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I've been a fan and user of David Seah's calendar for 3 years now. https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ I keep a pdf and screenshot version on my desktop and phone. For dat…

I very strongly agree to the idea of using the tools you already have and know to solve the problem at hand and release it. Then observe where it could use help, then seek options …

We needed queues. We used Redis. That fits the domain. Problem was there wasn't a good answer to "How much redis does your team need to know to put it in production". We thought we…

Yes I did mean RDB. Thanks for pointing out. There were many problems but at the core of it, this was us having redis write huge amounts of data to disk very frequently causing thi…

Using a tool without knowing reasonable bounds of the domain, current requirements, and how the tool (redis in this case) solves the problem isn't good advice. Case in point our te…

I like to call it "poor engineering" and there are many forms of poor engineering I've seen. Following the analogy... painting the bottom of the bridge in same color as the terrain…

counting people who have tried and failed to summit K2 vs space travel is (to me) a better quantification.

For me this was a good starting point. https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/parts/part1.html

I use multiple media. Nothing beats the fluidity, ubiquity and the sheer aesthetic quality of pen on paper. Excellent for diagrams and notes as I am discussing something on a call,…

Neither did I. I was introduced to Eclipse before I got my first job and today, 9 years later it still gets the job done. I briefly use IntelliJ IDEA CE only for one static analysi…

Yeah but...but... that would just get the job done. Nothing to write about, nothing to whine about, no weird dependencies being pulled, nothing to hand-wave, nothing to yell and hu…

> Philosophy will get through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no philosophy. Good quote! I always feel philosophy is the abode for people who coul…

I suspect water resistance played a part in moving in this direction.

If you bet big, you may lose and eat the dust. If you don't, and play cautiously, your competition will eat your market and starve you. You still eat the dust. I just don't get it.…

Also curious is the case of Pebble. Great product, priced right, small set of customers who swore by it, did one thing really really well. Now its dead.

I suspect legal liability to be a big factor. I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company …

My previous comment feels snarky, did not mean it to be so. I apologize.

Sooo... the design is not good, performance is very very poor, plugins are clunky, reporting is also poor, there's no mobile client ..... but you're happy with it. Hmmh, alright.

> All votes shall be counted by honest and stalwart men of virtue Hah, had a good laugh out of this. Thanks for sharing.

Had never heard of drawabox. Loved their description[0]. Resonated so deeply with me. > Drawabox's goal is to provide beginners with a strong foundation, and to equip them with the…

I'm learning to say no.

> never again use anything proprietary or even non-human readable 100% agree with this. I have settled on a very lightly (headers and lists) formatted markdown file. I like how I c…

Link [1] to HN discussion around the Mazda announcement [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335

What seemed like a straightforward product turned out to be an intricate challenge. The problem with being a small shop selling POS products is finding customers at the right time.…