alexdrans

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Re:Ask HN: With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer? on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:41AM (#21729016)

Try DEF CON radio - https://somafm.com/defcon/

Re:Ask HN: What do you use MS Excel for? on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:18PM (#18143753)

Personal finance!

Re:The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out ... on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:26PM (#17776047)

I personally use 50/10/50/25 on off on off.

Re:Ask HN: What are some APIs you wish existed? on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:30AM (#17705242)

Exhaustive GTIN barcode API, with at least a title, description and image. Deduped!

Re:The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017 on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:19AM (#17541405)

Investment doesn't buy you all the 'Living Space' you may want

Re:The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017 on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:15AM (#17541376)

Endure the bubble, until you can conquer Australia and relieve the pressure

Re:Ask HN: What was your most productive (day|week|month|year) ever? on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:51AM (#16491518)

I'm giving up coffee for lent, you just made me miss it a lot more :(

Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:18AM (#16465020)

17 and 2

Re:Canadian software engineers paid peanuts on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:23AM (#16459618)

Same in the UK but more severe.

Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:14PM (#16439180)

Haha, you first.

Re:PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers, or you'l... on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:50PM (#16001469)

Yeah wtf, this is wrong. They should require explicitly permission before transferring ownership.

Re:Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:29PM (#15811891)

Already running on ECS, so sounds like k8s will be a breeze!

Re:Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:53PM (#15809063)

If you had just convinced your CEO you need to hire a contractor to implement k8s on EC2 for your startup, what would you do now?

Re:Freelancer.com has ruined my life on Saturday November 04, 2017 @09:19AM (#15624870)

Don't the Chinese have a saying which means 'Pay low price, expect to get screwed over'? Bangladesh is even worse than India.

Re:Ask HN: When will we reach the limits of scientific or industrial p... on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:22PM (#15612883)

Humans will reach their natural limits, but machines will take us higher.

Re:Feather: Open-source icons on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:30AM (#15090892)

The whole page is 58KB

Re:YC-backed Muzmatch definitely doesn’t want to be Tinder for Muslims on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:42AM (#14919993)

Congratulations Ryan!

Re:Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:49AM (#14629209)

Hi, would you please consider paramaterising the input in the URL so that I can use it with Chrome's Omnibar?

Re:Ask HN: Can you explain how a database index works in an interview? on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:02PM (#14499483)

ugh, this new breed of programmers-but-not-computer-scientists make me shudder

Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about testing/TDD? on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:09AM (#14219045)

Sorry I can't contribute more, this needs to be a quick message; but I recommend that you take a look at substack/tape⁰ for testing in JS; browser and server side. It forces you to write 'simple' tests; the likes of Mocha give you too much fluff, and use globals (i.e. magic).

[0] https://github.com/substack/tape

Re:Only 4% of Uber drivers remain on the platform a year later, says r... on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:11PM (#14166814)

Weird. I ask the same in London, and they all love it; working on their own time, no boss, secondary job et cetera. Not a shill.

Re:Ask HN: What printer do you use? on Saturday October 01, 2016 @07:18PM (#12620334)

I don't print that often, and very, very rarely do I need to print in colour if so, so I have the Samsung ML-1660. A few years old, but the line of products I would definitely recommend. There are colour versions too.

Ask HN: What's the best way to plan my day?

Posted by alexdrans on Friday February 20, 2015 @10:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm the type of person who needs to play their day hour-by-hour in order to get anything productive done. Are there any recommended tools for getting this done? I use Google Calendar for longer term planning, but I want something akin to a 24 hour wall chart, every single day.

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