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by jnovek 5y ago
We trend towards using many small open-source libraries which are essentially undocumented these days. The average case seems to be a README with a few examples rather than a clear API specification. Digging through Stack Overflow is esse
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by jnovek 5y ago
This was exactly how we built OwnLocal before we quit our day jobs. In a sense, it was very easy because when you don't know how big the problem is, everything feels like progress. Now I see 40 barreling towards me and it's hard
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by jnovek 5y ago
I assure you, I have anecdotes indicating that I am not. :-)
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by jnovek 5y ago
Very little about work is universally optimal. Work is made out countless compromises so that people can function together. “Optimizing time and energy” is not the same as doing the universally optimal thing. Optimizing for time and energ
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by jnovek 5y ago
Not using a password manager is completely consistent with “optimizing time and energy”. If you already know how to use a password manager, yes, it will easily improve productivity. But for a non-technical end-user who has never used a pass
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by jnovek 5y ago
“We skipped that and haven't implemented any vim backend at all ... so its the vim code base with terminal UI stuff stripped out, and an interface added for us to hook into it.” You took out the most important part! I don’t know about
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by jnovek 5y ago
What studies? The information that I’ve found on PubMed and clinicaltrials.gov indicates that this is a poorly studied question, not a decided one. A 2015 survey (Raymond Pary, MD, et al) found evidence that many psychostimulants were effe
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by jnovek 5y ago
This is a common misconception. The euphoria is a transient side-effect. Some people don’t experience much euphoria from amphetamine. I experienced euphoria for a month or so when I first started treatment, but now it feels similar to a m
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by jnovek 5y ago
Everything you’ve said is correct, but please don’t demonize a medication that I depend on to be functional. ADHD is a disability, there’s more nuance to this than black-and-white. I was blown off by doctors for years when I was seeking a
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by jnovek 5y ago
One hypothesis is that, in the country where you live, there is more stigma around ADHD in adults and it is more frequently ignored or dismissed. It is an easy condition to ignore —- adults with ADHD are frequently not very “hyperactive” be
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by jnovek 5y ago
Stimulants do have an anti-depressant quality in a similar sense to SNRIs. They stimulate release of extracellular neural serotonin and norepinephrine (SNRIs block reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine. Before the accidental discovery
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by jnovek 5y ago
ADHD impacts my life very much, but I was diagnosed as an adult. I honestly have no idea how I operated pre-diagnosis (and pre-medication). I think about some of the struggles I went through (e.g. my entire educational experience or my en
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by jnovek 6y ago
I JUST learned this googling around because of this post. This is such a bummer to me — I’m not going to toss my 6” Onyx but I probably won’t buy one of their other products now.
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by jnovek 6y ago
How is the stylus input on the Note Air? Does it seem good enough for drawing?
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by jnovek 6y ago
I have the 6” Onyx Boox and it definitely runs a weird distribution of Android. I wouldn’t be surprised if you can get root or even bootloader, but I haven’t needed it. That said, if I buy one in the 10” range, it seems that Onyx hasn’t re
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by jnovek 6y ago
I’ve considered something similar to this — essentially make a matrix like they did in the old days with CRTs.
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by jnovek 6y ago
Slight topic hijack: I desperately want an eInk display attached to my computer. I have amblyopia, and my vision can only be corrected to ~20/50. I develop significant eye strain using normal computer monitors and eInk is much easier
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by jnovek 6y ago
It’s not safe to assume that putting information into a profile means that they want it be utilized in a programmatic search or be collected off-site for marketing use. Users have a wide range of potential motivations for using IG. I know
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by jnovek 6y ago
This is an interesting hypothesis. My (more general) hypothesis was that OP is posting under pseudonym because their actual business is something that wouldn’t be considered particularly virtuous on HN. Discrediting a competitor would certa
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by jnovek 6y ago
As frustrating as this is 100% of problems I’ve encountered with Google or Facebook in my career have been solved with professional network connections into those companies. OP, I encourage you to examine your network and see if you are co
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by jnovek 6y ago
That’s totally fair. I feel the same way. I also suspect it’s a widespread practice. Perhaps if IG as an organization weren’t so opaque we would have better rules for using it as a customer engagement platform. Personally, I share person
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by jnovek 6y ago
This response and the GP are so useless to OP. I suspect that OP has already learned quite a bit about platform effect and will carry those lessons with them forever. Further, posting this is certainly intended as both a warning to the wise
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by jnovek 6y ago
Cool. Great. Platform effect sucks. ...But what, exactly, is OP supposed to do about it? What leverage do they have in the world to change the way things are? Realistically, when you’re building a startup, you use the tools you can get.
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by jnovek 7y ago
I definitely learned a lot of my attitudes about software engineering from "Joel on Software". It's weird to think that those works are "ancient" now. I don't really have an answer to the problem, SO has some
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by jnovek 7y ago
You and the reply below have BOTH deleted questions from SO because of social overhead. That's a surprising outcome that's never occurred to me. I can imagine that many interesting questions have disappeared this way.
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by jnovek 7y ago
This culture is why I've never contributed to Stack Overflow. I'm a reasonably senior engineer, I've been lucky to experience an extraordinary breadth of technology in my career, and I love helping people learn to program..
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by jnovek 8y ago
To me, it's not beyond reason that cycstic fibrosis would respond to diet and lifestyle, and is an understudied phenomenon. I see potential rational caveats, and my guess is that these caveats create some jerky knees among other people
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by jnovek 8y ago
I've been lucky to observe KWeb since its earliest days and some of the missing context on the website, I think, is that the author takes the position that the way we build webapps is fundamentally wrong. From his perspective it seems
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by jnovek 8y ago
I emailed slack about a year ago suggesting that they were totally missing the boat on slack as a social network. I am in 4 slacks and only one of them is professional. They were not interested.
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by jnovek 8y ago
1) False accusation is a generally unsolved problem in the realm of sexual assault. Unfortunately it leads to arguments that throw out the baby with the bath water. I know that doesn’t answer your question, but I guess I’m saying that it

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