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5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
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I would say if the companies providing the service do so knowing it is harmful and cover that up then yes they can sue.
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Must be a quiet night - 9 points to get on the front page is pretty unusual.
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Exactly, and even worse, I'm sure the managers remember some people's birthdays.
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Definitely so. Most business people that I've worked with do understand that. And provided problems are communicated early enough can manage expectations. Where I've seen issues is when ther…
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But the correct response to that is not - "I'm not going to tell you how long that will take" it's "let's work out what you are trying to accomplish". Though the &qu…
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Building a house, adding an extension, replacing a bathroom, building a deck. Many unknowns - you'd still expect an estimate.
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If you hired someone to do some work on your house, and they refused to give an estimate, would you be happy? If you had a deadline - say thanksgiving or something - and you asked “will the work be do…
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The blog is a much more interesting read than the product site: https://blog.traintrackr.io
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I would suggest posting a bit more information if you want help. Is this an off the shelf or a custom board? What are the components on the PCB? (The MCU, gyro) Did they write some custom firmware for…
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> Last year, some heads-of-engineering have been happy with my work and told me they want me leading my own team. I feel like taking up that offer, but it will look like I'm just being a spoil…
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Can definitely relate to this. But I have found that, when running a team, it can be very counter productive. If you constantly solve all the problems that come it can be stifling for the people you m…
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Definitely. A lot of what is missing in many discussions is the absolutely essential need to have evals. The only way to “know” what is the best (or better) approach is to have a significant number of…
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Well, you still need to decide if structured output is the right choice. As they point out - this might impact results where deep reasoning is required. So you might be better off taking the unconstra…
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Here you go: https://blog.atomic14.com
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You are Dominic Cummins and I claim my 5 pounds :)
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I don’t know. Increasingly I see people offering simplistic solutions that don’t even pass basic smell tests. And then when you point out the obvious flaws the response is that you just have to be bra…
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I would say “could not possibly be implemented” rather than “bold”. Anyone can propose a brave or bold course of action. It’s very rare these people have any idea how to actually execute their plans.…
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I would encourage you to do some more research. Maybe get out of your bubble. The world might not be as black and white as you think it is.
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Definitely feeling my age. Growing up we had a "dripping bowl" that was kept in the fridge and received any left over fat from roasting meat. This would then be used for frying etc.. I imagi…
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It’s always important to remember what your position is when making off hand remarks. An off the cuff comment to a friend or a colleague where you are both equal in stature/responsibility - proba…
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The P4 is pretty high spec with a 400MHz dual-core RISC-V
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I wrote a clone of battle zone the old Atari tank game. For the enemy tank “AI” I just used a simple state machine with some basic heuristics. This gave a great impression of an intelligent adversary …
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I would reframe this as unable to rather than refused to. It’s incredibly difficult in a successful business to change direction or even innovate. There’s a bunch of guys in the engine room throwing c…
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I think, for a lot of people, solving the problem was always the fun part. There is immense pleasure in a nice piece of code - something that is elegant, clever and simple at the same time. Grinding o…
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"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves" The people who actually experienced (either directly fighting in, or living through it) have already died or are rapidly dying out. We have n…
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Have you tried a Show HN post?
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The ability to be genuinely interested in what someone else has to say and what their opinions are is a real gift.
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But you have just repeated what you are complaining about.