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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I require symmetric since I upload a lot, plus I am on videoconferences frequently. I'd personally rather go for 100/100 than gigabit/something less than 100. DOCSIS 3.0 (I think that's the latest) allocates a particular
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Back in 2016 in Toronto, I chose a condominium specifically because it had Beanfield fiber (it was $50CAD/mo for 250 Mbit symmetric, no cap). Other buildings had Bell or Rogers at double the cost, with caps, and sometimes asymmetric. T
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It's worse. Hey doesn't take payment and only allows users to log in from the app, not sign up. Many apps already do this, including Netflix, Fastmail, and many more. Apple is saying that because Hey offers a subscription elsewher
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Either no UI, or using system standard frameworks and APIs (no custom UI stuff, and absolutely no Electron garbage). If Dropbox had remained the same as it did back in the early days and focused on continuing to only update the product to
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Same here. I tend to do work in super efficient batches. I've completed two months worth of small tasks in under an hour sometimes. My default is to put everything off and do it in a batch right before (or after) it's due. But the
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Title sucks, but I did enjoy reading the review. I'm a Dropbox user since 2009 who recently switched to iCloud Drive. I miss the old Dropbox that just worked and stayed out of the way. Once Dropbox rebranded (2017?) I knew it was the b
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Ah thanks, I’ll give this a try!
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Author here. I mention in the article that this deviates a bit from Agile/Scrum best practices. No guarantees on estimation quality (impossible to do for software) but it helps to provide a rough order-of-magnitude guide for innovative
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How to quickly plan and estimate an MVP(jonpurdy.com)
2 points by jonpurdy 6y ago|1 comments
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For quick sketches during sprint planning meetings or design sessions, I started using Witeboard.com a couple of years ago but have been experimenting with Excalidraw for the past two months. TL;DR: I still tend to use Witeboard.com for qui
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
As a photographer, as well as a Technical PM who spends all their time on a computer, and a non-zero amount of time optimizing my setup, and someone who has taken photos of computers and done exactly this to get the exposure correct: I don&
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
> So if Disney+ or Netflix—or, more importantly, a smaller company trying to compete with the big guys—wants their content to be on a level playing field, they will have to pay a fee that HBO Max does not. Can you imagine if AOL zero-rat
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
In my case, I have found using an SRS like Anki helps me the most. - Forces me to break down what I need or want to learn into small digestible pieces (in the form of question/answer, or a cloze deletion). - Fast and easy to add to Ank
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100%. I wrote a post about this (among other basic tweaks) a couple of months ago: http://jonpurdy.com/2020/03/how-to-improve-your-zoomskype-te... I have some screenshots of waveforms showing laptop mic vs headset
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Somewhat related. For those who are new to SDRs, you can easily view airplane altitude, heading, speed, and other stats of passing aircraft with a cheap SDR. Aircraft transmit this using ADS-B and it's totally open and unencrypted. Fli
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Author here. TL;DR: - Use 5GHz wifi if you're in the same room or close to your AP (or hardwired if possible) - Optimize your internet connection for symmetric, or get the fastest upload speeds available - Use a headset with a mic - Bu
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Basic tweaks to improve your videoconferencing setup(jonpurdy.com)
1 points by jonpurdy 6y ago|1 comments
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I keep seeing articles about Zettelkasten pop up every couple of weeks on HN lately. Notetaking and productivity articles tend to get me thinking about how my own system works (I still have a bunch of Zettelkasten articles I would like to r
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
> The secondary ports go into the primary ports, which are heavy-duty actuators that connect to what’s called a “summing bar,” which is no more than a massive steel rod. "In Rod We Trust"
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I find that CamTwist destroys the i7 on my 2015 13" MBP as well, slowing it down so much that I can barely use Google Sheets at the same time.
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And it's easier to delete aliases than create and maintain blocking rules.
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Using email aliasing to detect hacks and protect your privacy(jonpurdy.com)
4 points by jonpurdy 6y ago|2 comments
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Location: SF, experienced with and fully equipped to work remotely Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not at this time Technologies/Skills: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum & Kanban Methodologies, Multi-team Coordination, Jira, Python,
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I don't use Spaces since I don't like how I get switched into different spaces just by clicking an app that has windows open in another space. I've tried to use it a few times since it came out a decade ago (that long, or lon
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
You're likely correct: it feels like it wasn't subjected to any UX research. Knowing how Apple works, it was probably demoed in front of a few higher-ups, but nobody other than the person or team writing it used the feature long e
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Astounding to me that automatic rearranging would have been considered desirable. Hard to imagine that it’s just visual folks (like myself) who would lose flow state if the mental map of their Desktops was interrupted if they were suddenly
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Totally correct. The default modes of communication should be asynchronous, or if a real-time meeting is required then everyone should be on video in separate places, even if most are in the office. This prevents situations where the remote
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I just checked outline out and went to try the hosted version, but looks like they don't let me sign up with my own email. I generate emails for each service I use, and am much too lazy to generate a Slack account just to use it to sig
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I like the idea of Notion, but one of things keeping me is that it seems like it'd be a pain to export one's data if Notion ever went out of business. But just keeping folders of Markdown notes is also inflexible, but on the oppos
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by jonpurdy 7y ago
Location: SF, fully equipped and experienced to work remotely Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies/Skills: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum & Kanban Methodologies, Multi-team Coordination, Jira, Python, Containerization, C

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