never assume malice when incompetence could be the answer... (hanlon's razor)
Honestly, if that video, et. al. is 11 years old, then Eliot is old enough to participate here -- I'd love to hear HIS side of the story and I bet the HN crew could find him an engineering internship in like 30 seconds!
Hey George! We should catch up! (to readers: I was the guy who hired George as an intern and he was awesome. so AMA too!) AOLServer was so, so, so far ahead of it's time. It had a WYSIWYG HTML editor years before…
Two things that still really matter in the (dire sounding) scenario you are painting: PEOPLE and RISK. SO here are my two recommendations -- they somewhat conflict, but depending on what kind of person you are (and are…
Guessing you're a pilot? This is my new go-to background noise. :)
not sure how specific you are about "interesting work in hardware" but this is the first thing that came to mind for me: https://www.span.io/ total rethink of the humble electric panel. If this had been around when I…
I'm going to put one of these in my "zombie-apocalypse" go-bag.
"What is the one thing an engineer could do that would make a huge difference in where we are trying to take this thing?" This question -- a) gives him an opportunity to tell you exactly where we are trying to take this…
never assume malice when incompetence could be the answer... (hanlon's razor)
Honestly, if that video, et. al. is 11 years old, then Eliot is old enough to participate here -- I'd love to hear HIS side of the story and I bet the HN crew could find him an engineering internship in like 30 seconds!
Hey George! We should catch up! (to readers: I was the guy who hired George as an intern and he was awesome. so AMA too!) AOLServer was so, so, so far ahead of it's time. It had a WYSIWYG HTML editor years before…
Two things that still really matter in the (dire sounding) scenario you are painting: PEOPLE and RISK. SO here are my two recommendations -- they somewhat conflict, but depending on what kind of person you are (and are…
Guessing you're a pilot? This is my new go-to background noise. :)
not sure how specific you are about "interesting work in hardware" but this is the first thing that came to mind for me: https://www.span.io/ total rethink of the humble electric panel. If this had been around when I…
I'm going to put one of these in my "zombie-apocalypse" go-bag.
"What is the one thing an engineer could do that would make a huge difference in where we are trying to take this thing?" This question -- a) gives him an opportunity to tell you exactly where we are trying to take this…