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New comment by tylerc230 in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

tylerc230 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:36:47 +0000

A lot of parents at our school signed a “wait until 8” pledge to wait until 8th grade before getting them smartphones. This way there will be less social pressure from their friends to be connected. My assumption is that without a smartphone they won’t use social media.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

tylerc230 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:14:56 +0000

Xcode has this functionality. You can attach a system sound to a breakpoint. I used it exactly once when I was trying to determine if two events always happened in the same order and were always equally spaced in time. It worked well but drives you sort of mad after a while.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Depression (2014)"

tylerc230 — Sat, 25 May 2024 03:33:15 +0000

Something I read recently that really hit home is: ”set a direction, not a goal and train yourself to embrace failure as a learning opportunity”. When you set a goal you’re setting yourself up for disappointment if you don’t reach the goal. If you set a direction you’re still improving but you’re freed up to enjoy the process not the result.

New comment by tylerc230 in "A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken"

tylerc230 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:09:18 +0000

If I need to stop in the middle of something, I’ll often write directly in the source code, at the point where I stopped, exactly what I was working on and what to do next. I don’t comment out these instructions to my future self so when I sit down next, the project won’t even compile.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Ask HN: Why do you like Visual Studio Code?"

tylerc230 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:49:36 +0000

How do you set this up? Any drawbacks?

New comment by tylerc230 in "First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions"

tylerc230 — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:19:43 +0000

There’s a lot of multitasking with kids which I don’t think is healthy for the mind. Also I never have quiet moments to reflect which is when I make connections, mentally piece things together etc.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Someone is pretending to be me"

tylerc230 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:02:54 +0000

I had something similar happen to me a few years back. Someone using my photo and profile from my personal site and uploaded it to upwork to get contract work. I found out b/c someone hired them for a contract (thinking they were me) and got suspicious. The employer found my real email on my site and contacted me. Not sure what I can do to prevent it. I put a warning on my site saying to look out for impersonators.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Happiness Is Two Scales"

tylerc230 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:06:08 +0000

High happiness and high unhappiness is how I would describe parenthood. On the one side your whole life is a chore and feels like a grind. On the other hand your kids give bring you so much happiness you seems to smile/laugh more often.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri"

tylerc230 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:35:15 +0000

They share a lot of similarities. Both make it hard to do unsafe things, both have functional influences, both have modern features like closures, optionals etc. I'd say the biggest philosophical difference between the two is that Swift leans more toward developer ergonomics while rust is geared toward system level programming (ie tighter control over memory etc).

New comment by tylerc230 in "Why software engineers like woodworking"

tylerc230 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:43:24 +0000

I also think there is a precision aspect to woodworking which is similar to writing code. I like to take the time to make my cuts exact, make sure things line up properly etc.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely"

tylerc230 — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:22:54 +0000

It varies like anywhere. My team at amazon is fairly low stress and there's no overtime (I've been here for a year now).

New comment by tylerc230 in "Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness"

tylerc230 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:02:35 +0000

I've found that architectures like redux which force the separation of logic and side effects (eg file writes or networking) allow me to write robust tests against the logic code without mocks or stubs. My approach is to write enough code that I have a good idea of what the interface to SUT should look like. Then I write the failing test and make it pass then write another test... The tests I write generally only change when the interface changes or when the requirements change. It doesn't make the code too rigid b/c I'm only writing tests against the interface of this big blob of code. I'm free to refactor away and my test will still run as long as I don't change the interface.

New comment by tylerc230 in "The Document Culture of Amazon"

tylerc230 — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 03:07:35 +0000

Generally a link to the document is sent out earlier in the day. That way folks who are inclined can read ahead and comment. The slackers still get time to read the doc at the start of the meeting so they’re not completely in the dark.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

tylerc230 — Fri, 21 May 2021 06:34:02 +0000

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the phrase "second screen". It was going to be big thing until people realized that no one wanted to look at 2 screens at once.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

tylerc230 — Fri, 21 May 2021 03:50:29 +0000

I worked for a company that allowed you to play along with jeopardy on your brew/Jme device in real time as you watch the show live on tv. You could compete with your friends in real time, leaderboards, chat etc. The company eventually went under but I can’t help but think if it had been ported to iOS when it came out it would have been a hit. I’ve still never seen any technology like it.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)"

tylerc230 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:36:50 +0000

Seeking work Location: San Francisco I've got 10 years iOS experience (Swift/Objc) Focused on BLE/IoT products On site in SF or remote www.13bit.io

New comment by tylerc230 in "Functional core, imperative shell (2012)"

tylerc230 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:43:57 +0000

Yeah swift lends itself to this style well. Value types, functional aspects etc.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces"

tylerc230 — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 15:27:09 +0000

I remember finding TermKit a while back and thinking it had some interesting concepts. Looks like it hasn’t been touched in a while though. http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

New comment by tylerc230 in "Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code"

tylerc230 — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:50:48 +0000

Swift would be great. Perhaps you could leverage SourceKit.

New comment by tylerc230 in "Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?"

tylerc230 — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:37:13 +0000

This book blew my mind when I first read it in highschool. I've had a few pivotal experiences in my life which have shaped who I am and how I think. Reading this book was one of them.