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by jessems 3y ago
Awesome! Well done. What about resizing?
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by jessems 3y ago
Multiple comments like this, I'll try that out!
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by jessems 3y ago
I'll give those another look, thanks!
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by jessems 3y ago
OP here, did not know of the existence of “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”! I agree, that's a whole other level.
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by jessems 3y ago
Have you tried templates?
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by jessems 3y ago
As another commenter mentions, the mmdc tool takes care of this. I should have mentioned that in the blog post.
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by jessems 3y ago
Cool, I'll check it out.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS(jessems.com)
207 points by jessems 3y ago|111 comments
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by jessems 4y ago
This video from the author is probably the best explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTUafAwrunE
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by jessems 6y ago
Yeah, this resonated with me. It's strange we need real-world equivalent stories to get a real sense for how strange some of this conduct is. One problem I see is that the invasion/violation is abstract, instantaneous and committe
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by jessems 6y ago
Partially down for me
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The Hairdresser Analogy(jessems.com)
6 points by jessems 6y ago|1 comments
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by jessems 6y ago
Hey HN, I've been getting very positive responses on this short essay / thought experiment on privacy. Very curious what the HN crowd thinks. I'm Dutch and in The Netherlands WhatsApp is ubiquitous, it's hard to live wit
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by jessems 6y ago
Hey HN, I've been trying to convince my friends to use Signal and in the process I've done some writing to figure out exactly what I believe. This analogy has been the result.
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The Hairdresser Analogy (Privacy)(jessems.com)
4 points by jessems 6y ago|1 comments
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by jessems 6y ago
Completely agree, and I haven't thought about that angle enough.
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by jessems 6y ago
Valid point, but this doesn't amount to a very convincing promise to many users imo. You're relying on the service provider to not abuse their power. If that were sufficient I don't think we would see these e2e services pop u
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by jessems 6y ago
> This part had me scratching my head. Most established non-privacy-preserving products have been slowly killing interoperability because data lock-in provides a moat against users leaving and against potential competitors accessing valu
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by jessems 6y ago
Hey, OP here. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. > The Figma example that's given seems to completely undercut the "Productivity vs Privacy" argument. Figma didn't discover those use cases by spying on us
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Productivity vs. Privacy(jessems.com)
51 points by jessems 6y ago|14 comments
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by jessems 6y ago
Hi HN, I published some thoughts here about a trade-off I see playing out between productivity and privacy. It's unfortunate, but it seems that a service provider's choice for preserving your privacy, often leads to a situation wh
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Productivity vs. Privacy(jessems.com)
6 points by jessems 6y ago|2 comments
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by jessems 7y ago
Interesting! Can you share an example?
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by jessems 7y ago
Love this one, heard a version before where the fisherman was a Greek and the businessman was a German.
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by jessems 7y ago
I've been tracking all my productive hours since November 2018. I can highly recommend it. I also know some others that do the same. nateliason.com comes to mind. It's not as insightful as I expected, but certainly brings about en
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by jessems 7y ago
There's a lot of good responses in this thread already, but I would like to add one more thing. An emotion will generally be part of a chain of emotions and beliefs. Here's how this example of envy could work out for me: - At the
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Google doesn't send user's Android crash report feedback to its developers(stackoverflow.com)
3 points by jessems 7y ago|0 comments
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On Writing at All(jessems.com)
1 points by jessems 7y ago|0 comments
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by jessems 8y ago
I recently wrote about this discussion here: https://www.indiehackers.com/@jessems/its-not-a-startup-the-... The term startup is ambiguous and the fact that Steve Blank, Eris Reiss and Paul Graham have their own defini
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It's not a startup: The evolving definition in a 24-hour bootstrapped world(indiehackers.com)
1 points by jessems 8y ago|0 comments

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