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10000100001010 | 6 years ago | on: Remote Work Report

I've worked remotely for nearly 2 years now. The majority of that time I was the only remote engineer in a company of ~80 engineers. We went fully remote just over a month ago and it has been a huge quality of life boost for me. Before everyone went remote the communication was pretty lopsided where I had to make sure I was over communicating and inserting myself strategically. Now that everyone is remote it is a lot more natural with everyone on the same playing field

10000100001010 | 6 years ago | on: Conway's Game of Life in Lucidchart

Hi, I'm the original author of this blog post. Some things are now outdated in the post—you can make a much faster executing game now, for example. However, given John Conway's passing I thought that posting would be a good tribute to the influence that he had.

10000100001010 | 6 years ago | on: Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]

I'm about to finish paying off about $65,000 dollars that I took out for my CS degree. I graduated 4 years ago and have a good paying job. So, I'm lucky to have to be paying it off early. However, even with my 6 figure income, paying off this large sum off money has been a huge burden and has majorly affected other choices in my life like investments, career (I.e. I had to take the high paying jobs), buying a house, etc etc. If I could go back and do it again I would avoid any student loans like the plague they are.

Edit: just saw your edit reply to above edit :) that is much more reasonable than the situation that I put myself into. Still, I would recommend doing everything you can to avoid the debt. Paying back 1000's of dollars is a large burden.

10000100001010 | 6 years ago | on: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

Lucidchart is tiring complete :) we have a lot of data and automation features, integrations, text based diagramming, advanced shape libraries, dynamic shaped etc. Discoveravility of all the features can be lacking though because there is so much stuff. I've worked on the product for years and I still learn about new features all the time.

10000100001010 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?

I'm the only remote engineer at my company, which has over 100 engineers. I'm also one of the more senior engineers. I told the company that I was moving closer to family (for medical reasons) and asked if I could continue working remotely. So far its been great. I've been more productive then ever. I did go back to individual contributor from team lead for a few months but now I'm back to leading a very small team.

So the steps for me were. 1) Establish myself as a valuable asset over several years at the company 2) Move closer to family and ask if I could work remotely 3) Work really hard to establish communication lines and insert myself into the same conversations that I would have been included in at the office.

10000100001010 | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: PowerPoint slide builder with handwriting

Disclaimer: I work at Lucid

Lucidchart is a much better and feature rich platform than draw.io and allows for creating slides and exporting them to Google slides.

You'll have to pay for the more advanced features like export to Google slides though

10000100001010 | 7 years ago | on: AWS icon quiz

This is only tangentially related but it seems that many of the shapes are built in some sort of 3d program and then exported to svg. If you inspect the official released svgs you can see tons of artifacts in most of the shapes[1]. You would think that Amazon would have the resources to release very optimized icons for its public facing documentation.

[1] https://preview.ibb.co/dd86RK/aws_dms_inspected.png

10000100001010 | 8 years ago | on: Firefox Debugger

You can at least both "Log Message" and "Evaluate" in Chrome with conditional break points. Calling console.log is falsy, so calling it from conditional break points just causes it to log the message (you also have access to any variables in scope of the breakpoint that you can use to build the message). You can do the same thing with executing random JavaScript. Just put the statement and add && false to make sure it always returns false.
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