richie5um

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by richie5um 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. As a T1 diabetic too, I was reading this nodding my head all the way through.
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by richie5um 5y ago
“Most diabetics have CGMs these days” - not where I come from :-(
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by richie5um 5y ago
Agree. They came out of the gates with a really well put together chat app, that made a massive impact. Then, basically, didn’t advance it beyond that. It is still great for chat, but Teams is sooo much more useful for the virtual office, a
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by richie5um 6y ago
I love the book ‘Back of the Napkin’. He talks about identifying what you are trying to present, and marrying that to the diagram you draw. I’ve used those approaches many times in tech/product descriptions.
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by richie5um 6y ago
I wrote an NPM package to convert JSON objects to/from a dotted format. It doesn't (currently) sort the flattened output, but that would be easy to add. https://www.npmjs.com/package/flattenjs
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by richie5um 7y ago
Couldn’t agree more. It must have one of the worst usage-to-enjoyment ratios of any site.
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by richie5um 7y ago
100% agree. I realised many years ago that to try to restrict/fix requirements was futile - or, you can try, but to what end. It’s like swimming upstream. The hard part is that being adaptive to change increases the complexity exponent
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by richie5um 7y ago
I think the high-level summary of the article is ‘fire-and-forget development’ - ie producing features, but not measuring impact/benefit/usage. I’m not convinced ‘feature factory’ in itself is problematic (definition not provided)
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by richie5um 7y ago
Agree. I much prefer the term ‘product engineer’ to all previous titles. It shouldn’t be a cargo-cult switch where everyone starts calling themselves one, but it is by far the best title as a guiding principle to what we are meant to be doi
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by richie5um 8y ago
Yup. Business benefit supersedes customer benefit. Always.
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by richie5um 8y ago
This story is similar to mine. I really don't want to have lots of subscriptions, but I use 1Password sooo much, it is a clear winner for my money.
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by richie5um 9y ago
Fair response - my assertions were a bit extreme :-). You can use process to force change, but, personally, I think a strong manager/leader would aim to resolve these issues irrespective of the process. Also, and I think this is why so
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by richie5um 9y ago
That’s a list of poor engineer attributes, which need to be addressed via conversations. Not impose a process in the hope that’ll fix them.
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by richie5um 9y ago
Really liked this article. I liken software methodologies to cooking recipes. On one end of the scale you have a highly skilled and experienced chef, who can craft a great (requested) dish with a variety of ingredients and equipment. Knowin
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by richie5um 9y ago
I've used Hugo for a few sites now. There is a bit of a hump at the start - finding a theme you like and customising it to your needs. But after that it is fantastic.
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by richie5um 9y ago
Unfortunately I can't get this in the UK. I asked, but they only give out to kids or people who poorly manage their T1. :(
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by richie5um 9y ago
Me too.
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by richie5um 9y ago
Completely. As a T1 I could complain that it is draining, but, hey, it's just the way things are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by richie5um 9y ago
As a Type1, I wish they'd give them different names - diabetes is too often seen as a 'fat person disease'. Maybe I shouldn't care, but it is upsetting to have to explain to people all the time. Even more so when they cl
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by richie5um 9y ago
In the U.K. it is very difficult to get a CGM - unless you are young or manage your Type1 very badly. Even with doing finger prick blood tests 5 times a day, for years , I feel mostly clueless. And rely heavily on how I feel. Given how muc
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by richie5um 9y ago
Yep, me too. [Type1]
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by richie5um 10y ago
I agree. I doubt it is as black and white as people have interpreted. I suspect it was more along the lines of "we want to take a different approach to _automation_, are you with us or not?"
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by richie5um 10y ago
Completely. Disappointed is fine, but surprised. Given this seems explicitly designed to avoid the need for AppStore reviews, this was inevitable. I don't want anyone pushing code updates to the apps that have been reviewed. Whilst tha
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by richie5um 10y ago
I love the speed of Sublime, and still use it sometimes. But, the vast majority of time is in VSCode.
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by richie5um 10y ago
I do - I use it for subscription and one-off licensing. I live in the UK.
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by richie5um 10y ago
I completely agree. What is, for most programming languages / code, a huge waste of time and huge amount of annoyance becomes something you no longer have to deal with. Having choices can be nice, but it introduces a huge amount of cog
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by richie5um 10y ago
I use Hugo for static blog generation and GitHub pages for hosting. Works well, and, apart from the domain registration, is free.
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by richie5um 10y ago
I moved from the UK, with my wife and two young kids, to the Bay Area in 2012. I'm an experienced dev; mostly hands-on architecture/development, but also leading teams. Spending time there and experiencing the people and general f
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by richie5um 10y ago
This seems like the oddity of it. The keyboard is poor, but the touchbar is useless if you don't use the keyboard. The lack of (useful/mainstream) ports seems surely due to the desire to go thinner - looking at the old MacBook Pro
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by richie5um 10y ago
Don't worry about that. It really is that good. [Long-time Mac and Vim user.]

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