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Re:555 Timer Circuits on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:35AM (#41894945)
The NE555 helped me get my first tech job in high school after I gave a presentation at a Nodebots community meetup. (It also, in some way, helped me land a job at Texas Instruments while I was in university during the COVID pandemic.) It was also the focus of the first tutorial I made for Instructables a few years ago. I always remember it fondly.
Re:Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem – By Adam Ard on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:30PM (#41800533)
Agree with the post from a practical perspective, the funny part is from a theoretical perspective all the arguments saying “scrum is wrong” will be wrong… since it is an agile framework it will always have the open way to say “the core says this…” which is really dynamic and agile by nature.

Based on my experience, one of the main issues describing the problem in post is associated with ego and management status… a lot of people in those positions feel like they’re better, superior to engineers forgetting exactly that they should be waitresses for engineers… the core issue is the structure, status and power associated to management and business related positions

Re:Kevin Mitnick has died on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:07PM (#36795291)
I'm asking the same, Wikipedia page is not updated and based on the note he died on Sunday...
I did the same... originally, I wanted to use Netlify (just to learn it), but ended up using GitHub because I wanted to do the GitHub Actions deployment stuff on my own, just for fun. Overall, I find Hugo really good. It is easy to set up and has a significantly faster building time compared to Jekyll, Gatsby, and NextJs...
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:43AM (#36611375)
Here is my blog: https://www.antonoriza.com/ It has less than 1 year, im keeping it simple, just a basic Hugo template hosted in Github pages so Im only paying for the domain.
Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:25AM (#36611271)
Intresting but I dont see something disruptive here, it may work in some specific places but in other countries like Mexico (where I live), someone could easily destroy or damage it, also the connectivity issue in rural areas (where a lot of the building market is interested) should be an issue... maybe it has a business niche but I cant see the mass adoption and innovation here
I love legends around mystical objects and places across the world/universe, I think I would become a kind of explorer like Indiana Jones and will share my experiences in the "TikTok of the future" or related social network. Also if in those years humans already are capable to visit other planets, I would use maybe a connected conscious robot to explore all of that... But if not, I think I would be happy too opening a Mexican food restaurant in my city.
Re:Ask HN: What's your proudest hack? on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:21PM (#33962650)
In my first startup I built a cellular circuit with a Quectel UC20 using only basic/educational through hole components like transistors, LEDs and resistors. The company Field engineer assigned to me and all the official schematics suggested it was impossible. My circuit worked and was one of the first IoT devices tested successfully in Qualcomm Mexico city labs.
Re:Ask HN: What's your proudest hack? on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:15PM (#33962558)
Access to a Facebook profile of a bully, from a PSP console, when I had 10 years old using social engineering. I literally only asked for the answer of his email recovery secret answer and I got access to all his stuff.
Re:To be or not to be a diode? It depends on temperature gradient on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:02PM (#33902716)
This looks like a really interesting finding, probably it can be used in quantum or servers hardware designs where a lot of variables are under control like temperature. I think in quantum computers it could help to minimize the size of them and make those hardware more resistant to certain physical variables to reach it beyond labs.
Re:List of Creepypastas on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:41PM (#32656983)
One that really scared me when I was 10: The licked hand" "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Licked_Hand
Re:JiraCLI on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:33AM (#32436579)
Nice, can this be connected with Bitbucket from Atlassian? I think that would be the real killer feature bc you could automate the clean up and managing of branches based on the state of a story, bug, task in Jira.
Re:Intellectual Loneliness on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:13AM (#29758388)
"I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book."

It sounds a bit cliche, in Mexico we call it "mamador". By other side, the point that he mentions about feeling more connected with an internet audience is one of the main advantages of internet... Infinite leverage and the possibility to find or even create an audience. But, social skills are important too so is a skill that we have to develop.

Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:08PM (#26431844)
Also IBM is launching a new program for students called "IBM Z ambassadors" trying to reach students and evangelize about mainframes... I know it because Im currently an IBM Z ambassador. https://zambassador.com/
Re:Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:42AM (#23015775)
Interesting... contributing to your comment Wikipedia also uses SPARQL.
Interesting... In that situation how is the licence determined? According to the platform policy?
Re:Show HN: Brök – Find broken links in text documents on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:12PM (#22917192)
Really cool! This could be implemented in wikipedia to detect and fix broken links easier.
Re:The Age of M-Pesa on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:32PM (#22796421)
Hi, yes of course. We can talk by DM in twitter (@juanantonio488).
Re:The Age of M-Pesa on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:54AM (#22794255)
M-Pesa is a great project. Back in 2016 my team and I tried to replicate M-Pesa in Mexico for bank the unbanked people in rural areas, financial assistance and give them a type of basic income. Only Cisco México and Susie Wee supported us, the government wasn't interested in implementing that.

Here is a short description of the project:https://mundocontact.com/dinero-movil-ganador-del-solutions-...