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pietschy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?

I found the gallup strength finder test very helpful when trying to find a role that was a good fit for me.

https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/

Edit: It's a paid service the product links are here:

https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253868/popular-cl...

I've bought both, but 99% of the value for me was in the top 5.

pietschy | 3 years ago | on: Singing: The key to a long life (2008)

My wife is a singing teacher and has been trained by these guys for a long time. The education and training has been a very high standard. As always your millage will vary depending on the teacher you choose and their level of experience.

https://www.vocaladvancement.com/en-us/find-a-teacher

pietschy | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

I'm using https://github.com/bordaigorl/rmview. It does occasionally need to be restarted to work but other than that it's been pretty stable.

pietschy | 5 years ago | on: Using State Machines with React to Make a Confirmation Dialog (2020)

React examples like this always strike me as a great reason to avoid react, but then I'm an old OO dinosaur I suspect.

In our framework (that has angular underneath) we go..

   interactionContext.startActivity(MyConfirmDialog).then(result => ...);

...and the interactionContext handles back button clicks and makes sure the dialog is cancelled and our history is kept clean.

It even works with nested interactions (i.e. the dialog can start a new interaction in place). Again, the user can click the back button repeatedly to back out of the interaction and everything just works.

I've got no idea how you'd do that in React.

edit - fixed typos