jpulgarin

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by jpulgarin 2mo ago
G says: "I am not provable". As shown by Gödel, that's a true statement about G, ergo G is true. That first-order logic cannot prove it to be true is an indictment on the power of deduction, not on the truthiness of G.
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
We're hoping to add analytics in a future update.
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I can definitely understand it not being intuitive. If you want to remove the alert for now you can do so from the preferences window (it's the "Mute get back to work alert" option).
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Will definitely look into it!
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Thanks a lot. We focused a lot on simplicity so I'm glad that shines through. Your feedback is super useful to us. The ability to turn off the active task is probably something we will incorporate in the next release. Having the abilit
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
There's a quick add functionality which allows you to add a task with a keyboard shortcut. Would Alfred integration still seem useful to you?
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Thanks Matthew!
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Definitely! I got lucky in the sense that wanting to create Effortless forced me to learn Swift. I wanted much more control than something like Electron or BitBar could give me, and I wanted to make this app a reality. I had also been worki
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
There is one global keyboard shortcut that is available everywhere, and that can be changed from the preferences window. You can change this shortcut to be something that doesn't conflict with any of your existing shortcuts. The other
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
No blog post yet but I'm happy to answer any specific questions here. Effortless is a fairly simple app although there were some tricky edge cases to handle like when the task name is too long for the menu bar (especially when dealing
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
We have no trial version to download right now unfortunately. If you want to try it out feel free to send me an email at julian@effortless.app and I can send you a promo code to download it for free from the app store.
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Thanks! We considered a subscription service with some added features but decided instead to focus on simplicity. Right now there is no syncing, but we will definitely consider using iCloud if we implement it in the future (and once it&#x27
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Right now everything is stored locally - we don't even have a server running. An iOS app is definitely something we're thinking about, although we want to focus on improving our current Mac app first. One of the main features in o
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
The task name is truncated any time the app notices that the full name wouldn't fit in the space available in the menu bar. If new menu bar space becomes available I haven't yet found a way to get notified of that, so instead I tr
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
It's definitely something we're thinking about. There have been many times when I'm not at my computer that I'd wished I had access to my task list, or had something like Effortless on my phone to keep me focused on some
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by jpulgarin 7y ago
Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it s
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by jpulgarin 8y ago
If you're referring to real numbers, then virtually no real numbers have a name. If all real numbers had a name then you could order them alphabetically and put them in one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers, which we know
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by jpulgarin 13y ago
It's because you're underestimating the average intelligence of an HN reader. Basically everyone here knows how probability works for independent events.
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by jpulgarin 14y ago
Except, as the comment you responded to suggested, you would use a different email for each service.
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by jpulgarin 14y ago
My own attempt: http://www.julianpulgarin.com/canvaslife/
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by jpulgarin 14y ago
"Very simple. Don't choose the type of startup that has a 3 in 10 chance of succeeding on the off chance that you are the lucky one that hit's the lottery." That doesn't sound simple at all. What types of startups have higher success rates
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by jpulgarin 14y ago
I've attended rationality sessions organized by the people behind the Center for Modern Rationality, and they do teach about how to find hidden assumptions, and judging quality of information.
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
That parameter is absent when you're not logged in.
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
The "Wifi Only" option exists.
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
1. Save thousands of lives by donating to charity (it costs about $2000 to save a human life: http://givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF ). 2. Do whatever you wish to do, every single day, such as spending a year studying philosop
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
Very risky: For the average founder, the expected utility of starting a VC funded company is around -$200k. http://www.nber.org/papers/w14219
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
I believe animals can "experience being killed" and justify my eating of them mostly by the fact that eating them increases my productivity which helps me work more optimally towards reducing the suffering of other sentient beings. Also, I
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by jpulgarin 15y ago
The email field on your profile is not visible to others.
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IPhone app lets you find your representative and talk to them, instantly.(shipordie.com)
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