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MrEfficiency

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I run http://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Applying Industrial Engineering principles to Life.

Currently building my own 'world changing' app, in React Native + php laravel mysql.

And building a dishwasher dinner table that cleans and sets the dishes. Written in C

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MrEfficiency··on Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
The website has a wikipedia feel, free and useful information.

There are lots of fans currently, but at the time(and to this date), I get people questioning legitimacy due to a having a white shadow in my CSS.

MrEfficiency··on The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement
When I did the math + realized the shipping costs, it was a no-brainer.

I know many people who buy into these 'good feelings' products.

MrEfficiency··on Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
Make things pretty.

No amount of hard work and usefulness can amount to a beautiful product.

I have strong feelings about Lean Startup who told me to create a MVP, which made me look like an amateur.

So, listen to the marketing people and wait to release a beautiful finished product.

MrEfficiency··on Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning
When you have a project, you learn by necessity.

When you are taking a course to expand your abilities, you learn voluntarily.

I find learning via projects is the fastest and most useful. I am unsure if I will take courses ever again.

MrEfficiency··on Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry
I really like my windows 10 set up, it took me a few weeks to make it perfect by:

>Swapping my HDD with a SSD

>Fresh install of windows, removing the crapware that came with my laptop

And its incredible, I have about 7 chrome windows with 30 tabs open, sublime, Virtualbox, VS code, heidiSQL, excel, calculator, folders, paint, snipping tool, and often more open at the same time.

I can remote into my ubuntu server and get all of those benefits.

What is the competition? Apple who costs 3x more? Linux desktop which requires the extensive use of Terminal to function at Window's expectations?

I want to see someone knock M$ off their OS throne, but that is more of an unnecessary fantasy than a real pain.

MrEfficiency··on The Super-Rich Are Stockpiling Wealth in Black-Box Charities
That is the dream.

But remember that the IRS doesnt care much about the 90%. They DO care about the 0.1%.

Doing something like that is a high risk way of getting audited.

MrEfficiency··on Show HN: Industrial Engineering Principles Applied to Life
Note: We are relaunching with a new wikipedia style model, making all information free, including our cookbook. The goal would be to finance more studies, News here- https://efficiencyiseverything.com/the-new-efficiency-is-eve...

Otherwise I hope you can find this useful and share with people that need it the most.

Comments and suggestions to improve are always appreciated. Thank you!

MrEfficiency··on Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
I used to think HN comments were smart, until you read a thread about Automotive.

Then you realize that this board has no Auto experience, upvotes/downvotes based on their cult hero.

Since HN rules say we cant hypothesize about Tesla Astroturfing these threads, I'll just say that the information on HN regarding automotive is... questionable.

MrEfficiency··on Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
They are among Toyota and GM. Not that popular=quality.
MrEfficiency··on Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
Audi/VW are not considered very good companies.

They used to have Best In Class interiors which gave them a boost in the luxury markets, but they are average in 2018.

MrEfficiency··on Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
> But I do not believe that suddenly any of them will be able crank out a cost competitive electric car with the same range in any large quantity.

This is ignorant and downplays the companies that have existed for decades.

Tesla isnt profitable, the rest of the auto companies are profitable.

These auto companies have already developed electric vehicles(see Bolt and Leaf) but demand doesnt cause them to produce Tesla amounts of electric vehicles. If they saw an increase in demand, they will use their billion dollar infrastructure to continue to produce vehicles.

To think there is any 'struggling to keep up' with Tesla for automotive is an ignorance of the automotive industry. Tesla is trying to survive, the established players are developing their own new technology.

MrEfficiency··on The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
Im not sure where javascript falls along this.

A painful language that I can use everywhere exists.

MrEfficiency··on M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools
I didnt get my Masters in a specifically technical field. Engineering Management was 60% Industrial Engineering and 40% business.

I found 2 classes useful-

>Lean Principles- changed my life, I started using Industrial Engineering at home and sharing my findings with the internet. It has been very popular.

>Marketing class- 2 lessons, if you are going to put years into a project, do a marketing plan. Also, learned how incredibly important marketing is.

Everything else was basically useless. Had a few crazies as professors in my business classes. Engineering classes were not bad, but not helpful.

So 2/10 classes were useful? But incredibly useful.

MrEfficiency··on James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine
Isnt it the same Academy?

Why would science be assumed to be uncorrupted?

