francoisdevlin
Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:56AM (#49657665)
Not the parent, but it's half joke half truth. Anyone who's done a lot of "first principles" work falls into this trap a bit, it's an issue across stem fields. Most grow out of it, or at least learn to qualify their statements for the audience.
Re:What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:26PM (#49162670)
Wait, are you talking about llms or people?
Re:Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:26PM (#48587823)
I use vi because I'm not a savage
Re:Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training...
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:35PM (#47855559)
As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.
Re:No Matter What They Tell You, It's a People Problem (2008)
on Monday June 24, 2024 @04:31PM (#40780388)
As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a point of doing their very best to be effective when interacting with the engineering team. They know how expensive we are, and try to bring our our best.
To the point of this article, the best product people were in fact respected by the tech team, and it made all the difference.
Re:Enhancing the Factorio experience with SAT solvers
on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:45AM (#39369660)
Dude, that is sick.
Re:Culture Change at Google
on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:27AM (#39054647)
As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.
The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.
Re:Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) ...
on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:26PM (#37745847)
I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you feel like a king.
Re:Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @07:41PM (#37683084)
What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?
Re:Factorio: Space Age
on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:17PM (#37268634)
There's a lot to belts
Re:Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:48AM (#37173370)
Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthcare must increase.
Re:Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:06PM (#37164849)
Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.
Re:Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong...
on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:19AM (#36176894)
A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.
1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...
Re:“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:09PM (#35907733)
Smells like breakfast
Re:John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)
on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:50AM (#35649915)
That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?
Re:Make JDK source code UTF-8
on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:40PM (#34977659)
I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.
Re:We Need Programming Mentors
on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:54AM (#34752298)
What do you recommend instead?
You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.
Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:32PM (#33002939)
Dude, no. The sheet number of times I've seen candidates point blank lie to my face in a zoom is to high. Spend some time at the manager's side of the table in the interview process and you'll see this immediately. This is a major problem.
Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:42AM (#32327739)
Careful, you might turn into a Boggle-head if you follow that logic too far...
Re:A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it
on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:00PM (#32300588)
Productivity 3 modules anyone?
Re:Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:09AM (#32118876)
Anecdote not data
Some of the grocery shops near me are known union shops. The prices are in fact higher than the non union shops.
Re:Cat S22 Flip Phone
on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:22PM (#31494092)
Right, but experience has taught me that construction equipment has nothing on my toddler...
Re:Ask HN: Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring ...
on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:22PM (#30048738)
If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.
Re:Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?
on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:02AM (#29759617)
Gotta give patio11 some love here...
Re:The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
on Monday November 08, 2021 @07:30AM (#29148620)
Honest question here, slightly of topic. How do you handle indexing a compressed column? Or is this considered an anti-pattern?
Re:This word does not exist
on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:05PM (#29007517)
So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not
Re:Factorio's Belt Bug
on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:09AM (#28728675)
Here comes 1.1.42. I'd expect it cob Monday, even Wube would get the weekend