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I want to make a movie to capture the feelings :)
- Evernote: didn't support markdown so gave it up
- OneNote: UI is too much, like PowerPoint. It's not a text-based note app.
- Quiver: https://happenapps.com/ I bought this app. It's great. I've been using it for a long time. But I gave it up when I found notion.so. Quiver doesn't allow me to sync multiple notebooks. Under each notebook, you cannot have a sub-notebook under a notebook (like a folder inside a folder). It doesn't support global search.
- SimpleNote: bad UI. The render is buggy.
- Notion.so: So far it's my favorite. But the desktop app is slow. Especially for work, I need to take a lot of quick notes.
- Joplin: quickly tried but gave it up. Slow and bad UI.
- Notable: https://github.com/notable/notable Nice, clean UI. The render is fast. A great feature of notable is that it has a "copy block" button for the code block. I love the feature. But the problem is I cannot use cmd + w to close the window, it always pops up a confirmation modal. (IMAO, modal is the worst UI ever invented on this planet.) No updates recently. I am willing to pay this app if a new version comes out.
- Fsnotes: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes Nice, clean UI. But the render is buggy.
- Bear App: https://bear.app/ Nice clean UI. But the weird thing is in all the other markdown I've used, "-" is for a list, "[]" is for a to-do list. But in Bear, "-" is for a to-do list, "*" is for a list.
I ended up paying two apps, Notion for personal stuff, Bear for work.
Highlights - interactive mode - Use full power of JavaScript.
$ curl ... | fx '.filter(x => x.startsWith("a"))'
- Access all lodash (or ramda, etc) methods by using .fxrc file.
$ curl ... | fx '_.groupBy("commit.committer.name")' '_.mapValues(_.size)'
One of my co-workers in my previous job, I miss reading his PR and git message. It's such a joy reading his PR. I still remember reading his PR on introducing Babel to our big, old Rails 4 app before webpacker, Ruby Babel Transpiler came to life. It's like taking a journey with him. You can see his smile, struggle, surprise and all the emotional moments in his commits. He put his findings, why he made this decision, and where he found this solution in the commit msg. I learned a lot just by reading his PR. I think reading a well organized PR, clean git commits and descriptive commit messages (even the code review comments are very useful) is one of the best ways to learn in work, especially for new hires.
1000000% agree!
Me: "Do I have to pay back sign on bonus and relocation? I've been here for less than 2 months."
VP: "You were supposed to, but I pushed it back to the management. Now you are forgiven. That's a very good question."
Me: ......................&^#^(%#&)@!
Today mark as my first out-of-employment day. I am on H-1B, which is an even worse situation. I'll need to find a new job ASAP :(
> Tesla uses airtable to track inventory of vehicles as they leave the factory; $20 billion office-space startup WeWork is a customer, too.
I've tried airtable and used the tool to plan my trip to Japan. It's great. I heard a few iOS developers use airtable as a lightweight backend instead of firebase.
I like its idea and design. I was trying to use it as replacement of my evernote (It's probably too weird to you). Then one day, I found https://notion.so. I decided to switch to it. It's faster and have offline support. But the only missing part is notion.so doesn't have API yet.
on iOS 11.0.1
This is from Apple Special Event 2017
(Steve Jobs’ voice) "There’s lots of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out. And you never — you never meet the people, you never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours but somehow in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us. That’s what’s going to keep Apple, Apple, as if we keep us, us. "
The design of stripe is definitely a good example of this statement.
He has done a lot of work on TCP congestion control, especially the fast retransmission idea by using duplicate ACKs.
There is an interesting thing about TCP. A lot of popular TCP implementation use city names, e.g. TCP Reno, TCP Vegas, TCP Westwood.
TCP Westwood is a very interesting implementation. It has very intelligent way to estimate bandwidth, (not just based on duplicate ACKs). You may find this paper very interesting. http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/internal/wiki-internal/files/rohit...