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jboons··on Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development
If you plan on allowing future employers to look at your Github profile, you might want to change the way you write your commit messages.

> REFACTOR: :hocho: future queue (I was retarded)

Not exactly an appealing commit message.

jboons··on Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
This would be difficult to do unless you can tell which alias you are coming from in `Invoke-JsonRequest`.
jboons··on Git Workflow Basics
Typo - CTRL + F "Oficial"
jboons··on A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4
Sounds like you'd be difficult to please in general.
jboons··on Why too much choice is stressing us out
Just eat your fruits and veggies.
jboons··on Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations
The way in which you communicate your important issue is probably equally important.
jboons··on IBM Watson Tone Analyzer
My initial impression is it doesn't seem analyze groups of words very well. It will pick emotional words out of the middle of a sentence and apply the emotion to the whole text, when the context of the sentence changes the meaning of the word.

Quick example, "I hate your guts and I hope you die." -- Hope is picked out and noted as cheerful.

jboons··on Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive?
Keep thinking that...
jboons··on Lego’s 1981 Ad Campaign
Why are you comparing the effort of an opinion article to that of a research article? That's not how this concept works.
jboons··on Blunt Network Administrator Job Posting
Seems like this might be pretty effective. There are plenty of emotional robots out there that won't mind the stress levels and just want to constantly be useful.
jboons··on Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
Still paywalled.
jboons··on Netflix responds to Verizon
I had a pretty easy time reading it. Was it difficult for you?
jboons··on We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It
It's important to be reminded of this every so often. It definitely helps to get through "tougher days" if you're able to have a little perspective on how great things actually are, or how much worse they could be.