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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Post by atwebb »

ranie93 wrote: post #22

Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch! This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be... edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!

Interesting stuff, here's a recent one, if anyone is interested they are reviewing some new blockchain related methods and they walkthrough the methods. Not everything is clear to everyone, it's refreshing to see a very smart, CEO level person, logically step through new concepts/code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYcH0IngWxs

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Post by kevinventullo »

chubot wrote: post #138

Some pretty cool things: - He's a CEO who dogfoods his own software! Not only that, he seems to be one of its most prolific users. That's amazing. Having worked for over a decade at Google, I sometimes wonder if the founders still use the products. Larry Page used to always harp on latency (rightly), and now Google products are slower than ever. - He's a remote CEO, and supports remote working! It sounds like the com…

To be honest, the conference call linked lower in the thread has increased my skepticism for remote work. Another commenter pointed out how much smoother everything would have gone if everyone had been in the same room.

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Post by fudged71 »

graeme wrote: post #142
noir_lord wrote: post #42

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Funny how people are so different. My desk has to have exactly, 1 keyboard, 1 mouse, 1 A4 5mm graph paper pad and that's it. I used to struggle to work on a slightly cluttered desk but these days it has to be basically empty. In terms of paperwork, it goes behind me on shelves sorted by "Important, will need soon, Important, will need later, Not important" everything else goes in the bin. Periodically I rip the pads…

How do you process the files in the three shelves?

Haha this guy doesn't know how to use the three seashells

;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnuOa7tDco

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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kevinventullo wrote: post #152
chubot wrote: post #138

Some pretty cool things: - He's a CEO who dogfoods his own software! Not only that, he seems to be one of its most prolific users. That's amazing. Having worked for over a decade at Google, I sometimes wonder if the founders still use the products. Larry Page used to always harp on latency (rightly), and now Google products are slower than ever. - He's a remote CEO, and supports remote working! It sounds like the com…

To be honest, the conference call linked lower in the thread has increased my skepticism for remote work. Another commenter pointed out how much smoother everything would have gone if everyone had been in the same room.

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Post by js2 »

graeme wrote: post #110
js2 wrote: post #79

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Scan, OCR and shred. I have a scan pile and a shred pile. I collect documents in front of my scanner. Once a month I'll shred the previous month's documents in the shred pile, scan the current documents, and put them in the shred pile to be shredded next month. I do this because sometimes it's easier just having the hard-copy around, but if I haven't used it in a month, it's rare I still need the hard-copy.

Do you name them, or just put them en masse by date? And what ocr software do you use?

Initially they are just named with the date they are scanned. Once a quarter or so I'll organize the ones I care about and the rest stay in an "unorganized" folder.

I use DEVONthink Pro Office which embeds Abbyy for OCR, along with a Fuji SnapScan.

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Post by mailslot »

watmough wrote: post #127
foxhop wrote: post #55

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Did you know even the old-school computer mouse uses light to work? The new school just don't have a mechanical component of a ball and two rollers which spin two separate "gears" which blocks light and then math to figure out the horizontal change + vertical change. I found that pretty neat when I learned. (I'm old enough to remember the pains of using a gunked up ball mouse.)

For old-school meaning about '85 or so, 'optical mouse' meant a mouse on a special gridded pad that worked optically. See this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_optical_mouse.jp... That's not a regular mouse pad, it's a special red/blue/silver grid detected by a laser in the mouse.

You could rotate the mouse pad and the mouse wouldn’t track. Very prankable.

Edit: At least on a Sun workstation

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

js2 wrote: post #155
graeme wrote: post #110

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Do you name them, or just put them en masse by date? And what ocr software do you use?

Initially they are just named with the date they are scanned. Once a quarter or so I'll organize the ones I care about and the rest stay in an "unorganized" folder. I use DEVONthink Pro Office which embeds Abbyy for OCR, along with a Fuji SnapScan.

I use JS1’s exact process, software and hardware. That is just too eerie. I however only shred once I have a full banker’s box, which I take to a commercial shredder for a big toss for $100, once or twice a year.

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Post by [deleted] »

techgipper wrote: post #5

Funny, I do this with my digital trash can: When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away…

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