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by jd 18y ago
You don't use the new language exclusivity, it's just an extra tool in your toolbox. You just use it to expand your horizons. Knowing even a little Haskell will show you that a little type inference can go a long way. Or that reasoning abou
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by jd 18y ago
Good marketing gets you hired. Good networking gives you job opportunities around the globe. Good marketing gets you promotions and bonuses. Good marketing keeps your group's product from getting the axe. 0 errors, 0 warnings isn't all that
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by jd 18y ago
Rails is in a though spot right now. Facing a big challenge, a huge challenge even. And arguably, a challenge it didn't have to face. Why introduce a new VM and break backwards compatibility at the same time? Why not first give people a bet
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by jd 18y ago
Double-click edit will is on the todo-list -- will be implemented somewhere in the next week or so.
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by jd 18y ago
Glad you like it. 1. It is a little confusing, now you mention it. The difference is that the big check box on the left marks a task a done, and the other (small) checkbox is used to select a bunch of tasks so you can do bulk actions. At th
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by jd 18y ago
Thanks for the bug reports. 1. We'll fix the @today @today bug. Dropping the second today is probably the right behavior. 2. No google calendar plugin yet, but we plan to do a lot with extensibility. Since I use google calendar myself it a
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by jd 18y ago
1. Projects cannot be deleted at this point -- only completed (closed). This is bad, I admit, we're going to fix it. 2. Double-click for edit - yes, absolutely. It's completely obvious now you mention it.
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by jd 18y ago
Glad you like Thymer! We definitely want to build an iPhone app, but it is a lot of work to make, so we're probably first going to iron out the flaws in this version and then release version 1.
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by jd 18y ago
I think we know exactly how you feel. I've spent countless hours trying and installing different applications, and they ultimately all disappointed. Thymer is by no means finished -- but we think it shows promise. If you want to invite your
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by jd 18y ago
The load is low and Thymer is on a fast server - but our hosting provider reports package-loss and higher latency for a users in our data center, so I hope this is only a temporary problem. Responses are instant here, so we thought it didn'
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by jd 18y ago
A phone version is planned - but we've discovered that most phone browsers are really terrible. Are you looking for an iPhone web version, or for a jar version (like google did for gmail/google maps)? Or do you think something that uses Ope
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by jd 18y ago
No video? That's bad. Youtube used to be pretty stable. We probably should put up a mirror of the screencast at vimeo. That's what we're going to do next. Thanks for the heads up.
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Ask HN: Feedback on Thymer - a GTD/project management app for teams
36 points by jd 18y ago|49 comments
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by jd 18y ago
Great article - bad title. Saying that time might be an illusion is saying that time might not be "real". But a different model of time doesn't affect its realness. Is temperature an illusion? Certainly not. And yet, as the article says, it
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by jd 18y ago
Interesting study that leads to a mundane/obvious conclusion. In the final paragraph it says: These results go against some long held beliefs [...] that societies require specialisation to be productive and efficient. However, D'
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by jd 18y ago
If you're worried about that you can always expire either when time limit is exceeded (say, 2 weeks) or download limit (downloaded 5 times?). Or you can make download times degrade when the file is downloaded more frequently -- the 100th do
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by jd 18y ago
It also works like that in the Netherlands.
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by jd 18y ago
Thymer might just be what you're looking for. It has intuitive data entry (easy as paper), support for projects, clearly seperates personal todos from work tasks. (So you can use the same todo system for personal matters and billable hours)
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by jd 18y ago
Of course I wasn't searching for "catastrophe". I've read the book. It's better than the youtube clip.
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by jd 18y ago
Googled around - these are my findings. 1. The Fed publishes -several- press releases every day. They report on the most mundane issues (meeting times, etc) up to their financial decisions. So this event must have been mentioned in a press
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by jd 18y ago
But the first definition doesn't make much sense does it? For example: if you're in good shape you can run up a flight of stairs without any effort. But is getting in shape laziness? Not by any sane definition. I'm sure you can think of a d
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by jd 18y ago
The podcast covers unit testing and code quality at 45 minutes in or so. I haven't listened to the entire podcast, so I may have gotten this wrong, but it seems like Joel and Jeff made only nuanced statements. No unqualified remarks like "t
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by jd 18y ago
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" is -much- better than Triumph. Both are must-sees.
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by jd 18y ago
When you look at the bottlenecks in opcode throughput for virtual machines it's almost always lousy branch prediction. Using a branch table instead of a switch block is not going to make much of a difference in any realistic program. The CP
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by jd 18y ago
The build system on *nix. make, gmake, autoconf and related tools are really terrible.
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by jd 18y ago
1. The cons here are pretty big. Your target customer is somebody who will solve most problems with google and 3 lines of bash/perl/etc scripting. The generic .NET software shop pays for this kind of software - *nix people don't. I've writt
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by jd 18y ago
I've been in the situation you've described (and I've been part of the problem). And yes, it can be really frustrating. Some teams don't work. And sometimes a single person makes or breaks a team. This is fascinating by itself, but a bit of
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by jd 18y ago
I think that most people who are confrontational and critical online are just like that in person. People can be quite blunt face-to-face, and are perfectly OK with it when people are blunt to them. Blunt interaction has the big advantage t
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by jd 18y ago
I think the "What about X" approach often comes across as condescending. It translates to "I figured out what's wrong with it in 2 seconds, but maybe, if I give you a few hints you'll see it too.". I've noticed though that people who don't
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by jd 18y ago
I think it's pretty clever. The memory fragmentation caused by incessant consing leads to gc phase after gc phase. Their ORO trick prevents this, and as a bonus improves cache locality. They report they also have a true mark and sweep phase

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