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by goo 9y ago
I think that's a really valuable mental tool. Sometimes past baggage is a hindrance to current goals. As part of treating my notes as a code project, I even keep them version controlled, which leaves me a little more free to just delet
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by goo 9y ago
Great question... some files are very read heavy (e.g traits.txt, which is a collection of about 25 traits phrased as imperatives that I aim to accomplish, such as: " BUILD QUALITY RELATIONSHIPS - improve existing relationships, and se
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by goo 9y ago
Many notes are easily organized -- when I take notes on books I am reading, for example, there is pretty natural connection to where the not should live (e.g. /education/books/design_of_everyday_things.txt) Otherwise, since t
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by goo 9y ago
The commitment to taking good notes has been one of the best decisions of my life -- not just professionally. I use my standard text editor (Textmate 2), and have a "notes" project, with all manner of categories organized by folde
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by goo 9y ago
To be clear: reactjs uses the 3 Clause BSD license. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/LICENSE It's incredibly permissive (nearly the same as the MIT license), and does not allow for the
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by goo 9y ago
I know how excited we all are to board the moral outrage train, but there's an actual answer to that: http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/1/19/14266230/empathy-...
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by goo 10y ago
I experimented for a while until I found my favorite solution, which I'm really quite thrilled about. I treat my notes as if they were a software project, which is to say, a collection of text files organized according to domain-specif
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by goo 10y ago
Looks to me like literally yes and HN mods should probably look into the voting ring that upvoted it to the front page.
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by goo 10y ago
This is a great example of what Paul Graham calls a "submarine", (I think nowadays the common term is "content marketing"?). Here's the 2005 essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by goo 10y ago
I'm not suggesting that C+P is magic, or a tool that should not be used. Understanding how and why C+P isn't really important. Being careful to only copy tokens or lines that don't introduce bugs (or making sure to modify tho
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by goo 10y ago
Here is some insight that has helped me, some my own advice, some paraphrased from other sources, and I credit the source when I have it in my notes: - There is no "silver bullet" for managing the complexity of user needs. Instead
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by goo 10y ago
https://github.com/callemall/material-ui is a great collection of components -- there's perhaps some insight into how to make (and document!) reusable components, since the project is built to be a component libra
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by goo 10y ago
Side projects are hard to get around to sometimes -- I don't try to force it, because it's much worse to waste your time and build bad habits than it is to just admit that it's not happening today and make the most of your ti
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by goo 10y ago
Zoomforth ( https://zoomforth.com ) | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full-time Hey HN readers! We're looking for a talented engineer to join us in building a communications product for salespeople, recruiters
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by goo 10y ago
I always laugh at myself a bit when I make purchases toward the goal of improving my consciousness and embracing my spirit. I see in myself the American consumer idea that if I buy the book, I will gain the knowledge. Enlightenment! Now 50%
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by goo 10y ago
I've never learned what contrapositive meant. Thank you for your casual use of it -- it inspired me to learn the concept. What a useful word! The contrapositive in this case being: "Not being cool means you do not smoke pot",
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by goo 10y ago
In the course of investing and reading about investing sometimes I stumble upon what I think of as particular well distilled pieces of insight. I keep a file of these in my notes. Here are a few of my favorite concepts, quoted from others:
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by goo 11y ago
It's a matter of conceptual load, not about the actual capabilities. By "putting the ball in your court" I mean to say that flask adds an insignificant amount of conceptual load, and the overall difficulty to read and underst
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by goo 11y ago
I've worked on one project with Pyramid extensively, and I've been relatively pleased. It gives you a lot of flexibility, which can be good and bad. There is useful code that helps you unit test your app, and it is not a particula
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by goo 11y ago
I have observed a general frustration that good developers (who are in high demand) still need to do well in an interview setting. Frustrating as it may be, I think that embracing the reality is the best path forward. A good developer would
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by goo 11y ago
This made me laugh hard enough to actually write it: http://gurukhalsa.me/2015/the-mediocre-front-end-developer/
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The Mediocre Front-End Developer(gurukhalsa.me)
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by goo 11y ago
You could make more -- how much you make depends on what the market will bear, and the more sales savvy you have, the higher price you'll get for your product (you!). The only way to know how much more you could make is to find out --
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by goo 12y ago
I often come to the comment section looking for a summary of a dense article like this. Didn't find it, so here is my best shot at one: Through the thunderbolt port, an attacker can put code that controls the firmware updates onto a ma
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by goo 12y ago
Now if only they could use them to find the endzone...
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by goo 12y ago
A raccoon recently snuck into my apartment in the middle of the Mission in SF, and rampaged around the place in the middle of the night, ripping through bread and leaving a huge mess. My roommate told me that he chased it back out the windo
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by goo 12y ago
Software Engineer at Zoomforth.com -- San Francisco, CA - Full Time, Local We're building technology to make it easy for non-technical people to make multimedia-enhanced business messaging. There are lots of people whose impact is much
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by goo 12y ago
Software Engineer at Zoomforth.com -- San Francisco, CA - Full Time, Remote OK We're building technology to make it easy for non-technical people to make multimedia-enhanced business messaging. There are lots of people whose impact is
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by goo 12y ago
Hey Kevin, it looks like your locally app is giving me a 500 error when I try to sign up, I thought I'd let you know!
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by goo 12y ago
I may be mistaken, but I think you folks made it impossible to win -- new tiles that spawn always have a tile that they can merge into, so there can never be a lack of moves available.

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