lhball
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more
Exactly this. I have 2 under six, and outside the odd night were my wife bathes both kids, from 6am to 9pm I’m either working or hanging out with my kids. Maybe 2-3 times a month I’ll get 4 hours to myself to go watch a baseball/hockey game.
At the end of the day though, I look back and I’m grateful. I tell myself “where did my hobbies go” but deep down I know I probably would have spent that time watching a 3 hour super smash brothers documentary or re-reading LOTR or something stupid like that.
Kids have made me more focused. Their unconditional needs force me to weed out the time wasting, unimportant things in my life. I honestly sometimes wonder how it ever felt like I was busy before.
Comment · 4 years ago
To this day nobody does notifications as well as WebOS did.
IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.
Comment · 4 years ago
Late to this. Here’s a screen shot. https://imgur.com/a/gYLytqh
Comment · 4 years ago
Good read.
It’s kinda funny that, on a CSS focused site, the position of the “latest” article label on the homepage is set above that of the site logo and navigation bar.
It’s nice to know even CSS experts make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s a “luxury belief”[1] and it shows that some people either forgot or never really knew how the other half lives.
1: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...
Comment · 5 years ago
Think Google Inbox (RIP :tombstone:) meets Basecamp (:campfire:).
A little like Superhuman in that it's a an email client that uses Gmail as its backend and it has a plethora of keyboard shortcuts.
Pretty blown away by how quickly the setup completed.
Comment · 5 years ago
Even if you factor in investment returns you're not getting the full picture IMO unless you take into account price increases over time as well.
A common refrain is that Carnegie Hall only cost $1M ($29,581,868.13 when adjusted for inflation) to build, so why do we still credit its founder with their name? Shouldn't we rename it in honor of someone who's contributed more to the Hall?
What this doesn't take into account is what it would cost to _build_ a new Carnegie Hall today. Labor is far more expensive (highest $/hr ever in 2019 if I'm not mistaken [1]) today and so are building materials [2].
So it's true he'd see compounding returns from investing, but to do what they did back then would cost significantly more today. IE, their dollars took them further back then.
Also, worth noting Rockefeller donated 6% of his salary to charity every pay check every single year of his life, not just when he could "afford" it [3]. So if you take into account the _missed_ compound returns of those charitable contributions, you can start to get a sense for just otherworldly their charitable efforts were.
Not trying to say these guys were angels. And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.
[1](https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...) [2](https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-in...) [3](https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-o...)
Comment · 5 years ago
Echoing others here, I honestly prefer this than dealing with outdated defaults built into the OS. More often than not they just get in the way.
The real bummer is for newcomers. It's going to make getting started much more of a headache since they first need to learn how to setup a local environment.
Comment · 5 years ago
$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.
Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.
The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.
Comment · 5 years ago
Paywall :(
Comment · 5 years ago
It's wild that this is still around. Just re-installed it to manage my Discord, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Telegram all in the same place =-)
Comment · 5 years ago
Granted, but how long until its used as precedent to put you on a list?
Comment · 6 years ago
I've built in house versions of this for a handful of roles. Frustratingly common problem.
Great that there's a free model, but would love to see a `hobbyist` tier as well. 50 QPS won't cut for a lot of folks.
edit: forgot a word
Comment · 6 years ago
I cannot for the life of me get that link to open. Here’s a web archive version for those with the same issue: https://web.archive.org/web/20201029194008/https://karl-voit...
edit: fwiw the author has web archive links at the bottom of all their posts. Since the page isn't loading, I couldn't see it.
If they can get that working I’d be ecstatic!