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I know web developers who just put together WordPress sites and that’s how it’s been for decades. Words matter but you need a thousand of them. Someone could say they’re “into rock climbing” but that could mean they…
I legitimately tried my best to like XLST on the web back in the day. The idea behind XLST is nice — creating a stylesheet to transform raw data into presentation. The practice of using it was terrible. It was ugly, it…
I think this is a basic “being an adult” skill to be honest. We all know those friends that you can’t criticize because they’ll take it poorly.
A few things: - Ratings are very personal. I find some movies funny but others don’t. - There’s more factors involved but there’s no point mentioning them because the movies I like are not the movies you might like.…
Here is a long ass post with some more but they come with a huge disclaimer — they are VERY personal opinions: If you care a lot about plot and hate holes, go for critic >70%. 60-69% is passable but only if you like the…
Same. I’m big into filmmaking and arthouse films. But other times I may just want something simple. Using RT’s two-axis score distribution helps narrow down movies.
I find RT scores very accurate but not the raw score. What I mean is that a 70% score is meaningless to me. I need to know the movie genre, the audience score, the age of the movie and then I basically do a “lookup…
I’m not goal oriented and follow my instincts. There’s no way you could get me to write a 5 year plan for myself. But I will never pick the fork on the road where I will probably be worse off in 5 years. I won’t take a…
I use TickTick. I saw the author tried it but didn’t actually write about it under “What Actually Happened With Each App” I use TickTick over Todoist and other apps because it’s basically a .txt file dump for me, but…
And model year too. Sometimes you can link the bad years of a generally reliable vendor to a new part e.g. the first year they might have introduced a 10-speed transmission. These first years are scary. Some vendors…
There was an economies of scale back then with OS-level UI components. If Microsoft spent money on UX research that improved its UI controls, it would benefit a lot of people. Essentially the cost of that research was…
Maximizing productivity comes from maximizing efficiency. Efficiency is about sitting down and analyzing your tasks holistically and doing min-maxing to ensure every process achieves its greatest result. Now ask…
50% of my college education was general education though. And frankly I find it just as valuable.
I like to draw with a mouse. Just takes practice, like anything.
Yeah it’s not universally true. But for some people, there are low hanging fruit like “cut out 4 Pepsi’s a day” (600 calories). If you are already eating reasonable healthy and still gaining weight, then adding more…
Less obvious things that I’ve found over the years are: - Some people just don’t like to eat that much. They don’t actually have a faster metabolism. Eating is just a chore to them so they rarely do it. - Some people…
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I know web developers who just put together WordPress sites and that’s how it’s been for decades. Words matter but you need a thousand of them. Someone could say they’re “into rock climbing” but that could mean they…
I legitimately tried my best to like XLST on the web back in the day. The idea behind XLST is nice — creating a stylesheet to transform raw data into presentation. The practice of using it was terrible. It was ugly, it…
I think this is a basic “being an adult” skill to be honest. We all know those friends that you can’t criticize because they’ll take it poorly.
A few things: - Ratings are very personal. I find some movies funny but others don’t. - There’s more factors involved but there’s no point mentioning them because the movies I like are not the movies you might like.…
Here is a long ass post with some more but they come with a huge disclaimer — they are VERY personal opinions: If you care a lot about plot and hate holes, go for critic >70%. 60-69% is passable but only if you like the…
Same. I’m big into filmmaking and arthouse films. But other times I may just want something simple. Using RT’s two-axis score distribution helps narrow down movies.
I find RT scores very accurate but not the raw score. What I mean is that a 70% score is meaningless to me. I need to know the movie genre, the audience score, the age of the movie and then I basically do a “lookup…
I’m not goal oriented and follow my instincts. There’s no way you could get me to write a 5 year plan for myself. But I will never pick the fork on the road where I will probably be worse off in 5 years. I won’t take a…
I use TickTick. I saw the author tried it but didn’t actually write about it under “What Actually Happened With Each App” I use TickTick over Todoist and other apps because it’s basically a .txt file dump for me, but…
And model year too. Sometimes you can link the bad years of a generally reliable vendor to a new part e.g. the first year they might have introduced a 10-speed transmission. These first years are scary. Some vendors…
There was an economies of scale back then with OS-level UI components. If Microsoft spent money on UX research that improved its UI controls, it would benefit a lot of people. Essentially the cost of that research was…
Maximizing productivity comes from maximizing efficiency. Efficiency is about sitting down and analyzing your tasks holistically and doing min-maxing to ensure every process achieves its greatest result. Now ask…
50% of my college education was general education though. And frankly I find it just as valuable.
I like to draw with a mouse. Just takes practice, like anything.
Yeah it’s not universally true. But for some people, there are low hanging fruit like “cut out 4 Pepsi’s a day” (600 calories). If you are already eating reasonable healthy and still gaining weight, then adding more…
Less obvious things that I’ve found over the years are: - Some people just don’t like to eat that much. They don’t actually have a faster metabolism. Eating is just a chore to them so they rarely do it. - Some people…