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MacroChip

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MacroChip··on How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
Yes please! Thank you
MacroChip··on Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
Having a satellite phone is very interesting! I wonder what motivated that. Is he traveling to extremely rural (presumably international) locations?
MacroChip··on Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
Just saw this on Product Hunt. https://www.actiondesk.io
MacroChip··on Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
For 1, are you suggesting something like a GUI for a list of data transformation recipes? I.e. specify an input format and an output format and press play? How would these recipes be created?
MacroChip··on Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
Ever tried https://twist.com/tour ? I've always thought it looked interesting, but my company uses Slack. The main difference seems to be that it's thread focused rather than channel focused. Which makes me wonder if it's basically just modern email (which is fine).
MacroChip··on 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
Great question. Maybe they did pick a sensible constant, but it still wasn't enough. I.e. INT_MAX wasn't big enough.
MacroChip··on Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
I think this is good feedback. I'm surprised that you got 2 negative responses to your suggestion. You never said that you disagree with the comment. You were requesting that 1 or 2 sentences could have been rewarded.
MacroChip··on Write good git commit messages
This is something I put significant effort into. Same thing for test names. Most importantly, I explain why I did something. A test name "testFilterSpecialCharacters" adds no documentation. "testFilterSpecialCharactersBecauseSpecialCharactersCrashTextBoxLibV1_3" is way better. It adds documentation and context that don't exist in the lines of code in the test. I also added the exact version of the library that motivated the filtering for convince. Don't be afraid of long commit messages, test names, or varibale names.
MacroChip··on JIRA is an antipattern
Great comment. Most if not all other comments were recommending/complaining about parallelizing horizontal slides. Like you said, vertical slices are generally valuable to an end user, even if that first one is ugly, not user friendly, etc. Horizontal slides are a gamble. You parallelize, but risk wasting considerable work.
MacroChip··on Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
1. Learn how to say "no."

2. Learn how to say "I was wrong."

3. Learn how to say "I don't know."

4. It is ok to change your mind

By "learn how to" I mean "gracefully and confidently".

Longer version: I have learned to care immensely about what I'm working on but not get stressed. I constantly step back and affirm that most things just aren't a big deal. That gives me clarity of thought and allows me to do really good work and have a lot of fun doing it. No matter what happens, nothing can take away my ability to learn and self improve. Therefore, I will always be ok.

MacroChip··on Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna looks weird. Source 1 has another image of a more complex antenna.
MacroChip··on People Hacks for Technical Leads
Great article. Threading in a chat tool is an absolute necessity for me. Regarding embedding, I like to wave and smile without talking to makers while they are working. I say hello and maybe chat with managers. Waving and smiling is friendly without interrupting a maker. It still gives them an opportunity to start conversation.
MacroChip··on JavaScript fundamentals before learning React
I think the author was going for something like "When you see a const, think twice before changing anything inside that const."
MacroChip··on Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python
Cool setup. I'm not a Backblaze customer, so I'm curious. How is your setup better than using their client for personal backup? The webpage mentions threading and encryption.
MacroChip··on Dumber phone
I've been solving a related problem: help you use websites for what you want and nothing more. How many times have you gotten on Facebook to send a message and stayed there for too long? It won't happen again. Currently works on Gmail, Facebook, and YouTube. I'll be testing it on Firefox mobile this weekend. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tunnel-focus/hbekj...
MacroChip··on #deletefacebook
If you delete your posts or account, Facebook is probably still using the data.
MacroChip··on Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo
Mister Wainzinger,

Sorry to ask for your time, but if it is possible for you to let me know, I would love to read about a Japanese engineer living in the US. Are you aware of any related articles or response articles on this topic? I understand that it may be an inconvenience to tell me about these articles, but your cooperation is greatly appreciated in this matter.

Apologies and thanks,

Thien, Chip

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