ago
Errol Morris famously uses a two-way mirror contraption for his documentaries so that when he interviews his subjects, they are looking directly into the camera as if they were talking to you. It definitely gives a more intimate feel when t
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by allenu 6y ago
The problem could be twofold: 1) our tools push us towards multitasking. Notifications pop up and there's a sense of immediacy where you need to deal with it now (texting back) or it will get "lost" in the stream of new notif
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by allenu 6y ago
I love the reference to this because I'm working on a side project and treating it as "something I definitely want to ship" and have found that I have higher tolerance for code that I just copy/paste and slapdash togethe
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by allenu 6y ago
It's funny because I used to be more obsessive about storing my knowledge when I was younger. I kept track of tidbits of information using various systems (emacs wiki mode or OneNote), but as with you, I always reverted to paper, not s
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by allenu 6y ago
I like your attitude. How, if I may ask, did you end up with your current philosophy? Was it through past experiences where people did take your time and you gave in? I love the idea of taking lots of time off, but on a personal level I hav
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by allenu 6y ago
That makes sense. There's an extra benefit to having company even if the goal of the activity is not to socialize itself. Just their mere presence feels good. I was thinking the other day that I found it easier to dive deep into my sid
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by allenu 6y ago
I get your point, but because we're in a lockdown, a whole host of things that we'd normally have available to us are gone. Normally when people have time off, they can still meet up with friends, or hang out at the coffee shop, o
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by allenu 6y ago
Thank you for sharing. That is such a sweet story. That must've been the most amazing feeling to witness her response.
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by allenu 6y ago
That's true. In person conversation is much more fluid and easier to wrangle back to a topic.
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by allenu 6y ago
It's an interesting problem because it's akin to going to a cocktail party and having idle chit chat and then someone brings up politics. Even if you agree with the politics of the person, by introducing it into the discussion, yo
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by allenu 6y ago
I used to follow a lot of reporters. Even if I agree with the reporting, I noticed that there was just too negativity in my stream that was overwhelming. Everything was just amplified every day and yeah, I agree it's an outrage generat
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by allenu 6y ago
This makes so much sense and is similar to how software like TurboTax inserts unnecessary progress bars to make you think they're working hard to compute your taxes. Like your example, the user perception was that what it was doing mus
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm an macOS/iOS developer and I was on a 2013 13" MacBook Pro that was on its last legs. I finally decided to just buy a current-gen replacement. I need this machine to do day to day work and it was just dog slow (and batter
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by allenu 6y ago
This is all true, but there's also no cloud or sync icon. (I suppose those only matter for native apps.)
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by allenu 6y ago
I think the flash card space is interesting because I think Anki users are very much "power users". Because it takes a curve to learn how to use it (poor UI) and there are lots of extensions, the type of person who ends up using i
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by allenu 6y ago
Anki does it sort of like this. It's just a zip file but instead of a txt file, it stores cards in a Sqlite database. All the resources are in the same folder. Unfortunately, the data schema is not great (in my opinion) and so it has
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm working on my own flash card app [1] and I agree with you that charging a monthly subscription is too much. I think to make a new flash cards app or service viable, you need to have an open ecosystem. This means an open file format
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by allenu 6y ago
You're right that the spontaneity is missing. Everything has to become formalized in some capacity to ensure everyone knows what's up as well. Just recently I noticed that my coworkers were all jumping into a slack thread. It was
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by allenu 6y ago
Yup. I haven't done that type of work, but I feel like to make change at a large company you need to be okay with imperfection all around you first and then find one or two things that could actually make a huge impact. Trying to fix l
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by allenu 6y ago
This is exactly how it goes and it's clear you've worked at a large company. At the end of the day you have to accept that, yes, you are a cog in a machine. You have to morally reckon with the fact that the company is making milli
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by allenu 6y ago
I was thinking this too, but on closer scrutiny I don’t think it’s true unless the “goal” of code is to be rewritten. If the goal of code is to work as well as needed and no more, then it won’t move in that direction. The “goal” of employee
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by allenu 6y ago
This is what I do now after trying and failing at "doing my best work and hoping to get recognized". I'm bad at communicating when I've worked on something challenging, so now I realize I should never give more effort th
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by allenu 6y ago
Or spinning up yet another framework at any large software company.
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by allenu 6y ago
In a large organization, the other thing you notice with trying to fix duplicated code is, if you take on refactoring it all, you are now responsible to make sure everything still works AND that you do not inhibit any future work. You are n
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by allenu 6y ago
I think the intent was to communicate that abstractions aren't always right. Some people might think that because there's duplicate code and that the abstracted code maps to the duplicated code 1 to 1 and leads to fewer lines in t
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree. With the right tools, expertise, and design, rewriting is absolutely an option. I've learned over the years that it's often better to just rewrite some crufty, old code entirely than to try to understand the old code to p
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm not sure that "can this be technologically pulled off right now?" is the right question to ask if you are trying to create a successful business. "Is there a market?" is way more important as it means you can ac
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by allenu 6y ago
Hey, I'm sorry to hear things are terrible. I'm not sure it helps, but I highly recommend reading up on self-compassion. It helped me realize that I was beating myself up all the time and not accepting that it's okay to have

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