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priyadarshy··on Thundrblade: World's First Electric Inline Skate
seems like it'll be mostly fun and novelty. unlikely this will spawn the next Bird, i think.
priyadarshy··on Setting Personal KPIs
"Every Sunday, I look at my todo list from the past week and give myself a grade. I email myself the grade and a brief write-up." -- OP, what are the heuristics/algorithm you use to convert completed tasks into a grade?

I ask because we are capturing a lot of data about what tasks people are completing daily, how long they worked on it, what times of day things are being completed and starting to think about scoring and providing retrospective data on that inside of Sunsama. As an example here's what my calendar looks like when I check stuff off and make commits: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfgh5udbljii74f/sunsama-tasks-and-...

priyadarshy··on Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
I've been watching this product for a while: https://www.nuclino.com/ it seems they too have built something really impressive on top of ProseMirror (it's a lot like Quip/Paper but more interesting). ProseMirror really feels like the only editor on top of which you can build an entire user experience and app.
priyadarshy··on Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
We used ProseMirror in the past few months to build a rich text collaborative editor. We were able to get started and get a collaborative editor up and running in ~1 hour. This was a big deal for us, we'd tried to implement a good collab editing experience multiple times and each time we felt like the editor was the sticking point in creating a good experience. ProseMirror treats collab editing as a first class use case and makes it really easy.

We then spent 2-3 weeks getting all of the formatting, tooltips and key mappings to handle some basic formatting (bold, italics, underline, bullet lists, numbers). Eventually, once there are more examples on the web of more complex formatting for the community I think it will become much easier to use.

It's the first editor I've used that felt like it made sense at a conceptual level but implementing "simple features" can feel very hard at times. I don't think that's a knock on the library though. There's a lot to learn and understand and it just took us a lot of time to get it all.

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: What tools have most helped your day-to-day productivity?
I use Sunsama daily (https://sunsama.com) to navigate my time + tasks. Disclaimer: I also work on making it.

I also built a really fast rig recently. It saves me a lot of time since I’m spending less time waiting for projects to build and can’t lose focus.

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: What information should be in any job description page?
I agree, it's important to be able to visualize something tangible you might work on or build. When it comes time to the interview you also have a real context to talk about things in like why you'd choose X technology, or why you'd implement Y in some particular way.
priyadarshy··on Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?
We've been using Trello for a while and I've never thought of it as bare bones. It seems quintessentially kanban, in your opinion what's missing or simplified?

Do you have any opinions on "calendar kanban's" like Sunsama: https://medium.com/@landon_46280/scrum-with-sunsama-ddb5e8e7...

priyadarshy··on Partial Google Services Outage?
I'm unable to OAuth in to a variety of Google Services e.g. Asana, FullStory. They all result in some kind of failed auth banner no matter how many accounts I try.

At work, our applications uses Google Calendar V3 and is seeing a ton of 503s in all environments (dev, staging and production).

Where does Google update the status of their APIs?

priyadarshy··on Google Cloud Storage throwing a large number of 503's
I'm unable to OAuth in to a variety of Google Services e.g. Asana, FullStory.

At work, our applications using Google Calendar V3 is seeing a ton of 503s in all environments (dev, staging and production).

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: Is there a powerful open-source Google Calendar replacement?
there's a lot interesting possibilities for you can handle this. for our sync engine at sunsama we've tried a few different approaches.

currently, we store the "parent" recurring event as one document. then we store exception events as standalone one off calendar events that link back to the parent recurring event. unfortunately, we have to maintain two different types of exploded versions of recurring events (to handle notes on an instance).

eventually, we added a bunch of extra fields to the parent event like a pointer to the next upcoming instance of this event and denormalized full list of exceptions so that we can more easily handle application logic like sending out reminders, and letting you use arrows to navigate b/w instance s of recurring events.

so far with this approach of separating out the parents and children we've run into very few problems.

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: Is there a powerful open-source Google Calendar replacement?
98% is some serious coverage of your calendar. Here's an example of someone else who does some serious documentation of their time via Sunsama currently. Thought you might find that interesting: https://workfutures.io/journaling-calendar-centric-work-mana...
priyadarshy··on Siftnet. The World's Time Network
We're working on a mobile version that will support Exchange on Android and iOS devices.
priyadarshy··on Siftnet. The World's Time Network
Yeah, basically let's them pick from a bunch of suggestions. Care to try it out?

www.siftnet.com/alpha code: 8800

priyadarshy··on Siftnet. The World's Time Network
Try it out and let us know? We're in closed alpha but I can share an invite link.

