Hacker News: EmptyMoon

New comment by EmptyMoon in ".plan"

EmptyMoon — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:58:59 +0000

I'm having trouble finding a canonical definition of .plan style files. From Carmack it seems like:

* complete

+ new task

notes

Is that it? Is there somewhere the file format is defined?

New comment by EmptyMoon in "Embrace the Grind"

EmptyMoon — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:15:51 +0000

I have to agree. There is nothing more demotivating for me than documenting a bug thoroughly, only to have it returned to me two months later as part of a bulk 'we didn't get to this in time' cleanup.

Issues for those teams usually 'best effort' isolation going forward, which compounds the issue.

New comment by EmptyMoon in "Ask HN: Burned out, depressed, cannot do anything"

EmptyMoon — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:06:29 +0000

> I just look at the screen and do not know what to do next.

When I encounter this situation I try to remember that someone has probably solved the same (or a very similar) issue before. There are enormous amounts of open source code out there that might give you some inspiration. Take 5 minutes to sit back and search for inspiration from similar work. Don't blindly copy-paste, but understand how the author solved the problem and you in turn will have some ideas for solving your own.

New comment by EmptyMoon in "Show HN: A sock service that keeps things simple"

EmptyMoon — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:50:00 +0000

This may be pedantic, but there's a couple typos on https://bulkblacksocks.com/socks.html which make me think twice about signing up.

'Heals' is a pretty critical one. Even though the service is dead-simple I want to trust my socks source knows the distinction.