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burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you keep a good posture when you spend most of your type sitting?

I got glasses there were focused at approximately the distance my monitor is from my face (~1 arm length), in addition to many of the other things mentioned (chair/desk adjustment, walks, etc)

I'm near sighted and the monitor starts getting blurry at just the right distance. I have glasses for nearsightedness that are focused very far out (the common case). Wearing them for constant work at arms length really tired my eyes out. So, I'd frequently work without my glasses, but hunch forward a little to make seeing things easier.

With glasses dedicated for computer work, I can read everything I need to, my body can stay in the position it should be, and my eyes don't get nearly as tired.

As a side benefit, the glasses help me focus in other areas of my life. I frequently wear them while cooking, and it helps me do one thing at time, as other stuff is blurry.

burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city

I was worried about this when I first moved to NYC. I got in touch with a placement company, had an intro chat, and told them I'd be in NYC for a certain week. They lined up 4 interviews for me.

I very much enjoyed forcing a timetable on possible employers, as I got choices all at the same time.

I don't always enjoy recruiters. In this case, mine was very valuable!

burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

I understand part of the scalability concern being about the physical network capabilities ("Today's networking ecosystem evolved for the client-server model, what kind of problems could this create for switching to peer-to-peer model...") as opposed to the scalability of the IPFS protocol and node implementations.

burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?

A few random thoughts:

IPFS sounds a lot like what you want. Tahoe LAFS plays in this space a bit

The newer distributed file systems I've seen don't like permissions. They like cryptographically-backed capabilities. You have the permission to read the file because you have the ability to decrypt, through the key. (Of course, key management is easy </sarc>).

Some user-facing distributed filesystem talks drift into FUSE (or similar) territory. A TahoeLAFS dev talks about how users probably don't actually know what they want: https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV... (QUIBBLES: REAL FILESYSTEM VS. STORAGE APP section). This is probably less relevant for a package manager.

The first time I read about BitTorrent based deployment was from Facebook.

burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Why Personas Fail

I think of Bob as a team communication tool. Hopefully, most people on the team are familiar with Bob. When I'm working with someone else on that critical thinking thing about the end product, I can ask "What about Bob?" and teammates know what I'm talking about. Bob is a mobile user might not be complex enough to warrant a persona. I think personas are more likely to be a useful tool as the number of user types/goals increases.

Personas can also be a kind of checklist as a change is made, ensuring that the change makes sense (and doesn't break) in the most common product scenarios.

burkemw3 | 8 years ago | on: Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan

In my experience as a Brooklynite, the time trade-offs really depend on the time of day. Outside of commuting hours, taking a car is usually faster than taking a subway for me.

There are, of course, other benefits of the subway, including lower costs and the possibility of doing something else like reading.

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