blacksoil

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by blacksoil 4y ago
It's quite unclear what the frustration is about. I'd like to see the author elaborating them by giving concrete examples
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by blacksoil 4y ago
I'm getting internal server error when pressing the demo button. Also the page after login doesn't show anything other than the sidebar on FF mobile
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by blacksoil 4y ago
I can't seem to access my notes on my mobile app...
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by blacksoil 4y ago
>>Programming does that to your brain. Hahaha this is so true.. I used to (I guess am still) be cynical about a lot of stuffs. I then realized startup's life and death is to be validated with potential customers, not with a bunch
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Uizard: Figma alternative with low learning curve(uizard.io)
5 points by blacksoil 4y ago|1 comments
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Hi guys, I am a software developer, so doing UI/UX is never my strength. From time to time though, I would resort to using the open source tool Pencil ( https://pencil.evolus.vn/ ) to get a low fidelity mock-up (which th
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Wow this is pretty cool. Is this open source? :)
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by blacksoil 4y ago
> Salary expectations continue to increase on average, not decrease I would argue though that tech salaries are highly overpriced right now. A lot of software engineers in the valley should be able to live quite comfortable life even wit
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by blacksoil 4y ago
> that rarely helped building sustainable businesses I think this falls under the founders' shoulders. Some founders tried to "hack" their way to "fake out" large growth that they themselves know are not sustaina
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Education. I think there's no good reason why only elite schools have access to great lecturers and great materials. Great lectures with great contents should be recorded once and be made digitally accessible to all schools. Teachers s
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Have you heard of baserow.io? It's open source airtable
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by blacksoil 4y ago
To keep working without clearly defined goals and deadline is a waste of time as well. There needs to be a clear KPI as to what product features should be completed by when, as well sales plan and concrete sales KPI to hit. After that, use
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Learn, earn, or quit, career advice from Garry Tan, YC President(youtube.com)
1 points by blacksoil 4y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 4y ago
AFAIK, the way LASIK works is by cutting down part of the lens, which essentially is to reshape the eye to compensate for the elongated eye ball. Given it's an invasive surgery, personally I'm not too comfortable. A friend of mine
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by blacksoil 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg42-Qn0 Are you aware of Todd Becker's method to reduce myopia? I've been doing it in the past 1 year and am happy to report that I've had 1.5 reduction in my glasses presc
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by blacksoil 4y ago
This is exactly how I felt at one point. Then I got to know the startup world, which was exactly what I was thinking career in tech would be. An answer to your questions might be a good startup that solves a problem that you genuinely value
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by blacksoil 4y ago
> But you're viewing it with literally zero of the context of the time in which it was written. You see none of the constraints, none of the pressures, none of the alternatives presented in the moment. While this is true and compass
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Yeah I second this. Also to try one would need to login, which I think would make a lot of people leave before knowing what the product is about
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by blacksoil 4y ago
-To hide implementation details from users of the library. We don't want to unnecessarily expose functions -Reduce the amount tests, as the private functions wouldn't have to be explicitly tested
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Please let us know if you decide to open source it! Very cool :)
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I think your explanation really hits the nail. Reminds me of what Pope John Paul II said on a similar topic in a husband-and-wife context (book title: "Love and Responsibility"). He said that all relations
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Flaw in the Enigma Code(youtube.com)
2 points by blacksoil 4y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this. While the police-brutality against black people were indeed very unfortunate and in no way justifiable, BLM is more like a political vechicle of a particular political agenda. Very unfortunate fact..
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by blacksoil 4y ago
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
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by blacksoil 4y ago
From their website: "written fully in assembly language (64bit and 32bit)." Whoa..
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by blacksoil 4y ago
The PDF on the original link is down. Does anybody mind to re-upload it? Thanks :)
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Open source self-hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS)(caprover.com)
2 points by blacksoil 4y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 5y ago
If I were ever in your position, I'd spend my time building self-sustaining social ventures, a lot of them. I was fortunate enough to experience life in both developing and developed countries, and I can totally see how technology coul
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by blacksoil 5y ago
What immediately come to my mind is companies. When they made mistake they tend to have a specific person to take the blame and apologize. If it's too much, then that particular somebody would (be forced to) resign or get fired. And th
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by blacksoil 5y ago
Mother Teresa is an inspiration for me. She wrote "You can do things I can't, I can do things you can't. Together we can do great things". I went to India once to volunteer at her place and my eyes were opened that there

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