zachsnow

7 ms·

1.
ARkStorm (atmospheric river 1k storm)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zachsnow 5y ago|0 comments
2.
Ts.ed – A Node.js and TypeScript Framework on Top of Express/Koa.js(tsed.io)
1 points by zachsnow 5y ago|0 comments
3.
by zachsnow 6y ago
Exactly as you say: if customers (that is, the people paying for the software, not necessarily the people filling in forms) need it, then it's a requirement. The point is that while sorting by last name (say) might not seem important
4.
by zachsnow 6y ago
> What do you really need a first and last name separated for anyways? Sorting?... Sorting by last name isn't usually important... When paying customers / clients want to sort by last name, because “that’s how we do things”, th
5.
by zachsnow 7y ago
I am from Minneapolis. I’m trying to imagine a fast rail connect to Chicago as being better than driving. Once in Chicago I think I’d like to have a car? It’s only a day’s drive away so I imagine I’d rather drive. Basically the net is that
6.
by zachsnow 7y ago
It seems however that 2018 was a “record year” so maybe it’s just back to “normal”?
7.
What I Learned from 1000 Days of Meditation(joshcsimmons.com)
6 points by zachsnow 7y ago|0 comments
8.
by zachsnow 7y ago
CA, USA. To be fair it’s not like everyone is smiling all the time! But I genuinely feel that my neighborhood is a great community mostly consisting of interesting and friendly people.
9.
by zachsnow 7y ago
This feels like hyperbole. Instead of saying you are wrong objectively, I’ll say instead that my subjective experience of “the city” is in stark contrast to this. Green spaces and the ocean abound. My neighbors are wonderful people. The bus
10.
by zachsnow 7y ago
Why would they line up to work for you of all people? They can work for anyone they want, it’s somewhat of a seller’s market when it comes to programming. I imagine just about nothing is 100% fun 100% of the time. If many parts of your work
11.
by zachsnow 7y ago
Exactly. Admire traits, but don’t (or, try not to) envy. Admiration, and the motivation that can come with it, can be good! But blind envy or jealousy can overlook the negatives that someone might be dealing with.
12.
by zachsnow 7y ago
Still cool.
13.
by zachsnow 7y ago
It seems to me that is how my eyesight works, too, so it’s unsurprising that’s how my mind’s “eyesight” works as well!
14.
by zachsnow 7y ago
I found this to be a very interesting survey of the different things affecting the SF housing market. Whether you agree with all of the points brought up it's hard to deny that it's a complex issue.
15.
by zachsnow 7y ago
> is this not evidence of incomplete requirements? Yes! But there will never be a complete set of requirements — indeed if you think the requirements are complete, you spent too much time on them and you aren’t looking at the problem c
16.
by zachsnow 7y ago
The article states that by not coding at home you can “have a life, too”, implying you won’t have one if you code at home. This idea is repeated in the article, suggesting to me that it is more than just clickbait. That’s dumb. Of course yo
17.
by zachsnow 7y ago
That website is very bad at conveying what it actually is to someone that might want to use it.
18.
by zachsnow 8y ago
99% of the job building the core tech; the other 99% of the job is sales, support, account management, marketing, etc. It’s never just the product, no matter how much we builder types might like. (No idea whether 60M is the right number for
19.
by zachsnow 8y ago
> ignoring the many many people who turned $15,000 loans into failed businesses. As far as I understand it, most (VC-backed, tech) companies that raise millions of dollars manage to turn the money into failure.
20.
by zachsnow 8y ago
Not quite the timespans some folks have mentioned, but I’ve been at my company 6-7 years. I helped start it, and it was recently acquired. It’s still super fun to work on. That’s enough for me.
21.
by zachsnow 8y ago
I love how “boring” this stack is; great job just shipping the damn thing!
22.
by zachsnow 8y ago
The same mechanism that ensures that the local coffee shop isn’t charging so much that the owner has a second house in Bermuda — if you raise prices that much you won’t be competitive. Obviously in an particular case, who knows? But in gene
23.
by zachsnow 8y ago
I was looking forward to reading this article as the concept (even just the name, identify diversification) immediately resonated with me. What I found was an anecdote followed by a few hypotheticals. “What if you spend all your time sports
24.
by zachsnow 8y ago
Hey this is neat! Re: injecting into Slack.app, you're right, it's a pain. I had a simple approach here: https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/ but it needs to be updated for every version (which of course I did
25.
by zachsnow 8y ago
Re: stick vs automatic, is QWERTY more fun though?
26.
by zachsnow 8y ago
I believe the point is whether the string is intended to be displayed to a human, not whether a human might read it in the code. Still some wiggle room around logging, etc. I guess.
27.
by zachsnow 8y ago
That’s so interesting! I see now what you mean (hi google), but my initial mental image was a rich old man with a death-grip on his riches.
28.
by zachsnow 8y ago
I have found the closer I am to the product and the clients that will be affected, and the more thoroughly I understand the usecase from the client’s perspective, the better I am at understanding how much effort to spend on “getting it righ
29.
by zachsnow 9y ago
> people who can see themselves wanting it if someone else pays (i.e. future them could pay) Great way to make this point! So when you ask someone "would you pay for it?" you are really asking "would you use it if someone
30.
by zachsnow 9y ago
A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).

More ›