Hacker News: motxilo

New comment by motxilo in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

motxilo — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:54:49 +0000

Watch this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090586/

New comment by motxilo in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

motxilo — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:47:24 +0000

> The captain was on a break when the co-pilots became confused by faulty air-speed readings. They then mistakenly pointed the nose of the plane upwards when it stalled, instead of down.

Investigators concluded the co-pilots did not have the training to deal with the situation

Blame.

STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) at Google

motxilo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:39:47 +0000

Article URL: https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/stpa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340321

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by motxilo in "Military standard on software control levels"

motxilo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:55:45 +0000

You allude to the difference between requirements and constraints. What you say is true, but also it's true that the Therac-25 was not designed to not output high power when an operator typed quickly.

STPA for Software Systems–Illuminate the Unknown Unknowns

motxilo — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:36:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25emea/presentation/klein

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107225

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google

motxilo — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:36:16 +0000

Article URL: https://sre.google/stpa/teaching/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419422

Points: 106

# Comments: 37

New comment by motxilo in "Google Escalates Dispute with Australia by Threatening Search Shutdown"

motxilo — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:04:39 +0000

This sounds to me like the tech version of QAnon.

Continuous Lifecycle London Keynote

motxilo — Fri, 24 May 2019 01:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://noidea.dog/#/continuous/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997692

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by motxilo in "Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?"

motxilo — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 03:16:11 +0000

Being a Staff Engineer vs just Senior gives you more leeway for negotiation with prospective employers.

New comment by motxilo in "Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?"

motxilo — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:53:28 +0000

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain. This book made me think about my own thinking and social behavior patterns.

New comment by motxilo in "Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive"

motxilo — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:10:47 +0000

In the article, it mentions "In any case, the majority of people are on a spectrum of introversion to extroversion.".

New comment by motxilo in "Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive"

motxilo — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:08:31 +0000

C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London" as a whole.

New comment by motxilo in "Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive"

motxilo — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00:38 +0000

Yes, way better and using a humble tone, e.g. "Introverts are not smarter than extroverts. According to IQ scores, the two types are equally intelligent. And on many kinds of tasks, particularly those performed under time or social pressure or involving multitasking, extroverts do better."

New comment by motxilo in "Thousands of Delta passengers delayed by computer outage"

motxilo — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:44:51 +0000

If you knew what the problem was before the outage happened, and didn't consciously put the effort to prevent it, then oh well, that's professional negligence. Maybe not on you because you may not have the decision power to apply large-scale changes, but definitely somebody within the company. And if you didn't know what caused the outage, and you conducted some type of investigation to get at the heart of the problem, then you need a postmortem.

That's one of the main goals of a postmortem: document what the cause of the problem was, not just for you, but for all interested parties. If some human caused the issue, you need to document what happened and what should be done to prevent it from re-occurring. And fix it, of course.

New comment by motxilo in "Thousands of Delta passengers delayed by computer outage"

motxilo — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:08:40 +0000

Good postmortems should be created for human-induced errors or top-down decision to cut costs. Especially for those.

New comment by motxilo in "Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?"

motxilo — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:45:22 +0000

Same here but s/used book store/amazon/.

New comment by motxilo in "Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?"

motxilo — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:25:58 +0000

Blindsight (Watts)

Between the World and Me (Coates)

Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)

Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Shapiro)

Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (Hernández de Miguel)

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Takada)

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Dartnell)

Historia mínima de España (Fusi)

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Marquet)

What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars (Moynihan)

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Google)

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum (Francis)

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (Arpaci-Dusseau)

New comment by motxilo in "Ask HN: Book Recommendations?"

motxilo — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 01:44:18 +0000

"Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders". I am reading it now, very entertaining and you'll learn thing about management styles.

New comment by motxilo in "What it’s like to house-hunt in Silicon Valley, the nation’s priciest market"

motxilo — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:16:34 +0000

And Cornell Tech campus in NYC starts running business in 2017.

New comment by motxilo in "Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis"

motxilo — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:41:10 +0000

In Madrid? Prfff, you were lucky, my friend. I lived there for 4 years and I see them as the Mafia on wheels.