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by evilstark 3y ago
never assume malice when incompetence could be the answer... (hanlon's razor)
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by evilstark 3y ago
Honestly, if that video, et. al. is 11 years old, then Eliot is old enough to participate here -- I'd love to hear HIS side of the story and I bet the HN crew could find him an engineering internship in like 30 seconds!
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by evilstark 3y ago
Hey George! We should catch up! (to readers: I was the guy who hired George as an intern and he was awesome. so AMA too!) AOLServer was so, so, so far ahead of it's time. It had a WYSIWYG HTML editor years before Dreamweaver that co
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by evilstark 3y ago
Two things that still really matter in the (dire sounding) scenario you are painting: PEOPLE and RISK. SO here are my two recommendations -- they somewhat conflict, but depending on what kind of person you are (and are becoming!) one will
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by evilstark 4y ago
Guessing you're a pilot? This is my new go-to background noise. :)
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by evilstark 4y ago
not sure how specific you are about "interesting work in hardware" but this is the first thing that came to mind for me: https://www.span.io/ total rethink of the humble electric panel. If this had been around whe
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by evilstark 5y ago
I'm going to put one of these in my "zombie-apocalypse" go-bag.
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by evilstark 7y ago
"What is the one thing an engineer could do that would make a huge difference in where we are trying to take this thing?" This question -- a) gives him an opportunity to tell you exactly where we are trying to take this thing, --