ab8 | 1 year ago | on: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
I wonder where Indian incompetence/lying falls on the Elon scale.
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ab8 | 1 year ago | on: Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
It is interesting to see most people lay the blame at the feet of developers.
The reality is that these are all business decisions:
1) Move to the cloud because the business likes the steady payout of subscriptions. Business customers love not having to hire IT teams and demand six 9s of uptime because it is someone else’s responsibility. But performance needs to just be acceptable to end users.
2) Customers refusing to upgrade on-premises software, that led to long maintenance cycles and endless patches
3) Developing once for the web vs. Multiple times for different platforms – each needing its own developers and testers.
No amount of expertise on the part of developers is going to address these fundamental forces.
ab8 | 1 year ago | on: You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
Right! You are your body. Not just your mind.
ab8 | 1 year ago | on: H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts
Why do they all keep saying H1-B workers are underpaid? The government determines minimum pay for each application. My experience has been that this number is quite high.
ab8 | 2 years ago | on: Beyond Bollywood's glitz, a subtler Indian cinema embraces new stories
Watch the thinly veiled homophobia emerge
ab8 | 2 years ago | on: Factors driving a productivity explosion
Proving that all their jobs can now be outsourced to other countries for half the price. Thanks a lot.
ab8 | 2 years ago | on: New job has no way of coding locally?
At least they are not asking you to punch holes into cards
ab8 | 2 years ago | on: Open source hospital price database
This is true only until insurance decides not to pay arbitrarily. In my case I was stuck with a $112k bill. Hospital offered 50% self pay discount. Now what?
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: Password protect a static HTML page
This solution has no street cred
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%
No. Functionality first. Optimization later.
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: A manifesto on shower temperature control
I want to be able to control flow and temperature separately.
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: Is remote work bad for the economy?
Middle managers will be needed more, not less.
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Tesla has 99k employees
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: Argentina’s black-market USD rate climbs 24% in two weeks
How is this related to currency?
ab8 | 3 years ago | on: Average new car transaction price hits a record $48,043
Used cars are so expensive that it makes sense to spend a bit more and buy new.
ab8 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
It is a mistake to adopt any agile process when the management does not have what they call the agile mindset. Both the words "downwards" and "micromanagement" are already warning signs that the company will do better with a different process.
ab8 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
Daily stand-ups and scrum events work very well when used as a self organizing tool for the scrum team. Micromanagers are not invited. And neither are managers. (I am saying this as a manager myself.) This is what causes the process to breakdown.
ab8 | 5 years ago | on: Back to the '70s with Serverless
Is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars plus stocks and bonuses not enough of a reason to show up at work?
ab8 | 5 years ago | on: Gmail having issues
Your username is rat9988. Been burned in the past?
ab8 | 5 years ago | on: Your Computer Isn't Yours
I dont believe people have many complaints when it comes to the usability of Apple hardware. Touchbar excluded of course. And that keyboard.
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