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New comment by corpMaverick in "The Generative Burrito Test"

corpMaverick — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:03:05 +0000

I am disappointed there were not donkeys in any image.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

corpMaverick — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:59:33 +0000

I agree with you on "don't do big software project" Specially do not fast scale them out to hundreds of people. You have to scale them more organically ensuring that every person added is a net gain. They think that adding more people will reduce the time.

I am surprised on the lack of creativity when doing these projects. Why don't they start 5 small projects building the same thing and let them work for a year. At the end of the year you cancel one of the projects, increasing the funding in the other four. You can do that every year based on the results. It may look like a waste but it will significantly increase your chances of succeeding.

New comment by corpMaverick in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

corpMaverick — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:50:00 +0000

Not all the flat earthers are true believers. Some are there just for the attention or other motives.

New comment by corpMaverick in "What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?"

corpMaverick — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:50:50 +0000

IMHO. It is futile to level the field with the wealthy. They will always have the better opportunities, education, connections, etc. They will find a way.

But we should keep trying to give more opportunities to the less fortunate. Better education, remedial classes, free school lunches, child credits, etc. We do that by asking the wealthy to contribute more. Not by taking away their advantages.(e.g. Admission tests)

New comment by corpMaverick in "Moving on from 18F"

corpMaverick — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:42:43 +0000

May be an opportunity to find talent for State or City governments that want to create their own digital services agencies?

New comment by corpMaverick in "AI Guesses Your Accent"

corpMaverick — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:39:24 +0000

May be you are Danish but you don't know. Time to ask your parents.

New comment by corpMaverick in "AI Guesses Your Accent"

corpMaverick — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:34:00 +0000

If you learned English after 16. You probably still have an accent. Native speakers are really, really, really good at detecting it. They probably know as soon as you say "Hi".

New comment by corpMaverick in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

corpMaverick — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:40:38 +0000

Perhaps you need several program levels? remedial, normal, advanced and gifted.

My naive take is that there is a need for each. remedial helps kids to catch up. Normal is where you have perhaps 70% of the students, advanced where you have kids with more natural ambition in some subjects and gifted is where you send the top 5%?

New comment by corpMaverick in "AWS BuilderCards"

corpMaverick — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:49:34 +0000

Interesting. Just a shower thought, but it looks to me that learning to build cloud solutions is amenable to use the case method famously used in Harvard Law School.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

corpMaverick — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:46:41 +0000

There is the LGBT. Specially the T part. The right thing is to do is support their rights, and it is very hard not to do the right thing when you know what the right thing is. However, the republicans have weaponized it against the democrats. They call them radical left and they campaign saying things like the want to convert your sons in girls and other awful things. It is an imposible choice because it can cost you the election.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

corpMaverick — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:39:39 +0000

Perhaps, but a lot of potencial customers will be pissed at him.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

corpMaverick — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:33:42 +0000

Leaving aside what Trump can do. It is sad to realize that a person with so many character faults documented in public can reach the presidency of such powerful country. You loose hope on humanity and wonder if liberal democracies can actually last.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says"

corpMaverick — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:23:43 +0000

Cortez only had about 500 soldiers. He didn't even had the permission of the Spanish crown, it was a private enterprise. How did he conquered a city of warriors with a population of 300K ? The Aztecs were tyrants that had abused their neighboring states for decades. Cortez built alliances with Tlaxalans and other tribes. There were battles, a small pox epidemic and a lot of blood. But Cortez was overall a great diplomat that took all the cities under Aztec control one by one until only Tenochtitlan remained.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker"

corpMaverick — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:14:20 +0000

A bit OT. Does anybody have any recommendations to consolidate monthly expenses with your partner.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Founder Mode"

corpMaverick — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:52:58 +0000

Somebody here commented long ago about Bill Gate's style of management which reminds me of this piece. If you presented something to BG he would start asking questions and get deeper and deeper. He was merciless. It seemed that he was just making sure that you knew what you were doing. So your really had to be prepared. Someone as knowledgeable and smart as BG was able to keep the Bull shitters out of the development org.

I think what I am remembering is this story from Joel Spolsky. Good read. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

New comment by corpMaverick in "Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election"

corpMaverick — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:34:58 +0000

Exactly. You don't need advanced math. You only need to see the tallies for every voting center and make sum. I believe the opposition has already done this. The fact that the government has not done it shows that they just don't have the numbers.

New comment by corpMaverick in "No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)"

corpMaverick — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:56:53 +0000

Scott Galloway has been saying something similar.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/opinions/masculinity-toxic-me...

We may agree or disagree with Galloway, but we need to pay attention to this issue.

New comment by corpMaverick in "How to Know When It's Time to Go"

corpMaverick — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:04:50 +0000

I have been programming professionally since 1989. I think my strength is to find straight forward solutions where you can focus on delivering value reliably. But now days I feel that are so many smart people jumping from project to project and leaving mountains of technical debt behind. We spend a lot time managing accidental complexity and I no longer enjoy my job like I used to.

New comment by corpMaverick in ""My Bike Is Everything to Me""

corpMaverick — Thu, 30 May 2024 02:44:51 +0000

I feel the same.I am more of a casual rider, but when I ride my bike in me feel so good. It is a source of health and happiness. I hope to be able to do it for many years. I wish cities in this side of the Atlantic had more biking infrastructure.

New comment by corpMaverick in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

corpMaverick — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:42:53 +0000

In Spanish. Pen=Pluma. Feather=Pluma.