The IQAir is very nice. There is also the Purple Air monitor.
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To be fair, I think, in retrospect, the iPod and iTunes sync process and system gave Apple a multi-year headstart with building and developing a consumer-friendly backup and sync process.
They missed mobile. Apple (and later Android) delivered what average consumers wanted. Average consumers do not want to have to be a personal IT department to upgrade their software and manage backups of their settings/apps.
As someone who had a Windows CE iPaq and wanted to love it, the user experience was so frustrating. It was nicknamed Wince for a reason.
For example, since Windows CE was burned into the iPaq's ROM, you had to upgrade he ROM. To upgrade the ROM...
> This ROM update will Clean Reset the HP iPAQ Handheld device to factory settings. Performing a Clean Reset will return the device to its default settings, and clear all user applications and data. Before performing this ROM update, back up all your data.
I would also like to say that you must be quite athletic and talented to be playing with former ATP 500 tennis and D1 and youth professional football players. Congrats!
When I first started, I did both. But I lurked for at least 2 years before creating an account. And oh what a rush it was to reach mid-3 digit karma points at a time when I was bored at my dead-end corporate programming job. And I still remember making it to the “Best of” comments a few times. I know they were just upvotes but I felt like someone out there liked my little contribution or comment. At the peak of my commenting, I remember once I got a shout out from Andrew of Mixergy.
Over time, while I still comment occasionally to train my ChatGPT nemesis, I have settled into just submitting articles.
I think the reason why I’ve drifted away from commenting is that commenting in pseudonymous environments just gets you imaginary Internet points. Also commenting on HN can become a large use of time, particularly if you want to read all the threads in a discussion.
Right now, I’d rather be active in and build virtual relationships with people in a small, manageable number of Discords or Slacks, some of which are actually acquaintances I’ve met in person.
Ever since I've read and re-read this book, this perplexes me. What was the true name?? Isn't it revealed like in Wizard of Earthsea? Or is there no name ever revealed kind of like the end of "Lost in Translation"?
Video (may make you cry) https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA8FJiz2ies
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...
I do remember the story of one Microsoft programmer who spent weeks if not months struggling and working on the task of drawing a window on screen. Remember they did not have any Windows MFC APIs. They were writing the APIs.
https://reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/sm54ri/anyon...
Congratulations on joining Microsoft several years ago! I like how you frame the benefits of practicing. I am totally with you on the showing up early for a flight. Pre-all those screenings, I once drove a family friend to the airport at 80-85+ mph speeds (never ever again!) so that they would barely catch their flight.
Thank you for sharing your perspective from someone who has done it. And congratulations on becoming financially independent! I feel you have shared a lot of wisdom in that one sentence. Life is now, not later.
It echoes what my brother-in-law told me when I blathered in our family WhatsApp about my (maybe) plan for 2022: "If this is driven by your friend's unexpected passing, then my suggestion is to live each day. Don't wait for retirement as life is too unpredictable. You should be able to live a good life while saving for retirement."
I'm still on the fence about grinding LeetCode to get into a FAANG or equivalent. However, I am rationalizing that even if I don't go for FAANG, getting familiar with LeetCode (even if not a grind that consumes my life) could still be an invaluable skill to hone as it would make those types of interviews less of a concern and more companies are adopting CodeSignal-type online assessments as their pre-screens.
In the before times, most of us went to offices and we got into "work" mode. Offices are specifically designed for that. An astonishing amount of GDP is spent on offices to "encourage" you to focus.
In these times, I highly recommend a dedicated physical location in your home where you try to only do work (an office if you have a house, a small desk if you have an apartment). Working on the couch does not work for me. In fact, it makes it worse.
If you can manage it, put your phone as far as physically away from possible. The phone is a pandora's box of distraction. I don't care how much self-control you have or if you have turned all notifications. If you can have it within arms-length, you are always within arms reach of losing focus.
> His fortunes changed in 1999. Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading purveyors of Linux-based software packages tailored for large enterprises, had granted him stock options with no strings attached, thank-yous from entrepreneurs who hoped to grow rich off his creation. When Red Hat went public that year, Torvalds was suddenly worth $1 million. On the day VA Linux (now VA Software) went public, Torvalds was worth roughly $20 million, though by the time he could sell his shares, they were valued at only a fraction of that.
