creativeembassy

I loved this answer, and I struggle the same way. When you said

> why don't companies invest in coaching for their expensive engineers?

This is what makes a great manager, on the work side of things. Someone who sees the potential in other people and has the ability to unlock it, and doesn't settle for simply managing time and tasks. But for clarification, do you mean a third-party that can also help coach things like work-life balance? Because I could see a lot of value in that. I'm wondering now if I should find one for myself...

Signed up!

I'd love to see a little more flexibility in putting some kinds of numbers in, especially as someone not great with understanding financial data. For instance, I'm currently plugging numbers in about my mortgage. I know how much I currently pay per year in homeowner's insurance, but ProjectFi is asking me for the annual rate. I divided what I'm paying per year by the current estimated market value and got 0.3%... but I'm sure that's not accurate.

Google seems determined to lose me as a customer altogether.

- 2013: Google kills Google Reader for RSS feeds. Never found a replacement I was as happy with.

- 2014: I loved the first version of AngularJS. Angular 2.0 was a complete rewrite of the first version. Switched to learning React instead (now I'm a huge Svelte fan, for the record.)

- 2017-2018?: Forget what it was called now, but Google's services for domains stops being free. I've got several family members on that and didn't want us to all lose Gmail, so I'm currently paying ~$6 per person and pretending our family is a "business".

- 2019: Google kills off Inbox. My email organization goes to shit. I'm trying hey.com currently, but still waiting/hoping I can use my google "business" on that so emails come from that domain, not hey.com...

- 2019: Google kills off the Works with Nest API, and my new Home Assistant installation can't talk to my smoke alarm. I cancel plans to buy a Nest Thermostat and get an EcoBee instead.

- 2019: I migrated off of Google Play Music and over to Spotify when they started dismantling the former and pushed people to use Youtube Music instead.

- 2019: Google Chrome slowly turning into surveillance software pushed me to switch back to Firefox.

- 2020: Google Fit used to track reps/rest time when weight lifting, but they removed that for some reason. Along with everything else they removed, I used FitnessSyncer to migrate all my health data to Apple Health.

- 2021: Now, the "new" Google Pay doesn't have the membership card feature from the "old" Google Pay, so I've lost all that data now. I'm going back to a wallet full of membership cards unless I can figure out how to add arbitrary cards to Apple Wallet.

I lost most of my faith in Google years ago, and they're still finding innovative ways to disappoint me.

I used the old Google Pay for both tap-to-pay and for organizing my various membership cards. Gas, grocery, coupons, things like that. Since sticking various memberships cards in it, some of the old physical cards have been lost and I hope the rest are still in my filing cabinet.

Because with "new" Google Pay, all of those membership cards are gone. They didn't just not migrate the data over; this isn't a feature present in the new one. I don't see any reason to continue using it. Apple Pay is working better for me for tap-to-pay, and I'm instead trying to replicate some of the old membership card organization with Apple Wallet, albeit without much success yet.

(Can't believe we have to use "old"/"new" delimiters here either, while Google gets to pretend it's the same thing.)

I've been using Nebula more frequently. Only one monthly payment for the whole platform, zero ads. A lot of my favorite YouTube content creators have been uploading their videos there too. And not just uploading the same videos, but higher-quality ones. For example, they're more free to use copyrighted material fairly when doing content criticism, knowing that they're not going to get automatically flagged/demonetized even when they're within their rights.

(If someone from Nebula reads this: My only complaint is a lack of a Roku app, which is where I consume most of my content in the living room any more. Please make this happen!)

There's an issue with the recommended "default" setup of Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, where it will set up a database for recording events. But these ends up being a ton of writes to the SD card over time. If anyone else is using Home Assistant on a Pi, I highly recommend moving your database files to an external USB HDD, or connecting it to a database over the network on another machine. That should make the SD card issue vanish.

Maybe Antsle? https://antsle.com/

Gmail was so groundbreaking when it first came out in 2004. AJAX was barely a thing, and Gmail used it in spades everywhere. I remember it being mindblowing when you didn't have to wait for full page refreshes for simple actions.

My problem is that it's remained frozen in time for years. Yeah, they tweak the visual design every few years. But so many other email clients have far surpassed it, and they've done nothing. Other than create Google Inbox. Which was amazing. And then Google shut it down. ️

Dropbox. I've used it for a decade, but now it's slow, bloated, and takes over CPU and memory like there isn't a single other program I need to run... and I was paying $20 for the privilege.

But a few weeks ago I switched to Syncthing[0], and it's the best software transition I've ever made. Opposite of everything Dropbox is now: fast, simple, and I don't even notice it running in the background. Seamless setup, and FREE. (So good, you're gonna want to donate anyway.)

[0]: https://syncthing.net/

Nerdwriter has an excellent video explaining the painting in detail. I'm excited to rewatch this while being able to view the painting in even greater detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8f64yj1Jk

Intriguing! Opens up some interesting possibilities. User-submitted javascript for manipulating data, without exposing other users to XSS attacks?

Internet Explorer 2, in 1995, had support for VRML. A full 20 years before the Oculus Rift officially launched. I had never heard of that markup language and had to Google it. Talk about being ahead of its time...

