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Comment · 1 year ago
This is how I’ve been using Gemini and it’s the first time I’m really seeing consistent value.
I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.
Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.
I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.
Comment · 2 years ago
My wife and I do a retro date night once in a while where we hit up dandy’s to have burgers and shakes roller skated to the car, then rent a movie from Blockbuster… definitely a fun throwback.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think, as others have alluded, this particular market might be tough with mountains being closed down. I have an aerial photograph of Burke above my workstation and a few other maps on my walls -- I always purchased them shortly after forming a connection to a place. That's just my anecdotal experience of course!
For marketing, are you also placing them on location? If so, I can likely help with placement in Burke Mountain Hotel. Edit: my email is in profile
Comment · 6 years ago
Seconding The Mom Test. It's a fast read too, and the author was on a recent episode of the Indie Hackers podcast.
For more of the same, I got a lot out of Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez. Here's a talk from Cindy if you'd like to get to learn more before committing to a book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hc7sseHbE
Comment · 6 years ago
A lot of great books are already mentioned.
I also enjoyed "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations With The Creators Of Major Programming Languages" [0]
It's a collection of interviews with creators of languages (FORTH, C++, Python, Haskell, and many more) You learn a lot about language design decisions and their pitfalls.
And a shameless plug: I shared MapFilterFold as a Show HN earlier, a project that collects recommendations from Ask HN threads. Browsing the books tagged computer science might yield some interesting results[1]
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596515170/
[1] https://mapfilterfold.com/books/?genre=computer%20science
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi lbrito!
The site is a Phoenix app (Elixir's popular web framework) with PostgreSQL. The pages are just Phoenix templates and I let Cowboy, the default HTTP server for Phoenix, serve the app directly... so it's not sitting behind NGINX or any similar web server that's frequently used as a reverse proxy.
I used Bulma as for the CSS, just to try something I haven't used before.
The only line of JS is in the dropdown menu's onChange tag, to submit the "form" when you select a book category.
I like the UI on En Passant! Really clean - great use of icons so I know what the media type is at a glance as I scroll.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hey myu701. Thanks for the link. I unticked the setting mentioned a bit lower on that page[0] to disable reCaptcha. It's not clear to me if that changes it for their landing page.
Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up.
[0] https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/...
Comment · 6 years ago
There have been a few discussions about it on HN as well, where Alexey Guyzey, author of the criticism linked, joins in on the conversation:
(4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
(1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22419958
Comment · 6 years ago
Hey! Sorry about that. I pushed out a quick update for individual book pages to be titled {MapFilterFold - Book: [bookTitle]}
Hopefully that makes most of the bookmarking easier. I'll work on a solution for other pages later today!
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi, thanks! Frankly the articles (the three panels/links at the top of the home page) need more attention, but I wanted to have the feeling of "done" so I pushed the site out as-is.
On those pages, books aren't ranked in any particular order, other than trying to pull attention to some slightly buried books that I do personally recommend. I'd love to hear, are there any books you'd add to those pages?
The "Oddities and fun" page is simply a collection of books from my notes that stuck out as interesting while I manually approved all parsed comments and book mentions.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks! I removed the viewport tag. That should get it loading in an un-zoomed state.
Comment · 6 years ago
MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018.
The site uses Amazon affiliate links.
There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since most comments on those threads don’t include links. More about the data can be found on the About page.
This is also my first Elixir + Phoenix project, which was a joy to use once I got moving.
Comment · 7 years ago
Loved Cindy's book. Hey talk 'From 0 to Interviewing Customers Well in 90 Minutes' [0] available on YouTube is a great resource too.
Comment · 7 years ago
Exploring for opportunities as a Technical Product Manager (Senior Engineering background in customer facing roles) but if you think there may be a strong fit in another role at your org, it doesn't hurt to chat!
Location: Vermont, USA
Remote: Yes, experience leading and hiring multinational remote teams
Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity
Technologies: On the engineering side, I'm strongest on the frontend (React and Angular most recently) but I've worked full stack both professionally and on my own projects (see resume for details) Tons of experience in enterprise developer support (wrangling our APIs and SDKs across countless stacks)
I have a few years under my belt of leading and hiring remote engineers, helping to scale a team from 10 to over 100. I'm passionate about enabling others to build successful careers.
Customer facing experience: In my first startup attempt I felt pain from a lack of experience talking to customers, so I took a role in Success and Support engineering to gain customer facing skills. I've now been working on honing my customer development skills and data driven product decision making.
I'm currently consulting with a few startups, providing guidance on their upcoming major product releases.
Résumé/CV: If the Google Drive link is still viewable, I'm still exploring options :-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sN4vZek2ItiO-P_hY-N9aWJFFem...
Email: In my HN profile
Misc.: I'm most interested in technical B2B products (developer tools, data, other tooling), fintech, or health. I don't have any experience with blockchain/cyrpto.