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vietthan.github.io 1mo ago

Total Engineering

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: How do designers and marketers use Command Line? AI? Technical tools?

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badclimateadvice.com 3mo ago

The 'Engineer State' Is a Fairy Tale. I Was There. (2026)

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bamboo-filing-cabinet.github.io 5mo ago

Show HN: Vietnam Elections (open, source-linked datasets and site)

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www.acfe.com 1y ago

Most Scandalous Frauds of 2024

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insideschools.org 1y ago

Schools

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www.brainfart.dev 1y ago

Become the RAJA or RANI of Open Source (2024)

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www.ribbonfarm.com 2y ago

Fat Thinking and Economies of Variety (2016)

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Doom in Space (2024)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Most prominent example of fun in API Documentation?

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www.mandarinmansion.com 2y ago

A typology of Chinese sabers (2020)

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opendatakosovo.org 2y ago

Open Data Kosovo

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danaernst.com 2y ago

My Mathematics Genealogy (2017)

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threeofwands.com 2y ago

Why I use attrs instead of pydantic (2021)

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chess-ops.space 2y ago

“first ever correspondence chess game over Space”

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shkspr.mobi 2y ago

Where is the original “Overview of SHARD” paper? (2021)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What was the most expensive / impactful commit you ever made?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What do you use to monitor hardware in the field?

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Reminds me of artists, how do artists stand out when photography can do better capture of reality (and easier, and cheaper, etc.) than artists can. Artists had to re-invent (or re-discovered, re-focused, etc.) themselves in all kinds of ways like cubism, impressionism, surrealism, etc.

Would coding in [brainfuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck) be the marker of good engineers?

In the end, the criteria remains the same. The engineers that creates products other people would pay for. The engineers that can convince executives to pay them or let them do this and that freely. The engineers that are thought leaders and have wide audiences.

Anyway, at the micro level, I think "How to How" is still important. I believe in developers that can talk about their workflow in detail, how it evolved over time, etc. Really good engineers invest in the workflows of themselves and others. That's my benchmark before and still is even now.

Speedrun 1 year ago

In a way, is the author advocating that the best way to get out of the rat race is to win at it?

Also, looks like the author is very different from the typical high school aged person. The author is clearly intelligent and highly motivated, they're also able to maintain good relationships with the people around them (teachers, internet friends, etc.), but if it was so easy, we would see more well-adjusted early graduates of the education system.

TIL there is an organization for fraud examiners and that they have a podcast!

Top 5 frauds apparently:

1. Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes [1] - btw apparently criminal charges being dropped by DOJ [2]

2. Truong My Lan facing death row after embezzling $12 billion from Vietnam's bank SCB [3] - btw apparently now it's only 30 years [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-pl...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0lpqpyro

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/vietnam-truong-my-lan-de...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-t...

Schools 1 year ago

"We visit New York City public schools to give you the inside story you can't find anywhere else."

found related concept, I went through about 12 before I start realizing I don't know who these people are https://wangchujiang.com/github-rank/

facebook - 619150.1

sindresorhus (?) - 332369.05

torvalds - 220217.75

openai - 194993.55

ruanyf (?) - 150588.35

karpathy - 125014

bradtraversy (?) - 109041.8

netflix - 107217.95

JakeWharton (?) - 92770.1

peng-zhihui (Huawei researcher?) - 88764

tj (?) - 80875.8

gaearon (bluesky social) - 60159.75

apple - 58110.2

yyx990803 (vue.js?) - 57143.55

google - 54546.65

gustavoguanabara (?) - 50387.35

microsoft - 40706.3

Right now, what's most important to me is getting the permanent residency. I think many people are in the same situation. They made a goal of something (in my case immigration to the United States), and the meandering paths just falls off in terms of feasibility for such plans. I'm not against the article by any means, but I think for people like me, we already found what matters, and "meaning" or "fulfillment" is an extravagance in comparison.

Side note: this is very interesting but I felt like I've read this article before, maybe someone else already written about Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas?

Interesting, because this is similar to a Chinese cultivation novels, or what is known as xianxia genre, trope. Usually, characters live in different “realms” and they have to train/fight/be lucky to “reach a higher realm” where the rules are different (usually means the pressure/danger/ambient-absorbable-energy is higher).

NYC resident here, this is simply not true. Yeah of course there are gardens and bushes that are fenced off but most of the grass and dirt you can walk and lie on if you wish.

Very short article, the meat of it is:

the most heartbreaking, revelatory moment of the interview is when the 80-year-old Scorsese opened up about the stories he wants to tell and how little time he has left to tell them. “I wish I could take a break for eight weeks and make a film at the same time [laughs]. The whole world has opened up to me, but it’s too late. It’s too late,” Scorsese said. “I’m old. I read stuff. I see things. I want to tell stories, and there’s no more time. Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar, when George [Lucas] and Steven [Spielberg] gave it to him, he said, ‘I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be, and it’s too late.’ He was 83. At the time, I said, ‘What does he mean?’ Now I know what he means.'”

Maybe Scorsese could try making a movie with a way way more limited budget and in limited time, up his efficiency so to speak.

There is definitely something to be said about how age is the greatest enemy of humanity. We are robbed, robbed of our greatest, always too soon. I suppose this is greed as well, but I wouldn't call it a sin.

Has there been other situations like this before? Successful CEO gives up the helm to essentially retire but then brought back because his hand-picked successor underperformed?

Ps: this is just like that Thanos meme

yes, that's exactly what I meant. I was demonstrating that just because the top guy is a member of the minority group does not mean that organization is "influenced" by minority group.

Edit: I finally read the context again. Yes the top guy is a member of a minority group, and of course he will have some cultural influence. But people will disagree whether the minority group is _at the right level of influence_.

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AppCard is an advanced customer retention system designed specifically to service the needs of mid-size retailers, franchises, and independent grocers who are ready to start capitalizing on the potential of their customer data and analytics.

As a Series B startup, we are currently growing rapidly within both tech and non-tech areas, as such we are looking for a lot of people.

Hiring for multiple roles including:

- Software Developer (Junior, Mid, Senior)

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