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by raamdev 9y ago
I'm personally trying to fix the habit of constant checking of HN so that I don't miss out on the good stuff with a weekly email that I can review once a week. [1] Admittedly, breaking the habit of checking HN throughout the day i
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by raamdev 9y ago
I started a habit of writing 1,000 words every single day with the intention of improving my writing. I've written at least 1,000 words every single day for the past 291 days (okay, I missed one day at day 264). The writing has been in
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by raamdev 9y ago
I've been a software engineer for the past 20 years but I'm really looking at changing things up and doing something totally different—I just can't stand spending so much time in front of a computer anymore (I find myself lo
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by raamdev 9y ago
This. The longer I 'work from home' the more I discover the importance of separate physical spaces for certain activities. If I spend enough time on entertainment in the same space that I work all day, over time working in that sp
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by raamdev 9y ago
> I tried cafes and libraries but, oddly, they no longer worked for me—the noise and the people walking by suddenly became a huge distraction.
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by raamdev 9y ago
> I find it astonishing that startup indie devs pay out for an office, with all the extra bills that entails. Work from home, keep your overheads as close to zero as possible. I've been a solo dev for nearly a decade (8 years) and I
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by raamdev 9y ago
If you remove everything from every human body except the skeleton, you'll find that the joints of every skeleton have very similar (nearly identical) range of motion . When I say design range of motion I'm referring to the com
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by raamdev 9y ago
Yes, I have an IKEA bar table that I bought second hand and I stand at that for 8-12 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week. It was kind of exhausting for the first 6 months or so but now it actually feels really weird to sit at a table and work.
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by raamdev 9y ago
One of the most amazing books I've read about simple ways to correct the muscular imbalances that result from too much sitting is Pete Egoscue's Pain Free at Your PC [1]. His other book, Pain Free [2] is also extremely effecti
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by raamdev 9y ago
The only reason I ever remember preferring FTP over HTTP in the 1990s was because FTP usually meant that I could resume large downloads if my connection dropped mid-download. That was a big deal when it took several hours to download someth
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by raamdev 9y ago
I've always been incredibly curious about all the life around me but at the age of 35 it finally started to bug me that I had no idea what, for example, the dozens of types of birds around me were called. For the past few months I&#x27
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by raamdev 9y ago
Dropbox also has a pretty good mobile photos backup feature if you're a Dropbox user. My problem hasn't been where to backup photos but how the heck to manage (and make use of) tens of thousands of photos. I mean, 50 years from no
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by raamdev 9y ago
> The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017 That's the anniversary of the first human spaceflight, celebrated as Yuri's Night (and also, awesomely, my birthday): > Yuri's Night is named for the first human to l
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by raamdev 9y ago
I read in John Medina's book Brain Rules for Baby that one of the most important things you can teach children is to associate difficulty with progress, to understand that learning how to do something most likely requires failing a b
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by raamdev 10y ago
> Printing the paper saying we won't fill glasses used 48 times[1] more water than the water in the glass! If that's the case, then wouldn't it just take 48 customers to a given table (who don't request water) to star
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by raamdev 10y ago
I'm self-employed. I've been running a small business for the past five years (with a partner) and we have a small globally-distributed team (5 people total). We build, support, and sell commercial (and free) open-source WordPress
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by raamdev 10y ago
I live in New Hampshire and walk 50 steps around the side of the house before sunrise to a small shed that I turned into a wifi + power-equipped cabin with a big window overlooking a lake. Best commute ever. I'm no longer jealous watch
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by raamdev 10y ago
I've been keeping a journal with Org-Mode for nearly three years now. I also have an easy system of adding entries via my mobile devices, which was a huge thing I missed at first. Here's what I finally came up with as a solution t
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by raamdev 10y ago
I think working for a few years in IT roles where I was on call 24/7 in case a server went down, where I worried that any call I got might be a disaster call, trained my brain to always consider the sound of my phone ringing as a possi
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by raamdev 10y ago
I discovered when I was in my late teens that given a week or two of the same daily alarm, my subconscious would eventually recognize the sound as my alarm and I'd get up, walk across the room, turn it off, go back to sleep and wake up
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by raamdev 10y ago
Yeah, and Falcon 9 is several times the size of New Shepard. There are several nice graphics here that explain the differences between Falcon 9 and New Shepard: http://space.stackexchange.com/a/13188
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by raamdev 10y ago
I read Story by Robert McKee after I read The Story Grid and I found Shawn's explanations and descriptions more precise and to the point than Robert's. I also really like how Shawn, for the most part, uses a single story ( The
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by raamdev 10y ago
If you're writing fiction (or doing any sort of storytelling for that matter), The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne is an absolute must-read. The podcast is amazing—it's the first podcast I've found worth listening to from the ver
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by raamdev 10y ago
I've been using a self-hosted version of Full-Text RSS [1] to turn excerpt-only RSS feeds into full-text RSS feeds (which I use in conjunction with Calibre [2] to generate a weekly Kindle book containing all of the latest articles to r
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by raamdev 11y ago
I felt the same way about GTD for the longest time, until I decided to read the small book and see what the fuss was all about. It completely changed the way I look at productivity and getting things done. GTD is not so much about David All
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by raamdev 11y ago
I've never used Time Machine specifically because I heard early reports of it not saving someone who suffered a total disk failure. I haven't bothered trying it since then. (First impressions are powerful things.) I've used C
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by raamdev 11y ago
sha256sum of f.lux-xcode-master.zip and every file inside, downloaded just a few hours before the original link went offline: https://gist.github.com/raamdev/97c625b323fa288cf785
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by raamdev 12y ago
For future reference, you can get a RapidSSL certificate (recognized by 99% of browsers) for ~$6/year here: https://cheapsslsecurity.com/
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by raamdev 12y ago
Using Google Chrome, I had to turn off "Click to play" Plugins and switch back to the default of "Run all content" in Chrome's Content Settings, otherwise visiting https://exchange.coinbase.com/trade
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by raamdev 12y ago
What I would love is to see more intelligent lightning systems that use the current time and location (easy, given most lightning is fixed) to automatically dim a certain amount depending on the time of day, much like the F.lux app [1]. 1.

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