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   by happimess 4y ago

   Presumably, that header graphic is not to scale.
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   by happimess 4y ago

   I had a PM who pushed us to A/B test _everything_. We hired a new graphic designer who suggested that we change our product links from ALL CAPS to Title Case (a very popular idea on the team, and his first real suggestion after a few w
3. 33.▲
   by happimess 4y ago

   My favorite example he gave: Buy 52 decks of cards. Put all the 7s of diamonds together in one deck. Let your audience member pick a card. It's the 7 of diamonds.
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   by happimess 4y ago

   > There is need to iterate and adapt frequently, sometimes as part of your go-to-market strategy, in order to fully understand the problem space. If you're pivoting so hard that your SQL schema breaks, how is a schemaless system goi
5. 35.▲
   by happimess 4y ago

   I am very grateful that I can add "don't you like fireflies?" to my list of reasons people should turn off their floodlights.
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   by happimess 4y ago

   I love this idea for so many games, but I'll try to stay on topic. From elsewhere in thread, heavily snipped: games like that aren’t fun. It’s been tried. [...] hopping online to go do your second job [...] implies work [...] no on
7. 37.▲
   by happimess 4y ago

   I don't know if you have anything to do this year, but their follow-up 'Into the Breach' is also amazing.
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   by happimess 4y ago

   My cat and I have one firm English phrase: "3...2...1". I say that whenever I want him to make up his mind, and at the end I always close the door, pull the sweater from under him, or whatever. He definitely knows what it means, a
9. 39.▲
   by happimess 4y ago

   Rad product! Can I feed it arbitrary images/html/something?
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    by happimess 4y ago

    I think it's insane to, for example, work at an office early in your 20s, to put a couple grand in your 401(k). Those 1-2 years, if spent exploring, could mean finding a happier and more thoughtful way to progress through the latter 70
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    by happimess 4y ago

    I get a lot of mileage out of one deeply-considered why.
12. 42.▲
    by happimess 4y ago

    I think you meant "Sonoff Basic relays" in your last paragraph. Great info thanks.
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    by happimess 4y ago

    I have, at a truly well-run engineering team. She was fun to bounce ideas off of, and quick to rope in relevant experts, business or techincal. She also understood the value proposition of each feature, and could easily spot if you were was
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    by happimess 4y ago

    I always check google's ngrams for questions like this, and their corpus shows "home in" being far more common going back as far as 1800. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=home+in%2C+hon...
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    by happimess 5y ago

    Cool! Adding to the feature requests, can you enable vim-like navigation? WASD is a hazy memory compared to HJKL.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    Spectacle runs just fine and is worth looking at. For me, it didn't really scratch the itch.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    FWIW, moving a window to a different workspace is also constant-time (shift+mod+digit). Maybe I'd spend another half second positioning it among the tiles (shift+mod+vim navigation keys), but only if I'm just starting a project
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    by happimess 5y ago

    Alternate take: I achieve constant-time access (mod key + digit) to all those things with 10 workspaces in i3. I can't imagine having to see them all at once. Realistically, I'm only actually thinking about 1 or 2 of them at a tim
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    by happimess 5y ago

    See also The Witness, which is gorgeous and probably could have run on a dreamcast.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    I remember when Obama was roundly mocked for suggesting that people improve gas mileage by checking their tire pressure before road trips. Too easy and effective to be worthwhile, I guess.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    > Really good pseudocode might be more useful than your actual code Hear hear! OP, if you go this route, treat your implementation as a practice run, and write out exactly how it works in pseudocode. My 2 cents: I think that hiring a (go
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    by happimess 5y ago

    If your non-technical cofounder only knows a handful of marketing buzzwords, you should jump ship and find a better partner. My personal idea of hell is cold-calling randos all day, trying to get them to pay me for half-finished software.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    > (I remember posting a huge thing on slashdot when this article was originally posted) Appropriate that _this_ comment is buried who-knows-where in slashdot's archives.
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    by happimess 5y ago

    I added `margin-top: 3em` to `ul, ol, dl` and it is much more readable.
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    by happimess 6y ago

    I think the author is talking about office politics, not electoral politics.
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    by happimess 6y ago

    The Ashley Book of Knots is also a beautifully hand-written book. https://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Book-Knots-Clifford-W/dp/03850...
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    by happimess 6y ago

    In both, the aloneness of "him" is the focus. In the first, his companions are the subject of both sentences. In the second, The fog and "he" are the focus, with his companions only mentioned as an afterthought.
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    by happimess 6y ago

    "Mostly-isolated development environment" is more important here than "external services", IMO. I've been at organizations where local development required connecting to a MSSQL instance in a server closet at HQ; Th
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    by happimess 6y ago

    For the record, I think the second version is a clear improvement.
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    by happimess 6y ago

    Clarence Saunders lived quite an exciting life. There is an excellent episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed[0] that tells his story well. [0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...