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by jones1618 2y ago
I think a better idea is a "funnel blog", where the community rates articles. Your feed always consists of current top-rated articles so far PLUS "random" submitted articles for you to rate. Those community ratings cause
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by jones1618 2y ago
Sure. It used to be standard-operating-procedure in the old "Waterfall" development days (pre-Agile). Of course, easily half of the fixed delivery projects I worked on for the first 15 years of my career failed, utterly. Still, I
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by jones1618 2y ago
Mastedon because it is open-source & completely federated/distributed. No one owns your social graph but you and it has tools for finding your former Twitter/X friends on Mastedon. It's super active and most of my interac
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by jones1618 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. Your validation process matches up with a lot of startup stories I've read and if your tool facilitates all that, there will be a lot more successful startups (and fewer wasted dead end projects) in the w
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by jones1618 2y ago
The time constraint is tough. If I only had a few minutes to give kids the flavor of programming I'd try something based on robot puzzle-style games (see below). You'd draw a simple robot puzzle on the board with a few simple move
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by jones1618 2y ago
I think these maxes will be increasingly irrelevant for non-scientific images since AI-based compression/upsizing will allow 4K images to be blown up to 8K, 16K and beyond with high visual fidelity.
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by jones1618 2y ago
According to SimilarWeb ( https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#ran... ) HN gets 12.8M monthly users which is approx. 427K a day. Do you think that there are anywhere close to 427,000 founders at
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by jones1618 2y ago
TV went from a "lean back and watch" grid of "what's on" 4 to 10 channels to a maddening "lean forward" task of sorting through everything everywhere all at once. I'd like to see streaming services re
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by jones1618 2y ago
It's the same old story: What looks like the worst possible tech solution _now_ was leaps and bounds better than what came before. Previously, Windows apps that wanted have simple, persistent configuration/state variables would ei
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by jones1618 2y ago
Exactly. I'd add to that the introduction of dust or debris into the physical system. If a stick or leaf or bit of tinfoil wrapper got in between battery balls, they could disrupt the connection or, worse, short the connection and crea
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by jones1618 2y ago
Use https://raindrop.io/ It's a wonderful (free) cross-device bookmark manager but ... you can save all open tabs in two clicks (click save icon and click "+ tabs"). It even automatically tags tabs w/ th
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by jones1618 2y ago
Sorry, it is not self-explanatory at all. * What is a use case for this? * what is a sticker? (physical/digital?) How is it shared? How does it afford privacy? * You claim it is for file "organization" but don't show or
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by jones1618 2y ago
As others have said, just having citizens vote directly on everything doesn't work, even if technology might allow it. Primarily, it is because the number of issues that need deciding overwhelms the number of issues that your average v
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by jones1618 2y ago
Here's my take on this alternative reality: I wish web standards had embraced high-touch interactivity earlier using vector graphics and scripting, maybe JavaScript/SVG versus Flash/ActionScript. That would've unleashed
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by jones1618 2y ago
Unless your ideas are a monolith ("Read my 2000 word essay or nothing!") then maybe reply to other posts with relevant snippets of your work and link to the longer content. At the end of the day, the whole should be greater than t
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by jones1618 2y ago
Both are good on-ramps to programming. Python has simple syntax which you can learn by solving problems running on a command-line (so very linear, text-based). The big downside (IMO) is indention-based code blocks which can seem finicky and
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by jones1618 2y ago
I agree with that. Note: Right now, if you [add] but don't pick a category, your task disappears without warning or prompting. Poof, it's gone. Suggestions: 1. For "delegated" tasks, add a person to delegate to. Also, ma
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by jones1618 2y ago
It seems like once you favor one choice ("Star Wars" in movies, for example) a couple of times, it only lets you compare other movies to Star Wars. I agree with latexr that for almost every use-case you want this to behave like a
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by jones1618 2y ago
Exactly. Breaks aren't for when you're "in the zone" but "in the grind." They're best for breaking out of a haze when you're just spinning your wheels or for reminding you to refresh your batteries a
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by jones1618 2y ago
A free version on the Internet Archive: https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/OnWritingWell/on-wri...
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by jones1618 3y ago
Nailed it! Imagine an artist being "schooled" by an AI about the originality, expressiveness, emotional depth and subtly of execution of their art. Ughh. Thanks but no thanks. Could AI be a useful tool for artists? Maybe. It could
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by jones1618 3y ago
Spelling in title: Should be "Debt" not "Dept"
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by jones1618 3y ago
Here are a few I follow. These tend to be people who collect or shoot pictures about vintage architecture, neon signs, Americana, etc. Some are more "pro" than others. * https://www.flickr.com/photos/happys
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by jones1618 3y ago
I've been on Flickr a decade or more but am not particularly active now. However, after work I'll come back here and recommend a few active "normals" I follow who post interesting work.
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by jones1618 3y ago
You didn't say what language(s) or if you needed an offline solution. Here are two online REPLs that I sometimes use on my phone when I have coding ideas on the train: 1. https://www.online-python.com/ - Python IDE
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by jones1618 3y ago
I like them both but Obsidian feels like a richer, more community-supported solution. Logseq has a daily journaling workflow built in which you can sort of automatically grow into a kind of personal wiki. It also has built-in flashcards. Ho
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by jones1618 3y ago
Our CEO's decision was based entirely on "Elon Musk revoked WFH so it must be genius." End-of-argument. When pressed, he also suggested that new hires need hands-on, one-on-one mentorship to grow and learn the business. At le
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by jones1618 3y ago
A TV/Streaming queue/schedule - Return to passive, lean-back TV Do you hate (I do) being in charge of "what to watch tonight" on streaming? This app would let you put your chosen streaming or broadcast shows (across netw
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by jones1618 3y ago
Frankly, your "primer" is more of an encyclopedia and would absolutely overwhelm a beginner. Where would they start? For me an ideal primer would be a pyramid structure, listing five "start here" concepts, maybe divided
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by jones1618 3y ago
Definitely. How could you not? Even w/ auto-complete/CoPilot coding is never as fast as thought, especially when mapping out broad outlines of an implementation. Besides, test-first development is inherently writing pseudocode whe

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