isaaclyman

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Can developer productivity be measured?(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by isaaclyman 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Edward, a web app for writing novels(edwardtheapp.com)
2 points by isaaclyman 8y ago|0 comments
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by isaaclyman 8y ago
Edward is a webapp for writing novels. I built and launched it over the last six months as a side project. The app was made with Vue, Node, and PostgreSQL. There's an unlimited-time free trial, so give it a look and let me know if you
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Edward: An IDE for novel-writing(github.com)
3 points by isaaclyman 8y ago|1 comments
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This reminded me, I keep wondering why the tamarind fruit has been left out of Western cuisine. You find trace amounts in Worcestershire sauce and the occasional Indian dish and you can get tamarind juice/candy at some Mexican places i
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Huh.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This is harsh, but true. I've never heard a successful founder say "I don't know, I just wanted to start a company with my friends and get rich." Every dang middle-schooler in the US wants that. Companies are a means, no
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Impressive. What area/industry are you in that you can find accommodations like this?
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Around here anything above 15 is a lot.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
It's a Utah company called DirectScale. The company is really great, but some circumstances surrounding the product and work environment were making me feel really unproductive. Which might not be a big deal for everyone, but it was fo
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
That is not always the case. My last job had unlimited PTO and some of us took 20+ days per year.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
I left a startup job recently. They did a stellar job handling it. They spent a day or so making offers to get me to stay, then the remainder of my last two weeks listening to my reasons for leaving, making plans to fix their problems (so n
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
A year later, SpitScript is back with: - TypeScript annotations everywhere - Unit tests (via AVA) - Several bugfixes for line comments, block comments, and more It's more useful than ever.
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SpitScript: Transpile rap lyrics to JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by isaaclyman 9y ago|1 comments
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Devil's advocate: How about an issue/PR tracker that lets users pay for priority? A simple bidding system. If BigCorp International is willing to pay $200/hour for IE10 support, they can be next on your list. And afterward, a
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This. I love my California King. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
1. I'm very suspicious of studies whose main metric is self-reported happiness. Do people know how happy they are? Is that measure consistent enough over the course of a day to be meaningful? 2. If you ask someone if they have a maid o
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Yeah, it might need to be a custom-made camera, made for news organizations and wealthy vloggers. And each device would need to be audited regularly. It would be a nightmare but not as much of a nightmare as not knowing whether anything you
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This demonstrates an immediate need for a trustworthy video hosting service--maybe with a companion app that records using some combination of crypto/proprietary formats/trust networks/I don't know what else, this isn&#x
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Apologies for the random italics. I meant to add asterisks indicating that names had been changed.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
A true story for your consideration: One of my first jobs was as a dishwasher at a pasta shop. A few of my friends worked there and helped me land the job. One of them, Kevin , was a particularly good dishwasher--fast, efficient, conscienti
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This is a valuable discussion to me right now. At work I've been tasked with looking into a number of front end frameworks (Angular 4, React, Vue, Aurelia and Mithril) to see if we'd like to start writing new pages and components
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
The Exploratorium is a huge hands-on science museum. Everything sciencey that you could ever want to touch (or never imagined touching) is there. It's slightly geared toward the younger crowd, but my wife and I went last year and loved
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Thanks for advocating the other side. I've played and enjoyed Splendor, but never saw it as a resource-management eurogame. As far as Speicherstadt, I'll have to try it. My opinion is definitely open to revision.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Lol, thanks for calling that one out. When I talk about "counters" here, what I mean is all those tokens players use to track 17 kinds of "resources" in the stereotypical modern eurogame. I mean, are we really at the poi
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
I feel like most of the games in this roundup, as an alternative to ingenuity, have turned to complexity as a way to keep things fresh. And that makes me sad. In my opinion, any game that needs more than one type of "counter" toke
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
Author here. I don't actually know what "analyst" means in the context of software. Is anyone "just" an analyst? Is it a well-defined role? I didn't come across the term in my research, so I wonder how many peo
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Coder? Programmer? Software engineer? Choosing a job title(medium.com)
4 points by isaaclyman 9y ago|3 comments
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
You, sir, are the Ron Swanson of internet consumers and I salute you.
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by isaaclyman 9y ago
This sounds true to me, but it would take a very uncommon executive to put it into practice. MBA types won't do a thing without quantitative data behind it and attempts to measure real productivity in creative fields usually turn into

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