Hacker News: carlivar

New comment by carlivar in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

carlivar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:13:27 +0000

When you think of them as bailouts it makes more sense.

New comment by carlivar in "Stop Flock"

carlivar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:41:13 +0000

Have you read "Brave New World"? It predicted the future better than "1984".

New comment by carlivar in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

carlivar — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:42:23 +0000

They have enough food to stay that long?

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:12:07 +0000

Didn't LinkedIn create Kafka? Was that some of the overengineering?

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:10:56 +0000

We are working to migrate from Azure to on-prem because it's so bad. It is an uncoordinated mess indeed.

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:07:31 +0000

Well, to take it full circle, they don't dogfood LinkedIn on Azure. How about GitHub for that matter? Wouldn't that indicate Amazon can dogfood more?

New comment by carlivar in "Cybertruck Launch"

carlivar — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:08:29 +0000

By "themselves" do you mean Elon Musk? I wasn't under the impression that Tesla was much of a collaborative environment. Musk bans Kanban and Toyota Production System principles after all.

New comment by carlivar in "Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious"

carlivar — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:40:28 +0000

Maybe they should have an additional phase between test deploy and customers such as "employee personal vehicles".

Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious

carlivar — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2023/11/14/rivian-software-update-bricks-infotainment-system-fix-not-obvious/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266340

Points: 277

# Comments: 379

New comment by carlivar in "Smart garage door controller is no longer smart"

carlivar — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:40:20 +0000

There's also this, which I have used successfully for a while now with an old opener.

https://opensprinkler.com/product/opengarage/

New comment by carlivar in "The product manager role is a mistake"

carlivar — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:22:52 +0000

Ultimately the issue is a lack of clear roles and responsibilities of a PM role defined, and a lack of accountability.

I agree with you that the "product org" is an entity that can become a political and bureaucratic entity rather than an enabler.

Personally, I think the Product role should be embedded within engineering teams and report up to the same leaders (level is debatable) so that a bad PM can be dealt with just like a bad engineer. Of course if your company can't get rid of bad engineers either, you have other problems.

New comment by carlivar in "The product manager role is a mistake"

carlivar — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:13:05 +0000

And that's how it should work. The article is poorly written, but it does suggest more ownership from roles such as "area leads" which is close to Apple, I guess. With Jobs being the Uber Lead.

New comment by carlivar in "The product manager role is a mistake"

carlivar — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:10:53 +0000

I can't post a comment so I'll report a typo here:

"People are hired based on whether they’d represent no treat"

I think author means "threat".

Milton Friedman's Interest Rate Fallacy

carlivar — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://maroonmacro.substack.com/p/issue-38-milton-friedmans-interest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976904

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by carlivar in "Pixel 8 Pro"

carlivar — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:16:57 +0000

Wow that really puts it into perspective. I had no idea Apple was making such a small phone so recently. What a shame it is discontinued.

New comment by carlivar in "Pixel 8 Pro"

carlivar — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:05:15 +0000

I had that problem with Pixel. I switched to Samsung phones and the screen fingerprint sensor works perfectly. This might be a Pixel-only problem.

New comment by carlivar in "Pixel 8 Pro"

carlivar — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:02:36 +0000

Is the regular Samsung model too big for you? S22 and S23. It's just the right size for me and I prefer small phones (or what used to be normal sized phones).

New comment by carlivar in "Try the last internet Kermit server"

carlivar — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:17:14 +0000

I liked Super Zmodem, so I could play Tetris while my files downloaded.

New comment by carlivar in "Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase"

carlivar — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:32:36 +0000

I've become very fond of the phrase "comparison is the thief of joy" lately. This seems like a version of that. Keep your scope local only.

New comment by carlivar in "Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer"

carlivar — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:41:58 +0000

> I'm entirely unconvinced that J&J couldn't pay back everything they owe

How much is this? I thought we don't know yet since so much is still under litigation.