ajwaxman

Quite the nice surprise to see this hit the front page after getting back from a long road trip that included explosive diarrhea from our son on the last pitstop

Love seeing all the other personal apps people are building

Ha amazing! Brings back memories of holding our sleeping son and voice to texting with Claude on pat leave

I write on a variety of topics: health, product, design, and engineering. Need to get back to writing more frequently https://blog.awaxman.com/

Not when you have a footer that you want people to be able to click. Can't stand when infinite scrolls make footers impossible to interact with!

Credit to Jason Fung (author of The Obesity Code) for the tips!

And I can very much relate to not being able to stop once I start eating something. I find this especially hard with processed/refined carbs, which I believe play some tricks on our hunger related hormones so our body can't detect when we've had enough food. If I stick to mostly more protein/fat and unprocessed carbs I find it much easier to control how much I eat.

It's interesting to hear your success with an extended fast. I haven't ventured beyond the 16:8 but am intrigued to experiment with something a bit longer this year.

Has anybody ever used stack ranking to power book recommendations? Instead of rating books on a scale of 1-5 star you instead rate each book relative to every other book you’ve ever read.

Some other factors that I think could be used to create a high quality book recommendation engine on top of stack ranking: number of books read (the top 5 books from someone who has read 200+ books is a stronger signal than someone who has read 10 books) and release date (give extra weight to older books to reduce recency bias).

What do you think? Am I onto something or just spewing some sat night nonsense?

Anyone else misread that as new Patrick Collison math?

Just hit my 60th weekday in a row of writing at least 350 words thanks to Blurt

Here's some more details on creating this habit. On blurt of course :)

https://blurt.app/@awaxman11/creating-a-writing-habit/5c60ed...

I've been really enjoying Blurt app http://Blurt.app

Here's a behind the scenes look into how I've used Blurt to help me create a writing habit (50+ day streak ongoing!) https://blurt.app/@awaxman11/creating-a-writing-habit/5c60ed...

The founder is running the business openly.Here are his Feb '19 results: https://twitter.com/corey_gwin/status/1109565231510900736

To play devil's advocate, I think there is a relatively small overlap of 1) very successful people in finance/tech/etc and 2) people that dedicate enough time to effectively communicate ideas in a book/blog

There are exceptions, Ray Dalio being a recent good example. But I think he is more the exception, not the rule.

Below is a related passage from Essentialism that touches upon this dynamic:

"Jim Collins, the author of the business classic Good to Great, was once told by Peter Drucker that he could either build a great company or build great ideas but not both. Jim chose ideas. As a result of this trade-off there are still only three full-time employees in his company, yet his ideas have reached tens of millions of people through his writing."

McKeown, Greg. Essentialism (p. 55)

Huge Wagon fan. Very sad to see it go. I loved both the sharing functionality (shared folders + being able to easily share a link) and graphing capabilities. If I had to pick one over the other I'd probably pick the graphing capabilities.

Would love for you to replicate Wagon :)

I'd be happy to pay $5-10 / month to continue to use Wagon past October

We do create separate issues for design and development :)

IMO having an explicit assignee is more clear than cc'ing someone, and it also makes it easier to see all issues that you're currently responsible for moving forward. At the end of the day whatever works best for the given team is what should be used. I don't think there is a definitively right or wrong approach. Our current approach works quite well, and this new feature is going to make things even easier.

Surprised to see so much negative feedback. I agree that clear responsibility is important, and that adding multiple assignees when those people share similar responsibilities could lead to the bystander effect.

I'm really excited about this feature. I feel like "If only GitHub Issues allowed multiple assignees" comes up in conversations with colleagues at least a couple times a month.

For context, the design (and development) team I work with uses GitHub Issues religiously. Right now all issues that need design work are explicitly assigned to a designer, and we use a label based workflow combined with Codetree to help organize weekly sprints. Having multiple assignees will allow us to explicitly assign a product manager to each of these issues w/o having to take it out of each designer's sprint, which will help make sure all design tasks receive feedback and move forward in a timely manner.

Thanks for the response! That's exactly what I had in mind re: ability to order problems at a more granular level. Didn't realize that arbitrary attributes are supported, that's great

After looking through the documentation it doesn't seem like the following features exist. Would love to know if I'm missing something, or if not the thought process behind excluding these features:

1) Ability to prioritize problems on a more granular level than the priority type. This would help people prioritize which problems they want to work on next in a kanban type format

2) Story points or the ability to estimate the approximate size of the task

It was the latter

Vinicius Vacanti of Yipit - http://viniciusvacanti.com/

Dan Shipper - http://danshipper.com/

Great stuff! I've been working on an app to help solve this same problem more generally. Here is a blog post I wrote talking about the problem from my perspective https://medium.com/look-what-i-made/4e667ad7a098

There are definitely investors that like venture debt risk/reward like the following firms:

http://www.goldhillcapital.com/ http://www.westerntech.com/ http://www.orix.com/

There are also some commercial banks with venture debt arms like SVB, Comerica, and Square 1

2nd time in one week that Dennett has popped up on HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374470)

Philosophy of mind is a very interesting topic as computers become more and more 'human' like. Dug up an essay I wrote freshman year on one of his books called Consciousness Explained - funny to look back at old writings:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3t7ntwy782m005/Dennett%20Paper%20...

http://7min.io/ is also really good for the 7 minute workout

Great article man! Love all the philosophy of mind references. During my freshman seminar I had to read Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, ended up switching me from going to the business school to being a philosophy major and 'Learning how to learn.'

Now that I've started learning how to program and working building a product I can't thank that professor. Whether learning what customers want, learning how to sell, or learning a new programming language / framework - it's essential to be able to pick up stuff quickly.

I hadn't thought about philosophy in awhile so thanks for reminding me the benefits of being able to clearly articulate complex ideas and make meaning out of uncertainty.

Awesome feedback! Really appreciate it!

Thanks for the download and kind words! We've contemplated adding existing events from facebook and other sources, but think that the quality of those events are not great. Would it be helpful if it was possible to share flocks with people not on the app through a web interface?

Thanks! It got a bunch of upvotes right away and made it to the homepage but then got flagged for the early traction :(

I'd add authorization. Right now you can access all the edit and show pages as long as you're signed in

As an investment banking analyst who was learning to code "on the side" for 6+ months and then finally decided to quit my job and learn to code full time in January, I can't agree more with this article. Learning to code part time doesn't work. You need motivation, and you need to dive into coding head first. Zach Shapiro has some great tips related to learning to program similar to this article:

1. Nights, weekends are bad 2. Forget codecademy 3. Have a real project you want to build

Check out the full article here: http://blog.zackshapiro.com/want-to-learn-to-code-start-here...

Thanks! We're working on it! Next release will have ability to create an account w/ email address as well

We are working on making it available for everyone, stay tuned! In the meantime, you can share your Flock w/ Android friends through text message, email, twitter, and facebook