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by cjamesd 4y ago
I have regained a lot of focus by using the Unread filter. I don't think it's on by default, you have to go into settings. I use it to mark the events in my day where I go to slack. I just hit the unread filter, read through all t
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by cjamesd 5y ago
Lendio We're a two-sided marketplace for small business loans with an expanding portfolio of services related to small business finance. We've facilitated 300K small business loans (totaling more than $12B). Founding CTO is still
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by cjamesd 5y ago
My father-in-law holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and has similarly struggled to find a job as he's grown older. When I referred him to an open position at my company, his un-edited resume matched almost perfectly, but the rec
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by cjamesd 5y ago
I wonder if all the traffic from HN every few years justifies the continued existence of these sites to the owners (unknowingly, not sure how granular they might be in their traffic analysis). Kind of like patronage at a museum.
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by cjamesd 6y ago
True story -- I got hired at a startup, and sometime within my first few days we went into a team meeting. The Chief Product Officer plugs his computer in to present, and Slack is up, showing his direct conversation with HR regarding my sal
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by cjamesd 6y ago
I feel like the email they sent is a master class in misleading. The feeling and subtext make you feel like nothing is happening or you'll be better off: > To build for the future and welcome even more memories, Google Photos is cha
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by cjamesd 6y ago
Kind of goes without saying, but the flip side of having all of these tools under a single opinionated umbrella is that if any piece of it sucks, people are going to drop the whole toolchain. Hence this is a high risk project, especially be
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by cjamesd 6y ago
Agreed. For the non-technical world forced into video-conferencing due to the pandemic, Zoom _is_ video-conferencing. It's the most well-known product to the general public, and therefore the one you use to make relevant jokes right no
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by cjamesd 6y ago
Inspired by Marty Cagan is a great book.
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by cjamesd 6y ago
Fascinating. Do you suppose there are businesses that actually could keep their employees but are just throwing in the towel because their human capital will be easy to obtain after people can go back to work?
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by cjamesd 6y ago
Ironically, this leads me to trust the rest of the reviews on their site. Maybe they're not all fake.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Nitpick on the title used for this post: academical is not a word.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Most important question: Will you still be able to see user-submitted phrases explaining the npm acronym? (See upper left-hand corner of https://www.npmjs.com/ )
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I didn't pursue the idea in any meaningful way. My idea was basically expert advice codified into a flow/tree, available on demand through a mobile app. E.g., my kid is behaving badly, so I can go to the app, it asks me the quest
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I have had basically the same idea, after feeling the problem myself as a parent of young kids. There is so much garbage on Google. Social science is always going to lack the consensus of a hard science, but we can do better than content fa
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by cjamesd 7y ago
This is a bit cynical (and borderline paranoid) but what if the reason for the rewrite was to remove privacy-violating code that was becoming a greater and greater liability? Also, wonder if they needed to do this to make way for end-to-end
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Source for these claims?
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by cjamesd 7y ago
As the father of a newborn, grateful to hear this. Do you have a source?
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I understood the point to be that to do all these things well is very difficult for a single product / company. I worked at a startup where our solution was to replace five other solutions. Only customers with the simplest use cases fo
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Was hoping there _weren't_ any but didn't want to verify. Thanks!
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by cjamesd 7y ago
To me, saying there is nothing new about Instagram, is like saying the combustion engine is the same thing as fire. I can see what you are saying on one level, but this company and its impact on human users was bought for a billion dollars.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Yes, in some senses, but completely different in others. The availability of it to nearly everyone, and the sheer volume of content are unprecedented. It's also way more visual. Photos used to have the constraints of being developed an
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I've done all my developing on a MacBook. This makes sense now. Thanks.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Somebody fill me in. What is the strategic value to Microsoft of making their own terminal? Especially when there are apparently so many out there. Also, why are there are so many? I guess as a web dev I've always just accepted the bas
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Turned out our backend team just had a graphql type def that was wrong. That resulted in a nullified value, and the server logic following that treats a null value for the timestamp to mean the task should be completed now. None of this wa
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I'm working on a bug right now where we have some timestamps that are wrong. Just saying.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Interesting -- I was thinking of the big name projects that a lot of people use, but this would be helpful too. Thanks for your perspective.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
Not what I was expecting, but this would be interesting!
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I can see what you're saying, there seems to be some debate about whether RSS is alive or dead, though. Even if it is, your point that RSS seems like a good fit means just finding a good fit in what the existing options are.
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by cjamesd 7y ago
I agree this would be helpful, particularly the minimal interface. Do you think it would be best to have the companies provide the info directly, or to have a community source the info, or to do it internally?

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