Hacker News: awestrom

New comment by awestrom in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

awestrom — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:16:19 +0000

I had this happen to me once while traveling, and then by random chance I ran into a former Apple Store employee at a hostel.

She told me to email Tim Cook directly (his email is entirely guessable).

I did this and within a day or two my access was restored.

Unpopular ideas about social norms

awestrom — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 04:39:52 +0000

Article URL: https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31131459

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by awestrom in "Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers"

awestrom — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:23:12 +0000

I like keybr! The only thing that bothers me about it is that many of the words are made up, which means I have to think more about individual letters than I usually would. On the flip side, it does help you directly address your weak spots.

Another tool I like is https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english. It's simple and enables you to practice for 1 minute at a time. Sometimes I'll do it while I'm waiting for people to show up to a meeting

New comment by awestrom in "Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers"

awestrom — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:16:06 +0000

It's not about whether others care how fast you can type. It's about how quickly you can get your ideas into the computer. Between coding, writing documents, emails, and Slack, a lot of your day is spent typing. If you can improve your typing speed by 20%, you may have just reduced the time it takes to do your job by like 5%, which is meaningful!

Dan Luu has a really good post that outlines why working on things like typing speed can be extremely valuable and basically a force multiplier on everything else you do as an engineer.

https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/

Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers

awestrom — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://typing.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31091898

Points: 46

# Comments: 20

Throwing Bodies at Gaps in I.T. Systems

awestrom — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dscout.com/people-nerds/gaps-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872941

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by awestrom in "Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?"

awestrom — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:16:54 +0000

Has anyone tried to use these kinds of forecasting skills to improve software delivery estimates?

Software developers are notoriously terrible at estimation and lately I've been thinking that we should look to Superforecasters[1] for inspiration about how to improve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecaster

The way we do remote team bonding is shockingly uninspired

awestrom — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewedstrom.com/the-way-we-do-remote-team-bonding-is-shockingly-uninspired/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856122

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by awestrom in "ConstitutionDAO"

awestrom — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:54:17 +0000

Yes, one major difference between DAOs and LLCs is that DAOs exist in a nebulous legal space and might technically be general partnerships. Members of a DAO have potentially unlimited liability if it gets sued.

Hacksplaining.com: A Great Place to Start Learning About Security

awestrom — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 04:53:13 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewedstrom.com/hacksplaining/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15300692

Points: 4

# Comments: 0