Location: Augusta, GA, USA
Remote: open to remote or in office (depending on location)
Willing to relocate: hoping to, especially to Ireland or other EU/Schengen but need visa
Technologies: product manager/strategist, not a developer, but I have some experience with SQL, HTML, CSS, git, Hugo and basic Python, Javascript, Ruby. I can handle myself in a Linux terminal. I have experience running Shape Up, Scrum (and variations), and Kanban teams.
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Email: steven@justlikegrapes.com
Summary: I'm a product strategist with over 6 years experience in product management, plus another couple more years working alongside product teams. My current company is in a maturing market. I've recommended strategies to disrupt or differentiate, but leadership is hesitant to invest in further innovation, so I'm looking for my next step elsewhere. I have experience in healthcare systems, payment processing, and donor management industries.
This is really cool. It's little things like this that keep me coming back to HN. I can't justify the cost of Kagi yet based on my current use, but I'm glad that people are out there building things like this. Thanks for your contribution and for making Obsidian and Kagi that much better!
There are a few types of toys that my wife and I are still ok with getting and Lego is one of them. She's started using the phrase "more really is more" to describe the category. Basically, it's systems where you build something and the more you have, the more things you can do: Lego, Brio, Magna-Tiles, Hot Wheels track, etc. Even things like Pokemon cards (if your kid actually plays the game) can fall into this. You do have to be careful not to end up with too many of these systems, especially really similar ones.
We're also still ok with getting books. We have a few too many for our shelf space, but at their current ages, our kids are aging out of books about as quickly as they receive new ones. I just need to do a better job of giving away the old ones more regularly.
Yes! I've run out of ways to tell MY parents not to get toys for my kids for Christmas/birthdays. I can ask directly for no physical things; I can suggest tickets to shows or evens, memberships to museums or zoos, etc; I can point out every time they come over that there's not enough space for the things we already have; I can tell them what sorts of clothes the kids could use instead. They're still going to get each kid a "showstopper" (toy workbench, Big Wheel, something physically large) plus several cheap plastic trinkets... plus the clothes.
And that's just my parents. I can politely talk to them about not getting physical things for my kids, but then there's all of the extended family that loves to get them big, cheap plastic stuff, too. I know they're trying to be generous and don't really understand the fallout, but I'm starting to reconsider the whole "it's the thought that counts" idea.
I need to do a better job of helping the kids periodically go through and give stuff away, but 1) try explaining to a 3-year-old why giving away your toys is a good thing, and 2) the influx of new things always seems to outstrip the rate at which I can find time to get rid of stuff.
That doesn't sound SO absurd to me when I think about it. Limes do go through a fair range of colour space, after all. Maybe there should be a limeyellow?
I'm a little over 2 months post-op after replacing my bicuspid aortic valve (more common and not as serious as what these four kids have). Growing up, I always enjoyed seeing the EKG printouts and listening to (and watching) the echocardiogram. I was never very good at hearing my murmur through a stethoscope, so the sounds of the echo were super exciting.
My new mechanical valve ticks audibly, and as a musician I was a little worried about how it might affect my sense of rhythm or tempo. Fortunately, I've gotten pretty good at ignoring it, especially when there's lots of other sound, but I can pretty much always hear it.
The sequences shown have BPMs associated with them. I wonder if the product engineers adjusted the EKG results to line up to a particular BPM or just selected portions where the patient's heart rate was pretty steady. I also wonder if there will be any ability to change the BPM on the drum machine. Either way, this is a fun project.
I have a bicuspid aortic valve (on top of other stuff that was repaired when I was younger), I could hear my heartbeat until I was 28 when I went on a beta-blocker that decreased the sound levels and is supposed to reduce wear on the valve.
I know I'll need my valve replaced at some point, I hope they gave you a good long term postop prognosis, I know the tech keeps getting better every year.
Yeah, I'm 34, and they gave me an On-X valve which seems to be the most current tech in use on the mechanical valve market. The most urgent need was actually to remodel my ascending aorta (complications caused by the BAV), and their hope was actually to re-implant my own valve after rebuilding the aortic root. However, when they got me opened up and saw the valve, the decision was made that it was too far gone and would have needed replacing soon anyway. I knew going into the surgery that it was about a 50/50 chance.
The ticking sound really isn't that bad. After a couple of days I was able to ignore it. Other people can hear it in quiet environments, but it seems like most people don't notice it. I do occasionally move to turn off my turn signal while driving only to realize I'm hearing my valve, not the car.
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you and what prompted you to replace it? Just curious how long one can go with the bicuspid valve. While living with it, how did it affect your life?
I'm 34. I never experienced any symptoms as far as I was aware although they include things like fatigue, so was that my BAV or just the fact that I've just had a long, active day? My cardiologist noticed at my last annual exam that some of the factors they track had crossed concerning enough thresholds to make me a surgery candidate.
