sharmi

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by sharmi 5mo ago
Just came to say, I appreciate your emotionally intelligent and balanced take on your experience, where it would have been very easy to react and let emotions take over (understandably).
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by sharmi 1y ago
Astro blog deployed on Github Pages. VS Code for editing. Points to Ponder -> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hosted blog needs. Using any of the third party themes/templates with a list of
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by sharmi 2y ago
I think problem is not as much as wordier sentences as sentences devoid of meaning or the same stuff repeated too many times to fill a 300 page book. I still prefer the original version of the classics to abridged versions.
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by sharmi 2y ago
Hi OP, I saw your project lists. I think you are on the right track. You are not spending too much time in dev and are experimenting in multiple ideas. You got one notch under your belt. You also seem to be quite an accomplished writer. Tha
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by sharmi 2y ago
Wow! This is something that's been rolling about in my brain but the author has elucidated it in a way beyond the thought and attention I gave this. Anecdotally, I have seen and `read` multiple founders' posts and comments detaili
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by sharmi 2y ago
* Unlike how technical people often understand these stories, development is a smaller part of the story. From my own experience, it is a huge journey to understand marketing and sales. We generally undervalue marketing and sales in program
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by sharmi 2y ago
Walkman was the first device I got saving up pocket money. So it was definitely affordable.
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by sharmi 2y ago
Checkout the blog of onlineornot creator. I have learnt some important insights from his posts. https://onlineornot.com/articles https://maxrozen.com/onlineornot-diaries-14
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by sharmi 2y ago
I faced this too but I attributed it to some obscure bug or setup issue. Seems like I am not alone. Google sheets takes forever to load (Just 150 records on the biggest sheet. 9 other sheets with paltry records). Any keypress or scroll take
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by sharmi 2y ago
I think I might understand how you feel. You need a human connection and someway to make an impact in this ephemeral world. Have you considered some form of mentoring of young people who are willing to learn? It could be in the course of y
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Svelte UI Libraries have Leveled up [video](youtube.com)
1 points by sharmi 3y ago|0 comments
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by sharmi 3y ago
I have always had good experience with Thinkpad T series. But anything outside Lenovo's business range laptops is usually terrible. It's like an entirely different company! Had a terrible experience with IdeaPad and it died just a
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by sharmi 3y ago
As a mint user myself, welcome to the land of peace :) , after the pesky issues of Ubuntu. I would like to share how I handle mint-unaware software systems. As a kind of workaround, to get Docker to work, you would find the equivalent of Ub
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by sharmi 3y ago
Dealing with fraud detection is a real pain! Every 3 months, I have to pay the school fee for my 3 kids. The amount is almost the same for all three. The first payment always goes off without a hitch. But, when I go to pay for the second
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by sharmi 3y ago
I am really sorry for all those who have lost their job today. There seems to be a lot of negative view about managers here. If I had to judge managers by my experience at my first job, I would be first in the line decrying them. But, now I
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Extension Workshop by Firefox(extensionworkshop.com)
3 points by sharmi 3y ago|0 comments
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by sharmi 3y ago
Basic stuff: We have gotten used to treating Google Search as a one big reference search engine. We don't bookmark stuff anymore, cause you can get it in a few seconds of search. We don't remember much stuff anymore, cause you can
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by sharmi 3y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Founder-Painfully-Honest-Startup... Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin goes in deep about the challenges of leading a company. It felt honest and truthful and talks about the implications of each
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by sharmi 3y ago
My kids love Mark Rober https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md75n8cyenA PBS Eons https://www.youtube.com/@eons Action Lab - https://www.youtube.com/@TheActionLab MinuteEarth - https:/&#x2
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by sharmi 3y ago
Firstly, congrats on make sales! You have overcome the most difficult part of starting a business, and you should be proud of it! Regarding your product/website, I concur with the feedback given by the other commenters here. To truly u
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Ask HN: WebApps with the Best UX and Clear Microcopy?
1 points by sharmi 3y ago|0 comments
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by sharmi 3y ago
My kids glue to their seats for Ted-ed MinuteEarth and their related channels Mark Rober Sometimes Extra History. Especially their series on how writing evolved. Dinosaur documentaries.
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by sharmi 3y ago
There are multiple responses to the above parent noting how readable the above line of code is and yet how it might go wrong. The first pitfall of using english as a programming language that occurs to me (as a totally Cobol ignorant perso
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by sharmi 3y ago
omad=one meal a day It is a form of time restricted eating/fasting that is being researched of late for it's positive effects on health and longevity.
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by sharmi 3y ago
I have been watching Google Search Console closely for little over a year now due to several projects I have on it and have observed similar issues. These patterns predate the GPT3 and ChatGPT changes. Patterns I have seen: 1. New site does
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by sharmi 3y ago
A lot of reasons below are valid. And also the technical context addressed by one of the other comments. But beyond that, as a company's size increases, the proportion of value contribution from the code is increasingly augmented by th
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by sharmi 4y ago
If you are trying to bootstrap, try microconf talks on youtube.[1] Good signal/noise ratio. I still find good informative talks. If you find a speaker on microconf interesting, follow their talks on other channels. Newsletters I find u
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by sharmi 4y ago
For those who are trying to sign up: Students are not meant to sign up directly. So you have to sign up as either a teacher or a volunteer (parents are this category). Then you will get a code. You need to use this code to create a student
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by sharmi 4y ago
I appreciate that you are still trying to learn marketing and not sitting back on your laurels or outsourcing the work. There shouldn't be any upper bounds on your growth just because you make more than one person needs, assuming you a
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by sharmi 4y ago
Even if the open source contributor does not intend to monetize (not that there is anything wrong with that), even in it's core idea, it is still essential for open source contributors to know marketing. 1. As someone below said, even

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