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by jbl 3y ago
FWIW - I found "The Bug", by Ellen Ullman, to be a really engrossing piece of fiction to read. I wasn't aware she'd authored other works. I'll have to check them out!
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by jbl 3y ago
|array| looks like it’s taken from the notation for cardinality of a set (number of elements in a set)
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by jbl 3y ago
I think it'd be good to be prepared to show and explain what you actually did, on the ground to build the business and demonstrate that it wasn't just a side project which you threw up and hoped for the best, but something that yo
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by jbl 5y ago
Odd. I believe my 2018 model year Volvo allows me to start the car, take the key with me, and lock the doors (so long as I take my key fob with me).
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by jbl 5y ago
Re the odometers, in my 2018 Volvo and my Wife's 2019 XC40. They are all accurate, but for different purposes. 1. The standard "life of the car" odometer is permanently on the left gauge, top reading 2. There is one (two?) ma
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by jbl 9y ago
I'd really like to see the inverted-T cursor block back... I can almost live with the low-travel keyboard and actually kind of like the Touch Bar (especially with iTerm2 support now). The arrow keys, however, I just can't get used
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by jbl 9y ago
I've been going back and forth on this for a while as I work on a product that allows users to build applications in a drag and drop visual manner. What I've seen is that while novices fairly quickly ramp up and get productive gen
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by jbl 10y ago
I also work in product management and couldn't agree more with okabat's comment. PM means so many different things in so many different places. One thing to try... if the shop isn't probing you to find out what you want to
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by jbl 10y ago
More importantly than hosting the ads natively is handling media sales themselves. I think offloading that work to ad networks and ad exchanges is the first step in giving up responsibility for what gets shown to a user/viewer.
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by jbl 11y ago
Not necessarily. There could still be room for these bulbs if they turn out to be as energy efficient as LEDs or CFLs, but are less expensive to manufacture (leading to lower off-the-shelf costs).
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by jbl 11y ago
In the days of friction shifting, it used to be common to mix and match components across the entire drivetrain. You could have shifters, derailleurs, chains, freewheels, and hubs all from different manufacturers. Drivelines are more integr
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by jbl 11y ago
Although, even bicycles (at least those designed for racing) are starting to become more and more proprietary. Try mixing and matching Shimano and Campagnolo shifters and derailleurs or using a seatpost from an aerodynamic frame in another
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by jbl 12y ago
I also recommend meditation. If the spiritual connotations put the OP off, focus on the mindfulness aspects. Mindfulness is really about focusing, or letting go of distractions so that you can focus. For an easy introduction to this type of
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by jbl 12y ago
When I switched from an iPhone to an Android handset, I found that I not only had to switch off iMessage, I had to switch it off while my SIM card was still in the iPhone. Switching iMessage off after the fact didn't seem to work.
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by jbl 12y ago
It's also great for sharing collections of API calls as a sort of live demo.
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by jbl 12y ago
What behavior are you looking for? I noticed that recently (maybe with a Chrome update?) that packaged apps run/show up as independent apps in the OS X task switcher.
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by jbl 13y ago
I do sometimes declare e-mail bankruptcy and just archive/move everything to a folder for later reference. To the OPs point, if something is important, people will generally follow-up.
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by jbl 13y ago
I think this hints at the crux of the problem. I have no problem with others working long hours, and will even put in a stint here and there when I feel it's warranted. The problem I see is that it slowly becomes the new norm and bench
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by jbl 13y ago
I'm working on some apps that make it easy to track time on tasks. The end goal is to be able to build out personal workload forecasts. The whole thing is built around integrations with existing services. Today, Asana and Toggl. Tomorr
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by jbl 13y ago
Product management could be a great fit for the OP. However, PM means a lot of different things. Even within one company, day-to-day experiences of PMs can vary a lot depending on the nature of their product or product-area. Some PMs have v
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by jbl 13y ago
While "product manager" has different meanings at various companies, I'd expand the description of PM to include all the wrangling of sales, marketing, and customer service that goes into shipping a product as well.
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by jbl 13y ago
I have found http://websequencediagrams.com/ and http://draw.io/ to be really useful for preparing diagrams for inclusion in specs.
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by jbl 13y ago
I'm guessing that most people who are taking the sort of violent action mentioned in the article probably don't understand that. That may be part of the problem. For most people outside of the tech field, all this technology is ju
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by jbl 13y ago
I love stuff like this. I've been doing some of my own work around this idea by measuring the time it takes me to do certain everyday tasks. My morning routine is about 15 minutes. So is going to the coffee cart on the corner for coffe
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by jbl 13y ago
The OP is plotting the ratio of page-aligned vs. unaligned access time against problem size. So, on the y-axis, a value of 2 means the page-aligned access took twice as long as the unaligned access. Took me a few moments to grok the chart
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by jbl 13y ago
- Only work on something as long as I'm productive on it - When I stop being productive, it goes to the end of list and I pick up the next thing and repeat For big tasks where procrastination might be more of a problem, I put something
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by jbl 13y ago
I partially agree, but would add that learning to code is valuable in the same way that trigonometry was valuable. It's another way of looking and thinking about the world. The more perspectives we have on problems, the more ways we as
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by jbl 13y ago
The problem is that "I didn't see the cyclist" becomes a catch-all excuse that law-enforcement takes at face value. This leads to an implicit (though not acknowledged or stated) assumption that a driver cannot be at fault in
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by jbl 13y ago
The problem is that when things do go wrong, especially if you fit certain stereotypes, there seems to be little recourse beyond a costly court battle against an organization with far more resources than an individual (monetary and social).
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by jbl 13y ago
My girlfriend and sister are both going through surgical training in the US. Here's what I gather: 1. 4 year medical school during which one learns about the panoply of human medicine. You come out of med school with an MD. 2. 4-5+ yea

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