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Ask HN: What open source projects go to space?
7 points by exdsq 5y ago|7 comments
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by exdsq 5y ago
Hahaha I got this once - I was working for a startup in the Bay Area remotely from my place in Oxford and then wanted to see what interesting jobs existed in the local area. There is a small cluster of space startups nearby so I applied to
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by exdsq 5y ago
I actually got so stressed defending Crypto because a lot of the attacks get very personal (all people working on it are scammers, I’d never hire someone with web3 on their cv, etc). I kind of wish @dang would add a new rule regarding crypt
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by exdsq 5y ago
Check out the site itself by clicking the link and you’ll see it’s only been up one other time in the last year! Much more is shared about SF, probably because way more HN users are living there.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Having moved to Palo Alto last year, it feels weird to see my local news site pop up on Hacker News - a site I've visited religiously for years! Pretty cool for me :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
That's very fair, good point.
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by exdsq 5y ago
My wife is a researcher at Stanford doing some ML stuff and the constant painpoint isn't the researching of novel models or maths or whatever, it's the IT hell of managing a pipeline and data acquisition. I've helped her intr
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by exdsq 5y ago
Makes sense though, right? Data team did data stuff better. If you had a different task with an engineering focus you'd see the opposite.
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by exdsq 5y ago
An FYI that Monads are useful for removing that (left, right) boilerplate from composed functions. This was the issue I had where they finally clicked for me.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I know - I no longer care about Karma on HN because if you chat about crypto regularly it’s entirely based on which Pro vs Anti group has seen it more. +1 from me because the space needs good questions :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yes but a lot of academics moonlight in blockchain as consultants on their tools. Some are more public than others, such as PL guys like Philip Wadler, but just because they’re a professor at a university doesn’t mean they’re not also worki
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by exdsq 5y ago
I’m not sure this is true - I moved from test to dev and then back to test. I definitely earn more money than I did as a dev and honestly from an engineering perspective I find it’s more interesting. While a developer might focus on web or
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by exdsq 5y ago
I’m not sure to be honest because I don’t know how much comes from major tech firms - but I do know someone who financed their own research center and have seen probably billions in the last year or two so it feels like a sizeable amount co
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yeah for sure, but the underlying chains are pretty solid, and some of the languages are particularly well formalized such as Plutus (which is led by SPJ’s son with a few of the original Haskell language team). But you can’t save people fro
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by exdsq 5y ago
I think realistically the biggest source of research money is from blockchain projects as so many use formal methods nowadays, and have done for a couple years
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by exdsq 5y ago
“When I do Telecommunications device for the deaf and when I don’t” doesn’t make sense though which helps
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by exdsq 5y ago
Weirdly one of the reasons I moved from development to a test engineering role is you have way more technical freedom. I can basically use whatever tool I want because there’s way less oversight as long as the job is done. Want to test a CL
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by exdsq 5y ago
Haha never thought about that but it’s a fun connection
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Programmable money is the most obvious one. We don’t know each other but say we wanted to bet on a 1v1 video game match. We bet $100 on the outcome of a CoD game. I can write a smart contract that acts as an escrow account that accepts two
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by exdsq 5y ago
I believe central bank digital currencies are mostly built on managed block chains because the data structure works well. The Hamilton Project between the Boston bank and MIT Digital Currencies group are looking at two implementations for a
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by exdsq 5y ago
I bet they had one, Apple did https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/5125
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by exdsq 5y ago
Tried to convince my mate to have a room in his house dedicated to this game so we could have a play. Sadly life (and children) got in the way!
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by exdsq 5y ago
Check out Cypress for a more modern approach to Selenium if you’re using JS/TS!
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by exdsq 5y ago
Bash. being good at bash will save you hundreds of hours in your career.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I got senior last summer after 7 and a half years... each to their own I guess! But even now I question the title so no idea how people can do it with 0 years experience and a little bit of JS/React knowledge
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by exdsq 5y ago
I wish you’d use that same strength to cut your addiction to micro transactions in video games … ;)
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by exdsq 5y ago
That’s good! That is how a healthy relationship with alcohol should be.
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by exdsq 5y ago
100%. Hangxiety is the worst. I’m 27 and quit last August. I feel so much better for it. Binge drinking culture can really damage you!
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by exdsq 5y ago
I sort of fell into distributed systems testing in 2019 after leaving my job as a dev for a startup and I’ve loved it since. It is such a fun area to work in. These resources look great :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Who's "we"? Keen to find companies using Ada :)

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