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augbog··on Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application
What are you looking for?
augbog··on DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing
Not sure if the creator wants to monetize necessarily. He's a huge fan of open source and contributes to some really big projects.

I will say the permissions was a turn off for me as well though

augbog··on Advanced JavaScript Injections
ah the good ol reddi.. err HN hug of death
augbog··on Students Evaluating Teachers Doesn’t Just Hurt Teachers, It Hurts Students
Truthfully I have no idea what he even does with the required review papers that are given to us a the end of the class. Lots of people have reviewed him on Askmyprofessor.
augbog··on JIRA is an antipattern
I agree with a lot of these things -- although I will say it took us a lot of time and the right people to help SET UP JIRA to be able to work with our process.
augbog··on Students Evaluating Teachers Doesn’t Just Hurt Teachers, It Hurts Students
As someone who had a teacher who literally was tenured, had the absolute worst reviews ever on the website and wherever, literally recorded his lectures once and now goes to lectures just to answer questions (which btw he barely answers em he sometimes just posts to the lecture video) I strongly feel evaluating teachers is a necessary thing.
augbog··on World Draw
Is it just me or is it so slow?
augbog··on [dead]
We currently use react-dnd at my company. Overall, I think the documentation could use improvement but it can get you pretty far.

However, one thing I will say is we haven't fully finished handling multi-drag-and-drop and I think it will be challenging. That isn't really a use case that is mentioned in the documentation whereas react-beautiful-dnd has documentation specifically about that use case.

I haven't really had a chance to try react-beautiful-dnd though but I think it's worth trying out if you have no dnd prior in your application.

augbog··on Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
I was surprised he is able to process PSDs in his editor though. For many people that might in itself be sufficient.
augbog··on Coding as an Engineering Manager
Thank you so much for talking about critical path -- I think that is the biggest takeaway.

As someone who had a manager who was very hands on... it was frustrating. The code he wrote was brilliant, but it was hard to review against him. Furthermore, when bugs came up, it was always "hey guys I don't have time for it, please fix it."

augbog··on Compare career levels across companies
Just rumors I've heard but the people who make that much (and I've heard some crazy numbers) are people who have a lot of knowledge of proprietary systems internally in Google. I don't know if there are actually a lot of them though.
augbog··on Ask HN: I'm good at coding but bad at competitive coding
I remember someone posted an HN post about tips for competitive programming. Some of the code I saw in there is horrific and I would never approve in a PR but definitely makes sense when you're coding with a time crunch.

In general, I would say while there might be some useful concepts there, you are not missing out. It's an interesting form of programming but not the same as what you would expect to do at work.

Terrible analogy but I'll go with it: just like how you'd probably never be expected to Iron Chef your way in a formal restaurant. You don't have a bunch of random ingredients and present what you can as long as it fits the theme. The customer asks what they want and if you don't have it or can't have it, making something else isn't acceptable most likely so the proper way to handle it is to ask the customer what they want instead and you give them your sincerest apologies.

augbog··on How I Made $2k in a Month from One Medium Article
I can guarantee you the answer is somewhat related to the term "clickbait"
augbog··on Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning
I feel this article doesn't understand what "learning at your own pace" means.

Yeah sure you can say "learners need this environment, this attendance, etc" but you're falling into the trap of what we have right now -- we think we know what's best for people to learn.

And while true for many people they definitely WILL learn with established practices, not everyone will learn as well as they could.

augbog··on Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
I get a 429 response sometimes?
augbog··on Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
Yeah agreed I've actually seen this a lot on Quora as well.

I personally don't think there's anything "wrong" with it because the pros listed will most definitely be valid however as an outside user, I am interested in both the products and they are less likely to tout their own shortcomings.

augbog··on Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours
It looks like the link to the claim of shortening the work day is based on how schools for children aren't as long as the adult workday so I think your second question is already being applied right now.

