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minademian··on My first year in sales as technical founder
I concur. Really great post! Been an engineer for a while, starting to prepare to put together SaaS products, so this will be useful to come back to. Thank you, OP!
minademian··on Show HN: TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents
I agree. It is indeed a novel project, but has little to actually do with TeX.
minademian··on Saudi Arabia Gives Citizenship to a Robot
and now for something completely different...
minademian··on How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
Such a solid article. Refreshing to read this.
minademian··on I Snuck into Ken Kesey's Fiction Class
This is an excellent essay about both writing and being so different.
minademian··on A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
an awesome (in the literal sense) piece of work - hardware, software, engineering, design, communication, promotion
minademian··on Headless mode in Firefox
welcome development. apparent that Firefox is paying attention what's happening in JS world...
minademian··on Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement
Feels like Medium is clutching at straws after failing with the Members-Only content model...
minademian··on Inception movie explained programmatically with C and assembly
so novel and simple!
minademian··on Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet
No, but I'd say it's more than that, given the article.
minademian··on Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet
Great answer.
minademian··on Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet
Why can't CEOs just build products and help customers and abstain from moral crusades?
minademian··on How to Write a Song
Written a few songs. This article is good advice and it captures the process really well. It honors the sporadic nature of idea generation. #2 is incredibly true, just capture them, even if you're driving on a highway! You'll never get the moment back...

#3 and #4 are novel. I'm glad I've learned about them now.

#5 and #8 is a matter of schools of thought. I don't agree. And perhaps because I've written 10 verses drivelling about love. :) I think that if the 10 verses are adequately compelling, through construction and message, then it can lock in a listener. Pandering only to what works in hits is limiting, in my view.

#6, #9, and #10 is also evidence of a mature songwriter. H/t.

minademian··on The LaTeX Fetish (2016)
Pretty measured essay. I went through my own LaTex fetish phase. The typesetting can get in the way of the writing. I've found it easier to first write in a text editor and then start typesetting once I'm pretty much sure of the content.
minademian··on Are Fake Instagram Influencers Deceiving Brands?
The logical conclusion of the intersection of capitalism and social media...
minademian··on The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups
Commend Houseparty for their resilience. Can't be easy while the cat is staring you down, planning your demise.
minademian··on The Evolution of Trust
this is incredibly fascinating and insightful.

side question: who composed the music? the guitar track is excellent. :)

minademian··on Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
this looks promising. I like how it teaches the concepts using plain Javascript without focusing on a tool or library. Kudos.
minademian··on Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (1999)
No. Do I need to in order to crack a half-joke? :)
minademian··on The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)
i think the points raised, that addiction is normalized and that society decides what is an "addiction" or not, is novel and fresh.
minademian··on 18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
this reminds me of a dark joke.

a rabbit was detained by the secret police. the interrogator asks him, "what are you?" the rabbit says, "rabbit"

They torture, beat, and electrocute him for days.

Then, the interrogator asks him, "who told you you're a rabbit?"

minademian··on Kindness is Underrated (2014)
h/t to CircleCI for doing this kind of work in the tech industry.
minademian··on The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
Had an aha moment reading this post. It makes sense now. This sentence mirrors my own recent experience: "These kinds of things are ones which I would relay to them via phone or in person and not post about publicly."
minademian··on The Lost Art of Manually Calculating Square Roots
the most un-Medium article I've read on Medium in a long time. great execution!
minademian··on My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
good essay. i like the somber tone that neither glorifies nor pscyhologies her father's disease.
minademian··on Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
great concept. i'd say it's more intelligent and meaningful promotion rather than succumbing to hipsterism...
minademian··on Why I deleted my Facebook account
"... one of the last things that kept me on Facebook—after I had largely stopped posting and reading the News Feed—was simply checking my notifications. I unconsciously craved that little hit of happiness one gets when they see, So-and-so liked your post. But that’s not real happiness. It’s an unhealthy addiction."

This is true, especially of my current use of Facebook.

minademian··on Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
such a great thread, guys. thank you.
minademian··on Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
"Take error handling really seriously. A program that can gracefully reject input with a detailed error message is far better than one that crashes mysteriously" Wisdom.
minademian··on Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game
this is excellent.
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