> Torvalds hesitated before buying himself his first expensive bauble, a two-seater BMW convertible. "I was a bit nervous about people's reaction," he confesses. "Are they going to think I've gone over to the dark side?" In the end he decided that the shape and price of the hunk of metal he drove to and from work each day was his own business. Despite counsel to the contrary, Torvalds wisely sold all of his stock and spent almost all of the windfall on his home and his cars, trusting that he'd always be able to earn a good salary as an engineer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20031127045640/https://www.wired...
The second part is more about specific situations like your friend is very ill or you have to decline being a bridesmaid. I recommend it as the concepts explanation might be helpful.
I’ve not yet read “Frientimacy”, and it seems to be a similar book.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Showing-Up-Yourself-People/dp/161...
I think they are just emulating the successful Microsoft VAR model that had different tiers from Microsoft Certified Professional to Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer to Microsoft Gold partners. Microsoft probably just imitated Novell and Cisco. The business model works. I don’t think Cloud adoption would be anywhere near as high without corporate-approved partner designations with multiple tiers.
In a world of infinite choices, I believe that making deliberate choices is a good exercise, whether you do it via a strict whitelist/blacklist domain filter or some other means.
Many times, I don't actually read the article and just read some of the comments. Instead of filtering by the domain where the article is hosted, I use the title and its underlying theme or subject as the filter for which article comments I will read. I'm not interested in every single subject posted on HN so I just look for the subjects that I am interested in. Reading the actual article can take time. For me, I find skimming some of the discussion in the comments as a quick proxy on what the article is actually saying or the value of the article.
With all filtering, there is always the risk of false negatives where you skip something that you would have found of value or really interesting.
I agree that some of the most interesting articles are from non-mainstream sources. For example, the recent article about weaving.
If your company wants to participate as an AWS Solution Provider, there are hard requirements for the number of staff with AWS certifications. Most Fortune 500s will only work with AWS Solution Providers, so there is a huge incentive for consulting companies to encourage or even require their employees to become certified. This can involve holding back promotions, paying for test fees, allowing the employee to study on company time, bonuses and any number of "carrots".
Also, AWS certifications expire in 3 years from the date of the test pass which I think is a good timeframe, given the historical rate of change.
I'd like to share with you a couple things. I still love Salsa even though I stopped actively going to Salsa clubs a few years ago (like many things in life, activities will fade in interest/fade back in). As a note, most of the social dancing advice applies to a world without covid dangers.
1) Keep on going. You can take a break though.
One of my favorite articles from "The Unlikely Salsero" (archived copy) https://web.archive.org/web/20080316160328/http://www.unlike...
2) Footwork is everything. One of the mistakes beginners make is that when they do their basic step, they take "too big" of steps. This is acceptable when you are a beginner. However, when you start doing more complicated footwork/leading that is required by patterns, larger than needed steps can easily break the precise on-beat timing needed. Please try to focus on small steps.
3) Leading properly requires signaling. Something like a simple squeeze of the hand if you want your follower to stop. Also, prepping the follower for their turn by doing a very, very slight wind up.
4) Listen to Salsa music more if you are not already. The key feature of Salsa music is that breaks happen on the 8/12/16 bar of the normal song. If you can anticipate the breaks by counting in your head silently while dancing, this will make the difference in your lead from above-average to performance. I recommend Gilbert Santa Rosa. They are more laid back then the frenetic Salsa bands.
5) If you are just starting out, asking a follower to dance is one of the most intimidating things you can do. You will get rejected. Don't take it personally. When you get better, you still will be rejected. In a group class at a club, take note of the followers in the class (you usually rotate) who seem enthusiastic. Ask them to dance if you see them still around.
> It's not far off from love, is it? When someone's in love with you, they see you as the most wonderful person in the world. It's a hell of a feeling. If you can do that for people you're not in love with, you've got charisma.
(From the start of that comment)
> I think the formula for charisma is simple: convince people that you see them as better than they see themselves. If you make people feel like they're special -- smarter, funnier, braver, more beautiful -- than they think they are, they'll stick around you because they want to see themselves this way.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triple-net-lease-nnn.as...
Think of it like owning the property that a popular Starbucks location rents.
Obviously, the retail landscape has changed irrevocably in 2020.