Hacker News: BillyMaize

New comment by BillyMaize in "Ask HN: How do I get my team to write better code?"

BillyMaize — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:30:22 +0000

I agree with this other than the lunch and learns. Leave their one break in the day out of it.

New comment by BillyMaize in "The Art of Not Working at Work"

BillyMaize — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:24:35 +0000

Exactly the position I am in now. After a couple of years I am looking to move on but I am finding that no one needs the experience I have. Everything I have done for my current company is desktop development and the vast majority of the nearby jobs are web development. Companies these days don't want to hire anyone who can't hit the ground running so it's a rough situation. Better to get out now than many years from now though.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Lockheed Martin’s Claims on Fusion Energy Meet with Skepticism"

BillyMaize — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:25:47 +0000

>Salt-water can be desalinated cheaply and pumped anywhere.

Really? I thought salt water desalination is a rather difficult and expensive thing to do. Can you cite support for this statement?

New comment by BillyMaize in "Doom"

BillyMaize — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:35:52 +0000

yes! I have been playing a lot of king arthurs gold as well but the community is very small. There are usually only at most 2 servers with a decent number of players.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Your 3D printed car will be ready in 44 hours"

BillyMaize — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:22:54 +0000

I work for the company that is building this 3D printer (Cincinnati Incorporated). I am only a software guy but if anyone has any questions let me know and I'll try to answer them!

Your 3D printed car will be ready in 44 hours

BillyMaize — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:21:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/189512-your-3d-printed-car-will-be-ready-to-drive-in-44-hours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8301898

Points: 3

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Amazon Pantry

BillyMaize — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:10:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_1118660_122178890_pe_button/?node=7301146011

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192153

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by BillyMaize in "LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees"

BillyMaize — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:23:42 +0000

>so we often work up to 1.5 to 2 times (60-80 hours is very common) over our official salaried hours for free.

Take this with a grain of salt, it really depends on where you live. I live in the Ohio area and of everyone I went to college with and everyone I have ever worked with I have never met someone that has worked more than 45 hours a week.

New comment by BillyMaize in "The voodoo of lobster economics"

BillyMaize — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:52:45 +0000

I work with a guy that used to be a submariner and he talks about how the best thing about being in a submarine was the food, including lobster. Maybe being in submarine they couldn't spend too long cooking it? As someone who just tried lobster for the first time this weekend I don't think anything can make it taste good.

New comment by BillyMaize in "FAA bans the use of drones to deliver packages"

BillyMaize — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:22:32 +0000

Thanks for this link. Am I reading wrong or does the article say the drone costs $15? That sounds unbelievably cheap, does anyone know how much a drone like this in America would cost?

New comment by BillyMaize in "New dual carbon battery charges 20x faster than lithium ion batteries"

BillyMaize — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:19:55 +0000

It's probably the fact that a huge leap in battery technology would make huge changes in both electric cars as well as being able to store solar power (and therefore allowing people to live off the grid). Faster computer hardware wouldn't have nearly the effect and I'm sure these companies want the biggest hype possible.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Ask HN: How did you find Hacker News?"

BillyMaize — Wed, 14 May 2014 14:17:49 +0000

I googled something like "Paul Software Engineer" to see if I myself would come up and found Paul Graham's articles which lead to hacker news. I had no idea what a startup even was but found the content to be of such a higher quality than anywhere else that I visited often.

Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 tb cartridges

BillyMaize — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:45:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2149780/sony-develops-tape-tech-that-could-lead-to-185-tb-cartridges.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674061

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by BillyMaize in "The Face Behind Bitcoin?"

BillyMaize — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:51:41 +0000

I wish, most people don't seem to care. I for one would rather see my tax dollars go to something useful like education.

New comment by BillyMaize in "The Face Behind Bitcoin?"

BillyMaize — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:15:04 +0000

As someone with the name Paul Brown in the Cincinnati area (where the Paul Brown stadium is) I deal with this almost daily. I'm sick of meeting someone and about 75% of the time they go "oh, do you own the stadium?". I'm seriously starting to think about moving far away so I don't have to hear it anymore. I don't even like football!

I also went to high school with a guy named John Conner and everyone use to thank him for some day saving the human race from the machines.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges"

BillyMaize — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:09:56 +0000

I just found out that my uncle, whom I thought very successful, failed to fulfill his responsibilities to his backers. He was working on a 3d printer that I was hoping to get to buy some day, but he never delivered more than a few of them (most of which didn't even work) and now his backers are trying to get together to sue him. A few days ago he filed for bankruptcy so they probably won't get anything.

As much as I love the idea of kickstarter, I have now seen first hand how you can be cheated and just can't trust the system to work (although many have and it has worked for them). After the disappointment of Minecraft when Notch started making a ton of money I have simply stayed away from all crowd sourcing/buy-and-play-during-alpha projects for good. There is nothing wrong with simply waiting until something is finished to buy it.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates"

BillyMaize — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:16:07 +0000

That was an awesome read, thank you for mentioning it.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa"

BillyMaize — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:19:52 +0000

There is no documented proof he ever said this. I'm sure he is sick of hearing it repeated when he has had to tell everyone how he didn't say it and no one listens.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis"

BillyMaize — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:24:29 +0000

Can you support the coffee is addictive comment? I drink coffee daily but have no issues short of a headache if I stop and I don't drink it on the weekends.

New comment by BillyMaize in "Is it bad practice to use your real name online?"

BillyMaize — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:09:56 +0000

The only account I have so far used my real name on is my stackexchange account so I can potentially use it in interviews to show I am active in the community and in my own learning.