This is what I've heard (at least in Pennsylvania where I work, and from a number of family members and friends working in different HR departments.) IANAL.

Non-competes are unenforceable because you cannot take away someone's right to work. I'm talking even about switching to your previous employer's competitor. Say you're a software engineer with a lot of domain knowledge on heavy construction. And that employer lets you go (for whatever reason). If there's one other heavy construction company within driving distance hiring software engineers, neither the state nor your previous employer can keep you from using your talents to make a living for yourself.

The only exception is in NDA's. You can't take proprietary information with you, whether it's source code or sales leads.

Confirmed on Symantec.

To use a silly example... can I finally realize my dream of two-based indexing?

I love OmniFocus, but have always been bothered by a lack of web interface or Android client. (I use Focus GTD as an unofficial client on Android, and it's less than perfect at best.) I've been looking for something like this. Going to try it out and hopefully provide some insight.

Same. I've considered making my own interface for building family trees, as an exercise in UX design. But I'd want it to plug directly into Geni. You can't beat the feature to find other users' trees that match yours. Find long-lost cousins and great-great-great-whatevers that you didn't know you had.

I want to switch over to Bitwig completely, but I've also been learning Max/MSP. Bitwig would make me more productive IMO, but Max/MSP is a creative goldmine. I can't really take Max/MSP with me to Bitwig, I don't believe there are any efforts at integrating the two... and Ableton just bought Cycling '74 last week.

Digital Audio Workstation. Think Ableton Live, Apple Logic Pro, Avid's Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cakewalk Sonar, Propellerheads Reason... tools to record/arrange/produce/master music.

I don't know what's more surprising. That they couldn't spring for new coins? That they're charging $2.95? That as of this comment, there are only 15 left?

I learned programming from small private classes when I started the 3rd grade. It drove me to found a hackerspace a few years ago, and I finally got to start teaching other kids how to program and do robotics. I highly recommend it, education is very fulfilling.

I love this. My single regret about doing programming for a living is that I rarely have anything physical to show for my work at the end of the day. I've been looking at hobbies to pick up that involve making things with my hands. This is an innovative way to do both.

I could not care less.

- 1.0 to 1.2: Hard to pair, and very unreliable. First major version, I'm sure they'll fix it...

- 2.0: More bandwidth. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 2.1: Adds "Simple Secure Pairing". Still hard to actually pair. Still unreliable.

- 3.0: More bandwidth. More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.0: Bluetooth Low Energy released. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.1: More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.2: More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 5.0: More range, more bandwidth. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

I have the latest Apple "Magic" Trackpad, hooked up to a Mac Pro. At least once a day, latency will take a dive, or it will completely disconnect. I have to turn the trackpad on and off repeatedly, to see if it will finally re-pair by itself. No other recourse, you can't easily access bluetooth settings on a mac with only a keyboard. (Which I made sure to get with a USB plug, since my last bluetooth keyboard had the same issues.)

I also have a Samsung Level BT headset, paired with a Samsung Note 5 phone. I can listen to Google Music or Player.fm for between 1 and 10 minutes until the headset will suddenly blast noise at full volume, and become unresponsive until I turn it off and back on again. Left my ears ringing on more than one occasion.

I've replaced my "magic" keyboard with a USB one, and recently hooked the trackpad back up via USB. I've stopped using the Samsung Level and went back to an old pair of headphones with a 3.5mm plug (that Apple is now trying to get rid of.)

I had a past without wires. I am moving to a future with them.

Are there any invites floating around yet? I'd love one, email address is in my profile. Very interested in developing other tools against Keybase, with mruby or Elixir.

Slightly disappointed that I won't be able to try it out yet, because I'm not a Mac Developer. I can't get the XCode 6 beta without it, so I'd have to cough up $99 to try a new language... It seems to me like that might hurt its adoption.

Apple pushed the speed of Javascript in the newest version of Safari, earlier in the keynote. They probably try not to complete with themselves.

I spent a lot of time trying to do stuff with ObjectiveC, but just hated the syntax. That's been the biggest thing keeping me from developing Mac OSX apps; I just prefer Ruby's simplicity. I'm going to seriously give Swift a try.

It was the Surface RT that did so poorly. $900M writeoff that forced out Ballmer. Which is why I'm so surprised that they're attempting to do it again, with the Surface 2.

People familiar with Windows want a cheap way to take their desktop with them. That's the primary audience, and introducing an ARM-based tablet that CAN'T run their desktop apps, is killing them. I would have gotten rid of the ARM one entirely (at least until there's a big enough native app economy for it), and found ways to bring down the cost of the Pro, and just sell that one.

That said, the smart covers are pretty innovative. Being able to switch between a keyboard one, an extra battery one, and that amazing looking music production, is a stand-out feature. Something that Microsoft needs desperately.

What are YOU looking at? I pulled open the link and searched for "permission". It's the second use of the word. The entire passage is right there.

You don't have it? It works for me. I'll get a "Pop-up notification blocked" message right next to the star in the address bar. I can click on it and continue to ignore pop-ups, or choose to open them if I need to see them.

Pretty much exactly the feature described in the comic. Maybe you have it turned off somehow.