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jack_riminton

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news.ycombinator.com 9mo ago

Tech for Gardeners

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Alan Bates the campaigner for the Post Office IT scandal has been knighted

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theconversation.com 2y ago

Treating OCD caused by excessive levels of glutamate

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Pumping water up a tower without using electricity – The Breurram pump

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twitter.com 3y ago

The original iPhone didn't have a Product Manager

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

How to Think Like a Programmer

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www.bzarg.com 4y ago

How a Kalman filter works, in pictures

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

What would you include in a manifesto for deep work?

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twitter.com 5y ago

Engineer – must not have experience in Node, Ruby, PHP, ASP, .NET

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medium.com 5y ago

Comma.ai – Scaling for 10x User growth

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alistapart.com 5y ago

The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets

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mikerowe.com 5y ago

Walk me through this “Safety Third” thing (2020)

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dhh.dk 5y ago

TDD is dead, long live testing

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threevirtues.com 5y ago

The three great virtues of a programmer

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qntm.org 5y ago

How to Destroy the Earth

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www.reddit.com 5y ago

CubeSats often use regular tape measures as antennas

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is there a better way than reading docs for devs to discover features?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Defeating IEDs with explosive downwards rockets

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github.com 5y ago

Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

AI improves Tax Policy by 16%

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www.bbc.co.uk 5y ago

John Le Carré has died

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www.seacharger.com 6y ago

Solar powered autonomous RC boat travels from CA to Hawaii

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gif.direct 6y ago

Show HN: GIF Directions

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As someone who did an MBA and was groomed to be a Consultant and then repented (now a software engineer) you have to understand that the customer of a consultancy project is an exec.

1. The exec has been charged with exploring a new product space, a potential M&A deal, more vertical integration etc etc

2. The exec needs a gauge on the "size of the prize", is this thing worth doing? roughly how will it be done? how long etc.

3. The exec probably already has a rough idea or gut feeling about one such option

4. The consultants produce something that usually supports the gut feeling, other times it will suggest alternatives and provide some facts and figures to support

Sora 2 10 months ago

Lets take a step back and realise how incredible this is (I'm sure there are plenty of other `ackshually` comments)

Can it do Will Smith eating spaghetti? (I can't get access in UK)

Same. It seems the coding part of my brain and the communicating are mutually exclusive

I wonder if it’s related to the phenomena of some people having a ‘narrator’ in their head or, like me, there’s no voice and it takes effort to convert abstract thoughts to sentences

Oh you mean like Ukraine and Russia? Might doesn’t equal right, but it certainly makes those who are wrong from even thinking of using force.

Why this needs explaining to presumably educated adults is kind of terrifying in itself