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> Build the product once, distribute it to a million users for roughly the same cost as distributing it to one. Every incremental customer flowed largely to the bottom line. common…

I'd preface the solution and the key point before mentioning that I'd seen this problem before and then further ask if they still want me to code up the solution. This eliminates t…

Why are you so wedded to JSON responses? I'd assume because of the conception that json = data. Html = presentation. But if you just use barebones html, this could work very well. …

I see this as psychology driven, not math. It pushes people to look at new options and tempt an upgrade at the end of the lease (pay $1000 for a 3 year old mac or just upgrade ?). …

art that served the artist, served its purpose

The unreasonable difficulty of predicting (actual) future effects based on past effects with no regards to their cause.

in a decade, we're all going to say how developers job is so different and yet still the same as it was 10 years ago.

> hobby projects I still code by hand So true. I was too blinded to not notice the joy of my hobby getting sucked away by not doing it by hand.

"How can we dig a well here" and "should we dig a well here" are neither mutually exclusive nor sufficient in their own regard. Cant answer should we without having done a lot of i…

For the producer, a nominal (at cost) fee is worse than an exorbitant one. better to have a few high paying customers first then drop the price inviting more than the other way aro…

screens distract everyone. I avoid them. in meetings, I use a piece of paper or a whiteboard. Everyone can see what is being written on it. on that note, the small whiteboard right…

my good notes have their origins in thoughts I had while in the shower or while driving or watching a movie or a conversation with someone close to me. Ideas evade me when I'm at m…

Oh that is such a bad heuristic ! The commits and history of how a PR was put together is no indicator of the quality of the PR or the thought process that led to it. Thats the equ…

Ahh.. gotcha. My bad.

That is diametrically opposite to how I read non-fiction. Its designed on how I approach a new codebase effectively. first is skimming and context. table of contents, the preclude,…

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yes and that led me to a more fundamental question : is it even possible for an easy way to do fine grained adjustments. The finer granularity brings complexity. that makes it unre…

Graphviz and mermaid are a shitshow. anything more than their own handpicked examples and you're better off using d3 or yfiles. layering, clustering, boundaries, rearranging are al…

Like area 51.

recently read a post on a moms' forum about her having a hard time getting her kid to practice violin and the skill plateauing. the breakthrough was a trip to a relative's remote h…

How to ask for help is an under-discussed important topic. Women are way better at asking for help and getting it as compared to men. there's some very well-known psychology tricks…

The programming language is the shared vocabulary Everything above are made up leaky abstractions with a handful of exceptions

Its valid but useless. Think someone says i'm thirsty all the time because there's little clean water available, what's available is expensive but it could be better if we did so-a…