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by theamk 1y ago
did they really deliver "exceptional solution" though? Their solution seems to be nothing like "a minimal, terminal-inspired email client", and OP completely ignored the references to tools they were told to "take i
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by theamk 1y ago
nope, they asked the clarifying question, and got the response that there are no business requirements: "That is part of the assessment itself, see what kind of extra features you can come up if any." They were failed because they
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by theamk 1y ago
they actually did not... the original requirement said "a minimal, terminal-inspired email client" and "take inspiration from existing terminal email tools like aerc, mutt". This is nowhere near them, not even close. Not
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by theamk 1y ago
My first though on looking at the code, and then on demo video was: wow, it took that person a solid week to write a web app with two pages.. all while missing the most basic email features, like an ability to opening a message (and not jus
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by theamk 1y ago
When we get an alternative that can: (1) be stored in a single file (2) Allow tables, images and anything else that can be shown on a piece paper (3) Won't have animation, fold-out text, or anything that cannot be be shown on a piece o
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by theamk 1y ago
But people don't interact with concepts, they interact with individual unions.
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by theamk 1y ago
There are options other than "loyal to the company" or "always choose option which pays most" For example someone might like their co-workers, enjoy the projects they work on, and want to see the current product (that th
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by theamk 1y ago
Imagine a validation logic error that allows an evil actor to pass credit checks with arbitrary personal details. Hackers use this to make many orders using fake personal information. In BNPL, all losses are covered by the BNPL provider - s
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by theamk 1y ago
No, not really. If a single HR person is fired, there are likely others to pick up the slack. And others will likely learn something from the firing, and adjust their behavior accordingly if needed. On the other hand, "firing" an
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by theamk 1y ago
This would be easier to believe if tariffs were actually helping American manufactures. As of now, the tariffs on raw materials and high uncertainty means life is getting significantly worse for them. Those actions are drastic, yes, but the
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by theamk 1y ago
This all sounds very reasonable as long as servers/services are involved. Linux has capabilities for this purpose, and systemd goes a long way towards the vision you describe - daemons which do not need root and instead get all capabil
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by theamk 1y ago
> What if your entire team could work on one thing at a time? Brooks law - "Communication overhead increases as the number of people increases". Sometimes putting more people on the project makes it slower, not faster.
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by theamk 1y ago
And system updates don't need sudo on desktops, it is not 1990's anymore... GUI apps like software-properties-gtk use dbus with polkit auth to upgrade software without any involvement of "sudo" or giving root access to u
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by theamk 1y ago
Examples please? Modern desktop OSes are pretty good at exposing safe operations to users so that no "sudo" is required.
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by theamk 1y ago
Sounds like you don't want a Linux system, but rather a Chromebook. Have you seen https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/ ? Install it on your computer and you get Android-like security model, includi
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by theamk 1y ago
PWM-controlled hobby servo (1-2mS pulse evert 20mS or so) is the one-directional control I had in mind. When you are under $100 range a surprising number of servos use the same simple 1-wire protocol, even large-ish 150 kg-cm / 100W un
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't think "no one" will even happen - nor with potato, nor with mechanical skills. There are books which tell how to do all sort of things, starting from the refining metal from ores, and there are people reading them. I
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by theamk 1y ago
Did my favorite search query, and the result were pretty bad, as expected: "robotics servo motors with two-directional control for under $100" 1. https://mjbots.com/ - their motor are $1369. FAIL. 2. https:/
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by theamk 1y ago
> help people who run "curl | sudo bash" to install a random program from the internet. I don't think you can help those people, unless you seriously lock down the machine to the level of iPhone. Neither Android nor Window
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by theamk 1y ago
how do they solve sudo's problems though? Exchanging "sudo" with "require-root-capability" or "start-privileged-session" will still have many of the same logic problems. Unless you mean something like &quo
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by theamk 1y ago
If you used ChatGPT to teach you the topic, you'd write your own words. Starting the answer with "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." almost 100% means the poster did not double-check. (This is the same with other systems: If you
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by theamk 1y ago
Such jobs certainly exist today, I know plenty of people who don't feel any pressure to get promoted, and people certainly won't get fired for lack of ambition or for being 2x slow than average engineer on their team. I am in embe
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by theamk 1y ago
Go for robotics or specific robotics subtype (UAV, ROV, vehicles, etc..). If there is a "platform team", that would be your best fit, but some companies don't have separate platform team, or they don't advertise team nam
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by theamk 1y ago
It is a promotional piece - for Xen-based stack (the most popular hypervisor decades ago). That author laments that few people are interested in bare-metal hypervisors, like Xen. But hypervisors did not disappear, they just got replaced. Wh
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by theamk 2y ago
Who exactly is suffering in this case? The original company went under, they no longer exist, so they obviously don't care. The software user does not care either. OK, someone made a proprietary fork, and that "someone" is a
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by theamk 2y ago
This only applies to iPhones, most Androids are rootable, and even un-rooted, it is trivial (I am mean really trivial, like 3 clicks) to install programs from outside of app store. My opinion is anyone who owns iPhone knows what they sign u
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by theamk 2y ago
Open source with anti-Google/Amazon/Microsoft clauses is called AGPL. And yet somehow people keep making new projects under MIT license.
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by theamk 2y ago
Just make it closed source (or source-available) and give out no-cost licenses how you see fit. You are the author, you decide what to do with your code. This is a well-supported model too, plenty of products are like that. There are plenty
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by theamk 2y ago
All companies should do this.. if anything so we know what not to use. Any sort of proprietary product (be it fully closed source, source-available, or "open source with limitations") is always a risk. You were happily using datab
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by theamk 2y ago
If that describes you, I advice you to look at other jobs ASAP. I've seen what you describe in Amazon - high pressure, constant thread of being fired, stress, no work/life balance, etc... Many other jobs are different. Sure, thing

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