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by elpakal 8y ago
We struggle with this question where I work and there is some toxicity. I've been wondering if you could add a comment to the top of files to indicate ownership (//owners:someTeam, someGuy). Then your CI could parse the modi
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Show HN: Did YC hackathon yesterday, sharing idea: Using CV with health data
3 points by elpakal 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: No Interview YC Hackathon Today, Sharing Idea: CV Health Data Scrubber
1 points by elpakal 8y ago|0 comments
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by elpakal 8y ago
Open models
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I really like this. It gives the candidate the chance to walk out of the room with something
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by elpakal 8y ago
Great point. I give the author of this post props for trying this and it has been an entertaining proposition. But to me premise 2 is admitting there will be massive shortcuts taken here. There is now way one person could build a product th
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by elpakal 8y ago
Yes. And in some cases you can actually be fined and or sued for ignoring accessibility requirements for handicapped and senior users. So you could argue the government will enforce morality if you do not. Side note, in interviews I always
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by elpakal 8y ago
What about OSS as a talent acquisition and retainment strategy?
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by elpakal 8y ago
Interesting choice of word - "scale". Jokingly wondering if you mean adding more kids to the mix, increasing age and decreasing agility, or something else... Adding that my partner and I do something like this too and I like it.
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by elpakal 8y ago
You're saying tech debt is a business strategy problem?
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by elpakal 8y ago
Is tech debt subjective? I've worked on different teams that call anything from wrong grammar in comments to incorrect capitalization of a var name tech debt. Wondering if it follows that more code = more debt because more people have
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by elpakal 8y ago
Based in Colorado. Just wondering if you could expand on this. Seems like what you are saying is no startups in Montana ever get exits - personally I think that's because startups seeking an exit end of moving to The Bay Area because o
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Baristas?
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by elpakal 8y ago
This. Backend IT was most definitely a cost center and even more so one that was very poorly run and incentivized to not change. They have a pension program there and there are soo many people who made it and are pensioned that the only in
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by elpakal 8y ago
Agreed
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I worked at Kaiser IT, and there are definitely some well intentioned IT folk there trying to make revolutionary changes to healthcare. However, the company's internal infrastructure (inventory, expenses etc) is a giant cluster runnin
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by elpakal 8y ago
love it
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by elpakal 8y ago
I was born and lived for some time in the nearby state of Chiapas. Currently a coder working in a big city, fighting traffic and pollution every day, away from wife and kids, worrying about production issues, health, etc. When I see articl
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by elpakal 8y ago
And a pretty good income for 13/14 year old
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by elpakal 8y ago
Speaking from my probably limited experience compared to others here, these early Oracle adopters turned senior/management you mentioned actually are the ones I saw fighting hardest to keep Oracle around. That is all they know and all
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Ask HN: Hearing the same audio being recorded on Memojis like the recent FT bug?
1 points by elpakal 8y ago|1 comments
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by elpakal 8y ago
Shoes split like this all the time especially more so when used by incredibly powerful athletes like ZW. I would bet this isn’t the first time this has happened to him and that it wont weigh an ounce in his decision to sign with a shoemaker
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by elpakal 8y ago
Joe Montana having a VC firm probably helped
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by elpakal 8y ago
I also wonder how much of this coincidentally lines up with Chris Lattner landing at Google. As Chris will admit, and as was left out of this analysis, Swift has also been given the humble goal of achieving world domination. All joking asid
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by elpakal 8y ago
Yes, not meant to be accurate. Just changed my perception and continues to linger.
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Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond. Also Foundation Trilogy by Asimov because of the incredible creativity needed to tell that story
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by elpakal 8y ago
Anecdotally, the hardest part for me when I deleted FB entirely was the first two weeks. The amount of times I was itching to check an update, see what was liked or browse some new posts was shocking to me. Get through the first two weeks a
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by elpakal 8y ago
Good luck!
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Ask HN: Denied from last round, finished beta/landed trial. Worth reapplying?
3 points by elpakal 8y ago|4 comments
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by elpakal 8y ago
Welcome to Apple Swift version 4.2.1 (swiftlang-1000.11.42 clang-1000.11.45.1). Type :help for assistance. 1> let foo = 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0 foo: Double = 2

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