piratesAndSons

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Ask HN: Is building military hardware and healthcare the AI-proof?
2 points by piratesAndSons 2mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are You Hopeful for the Future?
4 points by piratesAndSons 3mo ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
7 points by piratesAndSons 4mo ago|13 comments
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Ask HN: When will you be concerned on layoffs?
10 points by piratesAndSons 5mo ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Should show HN be renamed?
2 points by piratesAndSons 5mo ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
19 points by piratesAndSons 5mo ago|31 comments
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Ask HN: Is this type of person rare?
3 points by piratesAndSons 6mo ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Would this eliminate bots for good?
4 points by piratesAndSons 7mo ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: Websites requiring government ID
5 points by piratesAndSons 7mo ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why People Support Anthropic?
9 points by piratesAndSons 7mo ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Does This Make Sense?
2 points by piratesAndSons 7mo ago|2 comments
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by piratesAndSons 7mo ago
That is my point, though. You want something hard, something that requires actual money, effort, infrastructure, and lobbying. That in itself is the moat. As software developers, we have been lulled into this entirely unrealistic mode of th
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by piratesAndSons 7mo ago
Are you saying even if I stretch the budget to $500k, there isn't a niche where I can find viable device?
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by piratesAndSons 7mo ago
That is what you want. The harder and more difficult the moat, the higher the gate for these bottom-feeder product dumpers to clear. Once you clear that yourself, you would be in the promised land. It is hard, it is expensive, and there is
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by piratesAndSons 8mo ago
I am talking about class 2 medical devices. It takes you maybe $200k at the high end to clear FDA and trials. High enough that all these bottom feeder LLM providers will drop out but low enough small burners can thrive. There are two enemie
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Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
8 points by piratesAndSons 8mo ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
9 points by piratesAndSons 8mo ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone Else Noticed This?
3 points by piratesAndSons 10mo ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How does one build personal network?
3 points by piratesAndSons 10mo ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Can you help me with this technical policy?
2 points by piratesAndSons 11mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why doesn't USPS act as a payment processor?
11 points by piratesAndSons 11mo ago|8 comments
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by piratesAndSons 11mo ago
My issue with my friend is: why is military work specially objectionable? I used the example of buying products that are produced by slaves. No doubt some died, yet he has no problem with that, saying it is different without actually explai
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by piratesAndSons 11mo ago
How many degrees of separation need to exist before your culpability drops to nearly zero? One degree? Two? Three? Someone cashing a paycheck from Facebook or Google can tout how the company is connecting people, which is like military folk
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Ask HN: Why is there a stigma around working in defense-related tech?
4 points by piratesAndSons 11mo ago|14 comments
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by piratesAndSons 1y ago
I mean the early days when you have no traction.
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Ask HN: What do you think of this idea?
2 points by piratesAndSons 1y ago|4 comments
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by piratesAndSons 1y ago
Not only gov data, but also custom map I wrote, have you tried Bluetooth beacons ? You would be surprised how far you can go if you ignore these expensive APIs and build your custom stuff. People are lazy, if any big corp does something, t
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by piratesAndSons 1y ago
Do you think it takes millions to cover one downtown ? I am mot competing with Google maps, my project isn't customer facing product, it is a business to business or gov product, the map will be fine even if we don't cover the wo
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by piratesAndSons 1y ago
Remember my map isn't the world or state or even a city, I will start one downtown couple of blocks, and then slowly build outward. Apple focused the entire world, which is not what I want.
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by piratesAndSons 1y ago
I will use C and C++ only, Python too slow, Rust ( I despise the community), JS is poorly designed bloated mess, Java way too verbose, Swift is for Apple only which is limiting, I wanted to use objC but I heard Apple is gonna dump it soon.

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