MrEfficiency··on Ask HN: Why does a video rewind on YouTube require a rebuffer?
Just a guess-

The way the video is generated is based on specific points in time.

While going back to that part of the video with it already downloaded would make sense, it might require going back decently far to get all of the pixels.

MrEfficiency··on Show HN: An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser
Confirming.

Javascript is really cool when you learn it. However, the moment you dip into libraries you are dependent on someone else's work. Then you run into a problem because Native doesnt let you use a specific library, and googling your issue recommends that specific library. You use something else, it works alright. Months later you re-write everything anyway.

MrEfficiency··on Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
Anecdotally, I have seen some disaster marriages and it explains how divorces can happen:

>Pregnant shotgun weddings

>Knew the person for a few months, moved to stay with them in another state, married and pregnant within 1 year.

>Military marriages

I imagine these were worse in previous generations. Sex outside of marriage more taboo.

I think culturally its become more taboo to get married just to have sex than to live together before marriage.

MrEfficiency··on Tesla’s Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute
I keep thinking he MUST be smart right?

Or did he get a winfall on Paypal and now throws a bunch of money at talented engineers?

I remind myself smart engineers might not be talented leaders.

MrEfficiency··on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
You must be new to Capitalism and Apple.
MrEfficiency··on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
>Apple isn’t selling your phone number.

Until they have bad iphone sales.

Given Apple's less than stellar track record toward developers, employees, and customers, Apple will do things for Apple.

MrEfficiency··on Sociophysics and Econophysics, the Future of Social Science?
Lets stop caring about the Nobel institutions.

They have proved they can and will be corrupt as needed. Politics should not validate science, but people treat it so when we care about the Nobel prizes.

MrEfficiency··on Congratulations, Your Study Went Nowhere
What I'm saying is that Business is different from Government/University.

If a Business is wrong, they go out of business.

If a University is wrong, they teach it for the next 10 years.

If a Government is wrong, they go forward with the policy until the next regime change.

One of these is different from the rest.

MrEfficiency··on An ancient engineering feat that harnessed the wind
People are responding that its 'okay'.

But the issue isnt that they posted the link, its that they likely are using bots to upvote as well.

I have a hard time understanding if people hate google or if Firefox is advertising here. Similar with Apple.

EDIT: Basically cant trust HN either. What is the solution to astroturfing?

MrEfficiency··on Congratulations, Your Study Went Nowhere
For Engineers- Capitalism/Customers

For Academics- Whoever tells you to run the study.

Which one do you think is more often corrupted for centuries at a time?

MrEfficiency··on A Cornell Scientist’s Downfall
I have 10 years in Industry, testing hypothesis is testing.

Building a product that is bad because 'X person wanted it' is bad Capitalism and will be punished.

Academia doesnt have this same customer focused delivery.

MrEfficiency··on A Cornell Scientist’s Downfall
This is why I believe in Engineering and not the modern "Academia Science".

Totally corrupt, Ive seen it when I talked to professors about getting my PhD. You prove what they want proven.

One is going to have millions of customers using it, the other is going to have a few biased professors review the data.

MrEfficiency··on Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
Glad I asked these questions in Feburary.

Sold my alts, kept my Bitcoin.

Im seriously starting to believe in the phrase Bitcoin not Blockchain.

MrEfficiency··on Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
>but the public would still have to trust that Wal-Mart is coming forward with any discrepancies.

The entire point of blockchain is trustless. Otherwise a walmart database would be fine.

MrEfficiency··on Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
>Not all blockchains need to be decentralized, and not all blockchains are cryptocurrencies.

Yes they do, or you could use a traditional database.

>This specific instance grants assurance that neither Walmart or anyone in-between is tampering with the database.

Except IBM. Hope no one at IBM is greedy... I wont hold my breath.

MrEfficiency··on Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
You bought a first gen, expect that American cars will have the newest technology at a cost.

It was untested at consumer levels at the time.

I'm sure if you got a 2017 this problem would be fixed.

EDIT: To be clear on what is factual- American Cars are known in the industry to implement new tech before everyone. This isnt an AMERIKA IS BEST, this is how these companies actually act. Euro goes for style, Japanese go for old school reliability. These are not opinions, these are styles and market niches.

A car built in 2009 is going to have 2009 technology. The first vehicles with screens are going to have UI problems and be slow.

In 2017 this is unacceptable.

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