This make me think about a scandal pre dotcom burst in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie The creators "invested" in foreign companies that would buy their product. They had realized that $1 of…
Be cautious about calling their customer support if you have "bought" DRM stuff: you can be banned for any reason at any time. I complained about a failed delivery (broken box, one item missing). They refunded me but…
How do you know they are good? Did you use one for an extended period of time? A set of wheels and a cushion do not make a good wheelchair, if you want to live an active life. Please see…
see my earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41721976
Let me use a car analogy. I have no idea why a car should be more than 10k. On Amazon you can get a go-kart for less than 100: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=go-kart It is really the same comparison. A true every-day…
You are missing the experience of being tied to a wheelchair for a complete day. None of the chairs you have shown are suitable for daily use. Even the "Magnesium" one. One of the most important point (beside being the…
I am on a watch-list too because of a recent problem with a broken package with only one item out of two inside. It was clearly a too light packaging for a heavy item with sharp corners. The only other problem I had was…
When I was about 10, I was able to swim but I was not great at it. For some reason (I think someone dived just in front of me), I needed to stop swimming and ended "vertical" in the water. It was quite unusual for me at…
+1 And usually, the one person in the meeting not using headphones does not feel the problem: he can speak all the time and be heard correctly, while the others cannot interrupt him while he is speaking
Just a fun anecdote on end-to-end testing I did 20 years ago while working on the compression of images. Some parts of the algorithm were easy to test, others very hard. On the easy part was loading and saving the file.…
"Refactor your codebase to put the related code together" Of course it is a goal, but not always possible. You sometimes have two (or more) conflicting "relations" in the codebase. E.g.: you are dealing with taxes in…
On a slow ssh connections, I prefer to close my eyes while typing, to avoid distraction by the delay on screen. I have better accuracy this way
In EU (and probably elsewhere), there are strict rules for the stability of power wheelchair. One such rule is "On a incline of x% (x chosen by the manufacturer), pushing for max speed from stop should not lift the…
And first, lead by example. If the parents cannot help looking at their phone every 5 minutes, how are the children supposed to act?
These shenanigans before displaying the final result can have quite a lot of psychologic effects. Back when I started programming, I did simulate a jackpot machine in software (no money involved). The final…
On the other hand, rebasing can create its own problems re: regression finding If you rebase more than one commit, you can also have an intermediate commit which does not run fine, or even compile. This can happen…
About "truly fragile software", it seems to be the norm now, thanks to the ease docker provides to hide this
About touch buttons, I have seen once a lift with touch buttons for controls. For accessibility, the floor were also written in Braille. I thought to myself: "nice, they thought about vision impaired people". Then, a…
It won't succeed because of physics/math. They claim a save of 400kW per sail, with a boat cruising at 22kts. Let's do some math: - 400kW is 400e6 J/s, or 400e6 N.m/s - 22kts is 11.31m/s So the forward force must be…
Good writing is clearly useful and quite often mentioned. But good reading is very rarely talked about. I think it is even more important. Too many people cannot maintain attention for more than a few seconds while…
About mental effort in meetings being lower than solving a technical issue, it is definitively true (most of the time), even though non-technical people cannot even grasp how much a difference there is. In a previous…
If management does not pay close attention, doing sloppy work with many small bugs is the key to very high (measured) productivity: - You close a feature ticket by cutting all corners possible - Every corner cut will…
The initial script was fine, but not ideal. The CI is better in this regards. The CI is not the problem, sure. But it is not the solution either. That was my point.
Regarding a dedicated person to handle the CI, here is my experience. In the small company I am working now, I had setup a adhoc deployment script that was working fine, took less than 5min (with no user interaction) on…
You receive an email for your flight: tomorrow at 10am. When you arrive at the airport, you are told the flight has already departed. "How is that possible, it is 9am and my flight is at 10am?" "No sir, your flight was…
This make me think about a scandal pre dotcom burst in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie The creators "invested" in foreign companies that would buy their product. They had realized that $1 of…
Be cautious about calling their customer support if you have "bought" DRM stuff: you can be banned for any reason at any time. I complained about a failed delivery (broken box, one item missing). They refunded me but…
How do you know they are good? Did you use one for an extended period of time? A set of wheels and a cushion do not make a good wheelchair, if you want to live an active life. Please see…
see my earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41721976
Let me use a car analogy. I have no idea why a car should be more than 10k. On Amazon you can get a go-kart for less than 100: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=go-kart It is really the same comparison. A true every-day…
You are missing the experience of being tied to a wheelchair for a complete day. None of the chairs you have shown are suitable for daily use. Even the "Magnesium" one. One of the most important point (beside being the…
I am on a watch-list too because of a recent problem with a broken package with only one item out of two inside. It was clearly a too light packaging for a heavy item with sharp corners. The only other problem I had was…
When I was about 10, I was able to swim but I was not great at it. For some reason (I think someone dived just in front of me), I needed to stop swimming and ended "vertical" in the water. It was quite unusual for me at…
+1 And usually, the one person in the meeting not using headphones does not feel the problem: he can speak all the time and be heard correctly, while the others cannot interrupt him while he is speaking
Just a fun anecdote on end-to-end testing I did 20 years ago while working on the compression of images. Some parts of the algorithm were easy to test, others very hard. On the easy part was loading and saving the file.…
"Refactor your codebase to put the related code together" Of course it is a goal, but not always possible. You sometimes have two (or more) conflicting "relations" in the codebase. E.g.: you are dealing with taxes in…
On a slow ssh connections, I prefer to close my eyes while typing, to avoid distraction by the delay on screen. I have better accuracy this way
In EU (and probably elsewhere), there are strict rules for the stability of power wheelchair. One such rule is "On a incline of x% (x chosen by the manufacturer), pushing for max speed from stop should not lift the…
And first, lead by example. If the parents cannot help looking at their phone every 5 minutes, how are the children supposed to act?
These shenanigans before displaying the final result can have quite a lot of psychologic effects. Back when I started programming, I did simulate a jackpot machine in software (no money involved). The final…
On the other hand, rebasing can create its own problems re: regression finding If you rebase more than one commit, you can also have an intermediate commit which does not run fine, or even compile. This can happen…
About "truly fragile software", it seems to be the norm now, thanks to the ease docker provides to hide this
About touch buttons, I have seen once a lift with touch buttons for controls. For accessibility, the floor were also written in Braille. I thought to myself: "nice, they thought about vision impaired people". Then, a…
It won't succeed because of physics/math. They claim a save of 400kW per sail, with a boat cruising at 22kts. Let's do some math: - 400kW is 400e6 J/s, or 400e6 N.m/s - 22kts is 11.31m/s So the forward force must be…
Good writing is clearly useful and quite often mentioned. But good reading is very rarely talked about. I think it is even more important. Too many people cannot maintain attention for more than a few seconds while…
About mental effort in meetings being lower than solving a technical issue, it is definitively true (most of the time), even though non-technical people cannot even grasp how much a difference there is. In a previous…
If management does not pay close attention, doing sloppy work with many small bugs is the key to very high (measured) productivity: - You close a feature ticket by cutting all corners possible - Every corner cut will…
The initial script was fine, but not ideal. The CI is better in this regards. The CI is not the problem, sure. But it is not the solution either. That was my point.
Regarding a dedicated person to handle the CI, here is my experience. In the small company I am working now, I had setup a adhoc deployment script that was working fine, took less than 5min (with no user interaction) on…
You receive an email for your flight: tomorrow at 10am. When you arrive at the airport, you are told the flight has already departed. "How is that possible, it is 9am and my flight is at 10am?" "No sir, your flight was…