Of course with Siftnet you cut down on the back and forth but more importantly you've given the other person an opportunity to find a time with you as soon as you send your first e-mail to them. You don't have to deal with the delay of back and forth emails or people going on vacation half-way through the meeting negotiation process.

priyadarshy··on Siftnet. The World's Time Network
Yes. Actually, your Sift responds back in 3-5 seconds telling you what it thinks you meant and let's you simply confirm when it gets it right or edit any details it missed. Natural language processing is hard so our approach is to do the best job we can and make sure the user agrees; after all the customer/user is always right, not the algorithm.
priyadarshy··on Haste language
Does anyone know of any well-known applications that are using any of the various Haskell -> JS convertors?

It's not useful information regarding the usefulness of this but I am curious.

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: Are there any jobs where a primary task is writing reg exps?
Thanks for not just referencing XKCD comics and actually providing an answer.

There seems to be a bias against regular expressions because they've developed a "dubious" standing amongst programmers.

I've used Regex quite a bit doing NLP would love to know more about their use in other fields.

priyadarshy··on Ask HN: Are there any jobs where a primary task is writing reg exps?
I'm well aware of their dubious standing in the world of coding problems.

I'm just wondering if there is a domain of problems where people are employed fulltime to solve the problems with Regular expressions.

priyadarshy··on Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack and run a startup?
OP, I don't mean this to be negative or mean but I'll say it because I'd want someone to say it to me.

You need to look inside yourself and decide what is right for you and your circumstance. Certainly you cannot expect PG to issue an edict down from the clouds. You are pandering to your role model/idol/God figure to approve a behavior whose merits you haven't decided for yourself.

Furthermore, it is a fact that PG is infinitely wise when it comes to succeeding in startups but as a community of people that look up to him for his advice and indirect mentorship I'd rather we not request his 'judgement' on matters like this because of the disproportionate weight his words carry.

priyadarshy··on GitHub Résumé
I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential.

You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit.

Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.

priyadarshy··on What 4chan thinks of HN
And it has a name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
priyadarshy··on Intro to Pandas data structures
great tutorial. I was able to get through all of it this evening. it was fun having a data set to play around with the whole time. everything was well explained and it was easy to read.

and looks like working for the city of chicago is the thing to do...not bad salaries out there :D

priyadarshy··on Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours: A Haskell Tutorial
Yup, I didn't mean to open a negativity fest. It's a double edged sword with the shallow examples (e.g. calculating BMI). LYAH does a very good job of explaining every single detail in those lines of code, I've never left an example confused but at the same time the simplicity keeps you from having questions you want to explore.

I don't think this is a bad thing. In any mathematics class I ever excelled in I spent a lot of time mindlessly executing the mechanics and knowing the names and pieces that were relevant, once I knew all that it became very easy to see the interpretations and the applications.

I think I'll finish LYAH before doing one of these more application oriented tutorials.

priyadarshy··on Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours: A Haskell Tutorial
Spent a lot of time this week working through the Learn you a Haskell tutorial. Definitely getting bored of adding numbers, each exercise and example is so trivial that it's hard to get curious and go down a rabbit hole that teaches you a lot.

I'll try this out this week. Thanks for sharing!

What I'm wondering about is how you arrived at the 48 Hour number?

priyadarshy··on Stay Put, Young Man
I always wonder how its feasible for people in service industry roles to work in the bay area. (Something I think about a lot when I go to work at a cafe).

That being said, it would be interesting to see a graphic of commute time and wage/salary to see the tradeoffs people make.

priyadarshy··on Elon Musk hiring autonomous driving engineers to report directly to him
I'm curious to know how many applications come in via a direct tweet from Elon Musk. Once someone gets a job working on Autonomous driving with Elon, I'd love to hear about it
priyadarshy··on DSP in Go
It's hard to say this would be a serious alternative from a first glance. Matlab has a rich history and an enormous breadth and depth of support just doesn't have.

This Go code hasn't broken into filter design, visualization or multi-rate methods. I still think its cool that OP is working on this but its far from being a true alternative to Matlab.

priyadarshy··on Enough with the JavaScript already
its flat design, or should I say no design. prettier than hn
priyadarshy··on Facebook Login and What We Learned from our Show HN
these are some valuable insights regarding something people default to without considering the tradeoffs.

I'd be interested to see a more in-depth analysis across products/companies and wider demographics regarding the disparity between an inferred personality (via likes) and actual preferences.

priyadarshy··on ReelSurfer beefs up discovery + clipping tools, success among brands/publishers
imgur for videos? you get satisfaction in just a few seconds unlike every youtube link ever. wish people would send me reel surfer clips instead of nine minute youtube videos...
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