Ken_At_EM

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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Just updated my profile, check out the link there.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Whoops! Fixed it!
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I’m really glad to hear this. Building hardware for the real world amplified the power of software incredibly. PS…we’re hiring firmware engineers to bring hardware to life.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
My Project Manager's Response: "Nice rant. Sounds like he works with mystical unicorn teams."
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Spending time with my kids and wife. Polishing my new Electron app which is a data viewer for the time-series data that my companies products produce. Spinning up another side project with Tauri/Rust as a background data collector serv
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Ask HN: Simplest Way to Distribute Custom C++ Computation in the Cloud?
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
What do you mean you have to figure out a strategy without managing them directly? Why are you involved then? How could the budget possibly be tight if this thing makes $20M a year? Even at a 5% R&D budget you should be able to hire at-
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I mean, yeah, that was a huge mistake. They should have left it alone entirely, they would have had so much more money to build the Meta-verse with!
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
It's because it prints money. Is just a straight money printing machine. Of all the Golden Goose's, it's best to just leave it alone and let it do it's thing.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Anti know-how can be a pretty good teacher as well. 18 months at a terribly run startup showed me all things not to do when I started my own.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I am so dissatisfied with the state of the non-Apple PC world, particularly laptops, that I am tempted to do the insane thing and start a PC company.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I see a bunch of probably unsuccessful knock offs. I don’t see any out there that indicates they beat the original idea to the market by way of breached NDA or non-compete.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
This is all solid advice.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
What would make a competitor weak, exactly?
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I just don’t understand that point of view. Why aren’t employees at Apple asking for a piece of their massive cash horde? If the only thing keeping an employee from asking or demanding they be given some of the companies property is the kno
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
What sort of information could cause confusion in the workplace, exactly? Excluding private HR data obviously.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I agree with you, I only remember, maybe once thinking that “yeah, those guys needed to be in stealth mode, that makes sense” I think anyone who credits stealth mode with their success probably doesn’t realize they would very likely have al
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Please provide examples of “easily copyable technology.” Putting together a team of competent engineers, developers, etc and having them create something meaningful is hard enough as it is. Trying to copy someone else’s tech doesn’t lower t
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
What’s another good label for these types of knowledge so that we can avoid the cliche? Is it as simple as having information and experience? I have read everything on being a carpenter but I have never practiced, so therefore I am “book sm
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
My experience has been that there are employees who don’t really want to understand the big picture and just focus on their work. I have never seen transparency hurt the productivity of these employees. They know they can look and see the b
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
We have plenty of money in the bank and our company is profitable. I’ve employed over 100 people during our 13 years of business. Not once have I ever had an employee say “hey man, I noticed you guys have more than the bare minimum level of
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Couldn’t disagree with you more.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Yeah, I’d agree with you and say absolutely not.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I have never had anyone become negatively confused by our transparency. They ask for clarification, you provide it, and they are that much more effective.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
We have a company scorecard that shows sales funnels, bookings, production numbers, cash and collections info, etc, all completely open to any employee at the company. A soldering technician on our team can literally see how we’re doing on
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Not investing into your people is a sure fire way to be ineffective and signal to people that they’re not worth training and should leave. Couldn’t agree more with you. I have made the claim in support of transparency before that it matters
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Share it all. Complete transparency. Show them the cash flow. At your small size you will benefit from the additional trust and alignment this will bring. You may find yourself delighted in finding that many of your team can see and solve p
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
Every time I hear someone bring up the “book smart” versus “street smart” false dichotomy it often comes off as someone trying to justify their own inadequacies. I am not calling out the previous reply.
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I would be less passionate in someone else's company than my own. However, I could do it passionately for a company that I believe in. I don't understand your point. Isn't there a massive chunk of people who are passionate ab
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by Ken_At_EM 4y ago
I don’t know what a typical creative passion is. I am into product development, particularly products that are what I would call “full stack.” Electronics, firmware, software, and web stack all developed for the product.

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