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postiton How to increase your luck surface area (2010)

I struggle a lot with advertising my work outside the company.

I'm the kind of engineer that will get anything done regardless of the tech (or people/process) complexity, and I always end up watching someone else in the team going to conferences to present my work.

Random reasons random, but mostly because my inner klout is way bigger than my outer persona.

postiton Java 1.0 Turns 25

It’s crazy to think C++ and Java are only 10 years apart in the language timeline.

postiton Java 1.0 Turns 25

It’s crazy to think C++ and Java are only 10 years apart in the language timeline.

postiton Ask HN: What's the best programming advice you've read/been given?

Instead of mindless typing, start with a paper and pencil.

postiton Instant Messaging: It's not about the app

insert your argument about why you don’t understand people moved away from XMPP just to reimplement XMPP.

postiton DeLorean considering all-electric reboot

There’s a huge opportunity for the manufacturer that could streamline an hypothetical chassis with integrated electronics and batteries.

We could be looking for a future resembling what we have today in some formula categories that are basically a power unit paired with a dallara or lolla chassis.

postiton Maximizing Developer Effectiveness

Thanks.

This summarizes and completes perfectly the ThoughWorker bingo. They are always dreaming about the ultimate factory line for knowledge workers, but they don’t get much done other than blog posts.

postiton How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?

Honest question, can I hire one of these companies to send a turd to space?

postiton Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys

Your content is the only currency you have on the internet.

postiton Museum of Bad Album Covers

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I'm going to let you carry this on, but we're all know which music genre can easily win this title.

postiton Ask HN: I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?

Your product team can take up to 5 weeks to deliver a simple change like adding a field, the most sr engineers are pushing for a ground up application/architecture rewrite. What would you do?

postiton Ask HN: Buy highly priced domain or rebrand?

Hmm checkin.app or strive.app better find a new name.

postiton Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1

Roam is a new outliner out there which created some fizz a couple of months ago.

postiton To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills

I'd say effective communication is more important than strong writing skills.

I used to work with someone that could write 300 pages to communicate something that could have been communicated with a single sentence.

I used to work with someone who wold span the team channel for hours to communicate something that he could take them time to properly craft a complete message.

Prolixity and noise can happen on both written and spoken forms. Getting people who can balance all the ins and outs of communication is the key.

postiton TeXmacs 1.99.14 released. Take a look at this research paper exported to HTML

That's basically what pandoc is for, and it works.

postiton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)

Frank is on my top 5 list of minded individuals I’d love to work with. Applying.

postiton Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code

If you are the sole copyright holder, you are not bound by any licensing terms.

postiton What’s so exciting about Postgres?

I agree. We’ve also spent the last 10 years trying to make web app behave like desktop apps and they are still not matching.

postiton The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched

I’ll love to see the next decade battle between arm and risc-v

postiton Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?

I moved countries 4 times, unfortunately a solid local network isn’t transferable outside it’s boundaries

postiton Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?

Envoy is one of the best samples for networking I've had to deal in my career.

postiton Colon Cancer Screening Should Start Earlier, at Age 45, U.S. Panel Says

I lost a childhood friend who discovered hers by accident. She was 37 and somewhat healthy, she left two daughters (4 and 7)

If you can, do a screening earlier.

postiton Ask HN: What 16-bit Windows applications (except games) are you still using?

I wrote a pizza ordering application back in 96 using turbo pascal 7. The software got pirated and is still used by some places where they take phone orders.

Most software at the time used mouse clicks, mine had an interface where you could use keyboard shortcut to add ingredients. It was like 20 times faster to take an order.

postiton Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

Ah, there's where the "bane's rule" comes from; I've heard if from a FAANG friend, and I kept wonder the source.

postiton A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (2015)

“Saved” - I love how American portraits their war crimes.

postiton Adding a fiber link to my home network

They are so thin I covered mine with the wallpaper

postiton Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity

Now I understand why the only drug prescribed after an open chest surgery in Germany was ibuprofen.

postiton I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes

I love when the universe throws my own ideas back at me but with a slightly better implementation

The backstory on this was me freaking out when I had a newborn coming and I wanted my legacy to be handed to him at the right age if something happened to me.

postiton Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

And to think I‘m used to make fun of RMS for complaining about how he wanted to run his own software on his microwave.