ChrisCinelli

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Why room temperature superconductors are a big deal(twitter.com)
1 points by ChrisCinelli 3y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisCinelli 3y ago
An educated summary: https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152?t=C1...
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by ChrisCinelli 3y ago
The reason HN is a bubble is because people here actually get and interested in real tech news. If a journalist would explain these news to the masses AND the news has a way to reach the masses. These days these kinds of news do not make it
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Mindvalley AI Summit 2023 for entrepreneurs: thrive in the new age of A.I(mindvalley.com)
1 points by ChrisCinelli 3y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing(techcrunch.com)
15 points by ChrisCinelli 3y ago|0 comments
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How to train deep neural networks without backprop(arxiv.org)
1 points by ChrisCinelli 3y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisCinelli 3y ago
This is the first time I heard about DuckDB. Why someone would use that instead of a mature engine like SQLite?
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by ChrisCinelli 3y ago
This is my experience: Being co-located in the same building has a few advantages especially from a company culture and relationship prospective. But finding great talented people around the HQ becomes a big constrain and it is expensive. I
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
As I and others wrote already, if you want you can have both. Regarding "my plan is to get a dev job at a startup while working on new ideas during evenings/holidays/weekends, hoping to eventually raise some money and transi
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
When people hear the news that they lost their job is usually a tough news. But after the initial roller coaster of emotions some people see in the adversity the opportunity to work on what really matter to them. Rejection may be a gift. I
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Ask HN: Who sees being laid off as an opportunity?
7 points by ChrisCinelli 4y ago|4 comments
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
When I was a teenager, I thought I was probably never had kids because you know... you need to be "ready" (financially successful, being mature, had fun before commitment, to be a good father, etc.) I was questioning when (or if)
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Yes, some things are getting worse. But the truth is that some things are getting better in some contexts, some things are getting worse in other contexts. It seems you are focusing on "what is getting worse FOR YOU". This may be
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
The quality of some products is getting worse for sure because companies are enlarging their margins by saving as much as they can to reduce their costs with obvious repercussions on the quality. It is also part of https://en.wik
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
https://www.designernews.co/
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
diff3 is the way to go. When there are not trivial changes, it is hard to resolve conflicts if you do not know where the conflicting changes come from. I knew quite a few people that do not know that this option even exists. In my opinion i
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
There are two sides to every coin. I am not taking a stance but lately I have notice more and more how regarding a few matters that I used to think were black and white, there are good arguments on both sides. Deciding on one vs another oft
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
I am curious. What is the rationale behind the law that makes BE public info?
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
This will escalate quickly. I wonder if we will end up having public data not more public
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
https://www.britannica.com/event/San-Francisco-earthquake-of... - It was Oct 17, 1989
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Honesty is in shorter supply than you think in the consulting industry (with good exceptions). I have been around long enough to see fabricated resumes, bait-and-switch of candidates, and dedicated engineers that were not so dedicated. What
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Yes, more than 10 years ago when I was hired as engineer 2 in a startup, I had to work with a remote team working as contractors. The manager was in Alaska but the team was in India. The CEO used them to create the first prototype of the pr
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
We had a guy that before COVID interview remotely as iOS engineering contract. When we came on the job was not good. Our boss heard him on the phone talking in his native language asking saying something like "you need to help me here,
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Apparently it is not only an American thing. José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, the founder, CEO and president of the European pharmaceutical giant PharmaMar, a pharmaceutical company that creates and distributes drugs to treat coronavirus, w
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
I started when I was 6 on a ZX Spectrum in Basic, then assembly Z80, then 80x86 assembly, then C/C++ ,then I went to high school where they wanted me to learn PROLOG :-P
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
I am afraid that if you are optimizing for ads revenues this is exactly what you will get. Results with relevant ads at the top and results below that are not relevant at all. For me the quality of result on Google have been constantly goin
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Microservices are not to scale organization even if some organizations used them in this way. There is a big problem with this way of scaling. The sense ownership becomes the sense of defend your castle (team's microservice code) from
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
I was talking last week with a friend working for Google and worked at Facebook before. The overhead to show that you are worthy for promotion is ridiculous. But he was giving for granted that was part of the "game." I was never i
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by ChrisCinelli 4y ago
Some HR rules are put in place to make the workplace appear more "equal" but it often ends up making advance people that are good a paper-pushing and BSing. After enough years are passed with this system in place, the company is f
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by ChrisCinelli 6y ago
The problem in dating (and arguably also in the secretary problem) is that the criteria for selecting a person are not so clear to most of the people and may not be so easy to assess. My not optimal algorithm has been to have at least 2 lis

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