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Coding fonts from FontLibrary.org(fontlibrary.org)
3 points by tatx 10y ago|2 comments
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by tatx 11y ago
Indeed! Amazon does top-notch customer service at scale like nobody else. Everyone else just assumes that it is impossible to scale up something like this and they let the a previously great experience slip as they grow into a faceless orga
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by tatx 11y ago
They mention that the “the client base moved to enterprise” and I think that, if Gigster is ever reasonably successful, it will end up as a shop making niche products for enterprises who find it difficult to fit such development activities
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by tatx 11y ago
Look at it from the other side. If a designer were to suggest some of the more fundamental changes to how your product should work, would you genuinely listen to their opinions and suggestions, or are these critical decisions being taken by
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by tatx 11y ago
That Apple was ever good at design was probably the relative side effect of other software and hardware developers being abysmally bad at it (probably due to monopolistic inefficiencies). And now that the competition is heating up and chall
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by tatx 11y ago
> The further down in the software hierarchy that you push the complexity, the less work has to be done by everybody above. This. From the interview[1]. I think this is the most important takeaway for people building software. An inheren
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Basic Soldering Lessons(youtube.com)
2 points by tatx 11y ago|0 comments
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by tatx 11y ago
Browsing Facebook, or for that matter any other similar network (including HN :)), is like anti-meditation. They rattle your mind with so much information in such quick succession that it becomes almost impossible to think through or about
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by tatx 11y ago
Great metaphor, but I think smartness is something even lesser than a torch. Creativity, it seems, is the torch that helps you find the right wedge. Smartness is probably what tells you to look for a wedge in the first place.
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by tatx 11y ago
In today’s tech environment, you have to be a fickle programmer to get yourself hired. With age however most people learn just the opposite - to be less fickle and more focused. I think that the current complaints about age-discrimination,
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by tatx 11y ago
Cleartax has done an amazing job, really. I filed my last two returns using Cleartax and everything went without a hitch. Even when the system fails to parse the Form-16 correctly it is easy enough to just manually enter the data, save it,
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by tatx 11y ago
There is nothing inherently wrong with complexity. Complex things can be made to appear simple, usable and open too. It is just that, when it comes to software, we haven’t yet figured out a way of building complex systems that are beautiful
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by tatx 11y ago
Growing up I read a lot of the Nancy Drew books that my sister would borrow from the library and her friends. I got hooked on reading because of these books. Short and fast paced, I generally liked them better than the Hardy Boys. Being a g
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by tatx 11y ago
While most of us are pointing fingers at the fast-changing nature of and innovation-craziness in the tech industry, I think the core reason may be quite the opposite. It seems plausible that the tech industry, innovation-wise, is actually i
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by tatx 11y ago
Also, collaboration. I think we tend to over estimate how much people like to collaborate. And the organic UI looks very childish to me.
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by tatx 11y ago
I have worked with several project managers who cite this article and claim to live by this ideal. However in practice they do everything but what is mentioned of a good product manager in the article. I don't know if I am biased or if
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by tatx 11y ago
I only started running regularly a year back, and I certainly feel something like a long-drawn low-ebbing pleasant kinda 'high' after a run. I also have double the energy now-a-days and am twice as productive since I started runni
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by tatx 11y ago
Just wondering - wouldn't it be easier, not only for music notation but also for math and other scientific notation, if there was an on-screen keyboard custom-built for this very purpose with the required symbols and movement keys? Aft