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Peru. Japan. Berlin.

Never liked it. Takes an age to load up, but I guess once it's launched you can keep it open, so there is that. Then there's the MS telemetry to worry about, although VSCodium[0] addresses that.

[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Come as you are. Society and specifically the schooling system never encourages entrepreneurship, but deep down I always knew I was an entrepreneur. It takes balls to actualize entrepreneurship and put it in play. There will be failures, sure, but that's how we learn.

> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack

And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.

If they're smart, they would covert some to fiat, and use the rest for sting operations. Like, buying drugs from a darknet marketplace and tracking down the seller via the postal system.

For those that don't get the subtle reference to Nike's slogan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Do_It

> I'm almost at the point of getting off HN for several weeks until the hive mind finds something else

Something else will fill the void. There is always hot drama to discuss in the tech world. I do a mental filter without using a program or piece of code. I just don't pay that clownshoe any attention.

I installed this about six months ago on Ubuntu 18 and it hanged when I launched. Has this been ironed out? I might try again. If I'm having issues, I'll submit an issue on Github. Was it tested on Ubuntu 18? BTW: I have to use Ubuntu 18 since version 20 is not compatible with my machine (some BS about NVIDIA drivers crashing the OS)

1.) Don't have automated telephone setups that require users to press a series of numbers to drill down to 'the right department'. Just have a person talk and have that be the only person a user talks to.

2.) Don't send emails with addresses like 'no-reply@company.com'. A user should be able to reply to any message they receive and spawn a new support ticket in the process.

3.) Don't use automated 'live assistant' chatbots. Personally I never had any luck with them and the support agents were woefully unprepared and not trained to deal with rare edge case scenarios.

4.) Have senior managers have a say in support situations where the issue is a rare edge case not typically in any FAQ and requires specialist preparation and training to solve. Not all issues are of the 'playbook' sort and can be solved by following a set of steps.

Full stack is a valid term, but it tends to focus on the 'Übermensch'[0] type who specializes in many areas. Also see the Great Man[1] (or woman!) theory.

Personally I don't try to spread myself too thin across disciplines. If a certain prescribed set of requirements is made out by a potential employer, I reject the employer, not the other way around. Luckily we have that choice. It wasn't the case earlier where you had to fit into neat little boxes to get employed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory

Truth is being obfuscated by making us mentally fatigued and thinking too much about problems which are largely irrelevant. As long as there is bread and circuses, the truth will not reveal itself.

I don't do mass-scraping with some automated tool. TikTok allows you to save videos, so people do that and re-post on other channels. There is enough of that happening that scraping is redundant. Just the way Vine[0] lives on forever on YouTube.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)

Youtube largely doesn't care about low quality channels. In the end, the videos that offer real value will organically get more views. Yes, Youtube bans channels which are spammy, but then they get called a 'censor', so they have to code their algos carefully to accommodate some amount of spam.

I was going to say contact them, but oops:

https://webdesignernews.com/contact

+1

Clickable link: https://pixelfed.social/

Disabling all notifications where possible. Turning my phone off when I'm not expecting important calls. Books. Walks in nature. Cycling. Allowing for a small window of time at night for social media, then I move the phone into another room so I'm not tempted to refresh my feeds.

Code on a few side hustles. Affiliate marketing on authority blogs that are subsidized by my 9-5. I own several high traffic blogs which are sprinkled with affiliate links. All on reputable shared hosting providers, with a CDN that I pay for, alongside the domains which I keep renewed to a max of 10 years (ICANN's arbitrary limit).

His Tweets are all done with an iPhone, as Twitter allows you to see what client a tweet was made from. The only way bot behavior could be done on a smartphone, is if the phone is an iOS virtual machine, and the tweets are programmatically generated using some algo.

I had a bad case of phantom vibration syndrome[0] about 10 years ago. The smallest vibration and I thought it was a call. I addressed this by turning my phone to silent. No ringtones or vibrations to alert me of a call, just a small screen interruption that tells me there's a call, and that's it. I also disabled every single notification for every app, including those annoying 'badges' that tell you how many unread emails sit in your Inbox.

I also schedule calls more than I did 10 years ago. For example, I may tell a colleague or friend: ring me at 8PM. Then I can be emotionally prepared for a call, without a call catching me off-guard. I'm a nervous person who finds most calls distressing, and sometimes I literally just stare at my phone's screen during an incoming call and just hope they hang up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome

Have a dedicated window of time for The Thing you need to accomplish. Turn off your smartphone, and just hyperfocus. I even have a dedicated SSD which boots into an OS specifically tailored and configured for coding.

I don't follow some hard and fast rule. I naturally take breaks from tasks, when I feel like it, or when I'm getting slower at performance or not being as sharp as I should be; then I take a break.

Bookmarked. Another reminder we are drowning in information on the web. There's no excuse for not becoming a better version of yourself due to The Internet. I will certainly read some of the books hosted on this site.

I used to have one, with all my personal details on there, but deleted after I found the platform was drowning in spam, and recruiters would cold-call me at 3AM in the morning, from some weird country. I have thinned down my resume in recent years and only have the bare essentials on there. I host the .PDF of it on my homepage & I've found this adds a more human touch to your resume, since you can prove you can run a website, which is a good signal from the get-go.

> I still have no idea if he's an adversarial plant by some government

He was an Aaron Swartz type who just wanted information to be free. It is clear Snowden wasn't a mole. He just hated closed-doors spying on innocent people, & having their privacy invaded at every instance. His legacy will not be forgotten[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_effect

Youtube is packed with reviews of products. Also if buying from Amazon I read the reviews. If a product doesn't have reviews I take that into account since it's a possible red flag.

Also: I'm assuming you mean hardware tech products, and nos SaaS, because if it's SaaS then Produchunt is great

I've always pondered if code could dream up idiosyncratic styles of art. Instead of using 'training' material, it procedurally generates art using random noise as the base input, and uses a different algorithm each time it generates art, instead of a predictable algorithm (to avoid everything looking the same). You could, in effect, generate serendipity on demand, and use algorithms to create algorithms, a very meta thing to do, but would be an interesting project to undertake.

> Being in the zone

> This is probably my favourite thing in the world, but also most difficult for me to achieve

Came here to say this. For me I have to coax creativity and serendipity, it doesn't happen naturally. Action precedes motivation.

Organizing my iPhone's photo library. It's mostly memes & inspirational quotes, and a bit of art I have gathered, plus some personal stuff. There are also many screenshots of interesting stuff I discovered when scrolling. Cherry picking and organizing all that takes a lot of time, but I do it anyway since I don't know of any software that could automate it.

> what your API does and does not do

This could mean specifying a LOT of things that an API cannot do, but it's easier to state what an API can't do rather than list all its capabilities, similar to how people can list 100s of negative emotions and fail bad at specifying lots of positive emotions.

DALL-E is a massively underused tool. This could transform the meme creation scene a lot. Instead of using Google images or DuckDuckGo or Yandex image search we can get DALL-E to dream up images.