JHer

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by JHer 4mo ago
I will keep recommending Hillel Wayne's crossover project whenever this "Software engineering vs 'real' engineering" discussion pops up. https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-project/
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by JHer 7mo ago
If all I have todo is ask the thing what I want, where is all the great new software? Why isn't everyone running fully bespoke operating systems by now? While I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't make things more complicat
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by JHer 8mo ago
I recently used it to watch "Revolution of our times", a documentary about the 2019 Hong Kong protests. As far as I could tell, this is the only legal way to stream the movie.
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by JHer 1y ago
I don't understand. It's not like the far left is Volkswagen's fan club?
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by JHer 1y ago
The television, the atom bomb, the cigarette rolling machine, and penicillin are also "just tools". They nevertheless changed our world entirely, for better or worse. If you ascribe the impact of AI to the people using AI, you wil
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by JHer 3y ago
It irritates me a bit that many comments on HN are like a Yelp review of the linked article instead of adding to the discussion of their comments. Maybe you see HN primarily as a community-curated list of links while I see it as a place of
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by JHer 4y ago
DFW = David Foster Wallace
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by JHer 4y ago
But there are other platforms out there (especially for books) that people will prefer if they make it easier to find high-quality content. I’m with the poster you replied to; it would make sense for Amazon to go after these fake products.
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by JHer 4y ago
What gives you that idea? Of course we can build enough windmills and other renewables.
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by JHer 4y ago
Murakami wrote a non-fiction book about the Sarin attacks and the Aum cult, Underworld. I’m not sure if it’s accurate (he’s a fiction writer, afterall) but it’s very fascinating and sent many chills down my spine.
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by JHer 4y ago
You should read this: https://hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
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by JHer 4y ago
Do you mean a _low_ signal-to-noise ratio?
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by JHer 4y ago
If you haven’t already, you should read the crossover project by Hillel Wayne in which he interviewed a bunch of engineers that became software engineers. It’s really good. https://hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-eng
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by JHer 5y ago
WFPB = Whole Foods / Plant-Based
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What engineering can teach (and learn from) software engineers(hillelwayne.com)
3 points by JHer 5y ago|0 comments
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by JHer 5y ago
For people interested in the comparison between “real” engineers and software engineers (as in this thread), Hillel Wayne wrote an outstanding series of blog posts summarizing a bunch of interviews he did with former “real” engineers who tu
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by JHer 5y ago
Could you share a link or give the name of the study, so that I can read it?
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by JHer 6y ago
Perhaps the ones falling prey to fake news and disinformation are not doubting enough or their doubting is one-sided. What they lack is the doubt in their own thinking and believing. I believe we should question our own convictions as often
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by JHer 7y ago
Entering "1984" yields "books similar to 1984 by Michael Dean". Entering "Nineteen Eighty-Four" gives me "Book picks similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Matthew Dunster". When I search for "Ninete
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by JHer 7y ago
I found "Search User Interfaces" by Marti Hearst very informative. It's available online for free: https://searchuserinterfaces.com/
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by JHer 7y ago
Debugging python processes running in containers unfortunately requires a bit of setup in VS Code (no idea about Emacs).
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The Social Credit System on Chinese Online Media vs. Western Media(whatsonweibo.com)
3 points by JHer 8y ago|0 comments
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by JHer 8y ago
Whenever I see someone saying something like "just a tool" with regard to technology, I always want to recommend a thorough read of Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media" ("The Medium is the Message" and