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by eswat 13y ago
Yeah, this is a shame. I recently left my previous workplace due to a mix of burnout & boredom. I could tell this was brewing up inside me, so I asked to work 4 days a week. Unfortunately leadership didn’t like the idea; were afraid of
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by eswat 13y ago
I recently took this plunge. I quit less than two weeks ago and now do occasional design freelancing. My goals might differ from yours; I want to contribute to more open-source stuff before I make freelancing a full-time thing. But what has
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by eswat 13y ago
We used to play music on Friday afternoons in my old office. But we realized quickly that this was disruptive to many people. You need to give knowledge workers a “clean slate” environment so they can change it into one that lets them perfo
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by eswat 13y ago
You need an activity that makes it inconvenient to pop open a laptop or phone. As others suggested, walking is a good one[1]. I usually listen to podcasts – unrelated to may day-to-day job – if I’m going to walk for a while. Other things I
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by eswat 13y ago
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman [ http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... ] Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web by Lukas Mathis [ http:/&
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FDA redesigns nutrition labels to reflect how Americans actually eat(theverge.com)
2 points by eswat 13y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 13y ago
Neat idea. I already sync using Dropbox, so what advantages does Sublimall have over that method?
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by eswat 13y ago
Although I think I get enough knowledge about food from reading PubMed and other links from the paleo community, I’m finding the Food for Thought course from McGill on edX [1] to be an interesting perspective on diet + chemistry. I may not
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by eswat 13y ago
They allude to what study[1] they refer to on the iTunes store page. But yeah, the landing page itself it too simple for its own good, made to attract people wanting a quick fix or a silver bullet. [1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.c
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by eswat 13y ago
I recommend reading Roadside Picnic[1] if you’ve watched Stalker (movie is based on the book). There is also the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series[2] that’s loosely-based on both. Also recommended if you’re into post-apoc and want a differen
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by eswat 13y ago
Because it isn’t really a democracy; the amount of corruption hasn’t really changed at all since The Orange Revolution[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
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by eswat 13y ago
Seconded. It’s getting to the point where I just assume any website of this nature is US-only, since so few actually mention this clearly up-front.
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by eswat 13y ago
If you want to invoke a command in the menubar quickly - such as applying filters in Photoshop - hit Cmd + Shift + ?. Thill will bring up the Help Search menu and you can type the name of the menu item you want to invoke. Then just hit Ente
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by eswat 13y ago
Canada might actually be harder for you to get into thanks to this scandal[1] made by one of our larger banks. We tried to get a recent-grad from France to stay here - he interned for the startup I work at - and the government denied his LM
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by eswat 13y ago
Ottawa, Canada - Full Time Benbria is seeking UI / UX Designers with a passion for designing elegant web applications and a killer sense of style. You will be working with our team to help continuously ideate, design and integrate the
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by eswat 13y ago
I just shrink my Following list. I see whose tweets I find interesting and see if they have a website that offers 80% of the stuff they talk about on Twitter and if that’s the case then I remove them from Twitter and just follow their websi
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by eswat 13y ago
Yeah, Markdown support would be lovely for me since I write almost everything else outside of Evernote in Markdown. I’m leery of Keep because Google has already tried this realm before with Google Notebook and shut that down.
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?
41 points by eswat 13y ago|56 comments
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by eswat 13y ago
Wish our industry would take game patch notes[1] as inspiration. They’re very meticulous in listing out exactly what bugs were squashed. [1] http://www.dota2.com/news/updates/12114/
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by eswat 13y ago
There’s a growing amount of evidence and debunking of past research showing that fat - predominantly the saturated fat found in stuff like bacon - doesn’t clog arteries.
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by eswat 13y ago
At Benbria we use this arsenal: * Google Mail & Calendar * Hipchat. Main communication method, water cooler and catch-all for any new activity for our deployments and GitHub repos * GitHub. We use everything it has to offer and have act
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by eswat 13y ago
I do a lot more Nodejs stuff than Rails, but I’ve gone from a MBP to an Air, mostly for the battery life. It’s done quite well for everything, including Adobe suite. One thing though is you can forget trying to run dual monitors on an Air i
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by eswat 13y ago
Definitely. When I moved here two years ago people complained that the government town image of Ottawa was reflecting on the startup scene and how there were no outlets for those that wanted to talk about their work or the industry. But, in
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by eswat 13y ago
I used to until 4.4 introduced Web Updates, so Google Now would bug we with updates to websites I don’t even remember visiting or haven’t been to in ages. They said in Help that there was a way to turn off that feature but I was only able t
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by eswat 13y ago
Started getting into Assemble ( http://assemble.io/ ) since I’ve been digging deeper in Yeoman + Grunt + Bower lately.
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by eswat 13y ago
I would have agreed about the abysmal battery life if I only have a day’s worth of experience, playing around with it a lot more than I would usually, which is what a lot of anecdotes on the battery life are. Read reports from N5 users now
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by eswat 13y ago
True, but I wouldn’t doubt most facilities already have this information in a spreadsheet. I believe hGraph is just taking a stab at presenting this data in a different way, one that could be more useful to patients that shudder at the thou
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by eswat 14y ago
What problems are you having with FF and IE? As for alternatives, there’s the font version of Pictos ( http://pictos.cc/font/ ) and you can export your own icons into a font format using Font Custom ( http://fontcustom.com )
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by eswat 14y ago
Though there is the rare case when a browser had supported a feature for a while, and a nasty bug makes its way into public release where you need to hotfix for a specific version (3D-transforms refusing to work in Firefox 18.0, yet being r
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by eswat 14y ago
I’ve been sitting on an exercise ball for the past few months. Don’t really care for the science behind it vs. a real chair, but I do find the constant readjustment to stabilize yourself lets me stay on it longer than if I had sat on a chai

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