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by samhuk 3y ago
FYI: The linked video is Smarter Every Day dunking on NASA, Boeing, ULA, the pork barrel, and all that kind of stuff in-front of a bunch of big names in the space industry for around an hour. It's a tough watch with some hairy moments,
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by samhuk 3y ago
Would you rather use a product that somebody treats as a vehicle to "Michelin star dinners, travelling, live music, skiing, etc.", or a product that somebody deeply cares about more than those things? My point is not "care 10
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by samhuk 3y ago
This is essentially what I replied to the comment with. Hard agree.
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by samhuk 3y ago
This, in my view, is quite a utilitarian (dare I say brutal) look on work and the world. You are technically correct, in the same way "following the letter of the law" can be technically correct whilst missing the spirit. For what
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by samhuk 3y ago
> Force startups to aspire to create an actual product rather I'm getting on to 10 years in the software industry as an engineer at the moment and in my view this is one of its most disappointing and frustrating aspects. The whole s
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by samhuk 3y ago
This best describes my feeling.
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by samhuk 3y ago
I wouldn't expect such a sudden death from "business plan just didn't work out" though. Take Docker for example. Curious. Competition perhaps?
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by samhuk 3y ago
In a way I understand why, however I still am always perplexed when a "we are kaput" announcement drowns the message in praise for all the amazing super awesome they have done whilst not including a single character as to why, u
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by samhuk 3y ago
Not found one yet. The linked article contains a very small amount of detail, such as the lat-long coordinate values they found within the dissassembled code, etc., but not much else unfortunately. I'm waiting for the stuxnet-like repo
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by samhuk 3y ago
TL;DR: * Polish train maintenance company, SPS, was getting suspicious as trains made by a company, Newag, kept on "randomly" breaking and couldn't be fixed. They was getting fined millions by Polish government as they had a
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by samhuk 3y ago
Agree with writer, apart from a challenge on the "I get pestered at the office/on slack too much!": I see this complaint quite frequently about flows being disrupted due to office/slack, having to "mute slack to get
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by samhuk 3y ago
Although LeetCode does have a strong algo slant, choosing the optimal data structure is almost always a key part in solving the problems. If you think leetcode-like problems is always about the algo, "BFS or DFS" etc., then at bes
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Ask HN: Any Bun stories in your job yet?
3 points by samhuk 3y ago|0 comments
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by samhuk 3y ago
Key take aways (for layman): * Previous studies have used charged antimatter like positrons and antiprotons, which they imply is kind of silly because the electromagnetic force is 10^42 times stronger than gravity, so you have to set up abs
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by samhuk 3y ago
Interesting, this was almost word-for-word how I was explaining it to a non-space-nerd friend of mine. I'm still convinced that this theory, in a sort of occams razor way, is the most likely to be true. If SLS was just "a jobs pro
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by samhuk 3y ago
I used UTM extensively when creating an almost-no-touch tool for developers to setup their Macbook devices at the company I work for. There's really no other convenient way to do this. It was awesome to be able to run the tool on a fre
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Show HN: Verba – Yet another Node logger(github.com)
1 points by samhuk 3y ago|0 comments
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by samhuk 3y ago
I went down a bit of a rabbit-hole there. Apparently, the current belief is that the meaning is "If the eye is healthy, it functions as the light of the body and indicates that the owner is sincere, generous and helpful." [0] I
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by samhuk 3y ago
See: Gattaca
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by samhuk 3y ago
Odd statement, as it is of course always the thinker that gets the attribution, i.e. the manipulator of tools and the interpreter of results. E.g.1: Galileo saw Jupiter , not The telescope saw Jupiter . E.g.2: Joe built the wall , not T
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by samhuk 3y ago
Tin foil hat: Insurance companies Realistic: Doesn't earlier "treatment" of Parkinson's Disease yield better outcomes? I.e. dopamine supplements, etc.
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by samhuk 3y ago
> When copper oxide superconductors were discovered in 1986, researchers leapt to probe their properties. But nearly four decades later, there is still debate over the material’s superconducting mechanism, says Vishik. Efforts to explain
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by samhuk 3y ago
Hey Bryan! Liked what you have done. Big +1 for #1. A brilliant IC that has an impressive contribution history tells only a small fraction of the story. Skeletons may lay behind that green square matrix! Also big +1 for #4. It may slow grow
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by samhuk 3y ago
From somebody who, perhaps sometimes can be quite full-on about software quality, craftsmanship, and just generally doing good, here's what's helped me in the past when faced with a company/team that has morale, skill, or oth
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by samhuk 3y ago
I've always assumed that greed, particularly when it's egregious and endemic, would more rapidly unwind a start-up. My OC was more focusing on those mechanisms that tend to be at play at start-ups that cause them to gradually decl
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by samhuk 3y ago
Preface: I'm not saying that this norm is necessarily right, rather just explaining the mechanism that I believe is at play here. Isn't part of the issue that early on in a start-up, everyone is indispensable, and often that comes
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by samhuk 3y ago
I find it hard to imagine that it's possible to, in all likelihood, improve a too-technical leader problem from the individual team member position. There's only two ways through which that I can conceive it being solved: 1. Too-t
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by samhuk 3y ago
I agree with sibling comment. Also, wow, that took some courage. Personally, I deeply value this way of direct communication when everybody feels free to speak up when things go wrong, and nobody has precious egos they feel need protecting.
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by samhuk 3y ago
I think another comment made a good point - It's all about rapidly determining when the hires and promotions aren't right.
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by samhuk 3y ago
It's interesting that you have experienced both sides of the leadership problem space. Honestly a bit glad to hear that others share my experiences and that I'm not just unlucky or something. Also, oh my do I ever have an extremel

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