jh00ker

Joined 9 years ago

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Member since
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jh00ker.at.hn

Eng Mgr at a public Silicon Valley tech company

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Comment · 2 days ago
*Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment · 2 days ago
*Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment · 1 month ago
Good for you, friend! You should feel proud.
Comment · 1 month ago
This post was #1 on HN and I clicked the link, watched the video, and then it was bumped down to #98 within that time. I've never seen that happen on HN before, but maybe I just didn't notice?
Comment · 1 month ago
How long after I make an edit will it show up on a Tesla's map?

Teslas on FSD speed through my neighborhood. I noticed the speed limit was incorrect on OSM and updated it several months ago. Teslas are still seemingly ignoring the posted signs. My own Tesla still shows the old speed limit in my neighborhood.

Comment · 1 month ago
or from your neighbor's open WiFi?
Comment · 1 month ago
The NSA enters the chat
Comment · 2 months ago
>They started it all.

Actually box.com was first (launched as box.net in 2005), and Dropbox was founded in 2007.

Comment · 4 months ago
At Disneyland, there are separate park entrance lanes that don't use facial recognition software. I like that I can opt-out passively there.

At TSA checkpoints at the airport, you have to actively ask to opt-out.

I'm always worried that actively opting-out puts you on a government list and there could be later, much larger ramifications, so I passively opt-in to blend in with the masses.

Comment · 4 months ago
Honestly, I think on LinkedIn, I'm usually in doom-scrolling mode, whereas on HN, I'm more likely to read a post in-depth. I think it was smart to come here to reach out on multiple modalities!
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm glad you're doing this. I am aware of _Incorruptible_ from seeing posts on LinkedIn, but from your description here, I now realize I'm going to love this book! I wasn't going to make time to check it out, but I will now!

Where does Apple fall on the Incorruptible spectrum? Is it covered in the book?

Comment · 4 months ago
>I suspect it's not seen as a problem by providers because more lines generated means more tokens used and hence more billing put out on customers.

I have also grown skeptical of token usage in order to run up my bill! But since I feel like it takes me MORE effort to write LESS lines of code myself, I'd expect a quick and dirty AI-generated solution to be MORE lines of code and cost LESS to generate than a concise/elegant solution in LESS lines of code.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Please, say more!

>I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can.

Ah, maybe this is what you think he would take issue with? Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said:

>I always look to staff up as much as is economically and organizationally optimal, to exploit all genuine parallelism opportunities, being careful not to overstaff.

Comment · 5 months ago
As a software engineering manager, I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can. If some things take longer than expected, then I already have a team of engineers with all the context since the project kicked off that can help each other with any longer running tasks. An engineer that has completed a smaller chunk of work can help out with the items on the critical path, for example.

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