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Would you be kind to explain what is your exact workflow?

I'm unable to find a software or service that would to this for me, but it's the exact thing I want.

Re:LLM Networking with MikroTik on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:55AM (#48930504)
A word of warning, my experience with mikrotik in the WiFi-6 space has been overwhelmingly negative, both in a single AP setup at home and on a corporate WiFi network managed by someone else.

Bugs, random drops, poor performance on some machines. It is not set and forget and I gave up on it.

Well, now I'm rooting for the Europeans/chinese to develop something better and release it.

One can hope.

Re:The company that sells lost airplane luggage on Sunday July 12, 2020 @01:02PM (#23812811)
Nitpicking: the "antique" suitcase in the picture is a very recent suitcase made by Saddleback Leather (worth about 1400$!)
Re:Ask HN: Should developers provide time estimates? on Sunday June 28, 2020 @02:04PM (#23670712)
I mentioned that no greater precision than a day of work is required. The point of the question is not precision, but who and possibly how.
Re:Ask HN: Should developers provide time estimates? on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:49PM (#23670590)
There is a secondary discussion if developers should be accountable for sticking to estimates, and my opinion is that they shouldn't - developers should be accountable for the quality and maintainability of the produced code, documentation and tests, not timelines - that's the job of the PM. A good PM will be able to observe that on average the unit of estimation takes 20% longer or shorter and adjust the project timelines accordingly. Also, if someone is worried about developer productivity, it can always evaluate it in relative terms, i.e. how many tasks generated with the above method does one developer execute vs another developer in the same unit of time.

Ask HN: Should developers provide time estimates?

We have debate in our company - who should provide the estimation for the duration of a task (usually part of a project). I have seen a few popular options:- the developer who will implement the task (a somewhat prevailing opinion on the internet) - senior developers - project managersThinking about it a new option may have emerged: estimates should not really be needed; and I would like to...

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Re:Eastern European Movies on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:57AM (#23637338)
Has anyone been able to identify what is the name of the organisation behind the website and where is it legally established?

I would like to know if the access fee benefits the artists in any way - the east european movie industry is not exactly swimming in money.

These people have a somewhat modern alternative with mechanical keyboard and eink screen. It has wifi and that's it. From watching the reviews I understood that a major drawback is that no editing is possible on the device itself and it is very expensive (600$)

https://getfreewrite.com/

I personally use occasionally an android based ebook reader with a bluetooth keyboard (Onyx BOOX Poke 2 with logitech k380). Distraction free writing is a thing.

Do you think there are more people around you in your situation?

If there are, there might be strength in numbers. You could organise to deliver a signifficantly larger project than any of you could get done individually. You do not need to hire anyone - use the principles of a cooperative and get like minded people that share the profits in an equitable way.

Along the same lines there are companies that may be looking to expand to capture the avilable workforce in your geographical area but lack the apropriate contacts to get started. Your written communication skillks seem to be above average which I consider quite important for such an engagement. If this sounds interesting, do leave some contact details.

Re:Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for? on Saturday February 15, 2020 @10:10AM (#22335712)
Project managers with technical skills are worth gold in product companies (possibly in other companies as well).

Run a few product implementations at customer side and there will be no monotony.

If you grow older and start appreciating more the routine in your life you can go into product management using the knowledge accumulated on customer side implementations and finally consulting.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/

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Re:Start Your Own ISP on Sunday August 18, 2019 @09:28AM (#20730015)
You are rambling and the situation you are describing is nonsensical and not related to anything that is going on in Romania.

Telekom is the former Romtelecom.a quick Google search should clarify that for you.

Coverage in Romania is 98% mandated to all operators by law and regularly checked (http://www.ancom.org.ro/en/ancom-has-verified-the-coverage-o...)

Bribing a city Hall worker for fiber Internet connection is again made up. City halls and all other institutions in Romania are not connected to the regular Internet, the connectivity is provided by STS (Special Telecommunications Services) to a private government network. In remote villages this is provided over satellite or radio link. Regular Internet is purchased by the local authorities from local providers (as needed) and is the same service that would be available to anyone else.

If you would run a local farm, do not host your eCommerce site using the available bandwidth, do it in the cloud, that's what grown ups do.

Please provide sources for your claims and do start a WISP if you want to address the rest of the population 2-10%, spread out over a country the size of UK.

Re:Start Your Own ISP on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:51AM (#20729470)
Romania has 14.3M (1) Internet users for an active population of 9.2M (2)

As the same time, about 98% of the population has mobile phone coverage (which implies some form of data access) with terminals that can be had for 0 upfront cost and ~10€ per month subscription with very large traffic allowance. Telekom (previous Romtelecom) can offer DSL services in most villages where a phone exchange is present.

Corruption or not, its probably a bad idea to start a wireless Internet provider in Romania because it already has excellent commodity connectivity virtually everywhere.

1. https://www.internetworldstats.com/europa.htm 2. https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-active-population-do...

Re:UK airport trials public autonomous transit on Saturday September 13, 2014 @05:40PM (#8313697)
The article does not mention that similar setups are already in operation in Schipol airport and Abu Dhabi. http://www.2getthere.eu/
Re:TINTAG, the First Rechargeable Item Tracker on Monday September 08, 2014 @11:56AM (#8285470)
Seems to be same concept but cheaper and with rechargeable battery so even cheaper on the long run. (and more environmentally friendly, arguably)

Also the campaign is flexible funding, I have contacted them and they said they are shipping in November whether it gets funded or not, the product is mostly ready.

I'm trying to find a positive interpretation to this:

Could it be that they are trying to find out how the customers actually use their products in order to allow them to build a better product?

Ask HN: Do you make your CV public?

In my corporate life, I have noticed that most of the senior/executive staff are quite protective of their CV's and profiles.Even more, if they are members of linkedin, they usually only present their job titles with no further description of role or responsibilities. This would seem to me counter-productive as a potential recruiter would be less likely to find their profile using a generic...

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Re:Free project management templates from the US Military on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:50AM (#4285260)
This is good stuff. I was wondering, does any one know about similar standards for system design and implementation?

I would be interested in seeing MIL standards or NASA best practices related to infrastructure (telecom, data, etc) design and implementation management.

While this may be off topic, i am actually a lot more interested how they executed the project management part of the whole program.

The project management techniques in use today seem like they have been largely developed in the US aeronautics industry.

The soviet space program was inteed a complex task requiring coordination with large teams in different areas of development. Is anybody aware how they organize that? is the methodology documented somewhere?

Re:State paid $22K each for Internet routers on Saturday May 12, 2012 @04:49AM (#3963258)
I see a lot of posters argueing about the type of cisco router that should have been used or if a soho Linksys router should have been used instead.

Assuming that the government has some rules that requires them not to deploy soho or open source products and they have to spend the money on some big brand company: how come Juniper was not taken into consideration (or other known network vendors)?

I would argue that Juniper could provide cheaper equipment of simmilar of higher spec (let's ignore for a moment if that is oversized or not) - and it becomes even cheaper if you consider the simpler licensing terms and upgrade support.

Isn't the government supposed to run open tenders? Is cisco mandatory in the US?

Re:At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero on Saturday April 28, 2012 @04:00AM (#3902354)
I'm surprised that after 75 comments nobody remarked this quote:

"You’re shocked because your initial image is of some back-alley Eastern European bootlegger — not an old Jewish guy on Long Island,” Captain Curran said.

I may not be so familiar with the north american culture, can anybody clarify this for me: Is it a generally accepted fact that bootleggers are east europeans and old jews would never do such a thing?

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