focusaurus
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Comment · 3 years ago
If you are curious and sincerely interested in this general concept, check out what we are doing at https://focusretreatcenter.com and ping me if you want to set up a prototype trial run scenario for your group/concept. We already did the "buy a giant house for cheap" part and are still experimenting on exactly what to do with it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes. Plus you get layers and other more advanced features in the style of qmk.
Comment · 5 years ago
I can transcribe audio from meetings in almost real time. It doesn't actually require blazing fast WPM to do that. I get plenty done. And no, the first working squeezebox prototype is not my daily driver. Second version I hope but it's more about the process and I wouldn't be surprised if it is just the next entry in a fairly long line of keebs to challenge my original ergodox full-hand and walk away leaving the ergodox as king of the hill.
Comment · 5 years ago
LOL I funded that one and they never shipped anything.
Comment · 5 years ago
v2105 is nearly done and the top row angle is larger and it's definitely more comfortable. The version in the post kind of ended up that way due to testing from positions other than really at my desk with everything really set up.
Comment · 8 years ago
Palm and the Palm Pilot. UI responded instantly to every input. 2 AAA batteries lasted a month. With years of heavy usage I never encountered a single bug.
Comment · 10 years ago
So "Closure" is a real comp sci word used to describe variable scope lifetimes in languages includes JavaScript and others. So when google named their project, they basically took a word from JavaScript/CompSci that starts with the same letter as "Compiler" (plus other similar sounds). I don't think there's much more to it than that.
"Clojure" is a programming language again based on the regular word "closure" but with some twists: The "j" is a tip of the hat to Java and the JVM where clojure is designed to run. This also has the nice property that the "zh" sound of the "s" in closure is also used with "j" sometimes (I think due to French). Thirdly I believe the "CL" letters of clojure are a tip to Common Lisp.
I'm not familiar with "Clozure CL" but the history is here: http://ccl.clozure.com/history.html
Comment · 11 years ago
There's a huge set of enterprise software applications promising a "Configuration Management Database" (CMDB). It's hard to implement in reality, but not for lack of vendors trying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management_datab...
Comment · 11 years ago
Here's my similar long-form article based on advancing in a large enterprise software organization.
Comment · 11 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think you will find multiple OSX user accounts viable/enjoyable. OSX puts a lot of important preferences (keyboard/mouse settings for example) within the user account, so you will end up having a nightmare keeping things in sync and sane. You won't be able to rely on a lot of important tools like dropbox or 1password easily. Just stick with 1 user. Use docker or virtualbox/vagrant for stuff you don't want to run as your OSX user.
Here are some of my tools and tips.
- homebrew is great - homebrew cask is helpful, too - 1password or similar - virtualbox can give you clean playgrounds and test environments that match your servers - boot2docker is handy for quickly starting and running services like databases without polluting your mac directly too much - I also get a lot of use out of vagrant but YMMV - I've lately started using project-specific instances of chrome (created with the chrome SSB script). This lets me keep lots of tabs separate and easily pause work and resume later - The chrome Tabs Outliner plugin is also really key
Here's my recent blog post with more details: http://peterlyons.com/problog/2015/02/osx-development-setup
Comment · 12 years ago
Would love to see a TL;DR summary. Long academic PDFs are frustrating to read.
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
The invoices that http://invoiceable.co generates work well for me. But that tool doesn't handle the actual time tracking, just the invoices.
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