As for how long one can go, I was diagnosed at 6 months old, but I've read stories of people in their 60s or 70s when they're first diagnosed. It's a very common condition; about 1% of the population have it, and I personally know a few other people who've been diagnosed. It also seems to vary pretty substantially in its severity; it seems lots of people could have minor cases and not know until later in life. I was told at various times that I'd need surgery by the time I was 14 or 26, so I consider 34 a win in my scenario.
To me, the show's nature completely changed when Stephen Moffat took over. I really enjoyed the Ponds' story arc, but it felt like Moffat had just thrown out all of the other characters and stories that I'd grown to love before the 11th Doctor showed up. The monster-of-the-week show with the occasional through-line had become (for better or worse) a show about a multi-episode, multi-season plot. It was almost a new, different show with the same basic premise.
And then Clara came along. It's kind of like how Capaldi and Whittaker went; Jenna Coleman seems like a pretty good actress given a vacuous role. Even the character started out as an interesting twist with lots of potential for good story telling, but it seemed like Moffat couldn't quite figure out what he wanted to do with her but couldn't let her go, either. I don't remember exactly how long she was the primary companion, but it felt like an eternity (and I guess in canon, it sort of was).
Moffat wrote some of the best episodes of the Davies era. It felt like when he was put in charge of whole seasons, he applied his same writing technique to the larger scale of whole seasons. Which resulted in each individual episode being too sparse.
Classification of musical instruments into these sorts of categories gets tricky in some areas (especially with regard to percussion). Really, the percussion and keyboard categories (when people acknowledge them) kind of become weird catchall categories, especially percussion. Also, depending on our goal, it's ok to let one instrument belong to multiple categories.
*As an exercise:* do you classify based on the means of playing the instrument or by the actual source of the sound?
If it's by the means, then the *piano* is a keyboard instrument, but if by the source of the sound, it's percussion... or is it a string instrument (chordophone) being played by means of percussion which is being triggered by means of keyboard? Is percussion only ever a means of playing? If so, what are drums, membrane instruments? And are cymbals a different category?
And then what about a *harpsichord*? It's another strung-keyboard instrument, but its strings are plucked rather than hammered. How should it be classified?
And then there's *bass guitar*, clearly an electric chordophone unless it's being slapped in which case it's obviously percussion... but its sound is actually reproduced by a speaker cone at the end of an electrical path that varies in complexity... unless it's being recorded directly to tape/digital without a speaker being used at all. Does the classification of a bass guitar depend on listening format?
It's kind of like when people say, _"Actually, a tomato is a fruit,"_ or, _"There's no such thing as a fish."_ Botanically/taxonomically, sure, those people are absolutely correct, but then a ton of other things that we refer to as vegetables (most of them, off the top of my head) are also technically fruit. In fact, botanically speaking, there's no such thing as a vegetable (huh, kind of like fish... I guess we could consider them seafood).
*To sum things up*, I guess my point is that categorizations are somewhat flexible (in many cases even subjective). More importantly, they're only meaningful when they help us to solve a problem. By extension, they only apply to a particular context. A tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable; you just need to decide whether you're a botanist or a chef.
This is actually the biggest problem with my current home printer. My wife or I will print something after installing brand new ink cartridges. Then a month or two later, we try to print something again. The printer acts like it's printing (and seems to think that it's printed the document correctly), but the page comes out with little or no ink inconsistently spread around the page, as if the cartridges were empty.
We finally realized the problem was that excess ink was drying up on the (outlet/spout/I'm not sure of the right term) where it's fed out of the cartridge and onto the paper. In short, *we weren't printing _enough_.* Sure enough, as long as we print a page or two a week, it keeps working properly. Also, for some reason, the "Clean print heads" function or whatever it's called doesn't resolve the issue.
Yep, inkjets need to periodically "clean" the heads by squirting something through them, and they happen to be filled with ink, so that's what they use. I successfully got one working once with vodka when its self cleaning routine couldn't do the job and rubbing alcohol wasn't close to hand.
This is why I use and recommend a black and white laser printers - total cost of ownership is easiest and cheapest in my experience. I suppose they're more expensive than an ink jet to start off with, but it's not that big a difference and a decade of near trouble free printing is worth something for sure.
I don't see the need for color printing documents, but if so there's office stores. For photo prints I'd be looking at places with high end inkjets most likely these days, but there are other color processes that should still work well - I did RA-4 chemical photo printing way back when and it was excellent at the time and should hold up well, but I don't know that anyone bothers with that today.
A laser printer, even a B&W laser printer, is the best choice for a lot of people. I ended up getting rid of my ink jet for the reason you say. I don't print a lot but I do need to print semi-regularly and I'm certainly not going to drive 15 minutes to the nearest Staples every time I need a page or two printed out.
