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by glacials 4y ago
I am not a doctor. I am not trained in these things. But from the experiences you've stated, I am 99% confident you are autistic. I highly suggest checking in with a mental health professional (I suggest one that has experience with au
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by glacials 4y ago
It's a matter of degree. You can feel sad but that doesn't mean you understand depression. You can get nervous but that doesn't mean you understand anxiety. You can have back pain but that doesn't mean you understand wha
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by glacials 4y ago
I encourage you to seek out communities online even without a diagnosis! Many identify as self-diagnosed for the same reason you stated. I've learned a lot of tips and tricks that have helped me (and my wife) deal with it.
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by glacials 4y ago
In the autism community we call this "masking" and it is not the least bit surprising to read this. I did not begin to learn I had anxiety or autism until I was 30 years old, and it's because the world trained me to hide away
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by glacials 4y ago
As anecdotal personal experience, I switched off Google Calendar for a couple of years and couldn’t do it. There were too many missing conveniences that weren’t handled by the generic protocol. Invitations and RSVPs frequently got lost, upd
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by glacials 4y ago
It’s really good for rote stuff. In particular writing if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf(“helpful context: %w”, err) } in Go, or getting the structure for some YAML down so you can go off and edit it. It’s also super helpful for languages w
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by glacials 4y ago
Depends on your back. I’m a back sleeper with back pain and my physical therapist told me to start stomach sleeping. It helps a lot.
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by glacials 4y ago
It’s not so much about actively using multiple providers, as building your application to be able to switch if you wanted.
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by glacials 4y ago
I agree with you, but companies exist in an evolutionary environment where—broad strokes—anyone who doesn’t do this gets out-competed. You can have 99 companies that behave well, but just one that doesn’t can drive them all out of business
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by glacials 4y ago
The author misses one advantage of UUIDs: if you’re working in high-throughput distributed systems, serial IDs create a bottleneck and single point of failure in the service handing out IDs. With UUIDs any service can generate an ID itself
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by glacials 4y ago
Considering how the macOS maximize button works I’d wager this dichotomy is at least partway intentional by Apple, to stop you from falling into the Windows habit of “maximize everything even if it means half your screen is blank”.
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by glacials 4y ago
I interned at Lawrence Livermore for three summers and a fall circa 2010, first building internal web apps for IT and then building open source websites for the climate group. As someone who needs a large amount of autonomy, I wouldn’t do i
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by glacials 4y ago
Interesting! I recently wrote about this in the context of Google and Apple ecosystems and did not know it had a name. [1] I called in offline-first vs. online-first design. [1]: https://twos.dev/apple.html#offline
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by glacials 4y ago
I find an sample of Smalltalk is one of the most interesting ways to see how it flows as a language, as its grammar almost reads like English. From Wikipedia [1], this is a piece of Smalltalk code: > 3 factorial + 4 factorial > betwee
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by glacials 4y ago
golinks.io is a close copy.
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by glacials 4y ago
Author might be interested in Git notes (`git notes --help`). Notes are arbitrary text content added to commits that don’t affect the commit’s identity, so they can be amended without rewriting history.
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by glacials 4y ago
Can you explain how a $1 dividend on a $100 stock drops the price to $99? Theoretically wouldn’t the stock become more valuable, because its average returns have gone up? (As an extreme example, what if I gave a $1M dividend on that same st
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by glacials 4y ago
Born and raised in SF. NIMBYism is indeed a huge problem. It’s the hidden underbelly of a city with otherwise modern and diverse thinking. I’ve since moved to Seattle and it’s crazy to see shit can actually get done here.
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by glacials 4y ago
A little different: I wrote a bespoke static site generator [1] for my personal website to allow my favorite mobile writing app to be a “frontend” that I can use to write+publish content from my phone (no code) to a Git data storage layer.
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by glacials 4y ago
The funnel leaks. The board wants to plug the holes, but can only do so if it knows where they are.
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by glacials 4y ago
I appreciate your reply and I believe every word you have said. Thank you for the hard work and thought you and your team have put into your products, and I'm sorry to hear if anyone is casting you as faceless corporate politicians rea
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by glacials 4y ago
As a side-project Firebase user, I empathize with it being slowly consumed by GCP. I don’t have the time or inclination to learn GCP for a side project. I opted for Firebase because it had a great developer experience. As time toes on and m
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by glacials 4y ago
These features aren't nondiscoverable; discovery just takes place outside the operating system, in communities like this one. Good designers know that communities are a constant of the power user UX just like a settings menu or instruc
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by glacials 4y ago
The author subjected themselves to confirmation bias by specifically searching for “despite the name”. Perhaps for every service that outgrew its descriptive name, there were 99 that helped people understand them more easily. If you were to
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by glacials 4y ago
I don’t think they mean that it can’t, just that the better way to think about the advantages it gives an experienced engineer is more along the lines of “autocomplete v2”, i.e. a keystroke-saver.
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by glacials 4y ago
Author here, happy to see some discussion around this. I see two major classes of comments. 1. “Why not accomplish this with X?” We arrived at this solution organically, which was important for adoption: a Discord server meant for gaming ho
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by glacials 4y ago
Author here. As a companion to this, we had informal optional daily water cooler esque meetings that we used to fill the “I’ll ask them next time I see them” use case.
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by glacials 4y ago
Author here. We had no requirements to use this system so people frequently left their “office” to get some concentration time in. Some folks were rarely or never “in”, which was completely fine. (The company even had a standing “all meetin
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by glacials 4y ago
Not sure if I’m missing something about this method, but in many apps you can long-press the word directly to get the context menu with “Look Up”, without having to type the word into a note.
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by glacials 4y ago
Hard not to chuckle at: > People have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, that is, similar to the population in all essential chara

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