robviren

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by robviren 4y ago
I am fortunate to be in a position where I get to take on the role of "blame sponge" in product management. You can get a shocking amount of attention if you don't shy away from diving into taking responsibility for the outco
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by robviren 4y ago
I have always been fascinated by how better to communicate ideas. I swear 90% of the brilliant Ideas I have seen go to waste because the idea wasn't convincingly presented. It drives me insane when I know exec teams will ignore things
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by robviren 4y ago
I took the long road after graduating with a mechanical engineering degree in 2012 and working in industry. I quickly realized that engineering often meant executing and not strategizing, which frustrated me to no end. I learned that being
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by robviren 4y ago
MicroOS by Opensuse on a single machine with a few drives. Everything is executed in a docker container and managed optionally by portainer, which is also a container. NoIP Dynamic DNS client for domain name. Caddy for web proxy. Synching f
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by robviren 4y ago
I have used syncthing + marktext[0] and or ghostwriter[1] depending on the content of my notes. For a daily journal I like to use ghostwriter as it has almost no distraction and it forces me to focus. It just got shifted over to being main
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by robviren 4y ago
I've never much enjoyed "intelligence" as a way to box groups of people. Everybody knows something I don't, can do things I cannot, solves problems in ways I would not think to. I would not call a math professor who does
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by robviren 5y ago
Syncthing and your favorite text editor has been great for me. Setup is fairly easy and you depend on no offical service other than people hosting a relay server which you could also host. A little more setup and DIY, but at least the exper
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by robviren 5y ago
Its stuff like what you outlined that drove me into product management. Technically better almost never easily translates to market success. you think TCP/UDP is bad? we are stuck with light water reactors because they were the first c
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by robviren 5y ago
What does a coal plant do with the emitted radiation, CO2, coal ash, and other waste products? Current spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors sit in concrete casks located on site usually. At least I don't need to breath spent nuclear f
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by robviren 6y ago
I completely understand how you feel. I started off programming for only a handful of years before realizing that the most differentiated thing I could do was communicate with multiple groups in language they care about, talk confidently ab
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by robviren 6y ago
A combination of meme and nightmare fuel
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by robviren 6y ago
Well said! My product management take on the subject is that people's perception of you is far more important than the reality. Skills or not, your appearance, mannerisms, relatability, and a thousand other things go into other's
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by robviren 6y ago
Not awful, though the lack of USB pass-through makes for a challenge. You need to make sure to rune your QEMU with at least 8G ram or it is pretty bad. Good enough to build with anyways.
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by robviren 6y ago
Just ran into this yesterday. What a great solution! I now have WSL2 running graphical linux apps and got a nested VM running with Mojave so I can run osx with macOS-Simple-KVM. I can finally cross compile in a way no one should.
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by robviren 6y ago
Honestly this is probably because other businesses started doing it. When businesses have no clue they look to the market for the "standard" way of doing things. We don't make mechanical engineers design mechanical solutions
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by robviren 6y ago
Next stop perri-air.
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by robviren 6y ago
It's because the business people got interested and are increasingly taking leadership roles. As an engineer who has shifted over to the product management side I can safely say business people suck fun out of stuff for a living. Margi
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by robviren 6y ago
10/10, would have not made it through diff EQ without this site. Had to self teach because of constant professor changes. So lucky I found this site in 2012.
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by robviren 6y ago
A machine that we can ask any question and get an answer, aghast! Fun to realize what was top level science fiction at the time is now our mundane daily life
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by robviren 6y ago
Hit the nail on the head. Work is work and it drains passion out for most people. Obviously not all cases, but at least I feel of you are looking for purpose and joy from work you may be looking in the wrong spot.
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by robviren 6y ago
Having just turned 31 this hits home. I appreciate the positivity he could find in the twilight of his days. I can't help but feel I may lack the courage to face death the same way. His focus on gratitude really does seem to match what
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by robviren 6y ago
Sounds like you might want to try out being a product manager. I'm a sub par engineer, but I think my diverse skills worked out pretty well for a PM job.
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by robviren 6y ago
Video games offer a safe space for healthy aggression. Testosterone levels are insane in teen years and it seems that every other healthy outlet for aggression has been discouraged in society. Games are fine as long as they do not become an
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by robviren 6y ago
Product management is at the mercy of the business. Until the potential financial pain of having poor security is well understood at the leadership level they will never change direction. Improved security is the least attractive thing to h
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by robviren 6y ago
It is human issue. Business requires goals and timelines. I agree that the issue comes from a lack of transparency, poor culture, and the human desire to be "right". Not setting a deadline is unacceptable to business though. I can
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by robviren 6y ago
Can you point to a power source that is bloodless?
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by robviren 6y ago
Every power generation method causes death. If you want the lowest deaths per Watt you want nuclear power. That is a morbid measurement, but they measure it. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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by robviren 6y ago
Wanted to build something totally cross platform. That and it was way easier just using material components than green Field designing. I'm not much of a designer.
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by robviren 6y ago
Made an app that lets me create a grocery list that can check supply at Target. Also sorts the stuff by location. Saves me time knowing they are out of stuff and where stuff is. Want to create background notification for when something is i
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by robviren 7y ago
You pretty much have to job hop. Look for opportunities to help sales with customer conversations. if you can be a bridge from engineering to the business then you will have a lot of value in the position. Communication is critical. You hav

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