Hacker News: mvpu

New comment by mvpu in "Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?"

mvpu — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:12:46 +0000

As a leader, you should talk differently with your team and with execs. With your team: understand what they are saying quickly, ask good questions, make them think, teach them how to think and work with your principles and wisdom. With execs: understand what they want, "own" and ask what you need (logically) and "get things done". The buck should stop with you.

New comment by mvpu in "Airware is shutting down after raising $118M"

mvpu — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:27:52 +0000

A VC friend once told me that _all_ money coming into VC via LPs represents <5% of their total assets, so even if all the VCs loose all the money their raised from their LPs nobody loses breath - only damage is to reputation. So fund raising is mostly about storytelling and showtime. Fund losing is about back luck. Better luck. Next time.

New comment by mvpu in "Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back"

mvpu — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 07:01:23 +0000

If a system setting is changed (in this case, power-saving mode = on) _without_ associated user trigger (UI action), then the system should issue a push notification and prompt for confirmation. That's the right thing to do - for all apps no matter who made them.

New comment by mvpu in "Tesla's Finance Team Is Losing Another Top Executive"

mvpu — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:28:56 +0000

Some parallels with Uber here (minus the extreme culture issues) - semi-reckless CEO with Godly following, series of departures, constant fire from the media. But unlike Uber I don't think Tesla will see a new CEO. And that is good.

New comment by mvpu in "How America lost its love for the stick shift"

mvpu — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:26:46 +0000

Horses -> Stick Shift -> Automatic -> Self Driving Cars. Nice.

Do you use Google Fi? Is it better than ATT?

mvpu — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://fi.google.com/about/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953619

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvpu in "Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite"

mvpu — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:29:37 +0000

Oh well. I don't think any of these "high net worth" clients are actually there to make money.. they're probably there to blow away a few million that they can recover easily from other investments or revenue sources. Re: cheese and sweeping things from hotels.. lol, they're human afterall :)

New comment by mvpu in "Company Update"

mvpu — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:27:31 +0000

> will report to both Kevin and me

Either I don't trust Kevin or X doesn't trust Kevin. Poor Kevin.

New comment by mvpu in "Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and Elon Musk smokes weed"

mvpu — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:30:30 +0000

Agree. He can do whatever he wants in private, but before doing something stupid like this in public, he should think about the 100s of 1000s of people who bet their 401k money on Tesla stock. Public behavior matters for public company CEOs.

New comment by mvpu in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

mvpu — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:08:48 +0000

Spirited discussion! I think for the average Joe, this change does not matter (i.e neither good, nor bad). Two better changes: a) highlight https / secure connections even more prominently, and b) detect and highlight misspelled domain names (a major cause of phishing attacks). Rationale is that for the average Joe, a clear warning that they are about to go to a bad site is more valuable than looking at the accurate domain name.

New comment by mvpu in "Is the Lean Startup Dead?"

mvpu — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:37:44 +0000

Investors aren't stupid - they won't fund millions of dollars (series A and above) unless they see a working product that customers are raving about, a large market opportunity, and a clear go-to-market - general indications of product-market-fit (although the definition of PMF depends on the space and product). We have seen rare cases of outsized seed rounds w/o a product, but they are extremely rare (even today). So this notion of "go big or go home" isn't vaporware - most founders cannot get that kind of investments, and few that can (reputed, second time founders for example) think 100 times before they jump in.

New comment by mvpu in "Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)"

mvpu — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:54:32 +0000

Forgive me if it's a stupid idea - but why not shutdown these plane computers every night when they aren't in service and boot them again in the morning before the first flight? Let all the counters reset, all memory creep and leaks go away, start fresh....

New comment by mvpu in "Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers"

mvpu — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:45:16 +0000

Wonder why ships aren't trying solar panels and electric motors and auto-pilot... they're out in clear Sun, have a large surface area, and no traffic...

New comment by mvpu in "Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales"

mvpu — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:14:18 +0000

The key here is "double-blind encryption" - assuming they got that right, neither can see exactly what I am buying, so I'm good. Bigger point: I'd be ok with any company tracking my activities _as long as_ one of two conditions are met: a) it benefits me (and me only), or b) it benefits them _but_ they cannot identify me.

New comment by mvpu in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"

mvpu — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 23:46:38 +0000

Great! Now redo this in Python and GoLang :)

New comment by mvpu in "How to Succeed with a Startup [video]"

mvpu — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:26:39 +0000

I believe in AR/VR. I don't work in that space but I feel they should start with specialized use cases such as mental health and show value and be nimble about bringing it mainstream. Otherwise it will be a pie in the sky.....

New comment by mvpu in "Very Good Security"

mvpu — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:49:55 +0000

This type of things are better off delivered as an SDK rather than a 3rd party API. Sending sensitive data to VGS for encryption would be a non-starter for many companies.. the probability of data getting stolen is same for VGS or anyone else...

New comment by mvpu in "Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact"

mvpu — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:43:03 +0000

I think this isn't just about self-driving tech (I believe Toyota already partnered with Waymo on that given the old Google self driving cars were Lexus RX and Prius) - but this is also about car sharing. I think car sharing might be a bigger and sooner threat to car manufacturers than self driving cars. By partnering with Uber Toyota gets to hedge.

New comment by mvpu in "Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System"

mvpu — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:59:28 +0000

Let's look at the facts: a) Tesla is the most shorted stock in history, b) 1000s of hackers are working hard to break things like this, c) if it was possible to break it and damage the company someone would have done it already. This just feels like an disgruntled employee.

New comment by mvpu in "How to Hire Your First Engineer"

mvpu — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 20:52:52 +0000

Some traits I look for in engineer #1: a) should obsess about architecture and code organization (they will be laying a foundation so having a bit of OCD helps), b) should make good tradeoffs and optimize for speed (they will be building the wrong things initially), c) mature enough to understand that they will be writing and rewriting a lot (see (b)) and d) last but not least, should have a strong desire to do a startup (knowing all the risks)....