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Thank you for sharing this. While everyone remembers his writings, encouragement, and contributions to tech/business, the photos put up by him are beautiful as well.

very interesting. I'd echo the comment by another user that the website needs to 'show' what the app UI is like.

The marketing aspect of the app would be key - the app store is crowded for convoy tracker apps - but hardly anyone is framing the "friends" angle. Good luck!

Majority of my LinkedIn contacts don't have any endorsements on their LI profile.

It used to be a thing of the past - people don't seem to bother now. Go ahead and create the profile. Search and connect with your colleagues.

different sizes. The black-10oz is still $91 at Amazon right now. Price goes upwards for other colors and other size (14oz).

This doesn't directly answer your question, but on the topic of feeling about the steps taken in the past, I have found this visual by Tim Urban helpful every time I find myself going down that rabbit hole: https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1406980353986809861

r/daddit is active and regularly sees posts sharing and seeking points of views. It likely won’t substitute for time support from family/friends, but still a community you can talk to - different things.

Are you trying to drip-launch a product on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38428497

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473489

It’s a good problem to solve - eager to try if you have a product ready.

The way this combines different aspects of environment and work is awesome. Like it!

Is there a way to see what your app does / how it does, without signing up with an e-mail?

https://archive.ph/4Y6lv

So "invoking the fifth" has a new meaning on Linux?

Where’s/What’s the privacy policy?

Happy user of Octal ( https://github.com/dangwu/Octal ) for iOS here.

"It also helps to think about how you were raised, and if that impacted the way you are."

For people interested in this area, I can also recommend "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)" (author: Philippa Perry).

Thank you for the posts. Do you write / post anywhere else publicly at all now? These were interesting perspectives.

That’s how I read it as well. He was trying to summarize the issue at hand in that sentence.

"Getting a fresh pair of eyes" is a great time-tested way to get ahead in solving a problem you and your team is stuck on.

What's underappreciated, is becoming those fresh pair of eyes yourselves from time to time, to help others with ideas they can readily use. It hones own skills too.

Letting authors pay for hosting/infra is what commercial plans for WordPress.com do.

In case folks are interested in other "non-tech" TILs, I occasionally visit this blog to see what's been added recently - https://alearningaday.blog/ - by a Product Manager who currently works at LinkedIn.

Coincidentally, I discovered TablePlus in Setapp today while searching for a macOS MySQL client. Has been a smooth experience in the first few hours, and a better looking interface that other clients that I have tried in the past.

As another comment mentions, support for Linux is a big plus - we need better GUIs in there.

Is it an online Japanese class? Which one and what has been your experience?

You can flip the thing around by championing the 6 Thinking Hats method to drive decision meetings: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Thinking-Hats-Edward-Bono/dp/0241...

There are numerous examples cited in the book and around the web on how this streamlines discussions (and also gives everyone a chance to chip in from different angles).

I've been a Soulver user since 2012, and it's been an integral part of my works, even acting as a scratch pad for ideas with numbers.

The UX is the plus here - I am aware that there have been several other apps that have offered a polished UX since then, but the convenience and my learned affinity to Soulver makes me keep it.

This is awesome work and thank you for doing this for public without asking.

P.S. does the transit authority offer an API or is this prone to breaking when they change their page layout?

[edit: I just read about the rumor on your webpage. Clarifies.]

You may find some places on the web talking about this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beauty-amazons-6-pager-brad-p...

https://www.anecdote.com/2018/05/amazons-six-page-narrative-...

It's a different database altogether - document-oriented at that.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/rtdb-vs-firestore

I stopped using the realtime database once firestore was released in beta. So haven't experienced the downtime you have demonstrated in the status graphs, but Firebase's SLA [1] for realtime database apparently guarantees service credit for monthly uptime less than 99.95%. To corroborate your observations, check if you received this credit:

Less than 99.95% but equal to or greater than 99.0%: 10% credit

Less than 99.0%: 30% credit

[1] https://firebase.google.com/terms/service-level-agreement/

DOCX is an open XML based format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Some more information here: https://www.toptal.com/xml/an-informal-introduction-to-docx

(I'm not the parent commenter who you replied to, but I think I understood what his/her point was).

Taking the shopping cart example: "In a former life, I used to write SQL to extract customer of the week. Basically, select from orders table where basket size is the biggest."

The author decided that 'customer of the week' will be selected by 'biggest basket size'. Not by 'biggest $ amount spent', 'fastest time from add-to-cart to checkout' (and numerous other attributes or combination of them). This decision (the "best attribute") was taken by a human, leaving a field open where a combination of attributes could've resulted in overall better business outcome (how much did 99% of these retained customers shop for, in $ value over lifetime?, etc)

This is possibly what the parent commenter is hinting at - this human decision leaves a lot of optimization scope, where ML could have helped.

You're good with the name. Don't overthink it now - it sounds business-y alright. If parent's logic were to prevail, no company name would end in 'soft' (since Microsoft) either. Doesn't hold.