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by eric-hu 10y ago
Are those open source projects part of a money making operation? Do they have the same kinds of deadlines with consequences of bankruptcy? Or is work voluntary and interest-driven? Making software that should integrate with a business (ei
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I'm in that discovery phase myself. I've found that some things which sounded interesting were interesting sounding achievements, but not actually interesting for me to do. For some kinds of open source projects, I completed some
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I get that it's more gratifying when things go well. Personally, I've dealt with enough assholes in the tiny end of SMBs to never want to go into that space again. If you're wondering what else is out there, perhaps the work
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by eric-hu 10y ago
The end game is that you have a product market fit figured out and then you go public. Pretty much the opposite of what Twitter did.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I don't have any insider knowledge either, but I have this impression that you lose operational efficiency when you go public. For all the heat that VCs get for pressuring their portfolio companies to grow 10x, it seems like answering
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Does operation Aurora count by the Chinese government? It was a big enough deal to Google that they stopped operating a search engine within China's borders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora https
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by eric-hu 10y ago
> This is at least part of what people mean when they lament that software engineering isn't treated as a profession in the manner of doctors or lawyers. This is an apt analogy. You may have just driven that point home for me. Do
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by eric-hu 10y ago
> People themselves will not be remade in technology's image. That's a rather poetic statement. Is that a common expression?
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I made three planes in Singapore but it keeps saying I've made zero.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I would like to see more of this kind of "Here's how I see it in the positive and negative" discussion on HN. Kudos for sharing the opposing sides of your own opinion.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
About you: You have a passion for CRUD apps. You dream about CRUD in your sleep. You attend (or give talks at!) CRUD conferences. Your bookshelf has at least five books on CRUD. You attend CRUDathons, and maybe have won first place in th
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by eric-hu 10y ago
This article highlights the myopia of public investment. Other comments have mentioned the self driving car. That's a work still in progress, and likely has been a net loss quarter over quarter. Highlighting the research arm's q
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by eric-hu 10y ago
That's one way to interpret it. Here's another: be honest and open about what you committed to. If it was done, great. If it wasn't, do you understand why? Did you underestimate? Did something block you? Was it deprioriti
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by eric-hu 10y ago
That's interesting. It demonstrates my point that a large machine is not to be disregarded just because of its inefficiencies.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
To me, it seems more analogous to coders who go into legacy spaghetti code repos to clean them up. I enjoyed establishing process with a team and iterating on it with a mostly functional team. I don't really care to get between drama
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Honest question, do you know many people who enjoy jumping into dysfunction and making it better?
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Okay, let's run with your counter argument. In 2015, BMW sold 463000 cars in China, and 346000 cars in the USA. This was not the first year that China was BMW's largest market. Last year was the first year that China was the larg
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Is this meant to be satire?
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Corruption is an inefficiency of China, but the Chinese market is much larger than the American one. Compare the 1350 million mainland Chinese to the 350 million English speaking north Americans. A Chinese startup has 4x the potential cust
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I generally agree with you...but French pastry? Have I been missing out on good Japanese pastries?
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Ask HN: What makes a company worth staying with as engineer?
2 points by eric-hu 10y ago|2 comments
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Paper burrito technique: use a piece of paper longer than the specimen, cover, roll, twist the ends. Works for roaches and crickets too.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
From what I've read in the comments so far, you won't see it thinking in terms of speed of Erlang vs Ruby. It sounds like the gains come from baked in behavior, so that "Rails + Redis" or "Rails + Redis + nginx&quo
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Stack Overflow and Discourse both have a feature to search for related titles when posting a new topic. I've yet to see this in a big tracker.
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I find the volume of overwhelming, but I think I have a practice now that works well for me. Say I want to do something in vim, but it feels clunky. Part of me says "there may be a better way to do this", and I go looking for a
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by eric-hu 10y ago
I'm not in any way associated with the site or the group who made it, but this makes sense to me. I'll offer my take. I read a book recently called "So Good They Can't Ignore You." One of the author's points
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Honest question: how can you stand the JVM start up time and the terrible stack traces? I find myself wishing there were a clojure not on the JVM (or on javascript)...pretty much I think I'd be happier with another lisp, but I'm n
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The Myth of the Evil VC(jacquesmattheij.com)
2 points by eric-hu 10y ago|0 comments
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by eric-hu 10y ago
Diamonds have poor resale value period.
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Three Roads to the Top of the Mountain(jacquesmattheij.com)
1 points by eric-hu 10y ago|0 comments

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