I take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.
I ordered a Pebble Time 2 on Kickstarter and a Core hoping to find the perfect smartwatch and run tracking combo. When the Apple Watch 2 came out, I figured I'd hedge my bets and get one of those, then keep whichever one I ended up liking more. Well, the Pebble + Core is never arriving (thanks for the quick refund!) - and I've really become found of the Apple Watch.
Built in GPS for run tracking is awesome, and with wireless airpods, I'll be able to run and listen to music/podcast with minimal extra weight.
A few other minor things I've liked about the Apple Watch 2:
- Setting a timer with Siri (use multiple times a day now)
- Weather on the watchface
- Check banking balances from watch
- PagerDuty notifications on watch vs. phone (my wife very much appreciates this!) - phone now stays out of the bedroom
I'm sad there isn't a good open source watch OS out there (with any decent looking hardware) - but until then, the Apple Watch 2 has been a pleasant surprise. I did have pretty low expectations going in, so that could be part of it.
Author here. I wanted to share some of the early mistakes I made as a solo non-technical founder building a software company. I started learning to code after these early mistakes and it's been incredibly helpful. I can't thank HN enough for encouraging me to learn.
These were not just mistakes, but clearly fundamental failures as a businessman. It's literally amazing that you were able to find any success in your endeavors. Your saving grace was that you basically called yourself out for being a tool because nothing else describes how you present yourself. I honestly feel for "Blake" and am utterly surprised that Joel stuck around. This is an excellent example that business professors and CS professors could use to demonstrate the complexity of trying to actually develop something and why simply having a good idea is not enough.
Totally agree. I look at how I used to think and communicate, and "tool" is spot on. Software is so incredibly hard, it took me years, and many mistakes along the way, to learn this. And I'm still learning.
With a reply like that, I can give you some kudos. Recognizing mistakes is difficult, but recognizing there are things you don't even know that you know and striving to learn them is courageous! Good on you for working to improve yourself and your business! World could use more like ya!
For actually being in a company like that it's mostly that and bad overall management - at a time we did have a ratio of two (useless...) PM for on dev. Dev underpaid, PM overpaid (as expert freelance, of course, or with bonus), some huge expense made for stuff that make no sense (branding), negotiating badly some contract so that they cost the company more than they provide...
Of course after a while this stop since all these mismanagement corrupt the products too, and pretty fast you're left with a huge black hole for money that doesn't produce anything meaningful.
If anyone in Seattle wants to play some basketball near greenwood / phinney ridge area, I'm hosting at 7pm tonite at the Greenwood Elementary outdoor courts! Event is public on this app.
Wohoo, that's so cool to hear! There's something special about hearing from your first users around the world, and that they are actually using it for real stuff.
