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CamelRocketFish commented on Why do programmers need private offices with doors?   blobstreaming.org/why-do-... · Posted by u/signa11
JAlexoid · 2 years ago
Well... I have a counter example of a failure in FOSS, because of remoteness of the responsible department:

At IBM working in a satellite office, I wanted to contribute to Jenkins. The fact that any person with the authority to allow me to do that was "behind an office door". Multiple emails back and forth - I ended up ditching the idea of getting the approval and quit IBM.

Closed doors should be for focus time, which should not be "all the time". Having small team offices and quiet rooms - can contribute to people's ability to focus. But personal offices is just another door that stops people from collaborating will inevitably stop a lot of valuable collaboration.

CamelRocketFish · 2 years ago
If you want to collaborate, that’s what setting up a meeting with an agenda is for.
CamelRocketFish commented on Witch – macOS window switcher replacement   manytricks.com/witch/... · Posted by u/jackdh
barefeg · 3 years ago
Kind of off topic, but has tiling managers for macOS improved in the last few years? I remember I tried one solution (I can’t remember the name now) which worked OK but it was a little buggy some times. Ever since I just use the standard window manager and try to manage with cmd + tab, cmd + `, and gestures to change spaces.
CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

This let’s you have complete control over tiling.

CamelRocketFish commented on Making $10k/m from a French learning app   highsignal.io/companies/m... · Posted by u/geocrasher
kieloo · 3 years ago
Hey! I’m the app creator. I’m really glad you are enjoying it.

I plan on adding more advanced lessons and an constantly improving it so there could be an advanced track within the next few months.

In any case, feel free to shout me an email if you have any feedback/feature request.

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
Have you considered expanding to more languages? I would love this for Italian
CamelRocketFish commented on Making $10k/m from a French learning app   highsignal.io/companies/m... · Posted by u/geocrasher
Pete-Codes · 3 years ago
Cheers for posting this. That’s my site! It’s very cool how he learned to code so quickly as well. I’m glad Benjamin can share his story with everyone.

So many people want to learn languages as well so it’s a huge market to sell to. Very smart.

Plenty more stories like this coming out every Wednesday in the newsletter btw https://www.highsignal.io/newsletter/

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
The load more button is broken for me.
CamelRocketFish commented on Hacker News in Slow Italian   hn.lingually.ai... · Posted by u/lakySK
lakySK · 3 years ago
Heard great things on Language Transfer and started listening to it.

I've mostly been doing Duolingo, recently some tutored classes on Preply. Trying to get to a level where I can converse with my Italian partner.

And I think GPT has tremendous potential for this. Seen a few projects exploring this besides mine. Can't wait to see where it goes. It would be a shame if we can't figure out some great ways to use the new generative AI algos for education!

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
Agreed! Especially how easy it would be to have a bot that is aware of your vocabulary level and slowly introduces more vocabulary the more you interact with it.
CamelRocketFish commented on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams   9to5google.com/2023/05/16... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
thunkshift1 · 3 years ago
By that logic you should pay the app only when the version changes, not every month
CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
Great idea but there isn’t an easy way to manage that
CamelRocketFish commented on Hacker News in Slow Italian   hn.lingually.ai... · Posted by u/lakySK
lakySK · 3 years ago
Hm, good point. Perhaps I need to use a different podcast platform for that. Might look into that!

Are you learning Italian as well? What have you tried so far?

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
Yep I’m also a beginner but I haven’t found anything similar to this project. In terms of learning materials I found classes that follow the CEFR system (A1, A2, B1 etc) have been more helpful than Duolingo and also this free resource https://www.languagetransfer.org/
CamelRocketFish commented on Hacker News in Slow Italian   hn.lingually.ai... · Posted by u/lakySK
lakySK · 3 years ago
Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this!

Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
This is great! I didn’t see an option to slow the playback down to 0.5 as 1.0 is still fast for a beginner.
CamelRocketFish commented on Ableton Push 3   ableton.com/en/push/... · Posted by u/navidhg
dottjt · 3 years ago
Personally, I don't really like the Push platform, having previously owned a Push 2.

I can understand the value of it if you're performing live, however the hard reality is that it's a really inefficient way to create electronic music. The mouse and keyboard are simply a lot faster to use.

With that said, maybe that's for you. But if you're trying to make advanced productions as quickly as possible, then I really see no value in the Push. You could of course use it as a MIDI controller, but it's a damn expensive one if your sole purpose is to use it as a MIDI controller.

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
If you aren’t great at piano then using a push in note scale mode is fantastic. Another benefit is when recording automation you can turn the knobs to add a human element over something like point and clicking points. It’s an excellent tool for creating music, not just for live.
CamelRocketFish commented on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?    · Posted by u/bojangleslover
KronisLV · 3 years ago
Around 300 at this point, sans any deleted ones. I don't think I know a single password anymore, since they're all randomized and separate for each site.

> Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account.

Maybe it's just me, but I try to never use centralized identity providers (outside of things that I really don't care about) and use separate e-mail auth whenever possible, across multiple e-mail accounts (some self-hosted). Same with considering separate Google accounts for phones, services like e-mail, a separate one for any content creation on YouTube and so on (ideally without any of them coming in contact with one another).

The idea is that one account getting closed/suspended shouldn't result in ALL of the linked stuff becoming inaccessible. I don't even do anything weird online, it's just that nowadays you hear lots of stories about people getting banned based on some heuristics by automated systems, with no ways of getting in contact with the support. Even something like a VPN might trip those systems up. Similar things have happened to me before (a SaaS provider didn't want to do business with me) for no good reason even without a VPN, but trying a year later with the same credit card didn't result in the other account being auto-suspended. How odd.

I guess the next step would be to have usernames, phone numbers and even payment methods (apparently virtual credit cards sometimes work) also be more randomized and more compartmentalized, though something tells me it'd be a pain to do that. That said, I largely believe that privacy online is mostly dead due to how much fingerprinting there is, though one can still protect themselves from automated systems acting weird, because nobody genuinely cares about that, at least at the scale where they're needed.

CamelRocketFish · 3 years ago
Agreed, enough horror stories have kept me away from using Google as OAuth. The only value I see in it is as part of SSO for employee accounts. Employee leaves and revoke access to everything.

u/CamelRocketFish

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