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softwareman··on Ask HN: Looking for help/advice/mentoring resources online, free or paid
I think you are too self-centered as of now. You need to de-focus.

To do that, the best advice I can give you is Travel (obviously once the corona thing is taken care of). Travel a lot and do travel on shoestring budget. This gives you the opportunity to meet new people, new geographies and help you cultivate new ideas and slowly form a picture of your life on your own.

This also helps you in start to focus on others instead of your own self at all times.

softwareman··on Ask HN: Going for my first eng manager interview – advice/expectations?
Focus the conversations around your experience being an EM in your current role. Do NOT expect that you should know (or should have experienced) certain things because you are a manager in your current role...just accept candidly what you have experienced and what you haven't.

Management is all about experience.

softwareman··on The state of Sam Altman's Bubble Bet, 1 year before deadline
He will win
softwareman··on Ask HN: Are daily standups any useful?
Here is the catch in your statement:

"giving them some sort of responsibility to complete those tasks"

1) Why do you have to give this on a daily basis? Assuming everyone in your team is dedicated and responsible, then why.

2) asking for help and advice should not wait for the next standup. If someone is stuck, they should reach out for help right away than waiting for next standup.

softwareman··on Ask HN: Good explanation of how the Internet works?
Would love to speak to you about where your understanding is. Share what I know and see if we can add to each other's understanding. Hit me up on hangout, shail.narayan@gmail.com
softwareman··on Show HN: ChopChop, yet another project management app
clickable link:

http://85.159.214.33/

softwareman··on Ask HN: Laid off after 2 months. What exactly should I be doing?
If you need help, I can coach you for job interviews. I can say confidently that you will start clearing interviews a lot more often. I have been there and just would love to help you out of this situation.

Hit me up on shail.narayan@gmail.com

softwareman··on Ask HN: Would you support a total ban on students bringing devices to school?
As you said not only are children addicted to Devices.

Lets do it for the whole humanity. It should be illegal to use any kind of device after work. Howzzat!!!

PS: its a joke.

softwareman··on Ask HN: Great science fiction movies?
'Contact (1997)' is good. One of the best alien movies. Since we are on the topic of fiction, let me add one more, Man From Earth (2007).
softwareman··on Ask HN: Why do so many startups invest so little in design?
Because design is still a luxury skill set. We need it to become a slight more available in the market.
softwareman··on Ask HN: Should a login be a Username or an Email?
We have already had a hard time selecting a email username (the part which comes before @). Now if you ask me to choose another username, I am going to be wanting the same email username because I do not want to remember another name. Its more difficult than remembering passwords. If your service becomes extremely popular then I will not get a proper username available (if I am one of the late to party guys).

So avoid usernames at all cost. Email is longer, but more often, who needs to enter it again and again, we anyways store it in stored passwords on chrome etc.

softwareman··on Show HN: Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online
No sound...but awesome stuff \o/
softwareman··on Ask HN: What is the MOST epic resume you've ever seen?
Best one is:

http://www.stroustrup.com/

Most interesting is "I designed and implemented the C++ programming language."

softwareman··on Show HN: CarSnap, a visual car comparison app
Yeah Brudgers, you have to select both the cars. When you click on any link, it does not refresh page but just scrolls up to show that your car is selected. Thanks for liking the idea :)
softwareman··on Show HN: CarSnap, a visual car comparison app
Yes, currently the DB is too small. Just wanted to test waters whether this idea makes sense.
softwareman··on What do you use for project planning?
try http://getgolo.com I built it.
softwareman··on Update HN: GOLO, Added “Descriptions” Feature to Tasks, Comments?
http://getgolo.com

http://getgolo.com/projects/d52182ec195ee772a6ef1692f2ee5445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986355

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010978

softwareman··on Show HN: Updates for GOLO, a simple project management app
Hi,

Its free. Its not even a product, more like a personal project. I haven't put any screenshots as its still in development and would love to get your thoughts.

I want to build an extremely simple project management tool without extra bells and whistles. Something which may be suited for a specific size of team, or specific type of execution.

I personally think that its a good tool for very small teams...like 3-5 where current tasks and backlog tasks list are more important. Not even attributing tasks to people, because in a very small team, everyone pretty much knows what another teammate is working on.

Its a single page project. I hope you check it out.

softwareman··on Show HN: Updates for GOLO, a simple project management app
http://getgolo.com
softwareman··on Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app
Thanks a lot Jake.

Actually thats the idea behind it. So, I am planning to support all these functionalities which you mentioned. In fact these features will be off by default. You can enable it on need basis per project. But this is still in development.

Do not forget to use it on your next simple project and give me feedback. Just reply to the registration email.

softwareman··on Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app
I agree. I thought of tags but still went with priority because an open ended priority serves two purposes: high level ordering as well as low level ordering.

What I mean is that you can separate out very different tasks by giving them far apart priorities and order and group sub-tasks/related-tasks by giving them priorities closer by. Let me know what you think.

Or if you have a way in mind about tags, would love to hear your thoughts.

softwareman··on Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app
I agree. Trello is closest to what I needed. I do not have a strong reason to not use Trello. I come from a background of using excel sheets for this task and needed something in flatter structure. Trello seems more visual than I need it to be.

I will understand if you didn't find my logic very convincing :).

softwareman··on Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app
http://getgolo.com
softwareman··on Ask HN: Interesting examples of startups breaking into tough industries?
Tesla, SpaceX
softwareman··on Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
Thats exactly what we are hearing. People like it but it seems we are not able to convince them to use it.

I agree coordination is an issue but I believe that since these testcases are for user based interaction, it should not be too difficult to explain in words which we can pick up and implement it.

softwareman··on Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
Selenium.
softwareman··on Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
Thanks Michael. I will put a demo account so that you can walk through the way it works.
softwareman··on Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
I agree.
softwareman··on Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
Thanks Saurav.
softwareman··on Show HN: Notes, a very simple app which supports Textile Markup.
I agree. There is no significant value in Notes application alone but what I am trying to generate value in the Hmpgr platform (pronounced as homepager). I have another app called Blog which I am still developing. I know adoption of these apps are difficult but I do not wish to make them even more difficult by using obscure thing like Textile.

But since you are patiently answering me, can I request you to please go through Hmpgr platform and tell me if you see any value in it.

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