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Ask HN: How to evaluate a startup risk as an engineer?
3 points by sharps_xp 6y ago|2 comments
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Deep-sea ‘Roombas’ will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina(latimes.com)
1 points by sharps_xp 6y ago|0 comments
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
don’t forget people who drive loud cars. their sizes are substantial probably
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
deep focus playlist on spotify
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
what is a scenario where the employee would have leverage in a layoff? it’s hard to imagine except if something unethical/wrongful was going on leading up the layoff: sexual harassment, discrimination
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
you know what doesn’t get talked about: severence. why do we need it? why do employers give it? should one negotiate it? what is fair/unfair?
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
too late at night to lookup but i’ve seen this idea before around HN and I myself am drawn to taking a whack at building a tool like this. this is one of those ideas where whatever I can imagine as a UI almost immediately feels not good eno
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
can you share any tradeoffs or cons that isn’t so obvious on the marketing site
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
please send a quarter on client performance. ios and mac apps are starting to feel slow, probably crossing that 300ms threshold for humans to notice
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
in my experience, most people cannot communicate their intent because after the translation from intent to words, it still has to be translated to words to ideas in their brain, and that filter has tons of baggage
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
i think any software that only highlights its benefits is inherently deceptive. i have to go and figure out the fundamentals and see if i can surmise the tradeoffs. one top of mind example is event streaming like kafka. sure it has benefits
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
Where can I find more stories like this where someone who has a familiarity with a system finds some form of leverage that is often overlooked? stuff like this excites me
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
If we didn’t have things like copy writing, influencers, and landing pages, we’d be worse off. I empathize that marketing can sometimes feel borderline manipulation but ultimately the market will test you and your product to see if it lives
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Ask HN: What knowledge or skills do you hope your kids to have?
21 points by sharps_xp 6y ago|25 comments
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by sharps_xp 6y ago
I found the hey.com landing page to be compelling. minimal graphics and mostly copy writing. the longer i read the more i wanted to pull out my wallet. i think it just proves if you write about a problem well, the reader is going to assume
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by sharps_xp 7y ago
Given how expensive a bike is, I imagine their market being even smaller than the apple iPhone market and a subscription-based health system can arguably be as important to someone as an iPhone, but it doesn't really have that "i
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by sharps_xp 7y ago
what's the range you see for "competitive compensation"?
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California launched DMV voter registration system despite bugs and hackers(latimes.com)
1 points by sharps_xp 8y ago|0 comments
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by sharps_xp 8y ago
I don't use Elixir/Phoenix, but Phoenix's LiveViews brings all the butter to the monolith bread. State remains on the server, only visual state is sent over websockets, and the HTML is transformed with morphDOM. https:/
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by sharps_xp 8y ago
Netflix seems to be on a campaign via documentaries to educate people about the food industry in America and how efficiency and margins are driving some of the practices around raising cows, chickens, pigs. these are really really biased do
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by sharps_xp 8y ago
how did you conduct your research phase?
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Ask HN: Why don't people write more (from their expertise)?
31 points by sharps_xp 8y ago|40 comments
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Why did Apple remove the use of iCloud password from local OS X logins?
2 points by sharps_xp 9y ago|2 comments
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by sharps_xp 9y ago
Don't look for someone looking for you. Look for someone who wants the same things in life as you, then ask them if they want to join you. How are you supposed to find someone not looking for you but someone who wants the same things i
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by sharps_xp 10y ago
As an engineer I'm most impressed by a PM when their insight/experience/analysis leads to high quality hypothesis that when implemented have high impact on the business. I find myself in anticipation for the features based on
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by sharps_xp 10y ago
Are ML/AI certificate holders competing for the same jobs as ML/AI PhD graduates? I have a list of follow up questions to this but it seems like there's a lot of hype for ML/AI/DeepLearning but no definitive way to
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How do you verify host fingerprints on first time connections
3 points by sharps_xp 10y ago|1 comments
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by sharps_xp 10y ago
Maybe, but they're weighing another place inside the company against another place in some other company PLUS severance.
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by sharps_xp 10y ago
> The article says they can apply for other positions within Microsoft I don't know how I would handle that mentally, to have to re-apply to the company that just laid me off. The message is weird. "We're letting you go, b
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by sharps_xp 10y ago
When it seems like companies don't complain enough how scarce it is to find hirable talent, I wonder what the details are on their engineering layoffs. Why not just move them to a different team? Why not just keep work on tech debt eff

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