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by ativzzz 4y ago
> working on something... is what drives true happiness Couldn't disagree more. The most joyous time in the past few years has been when I took half a year off work and pretty much spent it playing video games or hanging out with m
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by ativzzz 4y ago
One thing that surprised me at our company is how many people actually respond to automated lifecycle emails - especially if they seem like they are coming directly from you. if a user spends an hour in the app or hits some other minor usab
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by ativzzz 4y ago
I don't think craftmanship will ever go away. Better tools allow us to make more stuff and bigger stuff and more complex stuff - AI will be just another tool that creatives can use.
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by ativzzz 4y ago
The only constant in life is change. There is no guarantee of stability or order in life, despite the human desire to carve it out where it doesn't exist. You can either embrace that change, or fight against it. Embracing the change me
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by ativzzz 4y ago
When you hire a lot of talented engineers, they tend to keep themselves busy
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Yes and to the author's point and mine, they are just software built on top of existing systems. Theses technologies solve certain problems very well, but they all run on linux under the hood using the same base OS primitives. If you w
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Rails is a very relevant modern web technology. It's just ruby + JS at its core along with whatever tools get added to make the infra scale up (docker, aws, redis, kafka etc) There is no widespread modern web without JS at the moment
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by ativzzz 4y ago
I think one of the reasons it's really hard to do any kind of system innovation is because current systems, that work pretty damn well despite their flaws, have decades of development baked into them. Let's say I have an idea for
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by ativzzz 4y ago
I was doing a school project in c++ and I tried configuring ccls but in the end I just gave up and did the project without LSP. Like you said it came with some prebuilt tooling and ccls did not feel particularly beginner friendly to get wor
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by ativzzz 4y ago
One of the top recommendations that pretty much every ADHD resource mentions is regular exercise. To be fair, running (exercising) daily will help pretty much everyone's mental health significantly.
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by ativzzz 4y ago
> Interact one on one with at least 15 or 20 people and ask them about their needs. How do you actually do this? Message random people to hop on a zoom chat for 30 min to discuss their problems? How do you word this? Am I weird that I ca
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Taking off a year to party may not be worthwhile but taking off a year to travel (if you have money) probably is. Also I disagree about partying better later on in life. Getting shitfaced with your friends at 20 any day of the week, hardly
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Old post so IDK if they still do it, but Riot Games does some automated testing for League of Legends: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...
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by ativzzz 4y ago
> Nowadays there tends to be more options, e.g. a web application may consist of a single HTML shim, with a thick React client that talks to a GraphQL back end. Best part about Rails is that you can do this as well. Rails has done a grea
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by ativzzz 4y ago
How do you reach out to people to get them to be on your newsletter? I imagine now that you have a following it's easier, but what motivates people to actually say "yes", especially when you were starting out? And somewhat re
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by ativzzz 4y ago
If one does a good deed, but does so with the intention of telling others about the good deed to gain social status, is the deed still good despite the ulterior motive? Isn't the point of starting a business to make money off a product
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by ativzzz 4y ago
It's not even necessarily the same information, but small pieces of one bigger piece that need to be updated once some of the other smaller pieces change
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by ativzzz 4y ago
With free to play being a huge gaming business model, not only do you not own games because they are more of a SaaS product, but most people don't even pay to be a "customer" I haven't "owned" a game in like 10
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by ativzzz 4y ago
The article is opposite of your point- that modern cannabis products are much more potent than ever before and that young people who consume them regularly are prone to severe psychiatric repercussions beyond just "being a stoner"
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> It suggests aliens may not be that different from us after all, if exist. Alternatively, they are the more evolutionally convergent species and we will evolve towards something inhuman
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Could not disagree more. If you are a startup that is struggling to survive, it is an absolute waste of resources to overengineer your app for potential scale. It's the VC way to burn all of the money hiring talented infra engineers to
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by ativzzz 4y ago
It might be easier to consume worse inputs on the internet, but I don't necessarily agree that books are superior to the internet in terms of input that can translate to better outputs. There are plenty of internet resources that are f
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"seem" is the key word. They'd know a lot of stuff, but knowing stuff and doing useful things with said stuff (or convincing people that your stuff is correct and theirs isn't) are two completely different experiences an
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You do counter yourself there by telling them to think for themselves and then pick up a book. Reading a book is the opposite of thinking for yourself
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Not the OP, but I've started a morning routine of meditating for ~10 mins, brushing my teeth, journaling, a short yoga and doing misc morning chores (make coffee feed dog etc). I would say the "routine" aspect of these has be
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Simple sliding animations for going back/forward in mobile screens add so much more confirmation to what exactly is happening when you click an element. Or when you tap a button. That feedback you get when you interact with an element
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Humans have an obsession with preservation of things as they are. We can certainly learn from history and appreciate it, but fighting to "preserve" things is ultimately a pointless endeavor. We are a tiny blip in the history of th
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Change is the only constant in nature
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> it's not something you can develop in adulthood I disagree, from my own personal experience. According to the CDC/DSM-5, people with ADHD simply have enough of the described ADHD symptoms, and most importantly "interfere
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I have an "old phone" not on their whitelist that supports LTE. AT&T sent me an "equivalent" (as in the lowest spec android phone they could possibly find) replacement phone and my old phone stopped working. I regist

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