(like a 10year old kid)
...encourage it to "grow-up" and mature.
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...encourage it to "grow-up" and mature.
...and the related discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485711
Each day i studied one retrospective of growth at an engineering organization.
Here are my notes from 15 videos/articles of real-life experiences of scaling teams at startups and multi-national corporations.
A few highlights
> Ricoh had a semiconductor factory with the most advanced facilities [...] that factory was only operating at 10% capacity.
> It seems like the engineers at Ricoh were starving for the challenge of working on some new technology. Even more important to them was the idea that if they worked at it, they could take Donkey Kong home!
> The one Ricoh suggested was a CPU called 6502. It wasn’t widely used at the time [...] reason we used it was that it would be hard to analyse.
(Oh yeah!) If the WTC was standing maybe oil would be cheaper.
(Oh no!) But, if oil were cheaper, we would be that much further away from adopting alternate energy sources like solar.
Reminds me of the quote (forget the source) -
Nothing is bad. Nothing is good. Everything just is.
Try to get your hands on some camphor ;-)
- Its free for personal use.
- Supports customizable keyboard shortcuts for virtual-desktops / workspaces.
Without keyboard-shortcuts for common flows like moving windows between workspaces, i found it too slow/cumbersome to use.
Hence wondering whether there's some Windows tweak to enable keyboard-shortcuts (especially moving windows between workspaces), or some 3rd-party utility that works on Windows 10.
Open-sourced under the Modified BSD License https://github.com/TheCodeArtist/deep-thought-tabs
Few interesting bits of code:
* Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm.
* Ken-Burns effect for still images.
* Visual (image-preview) tooltips in CSS.
* Asynchronous XMLHttpRequest.NOTE: Involves restarting Firefox.
1. Locate the Firefox profile directory on your system.
On Windows, this is typically a directory like :
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile-directory>
2. Within the above identified profile directory, open the sub-directory chrome. If a chrome sub-directory does NOT exist within the profile directory, create it.
3. In the above chrome directory, create an empty file userContent.css.
4. Open the above userContent.css and add the following lines to it :
.moz-reader-content {
text-align: justify;
}
Visit the about:config page in Firefox, search for the property toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, and ensure it is toggled to True.
6. Restart Firefox.
7. Open a page, switch to reader mode, and enjoy the justified text!! \(^.^)/
If not, can you add one?
(Sorry, i don't have chrome to try it out. Justified alignment is what I miss in Firefox Reader mode.)
> If there was an "easy" fix that can be applied in a day or two,
> it should have been done. Agreed.
However, when someone asks for this, the implicit assumptions are that the "easy fix"
- actually fixes the symptoms (even though ignoring the root-cause),
- and does NOT introduce additional unexpected behaviour.
Ensuring this may sometimes make the easy fix just as time-consuming as a proper fix, thus favouring doing it once properly.
Some things, Money can't buy. For everything else there's... :P
All binary blobs in the Linux kernel aren't automatically illegal according to the GPL, right?
Binary blob kernel modules, in fact, have restricted access to the kernel frameworks (cannot access/use GPL symbols).
Let the Fountain Pens Flow (nytimes.com)
130 points by CaliforniaKarl | 8 months ago | 114 comments
> I feel writing notes on paper with my fountain pen really different from typing on a computer.
> Only the former give me the feeling of work well done and some relaxed mind.
On a serious note, this reminds me of my school-days. At my school, a "Hero-pen" was all the rage; All the "cool" kids had one.
Recently found out (i think from some random HN comment!) that the prized-possession of my childhood - The "Hero pen" was "inspired" by the Parker 51!
Not able to find the HN comment, but here are some links from my browser history for some fountain-pen nostalgia :-) :-)
https://frankunderwater.com/2017/02/20/remaking-parker-45-a-...
https://thefrugalfountainpen.blogspot.com/2014/03/hero-616-d...
"!=" would be the inequality operator... :-)
Please don't enable anyone to just send emails to arbitrary email-addresses through you. That's how your email/domain will quickly get marked for SPAM.
At the very least, put in place a rate-limit per email-id (and source-ip too maybe). Otherwise i can simply keep entering email-ids of people to spam.