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7 years ago
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on: Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]
Sort of, but if the software engineer had never had access to CS material and worked in a company where practices were based in CS so they naturally picked it up. These are villagers that build small homes without machinery and very basic tools, and haven’t learned from experts.
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7 years ago
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on: Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]
Yes life is cheap there, people get sick, injured and die for preventable reasons all the time. Life expectancy is 10 - 15 years less than in developed countries as a result. The west I think mixes up politics with their world view which makes them think everything is equal somehow, it’s then surprising when they see such foolishness that leads to such suffering first hand.
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7 years ago
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on: Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]
It’s Indonesia, engineer doesn’t really mean what we think in the west. It’s more that someone is passionate about something, not that they have a civil engineering degree and are building to some code. There are engineers like we’d think in Indonesia of course, but they’re unlikely to work on a western lady’s pet project and are going to be a lot more expensive.
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7 years ago
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on: Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]
I’ve been told by Indonesians their style is to dive head first into the water, then check for rocks. Yes safety is a big issue there and causes a huge amount of needless suffering.
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7 years ago
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on: Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]
They look nice, but I can’t help question how safe they really are, they’re more like giant baskets woven together by artists as opposed to calcuated engineering by engineers.
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
This was a pain for me too, despite having nearly 60 employees they were all new to the problem domain which left me and my co-founder still wearing way too many hats.
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7 years ago
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on: Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform
We need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.
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7 years ago
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on: What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
This issue isn’t about economics of course, but what I don’t quite understand is why the right feels like it’s an injustice to change the playing field, like it’s cutting in line, or will put the laws of nature into chaos if someone gets more than their fair share for the work they did. I really don’t follow...
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7 years ago
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on: Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)
This may not be part of the spec per se but you can invalidate them by distributing a bloom filter with revoked tokens and validation times, services just need to poll the service at the granularity needed. This makes scaling still much simpler than one big session store.
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7 years ago
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on: Lawrence Livermore National Lab's powerful new supercomputer
What’s it like to program for it? Do you need to manage the distribution and utilization per node your self like a normal HPC farm? Or is it more like a single computer like a Cray?
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7 years ago
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on: The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy
I feel like services like Primephonic and Idago feel more like I’m offline in a classical music library, no flashy graphics and random pop songs with similar names don’t get returned in search results.
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7 years ago
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on: Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program
That makes sense, I think I still think of an object reaching space as it can then stay there, vs just a peekaboo. :)
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7 years ago
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on: Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program
Cool project, but I always find it amusing when the word “suborbital” is used since it’s sort of a fancy way to say normal or not space. Reminds me this Feynman story:
> Or his questioning of space shuttle engineers: ''They kept referring to the problem by some complicated name - a 'pressure-induced vorticity oscillatory wa-wa,' or something. I said, 'Oh, you mean a whistle!' 'Yes,' they said; 'it exhibits the characteristics of a whistle.' ''
http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/feynman-do...
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7 years ago
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on: New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription
I like NYT’s articles, but have been hesitant to actually subscribe due to issues like this, and other stories where they make it hard to unsubscribe, require you call them etc.
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7 years ago
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on: Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers
Wow, he’s selling the cheats for nearly $300, that’s not exactly a kid with a lemonade stand.
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7 years ago
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on: Hire by Google: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software (2017)
They used to not even offer a demo, and on the phone they were pretty glib about paying for a year to try it out. The fatal flaw was that since it’s not part of an HRMS system it’s not integrated into the whole employee lifecycle, so other solutions made more sense. We went with BambooHR which also has ATS along with everything else you need and was pretty cheap.
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7 years ago
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on: The Awful German Language (1880)
I found whipping through the grammatical logic trees in German, and exceptions, were like the grammatical equivalent of composing a Fuge, or writing a Lisp function on the spot. Eventually the elegant form of the language can be see after struggling with the details. Arthur Schnitzler’s short stories helped me see a soring elegance in the language that wasn’t obvious to me for a while after becoming fluent.
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7 years ago
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on: Another Week with Bad Software
Not a day goes by when I don’t encounter a major bug in some software in the most common workflow e.g. iPhone unlock screen fails to show up, payment of a Kaiser bill fails and says to try later, shutdown my windows computer never completes, website chat for CA FTB says I’m entering invalid characters when talking to an agent and I can’t explain my issue as a result, can’t download my tickets from Ticketmaster since it thinks my iPad is a desktop and I need a mobile device etc. I feel like I expend more enginery troubleshooting these issues then doing what I need to do with most software.
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7 years ago
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on: FanDuel not honoring bet that would have paid over $82,000 due to line error
I feel like we need the Second Software Crisis movement to address the bug riddled software were still making, it’s as though we’re just acclimated to bugs everywhere as being expected. Perhaps in 2100 they’ll look back on this time in software as we do on the early automotive industry today.
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7 years ago
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on: Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
