kevsim

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   by kevsim 6y ago

   I've had going through RefactoringUI on my todo list for a very long time. I'm working at a small startup [0] on a fairly complex product and design resources is always a challenge. Being able to make some of the simple decisions
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   As with all things - practice and find someone who can give you honest, constructive feedback.
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Special discounts?
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   So I just tried pasting this into the editor for the issue tracker I work on [0]. When I traverse the URL from left to right with the keyboard cursor it goes as "normal" up to the the last / then jumps to the end, then traver
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   I've got to applaud you for thinking about distribution first. Many tech folks turned entrepreneurs (myself included) think that if they build a great product, they'll get usage. Doesn't work that way. But I will also say tha
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   If you want a fun time dealing with advice, try starting a startup. As an early startup focusing a lot on growth [0], we talk to a lot of successful entrepreneurs and mentors about what worked best for them. At best, we get completely diffe
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   We adopted GraphQL from the get-go with our startup [0] and I won't say that we're worse off per se, but I will say that I don't think there's a huge benefit for our core application from it. We ended up going offline-fi
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   The #1 place I struggle with this is with deleting CSS. I know we've got unused CSS hanging around, but because of the cascading/matching behaviors of CSS, I'm way too scared to delete any of it. I guess that's a strong
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   I believe with seteuid the process can temporarily assume the uid of the user in question and later restore the original uid.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I love how minimalist the site is. On the other hand, you should probably at the very least have a terms & conditions and a privacy policy there.
11. 251.▲
    by kevsim 6y ago

    We added the pricing with monthly billing cycles now. Thanks for catching it!
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    *sometimes happens
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    This is cool! For anyone wishing to learn why git is the way it is, I always recommend reading Git From the Bottom Up [0]. I don't consider myself a git guru, but I found this to be a really great read to understand the underlying conc
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Hi! We offer both monthly and annual billing. Sorry for the confusion- we’ll clear it up on the landing page.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    This definitely resonates. We’re building a product management/issue tracker and it sometimes happy that we have very satisfied users who are then forced into using Jira or something else because of company-wide mandates.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    At my startup [0] it's still early days, but we're trying to use the Superhuman "engine" [1] for testing PMF. Basically this is a survey where you ask your users how disappointed they'd be if they couldn't use
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Hi. Co-founder of Kitemaker here. Thanks for the kind words! Do let us know if you have any feedback or improvements you'd like to see.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Interesting! On the same machine as you have, I find Figma to be OK in terms of performance (not as snappy as Sketch). The loading time kills me though. I also had to download the electron app because switching to a Figma tab noticeably loc
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Reader mode in safari worked OKish for me.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    As many other comments have mentioned, this doesn't apply to G Suite.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Not sure why, but on Chrome on Mac I don't see any scrollbars on this article. Pretty annoying.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    This is relatively close to my dream hiring process, except I'd shortcut it. Instead of working 1 day a week because you're bored, just take a week off. Come work at my company for a week. If we like you, we'll hire you. Howe
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Additionally, in many markets there's no such thing as 'firing lightly'. Here in Scandinavia firing people requires a significant amount of work on the part of the manager and HR.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Exactly. I saw a tweet the other day with someone explaining the difference between var/const/let and I responded with "never use var...ever". Maybe that was bad advice.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I had to read the whole "storing comments in GitHub repos, triggering builds, etc." thing a few times. I feel like we've left the realm of what's reasonable here.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I'm a founder of a company making Jira/Trello competitor [0] and we actually just released a Discord integration this week (we've had a Slack one for ages) because we had a number of customers and potential customers ask for
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I'm a founder of a company making Jira/Trello competitor [0] and we actually just released a Discord integration this week (we've had a Slack one for ages) because we had a number of customers and potential customers ask for
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Second Nagle-related post I've seen this week! https://www.kdab.com/there-and-back-again/
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Definitely just slotted it in! So I must've been working with a massive 1Mb :-)
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I can still vividly remember the day we bought the RAM upgrade for the Amiga 500. Can't recall if it took it from 500K to 1M or 1M to 2M. Had to flip it over and slot it into the bottom of the computer and it was HUGE. But once it was