I recently learned whiteboards can also use wet erase markers. This has the benefit of not getting utterly destroyed if you graze it slightly.
Readit Newsthex10 commented on Ask HN: What kind of whiteboard does not use dry erase markers? · Posted by u/dandrew5
thex10 commented on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? · Posted by u/zackoverflow
I refer to the documentation like my forefathers did. But I do happen to work with a language with good documentation (Elixir).
This attention to detail is what separates the mediocre frontend devs from the rest. How the heck do I improve our hiring process so we get more of you!!!
thex10 commented on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? · Posted by u/askHN2024
ACE 4, raised by my grandmother and alcoholic drug addict mother in the projects. I made it out only because my aunt gave me a handmedown PC when I was 13, I lucked out into a magnet high school, and was granted admission with full financial aid into MIT (and was somehow able to graduate in 4 years). Grateful for it every day.
After I birthed my first kid in my early 30s at the start of the pandemic, my struggles with depression and anxiety seemingly vanished.
I've always been very risk averse, so I fear I'll never be able to start a startup or something like that. It's always sounded fun. Now that I'm very stable and well, and ok financially (the house cost way more than I'd like)... it still feels too risky for me to leave my normal job. Maybe I'll try in my 40s...
thex10 commented on Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy units businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Have you personally noticed any downgrade in your experience yet? Each year I waffle back-and-forth about whether the OneMedical membership fee is worth it, but only because I'm pretty healthy and don't get to use it much. Whenever I do, it works great: book an in-person doctor's appointment same-day/next-day in 10 minutes, get seen within 5 minutes of walking in, no need to fill out an in-take form with my complete medical history for the umpteenth time, and prescriptions and follow-up all handled seamlessly on the website.
The Amazon acquisition seemed like the best outcome we could hope for. Experience says it's unrealistic for OneMedical to remain independent forever, and Amazon has much better customer service than almost any other big company with a broad customer base. Insofar as the OneMedical experience was stellar mostly because it was being subsidized with ~$1B in VC/PE money (which is plausible to me), belt tightening was inevitable.
> Have you personally noticed any downgrade in your experience yet?
Longtime One Medical customer here, it feels the same good experience to me.
I recently watched a documentary[0] about the social media dangers for children. It mostly centers around narratives & interviews from a variety of people young and old, and in my opinion decently avoids trite pearl-clutching over vague assumptions about 'technology' or any particular company. Among other things, I am a bit floored by how much child suicide has increased over the past decades.
[0] "Childhood 2.0" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3IJJhFy-I
thex10 commented on Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
I still wear T-shirts from vendors at tech conferences that I received years ago. They're durable, and they advertise the company not just to me but to others.
But perhaps the swag that has had the most staying power is stuff I could bring home for my kids to play with. I've gotten company-branded balls, puzzles, figurines, and other toys, and not only do they make a good "Guess what I brought home for you" surprise, but they sit around the house for ages, so you get a lot of exposure to their logos.
One thing I've never gotten as swag, but could see being a good ROI, would be a children's picture book, with a "Compliments of [Brand Name]" on it. With my kids, they would request that I read the same book to them 50+ times, so that's 50+ exposures to the brand.
At my last conference I got a (unfortunately unbranded so I don't even remember who it's from) spinning top, my toddler loves watching it go!
thex10 commented on The question of poverty vs. instability robkhenderson.com/p/being... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Having grown up in the bottom decile of poverty in the USA I can believe it. I credit my childhood's stability for much of my success in life. Sure my life, especially at home with my family, was broke, boring, uninspiring, not the least bit enriched... but it was incredibly stable thanks to living in public housing and being on welfare. It's much easier to find your way out if you don't have to process and respond to chaos :)
thex10 commented on U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums npr.org/2024/01/02/122136... · Posted by u/dylan604
> It didn't help that the urbanism activists in our area seem to consider parking garages to be a tool of the devil and protested any plans to build one in the area.
So Alice wants to build a high-density housing tower without having to build a ten-story parking structure beneath it, and we prohibit Alice from doing that, even though Bob wants to build a ten-story parking structure right next to it, because we prohibit Bob from doing that.
I feel like these could both be solved in the same way.
No one is prohibiting Alice from building the 10-story parking structure. The change is she's no longer required to build it.
thex10 commented on Making OKRs more playful using hill charts martin.sh/engaging-okr-ch... · Posted by u/showmypost
The link to the Basecamp article from several years ago should not be overlooked - https://basecamp.com/hill-charts
Hill charts are a great way to keep people informed about a project status. I think they make much more sense than estimates.
This was much nicer for me to digest compared to the original post, thank you for sharing!