whatitdobooboo

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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
If there is anything on a separate subject that you feel relates closely to software engineering might be useful. Personally I found software engineering boring until I saw how it could be used in other industries
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Bringing in an Oracle exec to run it seems pretty ill-advised. Oracle is a services company of the past - GCP needs to be a services company of the future as cliche as that is. The tech is there - but alignment isnt. I dont know if Google i
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Google* isnt really an enterprise focused company. Getting talent and management to work on it must be tough, and internally I've heard it is sort of looked down on. They have a pretty poor partner network as well. I think if they beef
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I would bet its more secure and scrutinized than your local doctors' office handling of your data
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I think I see what you are saying - maybe I shouldnt have restricted it to billionaires. Everyone should aware of where and how effectively their tax dollars are being use.
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I think people would be better served focusing on waste in government. If I were a billionaire why would I want my taxes just to go to the countless big consulting firms incentivized to work slowly to get the most billing hours?
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Wow this is great - thank you
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Yes I shouldve clarified - I am asking about the technology used on the "core" google maps
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Ask HN: How was Google maps made?
16 points by whatitdobooboo 7y ago|8 comments
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I didn't personally get the sense that the author was reminiscing about the past. I just thought of it more as what he thinks is a lack of ambition and vision in computing today in ways that will solve larger problems rather than going
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I'm not that experienced in SWE but I would assume this sort of move would be worse for a while before it gets better. The "better" might be substantial though
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
They can still choose not to want to work on it. I'd imagine it slowly eats at you. If they believe that they are the best engineering org in the world, which may be true, then whatever other company does it might do a worse job. Googl
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
this is the most out of touch comment I've seen on HN
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Ask HN: How to learn good programming practices by yourself?
2 points by whatitdobooboo 7y ago|2 comments
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Using the examples of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci (as depicted through Walter Isaacson’s biographies on them) it seems like the “opposite” may also be true. Being immensely curious about various subjects and applying them to one anothe
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I think there's something weird about relying on corporations to be judges on other companies. I'm not trying to defend big oil, but I think the focus should be on more scrutiny on how government and other institutions deal with i
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
They think people who have enough to not have to resort to crime will live in dirty areas by choice?
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
I can agree that it may be an over-cited piece of work, but the analysis in this article is very surface level. Not worth a read imo
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Fair enough - perhaps I should've simply said that in my opinion, reducing American ability to affect government down to % of population each individual represents isn't the best way to approach our problems
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
1) Infrastructure in general is new there - look at a picture of Shanghai even 25 years ago. 2) Getting a second opinion in the US is generally easy - I would guess China has cheaper healthcare however
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Federal elections are not the only things that matter - state and local decisions have an impact. Obviously not perfect - even with the money affecting government we have the ABILITY to change that over some time period, and lobbying in som
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Hasn't it always been like this? When the Model T came out it was concentrated even more I would assume. What other way could it be?
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
What niche cases do you think this applies to first? They will probably be the ones to propel this technology forward if I had to guess
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Ask HN: Where to start for a deep dive on UWB?
1 points by whatitdobooboo 7y ago|0 comments
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by whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Just the feel of the buttons - even in cars why are we still using cheap plastic to adjust A/C etc? Monitor buttons are pretty cheap as well - I know margins are an issue universally but interaction with your physical product seems imp
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Ask HN: Why has physical button technology stagnated?
1 points by whatitdobooboo 7y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why is there no secondary market for computer parts?
3 points by whatitdobooboo 7y ago|1 comments