Hacker News: chadgeidel

New comment by chadgeidel in "Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?"

chadgeidel — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:48:44 +0000

.plan wars. Oh the memories!

New comment by chadgeidel in "Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?"

chadgeidel — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:44:02 +0000

Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?"

chadgeidel — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:43:02 +0000

I really miss the "Q&A sites" like The Conversatron from the late 90's/early 00's https://www.everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

Hours of enjoyment from a very simple concept.

EDIT: Oh, who can forget the Purity Test sites! https://everything2.com/title/Purity+Test

New comment by chadgeidel in "Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say"

chadgeidel — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:50:01 +0000

You had to upgrade to a X when a 8 or a 7 was available - or even a new battery for $80?

New comment by chadgeidel in "Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say"

chadgeidel — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:48:37 +0000

As long as there have been cellular phones, they have been "fashion accessories". We all joke about the business guy with the giant phone, but that was the "iPhone X" of the 80's.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Magic Leap One"

chadgeidel — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:30:30 +0000

When I was at they had a prototype VR research project that was shown to a few people. Never seemed to gain any traction, and I didn't hear why.

New comment by chadgeidel in "iMac Pro, Apple’s most powerful Mac, will be available to order December 14"

chadgeidel — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:56:02 +0000

Probably because a large percentage of their customers don't actually care about expansion. I don't know - I don't have access to Apple's sales demographics, but I would be hard-pressed to think the reason was "malice".

New comment by chadgeidel in "Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want"

chadgeidel — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:47:37 +0000

Bob Lutz is almost the Steve Jobs of the auto world. At least in his own mind. :-)

New comment by chadgeidel in "Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR"

chadgeidel — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:30:10 +0000

Yeah, I wasn't super clear about my scenario. I have a "all skills" resume and I pare that down for each job.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR"

chadgeidel — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:27:40 +0000

That's essentially what I do. First page is all I expect the interviewer to read. My resume is 2 pages for >10 years of experience.

I agressively delete unrelated skills and promote related skills based on the job description.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR"

chadgeidel — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:24:57 +0000

Some ideas I've had luck with: Have one actionable item per email. State a question in the subject. Expect a clear answer (not quite "yes/no" but something definite). Spend a short time (one or two paragraphs describing the question in detail, but don't make it longer than that.

End the email with the question in the subject asked again.

EDIT: If you find that you need to have a conversation, either walk over to their desk or pick up the phone.

New comment by chadgeidel in "The Merge"

chadgeidel — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:27:56 +0000

I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.

New comment by chadgeidel in "The Merge"

chadgeidel — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:05:31 +0000

I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.

New comment by chadgeidel in "The Merge"

chadgeidel — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:28:02 +0000

I believe the merging Sam is referring to here is augmenting human intelligence with non-intelligent (but better) machines. Kurzweil talks about this as well, and was one of the original options in Vinge's "Singularity" (https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html)

New comment by chadgeidel in "The Merge"

chadgeidel — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:16:56 +0000

I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard for our mighty machine learning systems. I'm not going to merge with any technology that is worse than my stupid mush brain.

[edit - why am I still editing the spelling and grammar on this post?]

New comment by chadgeidel in "The Big Vitamin D Mistake"

chadgeidel — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:17:05 +0000

That line was a lot lower than I imagined! Surprised that Denver is “too far north”.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands"

chadgeidel — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:12:36 +0000

I don't know your background but "taking an Excel workbook and using that as requirements to drive an implementation" is not speedy. I've done this several times in my career and it's very, very difficult. Not because there is any "idealization", but because the reason the spreadsheet works is because a human is doing half of the work. These spreadsheets are not some "hello world" easy to understand product - they are the result of months/years of effort by a team of individuals which has grown beyond Excel's ability to handle. Translating that into code is not "quick and speedy" even if one is doing a like-for-like implementation.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal Cars with Just $20 Worth of Gear"

chadgeidel — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:54:50 +0000

Every single push-button start car I've driven has the ability of "engine off, radio on". On the downside my current car (2012 Mini Cooper S - push-button start) will only play the radio for about 10 minutes (??) after the engine is turned off.

New comment by chadgeidel in "Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing"

chadgeidel — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:21:03 +0000

Take a look at this video from Kyle.Engineers (a practicing aerodynamic engineer) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzlp6TxqM5o

New comment by chadgeidel in "Ask HN: If you could automate anything, what would you automate?"

chadgeidel — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:48:09 +0000

I'd take this one step further. I love cooking, but not for every meal. Some way of automating the entire calorie delivery process with the correct amount of macro/micronutrients. Similar to Soylent - except tailored for me personally.

I'd still cook a few meals a week and I'd still go out to dinner, but it would be a rare occasion.