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by jmduke 10y ago
My understanding/assumption is that this is part of the "renewal of focus" they announced a couple weeks back (original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322 ) and is not particularly
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by jmduke 10y ago
It might not hold up to heavy use cases, but I can already imagine a bunch of ways this would make my life easier (I use Python scripts to handle a bunch of social media stuff and basic analytics, for instance, where I use either text files
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by jmduke 10y ago
Yup, and all of Kairosoft's games are basically variations on that same gameplay loop. I also really enjoyed Dungeon Village.
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by jmduke 10y ago
For my work (a startup, to give you sense of scale), we use GitHub Issues + Projects. Projects is still in a little bit of a 1.0 stage but does its job well enough in terms of giving you very bare-bones lanes to funnel issues + priorities.
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The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator(thefounder.biz)
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by jmduke 10y ago
I was a little skeptical because the veracity of this is iffy , at least amongst the designers I know: > Look at graphic designers, for example. If you’ve ever watched a graphic designer work, most of the backgrounds, icons and badges t
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by jmduke 10y ago
I agree, but I think "kids who are actively harming the educational system" and "gifted kids" is a false dichotomy: the spectrum of "kids whose educational experience is damaged by bad apples" is wider than the
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by jmduke 10y ago
If the issue is "not enough of an area's educational budget is devoted to AP kids", I don't see how that is solved by creating an entirely different school? If there's enough money to create a school for gifted kid
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by jmduke 10y ago
I strongly agree that the benefits of exposing students to a wide variety of mindsets, abilities and experiences is just as valuable, if not more valuable, than being able to tailor curricula to fit the ability of students perfectly. I thin
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by jmduke 10y ago
I know this article is Australia-centric, but most US schools, to my knowledge, have multi-track educational programs (gifted students can take more advanced courses, take Honors/IB/AP, etc. etc.) which have separate curricula and
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by jmduke 10y ago
Yup. I think the process of periodically going through all your stuff and deciding whether or not it's still worth holding onto is a valuable one, but the actual mechanics of doing so in the Bullet Journal fashion felt cumbersome (espe
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by jmduke 10y ago
It's less a system and more just a bunch of sources of truth: 1. Anything that's an event gets thrown in Fantastical (or your calendar app of choice.) 2. Anything that's a todo-item gets thrown in Todoist (or your todo-list a
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by jmduke 10y ago
I used a Bullet Journal for a couple months a few years ago. I ended up moving away from it, for a couple reasons: - It didn't suit my note-taking instincts: most things that I think are worthy of writing down are either much longer t
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by jmduke 10y ago
Only tangentially related to the article, but: if you haven't read any Beckett, you owe it to yourself to check out at least Waiting for Godot and Endgame , two relatively short plays that alternate nicely between black comedy and s
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by jmduke 10y ago
The headline is kinda reductive, but the actual article is fair (in my opinion), and basically argues that homogenized design + layout is a net win for consumers on ubiquitous platforms like these: In that light, copying Facebook registers
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by jmduke 10y ago
This is a lovely concept and I'm kind of sad that there isn't a cafe in my state of Washington (list of locations, in case you missed it from the article: https://repaircafe.org/en/visit/ ) Besides the ob
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by jmduke 10y ago
Original discussion from Neocities' launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5918724 Personally, I don't have any reason to use Neocities but I am enormously happy that it exists. Geocities and Angelfire an
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Progressive Disclosure in Swift(bitsplitting.org)
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by jmduke 10y ago
I would love to see Swift become a reasonable alternative for server-side development and, in general, non-Apple development. I have my misgivings with the iOS/macOS development stack (chief among them being Xcode), but Swift is prob
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by jmduke 10y ago
I think Zach Holman's post on 'Remote first' vs. 'Remote friendly' does a good job of explaining the distinction: https://zachholman.com/posts/remote-first/
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by jmduke 10y ago
Wonderful. If you like this, you might like these other two pages which exist -- like this page -- to demonstrate the breadth of human experience: https://paperplanes.world/ http://radio.garden/
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by jmduke 10y ago
I'd add that the best PMs I've had can code and occasionally did (writing things like QoL scripts or database/ORM stuff for metrics gathering), but it's definitely not part of the day-to-day job.
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Public APIs(github.com)
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Silicon Valley Takes a Right Turn(nytimes.com)
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by jmduke 10y ago
I'm trying to take this article in good faith, and I find it difficult, for two reasons: 1. The author equivocates online critique and criticism with being 'silenced'. 2. The author thinks it's too risky to share "i
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Use a surfboard(jmduke.com)
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Windows of New York(windowsofnewyork.com)
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The Merry Cemetery(atlasobscura.com)
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How I stay productive(jmduke.com)
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by jmduke 10y ago
I agree that that's strange and awful behavior, and that if the only joy you get from sports comes from the suffering of opposing fans then you likely have some greater issue at play!

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