"In the LinkedIn post, Grant was weighing in on an Atlantic article about the time gap between when school and work days end, a bane for many parents. But it's not the first time Grant has given his stamp of approval to less work with more productivity."

augbog··on Lerna relicences to protest ICE
For people who missed it, Microsoft didn't actually fork Lerna and potentially copy-pasted the code.

https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1002696931527700481

And quite honestly yeah I read that Github issue. Hard for me to believe they would just be like "OH YEAH WE COPIED SORRY ABOUT THAT!"

augbog··on Lerna relicences to protest ICE
The main goal is less to hurt the companies that are supporting ICE by not allowing them to use an open source project, but actually bring a lot more awareness that these companies DO IN FACT support ICE. I had no idea Palantir was working on the technology to help deport people

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-en...

augbog··on Lerna relicences to protest ICE
Don't worry Microsoft has their own fork of lerna anyways lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214257
augbog··on Babel 7 Released
Legal reasons to work in the US have to be 18 I think. Or something with visas
augbog··on Jason's Machine Learning 101
This is a god damn treasure trove of info for people new to ML. Thank you!
augbog··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
I remember interviewing WhatsApp once. First thing I asked was how much does Facebook determine what comes down in terms of priority. The reply was "There might be some things but we are our own entity. It really hasn't affected us at all!"

Few weeks later it was announced WhatsApp CEO quits due to privacy disagreements. lol

augbog··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Evernote | Redwood City, CA | Senior Software Engineer, Web Desktop Client (Electron) | ONSITE Redwood City, CA, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX | Full-time | https://evernote.com

Our Windows and macOS clients are immensely important to us in providing an extraordinary desktop productivity experience. We're looking for a founding engineer to spearhead the development of a new Electron-based version of our desktop client. That's right; our desktop client is going all-in with a web tech stack! If this is your forte, please read on!

You will help us build a well engineered, stable and reliable client with a high-quality productivity experience that gets used by millions of users across the globe. You will have the chance to work on user-visible features like navigation re-designs and sharing while also being instrumental in our overall client re-architecture. We are a small, close-knit, high functional team where everyone takes ownership of big projects and features.

We cultivate team and company builders where we urge engineers to ask the hard questions and find the right answers to help us to continue to innovate in this space - the sky’s the limit, come join us!

https://grnh.se/ea10070c1

Feel free to also email me ayuan {at} evernote {dot} com if interested :)

augbog··on Django 2.1 released
Yeah this seems to be the key point that is confused.
augbog··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
I want to say this is the least rude way but I'll just say it -- this really seems like an oversight of local restaurants being unable to adapt to the market they have. It's similar to how certain stores who failed to realize online retail failed.

Right now, with tech it's heavily favored toward catered food which local restaurants don't necessarily specialize in. At my start up we have a generic catering company that will have a rotating meal each day. It's cost-effective and still good quality food and removes the hassle of our Workplace Services from figuring out what food we should get next time.

If local restaurants could adapt to such a model and made more of an effort to advertise toward their market and perhaps arrange a monthly catered meal or something of the sort, they might see themselves doing better.

augbog··on What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
Well considering how many people who now know git and understand it, it doesn't make sense to do that necessarily. Rather they should make it a configurable option which do now see push.default (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config)
augbog··on A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result
I get what he is saying though. It's like how companies offer unlimited vacation and all these cool perks to make you love working and love staying at work.

"You haven't taken vacation? Nah I can take it whenever! It's not big deal! My team needs me and I love my job!"

I believe he was referring to it can be dangerous to view your work as something you love. Make sure to give space for your loved ones and your own free time and be conscientious of that. Naturally, your company will do it's best so that you do love your work, but understand there is more to life than that.

augbog··on Google Cloud Platform is down
Looks like it's coming back soon

Jul 17, 2018 12:53 The issue with Google Cloud Load balancers returning 502s should be resolved for majority of users and we expect a full resolution in the near future. We will provide another status update by Tuesday, 2018-07-17 13:30 US/Pacific with current details.

augbog··on Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'
thanks! will give it a try! honey also has a price chart thing (only shows when you go to an Amazon item specifically and then the Chrome extension injects it in) but I've found it only shows it when there have been recent deals so it's not always useful
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