thisisbrians

It is and will always be about: 1) properly defining the spec 2) ensuring the implementation satisfies said spec

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: best at infra, data infra (including IoT), database (postgres), fan of: Ruby on Rails and "boring technology", Swift UI, developing hardware

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u-PnhWu9V_YcTJtaOQem2iSEwD4...

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Former, exited founder looking for IC roles, but don't mind some leadership duties.

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: former founder. best at infra, data infra, database (postgres) (including IoT), fan of: Ruby on Rails and "boring technology", Swift UI, developing hardware

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u-PnhWu9V_YcTJtaOQem2iSEwD4...

Email: thisisbrians at g mail dot com

Are these roles on-site only?

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but recent (last ~100 years) evidence and phenomena suggest that consciousness might be fundamental to reality, and thus there could be some other information transfer we would currently consider "woo" going on here. This is hard (if not impossible) to prove, of course, but quantum mechanics has totally bewildered many aspects of the materialist ("reductionist") model of the universe. There is a large and increasing number of physicists and other reputed scientists/researchers who are adopting some variation of the consciousness-as-fundamental stance.

Yes, it's easy to cherry-pick an obviously absurd position that could be articulately argued. But the point is that you are definitely wrong about some things and should generally keep an open mind. Even intelligent people are wrong about certain things, and in fact their propensity for rationalization can lead them into some absurd positions. But some of those positions turn out to be right, like the Earth orbiting the Sun, for example.

the semantics aren't very important to my argument, which is basically: our instruments can't perceive all of reality, thus we can't test theories around the unknown phenomena therein.

I can chime in to say: the scientific method, so far, cannot explain consciousness, and that the whole materialistic basis for physics is facing a crisis in the face of quantum mechanics, etc. Most of us have utmost confidence in a method that so far has nothing to say whatsoever about the most important quality of our existence: that we are aware.

well, in space (perfect vacuum) you only lose heat to radiation

but you can keep absorbing radiation indefinitely

so the equilibrium temperature will depend on the incoming radiation and ensuing outgoing radiation as dictated by the material makeup of the thingy

i definitely can't do the math myself, but excellent retort. thank you for the nuance

switch to a workplace that has higher standards. obviously that can't be done overnight, so in the interim, make sure to CYA (cover your a**) against the transgressions of the incompetent, including being as honest as you need to be in reviews. if assigned a stupid task, maybe try to divert it to one these stupid persons, or do it as quickly and lazily as possible (CYA).

you're probably getting downvoted because there isn't really a temperature 4 million miles away from the Sun (it's mostly just empty space being bombarded by radiation)

2,500º F is merely the temperature the probe is expected to reach at that distance. if it were to stay at that distance indefinitely, it would grow much, much hotter as it absorbed more energy from the sun.

I love boring tech! Building boring tech with AI tooling is what I'm after with all this.

Great as an employee approach. Not as good as a founder approach.

Here are a few lesser-known resources I’ve found:

- aider - AI pair programming in your terminal https://aider.chat/

- Tips on coding with GPT (from the author of the above): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211879

- Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor https://cursor.sh/

This is similar to what my shop is doing. Any notes on how you manage keys?

No; the fiduciary duty of the CEO/board is to the shareholders. If there is a chance to salvage continuity of operations and preserve the value of equity, that is what they will do, even if it means operating until cash runs out. It is a matter of basic incentives. As much as we'd love to do the "right thing" and pay weeks/months of severance for no work (I am a founder myself and would love to, in a perfect world), startup employees should know the risks of working at a high-risk venture and plan accordingly. The middle road here is to do a significant layoff with severance, but this isn't possible in every case. Additionally, a company-saving customer contract or funding round can fall apart at any moment. This is, unfortunately, just the nature of the business.

What worked for me:

I started out chasing my curiosity: wanted to make a simple video game, so I Googled my way to one as my first real programming project. I think passion projects are the way to start, because learning programming is frustrating no matter what (but totally doable, and totally worth it).

Some folks prefer guided courses; they're great, but they just don't work for me (I get impatient and bored). There are tons of very good free ones around these days.

Stepping away or switching to different challenges when stuck have saved me countless hours.

Focus on building a foundation of understanding as you go. Copy/paste is totally fine as you learn, but try to read the code, error messages, Stack Overflow posts etc. to garner deeper insights. A lot of it won't make sense at first...that's ok. Things start to click eventually.

I strongly recommend using ChatGPT as a tutor. It's already way better than Google or Stack Overflow, and you can ask specific follow up questions so you can understand the "why" better. I'm currently using ChatGPT to learn Swift (for a new iOS project I've started).

And, reading HN helped me a lot. At first it was mostly Greek, but I read the articles that sounded interesting and can't even describe how much I've learned from reading the comments on this site.

Most importantly, have fun with it :) This is probably the most important point. The field is vast, so pick the route that draws your attention.

Best of luck!

It did briefly acknowledge the issue.

Same here. Have confirmed with other parties as well.

You are getting downvoted because conventional wisdom is wrong. No one needs to eat plants (although many are nutritious). You can be very healthy eating eggs, fish, shellfish, meat, organ meats, and broth. Animals are made of the same things that we are, so they are very nutritious.

The body can make carbs from proteins or fats. You don't _need_ dietary carbs (but will naturally get some in the course of eating a healthy diet).

we can't even prove that other civilizations even exist. c'mon. statistical likelihoods don't prove anything. never having seen a thing doesn't prove it never existed.

It looks like it's down for the "night".

OP: I like the idea. How can we keep up with what you're doing/when it's back online? I have some code to post :)

"10x" is just the wrong paradigm to explain the phenomenon. The person is not working at a throughput ten times higher than another person. It's more of an exponent that compounds over time. The best tech people can save a rapidly growing firm dozens of hires (or more) over time through better architecture, documentation, processes, communication strategy, etc. There's no way to suss this out entirely from an interview, but a smart interviewer can certainly get an idea if they ask the right questions.

Some ideas about what makes it challenging:

- A satellite will have to transmit power through the entire atmosphere from space, which will have substantial losses even in perfect conditions

- A satellite constellation in orbit would need many ground stations to transmit power to from space

- Weather will get in the way of transmission to the ground, just like it does with ordinary solar

- The cost of getting a PV array into orbit is very expensive relative to the amount of power it can generate and transmit

If IT is smart, there will be a paper trail to prove these asks were made/denied.

A small tip that might be useful for some: to replicate real-life incoming network requests without affecting production systems, you can use the nginx mirror directive [1], which will copy targeted requests to the system(s) under test. We use this quite often for blue/green type deployments and the like.

1. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_mirror_module.html

Much of it goes to enrich contractors. Lockheed Martin as a usual suspect here, for example.

Zip2 -> PayPal -> SpaceX all in a row? C'mon; be serious.