yanokwa

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   by yanokwa 16d ago

   ODK | Senior Product Manager | Remote (Worldwide) | Long-term contract, 30–40 hours/week | $90–$110/hour USD ODK is an open-source platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide to collect billions of data points for diseas
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   by yanokwa 9mo ago

   I think open-source leaders who want sustainable resourcing should focus on building obvious paths for people who find ongoing value in their project to contribute. That to me is the best return-on-investment. If it's a library, make i
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   by yanokwa 9mo ago

   I run [ODK]( https://getodk.org ). It's a offline mobile data collection platform that has been an DPG since 2022. In practice, being a DPG makes your project slightly easier to choose in UN and government procurements. In mo
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   by yanokwa 1y ago

   https://mmonit.com is what I use for stuff like this.
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   by yanokwa 2y ago

   Some of these are from 2023. Have any of their graduated proposals shipped into a browser? I'm trying to get a sense of their visible wins so far.
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   by yanokwa 2y ago

   In the US? Ally offers savings accounts with great rates (usually 50% off prime, so currently 4.25%) and in my experience is a fantastic bank. Way better than credit unions I’ve banked with. https://www.ally.com/bank/on
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   by yanokwa 3y ago

   People who are into shoes (e.g., sneakerheads) do clean their soles.
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   by yanokwa 3y ago

   Yup! Mozilla uses this very structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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   by yanokwa 3y ago

   Try OrbStack. Should be much better on battery life.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I wonder if the sports/talent agent model could work here.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    You could also use https://nextdns.io . It’s basically pi-hole in the cloud.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    ET adds a layer between application and TCP sockets that persists connections. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks has more. If you are mostly on unreliable and high-latency connections, mosh will likely feel better, but
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I've switched from Mosh to Eternal Terminal ( https://eternalterminal.dev ) because of its excellent native scrolling support.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    ChangeDetection https://changedetection.io . Self-hosted website change detection.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but just to answer the question. https://elonsbrokenpromises.com and https://elonmusk.today have examples of promises Elon has made that have not come to pass.
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I'm one of the founders of ODK[1]. It's an open-source offline data collection app that, according to WHO[2], helped eradicate wild polio from Africa. It's become the de-facto app that social impact orgs (e.g., Red Cross, Car
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    The Khan Kids app is pretty great
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I don't disagree and we work hard to provide guidance on best practices and software to support implementation. Ultimately, in the contexts in which we work, the organizations are the data controllers and there are complex legal issues
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    The vast majority of users are staff who are hired to collect data for a non-profit. The vast majority of servers are self-hosted by those non-profits. It's very opt-in in that regard. Think of say a census worker counting households o
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    I'm founder and CEO at ODK and we are hiring ( https://getodk.org/jobs )! ODK is an open-source mobile data collection platform. The common use-case is a data collector in the field fills out a form while offline. Whenev
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    by yanokwa 4y ago

    ODK | Software Engineer | Remote | https://getodk.org/jobs ODK is open-source software that helps users build powerful offline forms to collect the data they need wherever it is. It's trusted by leading social impact o
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    by yanokwa 5y ago

    See https://lunar.fyi to change brightness via keyboard
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    by yanokwa 5y ago

    I run a Discourse hosting company that makes about $2k/month. https://unisonhosting.com
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    by yanokwa 5y ago

    I’m curious, have you done an ABX test recently? My wife swore up and down she could hear the difference too. An ABX test with expensive headphones in a quiet room across a few different genres and bitrates showed that she couldn’t.
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    by yanokwa 7y ago

    I'd love an invite!
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    by yanokwa 7y ago

    Kind of you to say. You aren't so bad yourself!
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    by yanokwa 7y ago

    And I'm still answering cold emails to this day! Glad I could help and hope you get a chance to pay it forward.
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    by yanokwa 7y ago

    I have a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Washington. I'm glad I did it, but it's not for most people. Academic research is like a marathon and the Ph.D. is like a marathon training program. If you don't want to run a marat
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    by yanokwa 7y ago

    Citation on the large number of unvaccinated?