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by zizee 7y ago
> I'm going to make sure that I praise good ideas first This is something I am trying to do in real life as well (although I don't always succeed). For some reason it's really easy for me to open my mouth to talk about wea
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by zizee 7y ago
> It was neat, but always incomplete. One of the features I was thinking of building was a slack bot to ask people to add/update term definitions.
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by zizee 7y ago
> I think it'd be a hard sell to smaller teams, Yes, I suspect you are correct, which is my biggest misgiving about pursuing this product too much further. Unfortunately for me, new/small growing teams are my preferred niche! &
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by zizee 7y ago
Thanks for the kind words. The system is still fairly MVP, but works well. I'm putting it out there early to determine appetite for a tool like this as I want to avoid going too deep before getting market validation.
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by zizee 7y ago
TIL. Interesting! My google-fu let me down :-) Time to do some digging. Thanks for the tip.
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by zizee 7y ago
Thanks Tin, I'll checkout Slab soon.
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by zizee 7y ago
Thanks, fixed! :-)
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by zizee 7y ago
After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement
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by zizee 7y ago
PSA: The Dow Jones industrial average is a terrible measure of the stock market. It tracks just 30 stocks, some which have an outsized influence on the measure. This is not to say the stock market is not in freefall, but there are much bett
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by zizee 7y ago
> Unless he actually cares if he or Bezos is the #1 wealthiest person He could also care about whether his actions have a negative impact on others.
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by zizee 7y ago
After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement
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by zizee 7y ago
Disclaimer: these are my own opinions, I am not going to link for supporting evidence. I am just shooting off the cuff and I have no real expertise in the matter: 1. from most reports this is spreading much faster than other diseases, such
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Show HN: Jargonaut – get your team speaking the same language(app.jargonaut.net)
2 points by zizee 7y ago|1 comments
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by zizee 7y ago
These two points: > Here, team members typically work remotely 1–2 days per week... > Each team has 2–3 offshore teams that we work with Does not sit well with this point: > There's a tendency for information to only be passe
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by zizee 7y ago
One way is to define a project dictionary/glossary. Shameless plug: I'm working on a tool to help teams define/share the internal jargon that always seems to develop whenever humans work together: https://jargonaut
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by zizee 7y ago
Try Firefox mobile with ublock origin. I wish more Android users knew about this. Sidenote: ads on sites degrade the experience so badly, whenever I browse without adblock I am honestly shocked at how bad it is, and I am amazed others don&#
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Show HN: Jargonaut – team dictionaries for better communication(app.jargonaut.net)
3 points by zizee 7y ago|0 comments
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by zizee 7y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. The Show HN link I submitted was the landing page of a small SaaS app that I have developed. Good advice on putting up a blog post - I think that makes a lot of sense for a regular submission to HN, but f
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by zizee 7y ago
Thanks for that thoughtful feedback. > but I think it could certainly generate a more thoughtful discussion than what I saw on this weekend's post. Thanks, I'd like to think it's not such a mundane idea that it warrants no
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Ask HN: Is it ok to repost my “failed” Show HN?
11 points by zizee 7y ago|11 comments
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by zizee 7y ago
> Python is pretty performant if you're comparing it to Ruby. ;-) FWIW, neither Python or Ruby are speed kings, but I think that you'll find ruby is on par, or faster than Python in many benchmarks. It is Rails that is renowned
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by zizee 7y ago
Does it work with Oculus Rift?
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by zizee 7y ago
After writing a glossary for my day job using confluence, I thought there had to be a better way. I couldn't find one, so I built Jargonaut. It helps you build a nice, crosslinked list of terms/definitions, and provides simple sla
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by zizee 7y ago
I like the idea, but if this is crowdsourced how can we trust that the reviews will be unbiased? Amazon reviews are supposedly crowdsourced, and we know what a shit show those are.
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Show HN: Jargonaut - Project glossaries for your dev team(app.jargonaut.net)
5 points by zizee 7y ago|2 comments
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by zizee 7y ago
I created a test account to have a play around. Looks like a solid start. > I found that Xero and Quickbooks are not suited for our needs; that they are more geared toward small businesses that need to issue invoices to customers and for
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by zizee 7y ago
I am curious to know how each application is isolated, and how a shared database would work in this type of infrastructure.
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Ask HN: Would you use a specialized tool for managing a team glossary?
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Tesla ramps up solar tile roof installations in US, eyes China and Europe(techcrunch.com)
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by zizee 7y ago
> but there has never been a species on Earth which has created a civilization as advanced as humans have. It's an interesting to think about what traces an industrial civilization like ours would leave behind if we were to be wiped

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