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patents.google.com 1y ago

How does nonsense like this even pass basic validation at the patent office?

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hammerproject.com 3y ago

Smashing Entropy

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thedriven.io 5y ago

Welcome to Australia: we just created an EV tax

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hammerproject.com 7y ago

Effective teams: When you’re an emotionally challenged developer

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Kickstarter BattBump debunked, author panics and YouTube pro internet censorship

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leanpub.com 8y ago

Agile for Teams (ebook): Real world advice for making agile work in your team

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leanpub.com 8y ago

Show HN: Real world advice for getting agile working in your dev team (ebook)

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hammerproject.com 8y ago

Why you need to start a Retrospective in your team

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How much should I charge for my ebook?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Does my landing page connect with folks who've tried agile?

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hammerproject.com 9y ago

I don’t wanna be a developer anymore

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

John Taylor 'punched the FAA in the face': recreational drone registration gone

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Best practise for common asset repo and automated deploy to CDN?

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hammerproject.com 10y ago

IoT Intro: SMS me when I leave my garage door open

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hammerproject.com 10y ago

The esp8266 easy introduction into IoT: SMS me when I leave my garage door open

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hammerproject.com 13y ago

An Android phone can never have what an iPhone has

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37signals.com 15y ago

You can be a web designer and not know HTML/CSS?

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lol! It's an Operating System! It allows you to install your own apps to do things like snap windows.

If you want the OS with all the shit you do (and don't) need, then maybe Windows is for you. ;-)

I find "bypassing end-to-end encryption" to be misleading... as if somehow the e2e encryption in Signal is somehow broken or flawed.

This "social engineering" hack? is simply allowing a 3rd party to gain access to another persons account and "snoop" on their secured messages/calls.

Pls correct me if I'm reading this wrong.

It's hard.

Not impossible but much harder than working closely with humble and experienced engineers. That's why I recommend that a junior engineer finds a great consulting company as soon as they can and spend a few years there. This was a kinda breakthrough period in my career for both technical and soft skills. The nature of consulting also means that you might see a greater variety of environments, technologies, and problem/solution combinations than the equivalent xp in a non-consulting role. But make no mistake, finding a "good" consulting company is key. You need to have humble and experienced engineers who want to help you and grow you. If it's a "bums in seats" kinda "body shop" or some kind of celebrity house for "hero" or "10x devs" then maybe this won't be as useful.

you just need to know the SoH (state of health). If that's 90% then you've lost 10% of the range at new. The lower the SoH for the same vehicle make, model, year and driven kms, then the worse the car has been treated. Simple as that.

I don't understand where this thinking comes from. It's not based in fact. These Tesla batteries degrade very slowly. And so if in 5 years you've lost 15% of the range, it still gets you anywhere you need to go including road trips with all of the Superchargers!? "totals the vehicle" is just nonsense and I wish more people understood the reality.

Came here with the hope of better understanding how a "reasonable person" is defined and interpreted in legal terms. It's always bothered me that legislation reaches for this "reasonable person" in some enlightened attempt to assume that there is a coherent and uniform definition and interpretation for this.

This post didn't help me.

I think the standard "it depends" applies here too... as always.