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hn17 commented on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus   blog.zulip.com/2022/08/26... · Posted by u/williamstein
jmull · 3 years ago
People should understand this:

A free tier is a loss-leader, intended to support sales of the paid product.

If too many “…have been happily using Slack’s free plan for years”, then Slack will have to change the terms.

Generally, storage and access to storage cost money. If you aren’t paying for it, it is definitely temporary, whether anyone says it explicitly or not. I don’t just mean in a “nothing lasts forever” way, but that it will gone in the relatively short term. This is just reality.

hn17 · 3 years ago
I think they made a mistake disallowing single user upgrading to paid plan.

Non-corporate users will migrate to Discord, Slack will cut resources costs = more money without new users. Everyone happy, just allow us to export data ;)

hn17 commented on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it   personal.jatan.space/2020... · Posted by u/uncertainquark
hn17 · 5 years ago
It seems that current LTS relase needs more bug and glitches fixing, quality is worse than before :-( It's not just snaps, also software center have it's problems (crashing, glitches/lags in listing and installing apps, driver detection problems). I used Ubuntu for many years, it's normal that some relases are more polished that other. Overally great OS and it's "free". Let's hope they will fix it. I used error reporting functionality and also donated to Ubuntu.
hn17 commented on Adventures in Netflix   lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019... · Posted by u/deng
hn17 · 6 years ago
On PS4 Netflix app you can check "live stats for nerds" like resolution and bitrate pressing a single button ("option" AFAIR). It's not much fun but doesn't cost as much time and $$$ No screenshot thou :-(
hn17 commented on Ask HN: Do you do volunteer work?    · Posted by u/yonatanoy
hn17 · 6 years ago
I understand your volunteer work goal may be to "use a math / CS skill-set to impact my community in a positive way". There are many ways you can use your skills. For example, you could start participating in a well established and valuable open-source project or take a part in hackathons solving big problems, you could organize workshops, teach people. Anything you do, remember to balance your volunteer work with other parts of life and career.
hn17 commented on Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)   sivers.org/srs... · Posted by u/hn17
munmaek · 6 years ago
I have been using anki for almost ~3 years now to study Korean vocabulary, sentences, and Japanese kanji. I'm also a software engineer for my day job. I've also written about anki. [0]

I don't see the value in memorizing programming -syntax-. It's irrelevant to me to remember how to open a file in ruby or do a specific command- that's what search engines and then my personal wiki is for.

If I worked -only- in ruby, then I'd likely remember those specifics much more, but since I hop around with rust, python, c#, clojure ... depending on our clients, there's no way I'm going to remember stuff like that for every language. Especially since languages tend to get updates and changes!

I would use anki to retain knowledge of stuff like more complicated data structures. Right now, I just search for what I need, then toss it into my personal wiki folders. I can then use notational-fzf-vim to rapidly fuzzy search my markdown files. [0] I keep these synced across computers with a selfhosted nextcloud instance.

[0]: https://andrewzah.com/tags/anki

[1]: https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim

hn17 · 6 years ago
Thanks for sharing.
hn17 commented on Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)   sivers.org/srs... · Posted by u/hn17
jeffshek · 6 years ago
If anyone's interested - I've written a guide to Anki and spaced repetition. I've used it for about 5-6 years and my deck is about 12,000+ cards. Much of it is based in software engineering.

https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...

hn17 · 6 years ago
Thank you for sharing.

u/hn17

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