geeio | 8 years ago | on: What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer
I think hours per week "in the zone" is a nice proxy for measuring how happy I am in a job
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geeio | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Reddit Top Books – Weekly list of the Most Popular Tech Books on Reddit
I'd be really interested in this for non-tech books as well. I'd love to have a fast way to find new fantasy books.
geeio | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?
Try the history of the English language after that. It's similar and equally good.
geeio | 9 years ago | on: Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
I assume they are talking about things like the truetime clocks used in spanner, which are not available on commodity hardware
geeio | 9 years ago | on: How Algolia Reduces Latency
I'd hope they have some sort of rate limiting built in
geeio | 9 years ago | on: Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
Maybe more like --force-with-lease
geeio | 9 years ago | on: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
I enjoyed that snippet, what is it from?
geeio | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
1. [Damian Gryski](https://github.com/dgryski) - implements a bunch of modern academic papers (mostly in go). Also his twitter has a bunch more stuff.
2. [Daniel Lemire](http://lemire.me/en/) - comp sci professor who frequently blogs about interesting db/indexing topics
geeio | 9 years ago | on: ZType – typing game
I bet sorting the letters by frequency in the English alphabet would make it faster.
geeio | 9 years ago | on: English rules of thumb with grep
You should listen to the http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/.
He goes into great detail about how the Proto-Germanic languages evolved via sound changes (e.g. Grimm's law).
geeio | 9 years ago | on: Introducing GeoViews
Warning this site makes mobile Safari freeze.
geeio | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Show us your personal site
geeio | 10 years ago | on: Dropbox, why are you ruining Mailbox?
I switched to Outlook for iOS, it seems to be updated way more frequently.
Can't wait till they release their mac client.
geeio | 10 years ago | on: Fonticons (YC S15) Is A Subscription Icon Service From The Maker Of Font Awesome
Love it. We've been using it in production since the beta.
geeio | 11 years ago | on: Atom.io: Multi-Folder Projects
I find it to work much more reliably than GoSublime. Frustration with GoSublime is the reason I switched.
geeio | 12 years ago | on: Ruby Gem Configuration Patterns
Check out my configuration gem.
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