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   by artpi 8y ago

   I somehow managed to push myself towards working on interesting technical problems. ( That of course depends on what you mean by "interesting technical problems" ) My playbook is: 1. Join a product company. If you work in a softwa
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I use BetterTouchTool to remap § to ESC on touchbar MBRO. It solves any ESC problems.
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   by artpi 9y ago

   Yes!
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I always buy at the current price, at the same amount of $$$ I'm using "Dollar cost avaraging" approach without any psychology, because how do you decide trigger price?
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   by artpi 9y ago

   Because I frequently change sim cards due to semi-nomadic life and my Grandpa just does not understand timezones and gets cranky if I wish him next day. So I made this to be sure he gets his freakin wishes :)
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I assume my Twilio account would run out of money in that case :)
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I just realized that [7] probably works only because of [8] - I always give my Twilio phone number to people and pretend with my family that this is my main number.
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I have set up a battery of scripts on google app engine and Im pretty happy with it. 1. I have a script to automatically buy small amount of BTC every day 2. For the more knowledge-dense books I read, I write summaries of them ( https:&#x2F
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   by artpi 9y ago

   I love my coworkers, they are truly the smartest people I know and I never dreamed of such productive work environment, but these are the practices I found to be problematic: - Writing tests in the sam PR introducing a library that is not y
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    Ask HN: How to convince my coworkers to ship imperfect code?

    2 points by artpi 9y ago|2 comments
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    React Native Isomorphic App in a Weekend(piszek.com)

    1 points by artpi 10y ago|0 comments
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    I wanna be a programmer - A journey(piszek.com)

    1 points by artpi 10y ago|0 comments
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    by artpi 10y ago

    Also, make sure that this "expectation" to respond to pings immediately isn't in your head. I work at Automattic and I usually respond within 15 minutes, but sometimes up to an hour or 5 hours. For remote to make sense, you h
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    by artpi 10y ago

    Currently, I'm launching an app that is reading Slack messages out loud - Team Parrot http://teamparrot.artpi.net/ . Once launched, it will be open source (built in react native) If you think it's useful, I will
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    by artpi 10y ago

    I love that you are also working in the open! At Automattic we do a lot of Open Source development. You can even see my PR introducing Sentry to our frontend: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/210
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    by artpi 10y ago

    Nicely rummarized! :D I actually see people get hired much faster than I was. I may have been a crappy candidate. Also, I was applying in a moment when people were seriously overloaded, so thats why I needed to wait. But it sure is a lenght
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    by artpi 10y ago

    I work in Automattic. I had taken approx. 21 days of vacation so far this year. I intend to take another ~20 this year. I actually feel lazy because of this, so when I do work, I try to really focus. The result is, in one day I can accompli
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    by artpi 10y ago

    I was also tempted to use new IOT amazon buttons with the IOT AWS offering ( https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ ), but after looking a bit deeper, the free limit is not that high. Instead, I bought ESP8266 Wemos D1 mini for $
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    Convincing client to WordPress, incl. Matt Mullenweg`s tips(github.com)

    3 points by artpi 11y ago|0 comments
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    by artpi 12y ago

    Whooooa, I have identical situation with my grandparents! And I solved it by buying them CD - Boombox and modifying the buttons. That way they can switch CD's themselves and they can also buy them. But your project is awesome with the