Hacker News: DataGata

New comment by DataGata in "Show HN: I built a goal-oriented task manager"

DataGata — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:23:53 +0000

Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo:

1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I initially tried to confirm that a goal had been created.

2) When I create a subtask, and then exit the subtask menu to get to the first task, it gives me a blank page.

I really really like the idea, but the demo is a bit too buggy

New comment by DataGata in "$9.99/month"

DataGata — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:29:14 +0000

Thanks for reminding me. I planned on doing "cycles" between my favorite substackers (buy, cancel, read the backlog, switch to a new author), but i ended up with 5 concurrent subscriptions. Canceled now.

New comment by DataGata in "A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people"

DataGata — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:39:46 +0000

I was just reading a blog complaining about commenters not reading the article, and the next comment I read on a completely different article did not RTFQ.

> got some kind of shallow, automated message like this?

Jakob describes how after he is reminded of the person in the morning, he researches what has happened to them since he last spoke and finds some genuine content/connection to send to that person.

New comment by DataGata in "Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?"

DataGata — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:40:48 +0000

It should be reassuring to know that most of the things you interact with are actually too bandwidth constrained to care about those things, and the algos you interact with are fairly obvious and explicit (Feeds, curated things, etc)

New comment by DataGata in "AWS us-east-1 outage"

DataGata — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:47:25 +0000

Don't get nitty about saying "my X". People say "my plumber" or "my hairstylist" or whatever all the time.

New comment by DataGata in "Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?"

DataGata — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:13:17 +0000

I would be willing to bet money they use the same tool.

New comment by DataGata in "Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job"

DataGata — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:20:26 +0000

A person yelling "fire" in a crowded theater gets in trouble, but a person yelling "there is no fire" in a crowded theater in a theater definitely on fire is... being silenced?

New comment by DataGata in "The Tyranny of Spreadsheets"

DataGata — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 04:46:30 +0000

You say this but it still feels gross to do.

New comment by DataGata in "SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the first time"

DataGata — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:55:59 +0000

Consider that maybe the space shuttles exploding _was_ our thing. Boomers got to see the surface of the Moon. Zoomers got to see cheap flight and robotic victories. Millennials were raised by a NASA flying an explosive trailer truck.

New comment by DataGata in "Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers"

DataGata — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:14:17 +0000

I think there are reams of people living in cities like SF, NYC, and DC that are retired and make do without a car. In fact, I would bet that the elderly live better lives on all metrics when they are able to live carless in a walkable neighborhood.

Cars probably do help them kill their dignity- at the expense of their grandchildren's quality of life.

New comment by DataGata in "Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?"

DataGata — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:11:22 +0000

Bicycles for the minds are only useful for minds that have a good idea of where they're biking to!

New comment by DataGata in "Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers"

DataGata — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:44:39 +0000

Are the disabled and elderly supposed to be able to wield two ton death machines better and safer than an electric wheelchair or walker?

New comment by DataGata in "Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests"

DataGata — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:39:08 +0000

How much of Wahhabi not being a global caliphate is that they just can't right now?

New comment by DataGata in "What we learned doing Fast Grants"

DataGata — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:49:54 +0000

You are ignoring the article and attacking the publisher. Indeed, the article itself invites scrutiny.

New comment by DataGata in "Always Be Quitting"

DataGata — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:03:05 +0000

If you get disposed of in 9 out of 10 companies, then 50% of the time it takes about five disposals to find a job where you do get promoted. Seems like the strategy to take if you want long term success and not long term marginal subsistence.

New comment by DataGata in "Always Be Quitting"

DataGata — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:56:01 +0000

People that play zero sum games only get to play with other zero sum players. There is some risk they will lose. People that play win-win games get to play with other winners (and be winners).

Be a winner.

New comment by DataGata in "Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September"

DataGata — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:47:05 +0000

Are you responding to the parent comment? Do you not see how "I'm a mercenary" is as toxic as "I hustle 12 hours a day everyday"?

New comment by DataGata in "The only Buddhist region in Europe"

DataGata — Wed, 26 May 2021 17:50:17 +0000

The Big Bang has physical evidence for its existence that you can personally verify.

New comment by DataGata in "Writing books is not really a good idea"

DataGata — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:51:27 +0000

Serialized fiction is basically how many many classics came to us. Today, lots of online fiction, like Andy Weir's The Martian or Scott Alexander's Unsong, starts out as serialized fiction that comes out in sections. The episodic model for books isn't novel.

New comment by DataGata in "Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster"

DataGata — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:22:31 +0000

If it were a hedge against inflation, it would behave like a hedge against inflation, and yet it shows no similar characteristics to preexisting inflation hedges? hmmmmm