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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Were you teaching for a software engineering degree or a comp sci degree? Former is more focused on practical skills that are more “useful”, hence all those cross-discipline courses. I’d argue that the core comp sci skill is more useful tha
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I agree with you that replicas can be great. Last year, I went to Otsuka museum of art[1] where they have life-size replicas of famous paintings (including the Sistine chapel), and it was great. Before going, I was weirdly hung up about goi
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
> As a hongkonger (zh_hk + en_gb), living in Singapore (zh_cn + en?), following JPOP. This is the daily fight I have with browser. Ah yes as a Korean living in Japan with locale set to English, this truly is a daily fight. > I would r
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Ah really? My parents bought Korean rice in New Zealand even though it was more expensive. I do think there is some form of nationalism along with deep cultural connection to rice at least in Korea and Japan. Interesting to find out Thai do
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
At least for supermarkets around me they _only_ sell Japanese rice. You’d have to buy online or drive out which doesn’t work for vast majority of old population. Also as an East Asian I can somewhat understand reluctance to change rice. It’
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I once checked in at a pretty decent hotel in India and realised that they used re-used customers passport scans and invoices to print wifi coupons! I strongly complained but I don’t really know if they’ve changed.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I _was_ working on an open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I made a MVP but then I scrapped it after realising how cumbersome it is to manage email related functionalities. Since its strict
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I guess it depends. In one job I gave my feedback in a nice way that didn’t put blame on people but procedures and it helped the remaining coworkers. In the another job I didn’t think providing any kind of feedback would help me or anyone t
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
We are heading back to New Zealand soon and the situation does seem pretty grim from what I hear from friends. Ideally, we’d like to settle down in NZ but it’s looking like we may end up in Australia instead.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Sure there have always been people bad at math. But basic arithmetic is not really math. We used to drill it into kids but we no longer do so and I can usually see the difference between generations. For example, women in my mother’s genera
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Pagecord looks really cool. I was once inspired by Bear blog and thought about building something similar but ended up not going forward with it as I didn't think I could guarantee to keep the service up. Best of luck to your endeavor!
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I've been going back and forth on this. For the initial version, I'm making it that a person can only be a member of one group just to keep it simple.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I haven't really thought about deliverability problems because at the moment, I'm not planning to provide it as a SaaS but only as an self-hostable app. I'm hoping it will be a kind of thing a tech-savvy person with their own
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Not yet sorry. I want to tidy up and test it out before making it public.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
No, it will have to be a third-party provider. Currently using Amazon SES, but will be easy to replace with another email provider.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
FYI I get access denied for your google docs link
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I was just looking at obsidian web-clipper's source code because I've been quite impressed at its markdown conversion results and came across Defuddle in there. I'll be using for my bespoke read-it-later/ knowledge-base
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I guess I'll give it another try. I quite liked the idea behind it but last time I tried, I gave up mid way. Because everything was a macro, there was no auto-complete and that coupled with sparse documentation with buggy website (at t
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I just looked into it and it looks like he actually went to a private cram school for a year to study for the national exam then got into Seoul National University.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
It wasn’t the case for him but I’d like people to also note that in Korea, one of the strategy for getting into good universities is to actually drop out of high school and grind for the national exam by going to cram schools (hagwon) Peopl
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
No there is also admission based on school grades, essays and achievements(수시). You still have to take the national test and get the minimum required grades though.
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
Or you just don’t like studying. There are plenty of Koreans who drop out of high school because they don’t feel like studying is for them. Yes, parents are more likely to try to force them to stay in school compared to other countries. But
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I’m split on this. I used to agree with you but when I talked to internal users and customers, they really liked having a back button in the app. I would tell them the browser back button is there and we haven’t broken history so it should
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by creakingstairs 1y ago
I’d been a cynical and nervous wreck for early part of my life. And I still get episodes of paralysing gloom and doom. Something I often I tell myself is “despite” all the [negative things], I will be a positive force in the world and that
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by creakingstairs 2y ago
I really wish they would bring 12 inch MacBook with new M series chip and better keyboard! I’ve tried iPads to see I could get it to work for light browsing and writing when I’m out and about but they feel too limiting.
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by creakingstairs 2y ago
IMO domain knowledge is crucial here. I don’t know anything about pricier or financial products so hard to reason about the system. But to give a general advice, I’d approach it by trying to break down the domain into concepts, then think a
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by creakingstairs 2y ago
I've been using Odin [1] for my hobby game development and I've been liking it a lot. Feels like a more ergonomic C. Things I like: - Vendor libraries like Raylib and MicroUI make it easy to get started - I can pass around memory
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by creakingstairs 2y ago
Their work culture is changing but it’s not changing enough. People need to be able to go home at 5pm and need to be paid more. Imagine leave home at 7am to ride a full train, getting to work at 8:15 (because you need to be ready to work by
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by creakingstairs 2y ago
> You took a year off for mental health but still couldn't resist building 'for-profit projects' during your break. The only thing more persistent than your work ethic is your inability to actually relax. > You complain

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