sotojuan (u/sotojuan)

sotojuan commented on We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts chartable.com/blog/golden... · Posted by u/andrewacove

and0 · 7 years ago

I seriously enjoy humor or political / debate podcasts, especially while commuting, but technical podcasts never stick.

I find when getting into a new framework (something like Rails or React) then it's an interesting bit of "immersion learning" to throw on the latest episode of the big associated podcast. Maybe I pick up a bit of knowledge, but just hearing people speak naturally about the framework helps me build a fuzzy roadmap in my head of the big subjects to tackle.

sotojuan · 7 years ago

There's technical podcasts that are guides? When listening to something like The Changelog, it's just a conversation about a technology and its origins.

sotojuan commented on We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts chartable.com/blog/golden... · Posted by u/andrewacove

rhacker · 7 years ago

I have a serious question:

For those of you that like podcasts, did your usage go way down (or even stop) when you got married?

I listened to them all the time back in the day, but mostly because they were tech oriented. For husband / wife activities only video/youtube/netflix seem to work.

Is there any notion that Podcasts are better for people not in relationship thing? I mean you have to either play it for the house or listen on your headphones and it just doesn't make sense to try to tune out the wife for multiple hours.

Also my favorite podcast, Java Posse is done anyway. It's weird to actually hear someone calling this the golden age when it was, for me, 10 years ago of listening to them non-stop.

sotojuan · 7 years ago

Not married but live with my partner for almost 3 years. I listen to podcasts with headphones on at work especially when doing chores. No complaints, though I'm also not doing it 24/7. I've never thought of podcasts as something to do with someone else . Guess it depends on your relationship?

sotojuan commented on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors github.com/minimaxir/hack... · Posted by u/adanhawth

sotojuan · 7 years ago

Pretty cool report. Personally all I want is to be able to change my username, even if it means emailing and waiting a few days.

sotojuan commented on Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive permanentrepresentations.... · Posted by u/pasiaj

TadaScientist · 7 years ago

Oh really? National identities didn't arise naturally? Ask the Greeks and the Italians

sotojuan · 7 years ago

Italy is probably the worst European example of this. For most of history the country was split into nation states that warred with each other. Even after unification, there's a strong cultural divide between the north and the south.

sotojuan commented on Ask HN: What niche interest do you have which doesn't have an internet community · Posted by u/lainon

keiferski · 7 years ago

I have a niche interest in coffee and coffee shops, but more for the culture itself. Historically, cafes were hotbeds of intellectual discussion, debates, and political movements. Nowadays most online coffee forums are just gearheads comparing technology and flavors.

sotojuan · 7 years ago

Wouldn't an online community for that be a community dedicated to "intellectual discussion, debates, and political movements"? I'm confused about what you're looking for exactly.

peruvian commented on Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks · Posted by u/adrian_pop

peruvian · 7 years ago

Notes:

Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later.

Task Management:

Things (https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open.

By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders.

One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project".

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I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.

peruvian commented on The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks github.com/trimstray/the-... · Posted by u/trimstray

jotto · 7 years ago

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering:

  * quality decline of Google search results
  * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us)
  * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

peruvian · 7 years ago

> What's causing the rise of these curated lists?

People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy.

The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless.

Sindre (original awesome list author) is one of the few who actually curates their lists.

sotojuan commented on My 2018 Apple Report Card daringfireball.net/2019/0... · Posted by u/tosh

jinushaun · 7 years ago

I was expecting Gruber to give out A+ on all fronts based on the things he posts about Apple, but it was a fair report card.

I’m glad he called out the shopping experience in stores. I thought roaming checkout would be convenient, but it’s maddening having to comb through the store just to find an available sales associate to buy a small thing.

Apple used to have dedicated checkout plus roaming checkout. Now they only have roaming checkout.

sotojuan · 7 years ago

Gruber criticizes Apple all the time. The past few episodes of his podcast have been mostly complaints.

sotojuan commented on My 2018 Apple Report Card daringfireball.net/2019/0... · Posted by u/tosh

emsy · 7 years ago

Gruber is way too generous with Apple here. I like Apple products a lot but there are too many problems to love them:

The throwaway design of the products should downrank environmental to a C. I'd give them a D but they show real efforts in recycling and ethical material sourcing.

iPhones are getting too expensive. They give memory size options they can use to upsell, rather than what customers need, and there are no options for people who want smaller handsets other than buy outdated devices or switch to Android. They don't ship features like Smart HDR on their 1 year old (!) device, to create artificial USPs.

Even the D on the Macs seem generous when you consider they still act like they did nothing wrong with the Macbook keyboard, the Air/Mac Mini price increase mirrors the iPhone's and we've never heard again of the new Mac Pro, while they STILL sell the trash can.

The watch is fine, should've gotten an A imo.

Apple has gotten better with services, but a B is undeserved. Apple Music is still worse than spotify, iCloud is OK at best and Siri still sucks.

Apple could rule gaming but for whatever reason choose not to. That should've been graded and get them a C.

I have a lot more points and nuance, but these are the points just came to my mind.

sotojuan · 7 years ago

I’m sure Spotify is better than AM with discovery, but I never used that feature of Spotify. Being able to upload my own files to Apple Music (got a lot of music not in streaming services) and play it anywhere is a killer feature for me.