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by allenu 8y ago
Wow, any more details? That must've been cathartic.
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by allenu 8y ago
Clothes is still a tricky thing because sizing differs so much between clothing manufacturers that you really do need to try things on to see if they fit you well. If you have the extra cash to tailor all your clothing, then it's not s
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by allenu 8y ago
I think people find it difficult because for most beginners at git, they just want to put everything in the box. Having the option to put just some things in the box seems more complicated than needed. Obviously, as you get better with the
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by allenu 8y ago
I gave a git talk at work recently and what I found works was teach the graph from the beginning. This includes a lot of diagrams of what the graph looks like as you commit and branch: - show what happens as you add commits to a branch - sh
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by allenu 8y ago
Even at $10 a year, it's a very weak statement to make about costs. If you can't afford to pay $90 more a year on something simple for your startup, you have other problems.
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by allenu 8y ago
These are very astute observations and ones that I've seen as well after many years of work in tech. In a sense it's a case of "you get what you measure" where what we're trying to measure is how effective a manager
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by allenu 8y ago
This is excellent advice. This is one thing I've found myself struggling with as (like the OP), I have had this naive idea that the work will speak for itself. Often, when you do good work and are good at what you do, it actually looks
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by allenu 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I've used Graphviz before and found it super useful for automated graph generation for sure. The tool you built also looks like it's close to what I'm looking for. I guess what I'm really look
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by allenu 8y ago
This is really cool and just up my alley since I'm always drawing state machines. However, I'd love to find a tool for drawing these state machine diagrams either with a UI or just a yaml file that's processed with a command-
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by allenu 8y ago
Often, they act as jumping points to look at things differently and get the ball rolling. If you see enough of the same theme, you might start changing your behavior or at least looking into it. This article reminded me of some of my weakne
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by allenu 8y ago
I read that point as sort of analysis paralysis where you just end up spending a lot of time researching and thinking through and not enough time taking action. For me, I've noticed there are times when I use thinking as a crutch to av
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by allenu 8y ago
It sounds like the validation should be running on the client side and not in the cloud.
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by allenu 8y ago
I totally agree. I don't think the idea of "talent" is meaningful. For the most part, at least with software design, you can learn all this over time, but it requires you to have the right attitude (i.e. a growth mindset). Yo
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by allenu 8y ago
I've worked at a large software company with a similar review system in place and I think this attitude makes it sound like everyone is walking on egg shells and can't state what they really think for fear of offending someone in
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by allenu 8y ago
Was he? He was just mentioned as "one of the other designers on the team". Anyway, most superiors I've dealt with are open to feedback about a meeting time. If a time doesn't work for me, it's not out of the questio
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by allenu 8y ago
I tried reading this, but it is just stream of consciousness writing and littered with unnecessary details. It comes across as petty and the author doesn't seem to be good at communicating what he wants. For instance, he's whining
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by allenu 8y ago
My solution was designed for a very narrow use case where there is one user and multiple devices. The main reason I designed it because I did not want to stand up a cloud service for storing user info. I wanted to offload that responsibilit
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by allenu 8y ago
I don't do anything like that. I just rely on the device's clock. Again, for my simple needs (to-do list), it works fine. It could be a problem if you have a device with the wrong time, but even then it would require a single user
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by allenu 8y ago
This is exactly what I'm doing with my solution.
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by allenu 8y ago
With my system, I create a UUID for each entry, so I'm guaranteed uniqueness there. The other properties (task name) can be whatever you want. You're right that it gets even more tricky if you are doing key=>value pairs and are
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by allenu 8y ago
Yes, every diff has a timestamp. The clocks aren't synced across devices, but the assumption is that they are "close enough" such that a user isn't going to do something like mark a task as done on device A and within th
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by allenu 8y ago
I solved a similar problem in my to-do app by just having a journal of diffs per each device. To "sync" you just upload your device's journal to a shared file store (say, Dropbox) and then download all the other devices'
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by allenu 8y ago
I use to have this problem. I'd plan out everything in a side project and figure out the optimal structure for where files go even. After a while I realized just going back to a "just build something" strategy is way more opt
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by allenu 8y ago
For me, it's being obsessed with productivity and getting things done, as well as constantly having some side project going (for fun). It's not extreme (i.e. I'm not losing sleep over it), but it does take the joy out of thin
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by allenu 8y ago
The language used in the post just feels so mechanical, like "black people are great because they've contributed to culture a lot, and we want to get involved with more culture, so it's a good reason to get together with blac
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by allenu 8y ago
Why? What does a virtual keyboard give you that a real one doesn't? What does avatar chat give you that a Slack channel doesn't? I don't see any reason why these are compelling enough to change how you currently do work.
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by allenu 8y ago
Tildes.net says it's invite-only and leads to a blog post about the announcement of Tildes, but you have to parse the language to understand what it is. I honestly can't stand sites that assume you know what they are all about. Ju
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by allenu 8y ago
It's just the natural order of public companies. You grow and grow to please shareholders and bring in more profits.
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by allenu 8y ago
What I do for all of my side projects now is keep a TODOs.md file in the project root. I no longer keep track of to-dos for programming projects external to the project. I find it makes it much easier to pick up a project I've left for
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by allenu 8y ago
There were some definitely interesting bits at the start, but I agree. I couldn't make it through. It could use some editing as there are some superfluous statements in there.

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