oddlyaromatic

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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
Normally I'd agree with this sentiment: language changes constantly, usage is king. However we're in an era where people (often in the course of marketing themselves or a product) intentionally move the goalposts of word meanings
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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
Wow I like your blog! The landing page is really nice. I did, though, get very distracted by the text-shadow on the headings and links. It makes me feel like I have something on my glasses or something. Everything else looks beautiful to me
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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
> which means Veterans can schedule a mental health appointment on their phone. It all comes down to this. Well done. It's so easy to get stuck in the weeds and forget the real goal.
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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
Google Apps Script is great for tools like this: I have used some at work for a while to manage gig listings for a musician... just the tiny bit of automation happening at midnight let's them add shows via a Google form and forget all
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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
Last year I lead a project called Paratransit Pal to enter AT&T's Civic Coding Challenge in Atlanta ... the project was all about improving accessibility and clarity of information about trips for users with cognitive disabilities.
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by oddlyaromatic 8y ago
I used a fundraising tool recently with this kind of passwordless workflow. It's a tool that you only use once a year for about 30 days, and your authenticated session can last about that long. Which means you do the process once on ea
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I would not have noticed that one chart in each set of 4 has a different scale, so things that are the same height aren't actually the same number. It certainly looks nice and tidy but it is indeed misleading.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
They specifically referred to the "deterred subset" ... which is much smaller then "everyone". In any case, the parent's point seemed pretty empty. > Who's to say that the current deterred subset of the popu
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
"It's your time, and if people are willing to pay, you can charge whatever you like." Yep! It also helps, for those of us who feel bad charging "high" prices for work we like to do, to not think of ourselves as bein
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
This is a big thing people don't always get at first with Grid. It only replaces Flexbox where Flexbox was being used in a convoluted way to imitate what Grid does. It doesn't replace the more "natural" use of Flexbox to
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Not an app, but I have used ifttt recipes for this in the past, where I call the number and leave a message, then receive an email with transcription and link to audio in case the transcription was bad. Then I was automatically tagging thos
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> I see so many great technical people who are unable to communicate effectively and suffer badly from this. I learned a lot of my communication skills studying the arts, and staging plays, musical performances, etc. My best teachers abo
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
It is already much cheaper to import services and hire people who don't live in SV. But somehow companies continue to locate themselves there. Presumably the opportunities for profit outweigh the costs imposed by the high cost of livin
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I'm with you. The company who wants to exchange capital for labor benefits from being able to negotiate separately with each provider of that labor to get the lowest price possible from each person. SOME of the people providing the lab
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
MuseScore is great, I have used it to produce lead sheets professionally on several occasions and it does not disappoint. I grew up on Sibelius but prefer MuseScore for simpler tasks. They have done a great job.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Something that helped me a lot was somebody pointing out that it's OK for code not to be 100% DRY - sometimes things are the same at a given point in time only by coincidence, not by some inherent logical connection. It's a mistak
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Wow, there is a lot of stuff there. About a year ago I looked for some contrast based syntax highlighting for Atom and didn't find anything usable, but maybe it's time to look again.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Oh cool, thanks for the response and explanation. For me, real time is a big deal: I work with adults with developmental disabilities, and anything that helps with having fun jamming with me and my musician friends is really interesting. I
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I use grayscale when I'm finding I'm too distracted by all the stuff on my phone or computer. It helps me focus on what I'm doing sometimes and is a visual reminder that, for whatever reason, I need to try harder than usual t
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
The fella behind imitone ( https://imitone.com/ ) has been grinding away at the details of this stuff for a while. I haven't checked in on it for a while but I was a kickstarter backer. The last version I loaded up and p
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I saw an enjoyable talk recently about snapshot testing. I don't know too much about testing generally but it seems like it could be relevant: https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/en/snapshot-testing.htm.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>Is this demonization of opposing viewpoints a new thing, or am I just noticing it more in the last two years? I think it's more in recent years. Especially in the US where things are highly polarized and every issue seems to have a
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Looks like I missed that point in your original post. Seems about right. I think I was led astray by your last sentence about the skills.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>much of your experience from 10+ years ago isn't very relevant today >you're not more qualified than someone less experienced who has that skill. I'd gently disagree with this. An extra decade or more of working and na
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
On the management side (non-tech) I initially felt awkward managing people older than me too. After some time I figured out that it is not that hard to have a relationship where their experience and knowledge is a good part of it. Their exp
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
It has more to do with chargebacks than verifying at the time of the sale, as far as I know. If I claim I don't recognize a transaction, the business can defend themselves a little if they have my signature recorded for that transactio
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>If everyone started sending marketing emails like this, then they would start looking like advertisements, they would feel less personal, spam and "promotional" filters would adapt, and you'd be back to square 1. True, bu
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> In addition, if it was so easy to obtain how come my credit card bank still constantly begs me to update my income information? I suspect this one has more to do with trying to engage you so that they may sell you more credit.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> So I can understand that Mozilla might want to keep themselves off mailing blacklists So can I, but the desire/need to do this does not imply a "right" to track the opening of messages in the manner initially planned. Th
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
The whiteboard thing is different. Candidates of all backgrounds can practice that and thus make it less effective as a tool to filter out bad applicants. But diversity quotas, for example, are harder to game because most people can't

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