Hacker News: rsbrown

New comment by rsbrown in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

rsbrown — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:33:35 +0000

Name some? Because YeCun's break is the first big name I've seen strike out in a major fashion away from the LLM trajectory.

New comment by rsbrown in "Scrum Sucks"

rsbrown — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:40:33 +0000

I have my own (and many) criticisms of Scrum, but this article is so poorly written that I cannot say whether the author's views align with my own. I couldn't make it beyond the first few paragraphs.

New comment by rsbrown in "China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video]"

rsbrown — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:18:46 +0000

I'd take anything Guo Wengui says about the Chinese gov't with a grain of skepticism. Steve Bannon has been running around promoting Guo's story as part of the larger anti-China Trumpist narrative.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/26/guo-wengui-chinese-bill...

New comment by rsbrown in "Software made me loathe my car"

rsbrown — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:31:51 +0000

> I think the market will be quite unforgiving to the car brands that do not prioritise software quality in the future.

The market got us here. Why the fuck would you expect it to get us out of this mess?

New comment by rsbrown in "Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output"

rsbrown — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:18:14 +0000

Treehouse’s abandonmnent of the 4-day work week suspiciously coincided with their taking on a Series B round of funding. I’m implying they were pressured to drop it by investors. This was followed by significant layoffs.

Furthermore, no formal analysis was done of the Treehouse experience.

Nothing conclusive can be inferred from the Treehouse experience until/unless they release data and a rigid analysis is done.

Response to Elon Musk's Cannabis Use Shows Giant Double Standard to Overcome

rsbrown — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:16:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bencurren/2018/09/12/the-response-to-elon-musks-cannabis-use-shows-that-we-have-a-giant-double-standard-to-overcome/#1881a9c239a8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17982134

Points: 14

# Comments: 4

How we migrated Weedmaps to React and cut our load times in half

rsbrown — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/weedmaps-engineering/how-we-migrated-weedmaps-to-react-and-cut-our-load-times-in-half-a7f50816f6dc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsbrown in "[dead]"

rsbrown — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:03:15 +0000

nm, throwing 500 errors again lol

New comment by rsbrown in "[dead]"

rsbrown — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:02:04 +0000

nm, status page now up and showing service connectivity errors.

New comment by rsbrown in "[dead]"

rsbrown — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:01:28 +0000

Not just you, service seems completely offline. Status page is an nginx 500 error.

https://status.slack.com

The world's best teacher lives in rural Maine and doesn't care about test scores

rsbrown — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:10:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/23/worlds-best-teacher-nancie-atwell-maine-center-for-teaching-and-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252430

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsbrown in "Apple Pay may have sunk Clinkle"

rsbrown — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:23:05 +0000

I fail to see the point of this article. Apple should have thought twice before launching Apple Pay because the author feels this guys is a rising star? We should feel bad for him because the world's most valuable company validated his startup's thesis? Come on.

Software Development is a Minefield

rsbrown — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:27:26 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.rsbrown.net/post/19470868080/software-is-a-minefield

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986121

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Protest Google's NSA Collaboration: Switch to Firefox

rsbrown — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:44:17 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.rsbrown.net/post/54520204262/protest-googles-nsa-collaboration-switch-to-firefox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985741

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rsbrown in "Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record"

rsbrown — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:09:59 +0000

Met Ruan and John at the Hack Reactor open house two weeks ago. Super nice guys and Smidge is a great concept. Really happy to see it get some recognition.

New comment by rsbrown in "Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented"

rsbrown — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:02:00 +0000

Well, this is how our system works. There is nothing stopping me from filing suit against you for posting this comment because it hurt my feelings. Then the judge throws it out because there's no basis in the law for my claim.

New comment by rsbrown in "Why you should starve yourself a little bit each day"

rsbrown — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:45 +0000

I'm curious -- what's the prevailing methodology for defining the "proper amount of food and nutrients" for an individual?

New comment by rsbrown in "FedEx Overcharged Customers for Years, Sealed E-Mail Says"

rsbrown — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:08:18 +0000

There are businesses whose sole offering is a service to audit your shipping invoices to ensure that you are not being overcharged. One, started in Memphis in the late 90s to specifically audit FedEx deliveries, is now a division of IronData:

http://transportation.irondata.com

New comment by rsbrown in "Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups"

rsbrown — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:36:32 +0000

This was my favorite line from the article, actually.

The quote in question: "Practically all start-ups internally are disasters"

Not just "often", but "practically all" start-ups. It's true in my experience, and not necessarily a bad thing. Of course, it would be great if everyone acted thoughtfully, didn't let ego get in the way, planned things just enough (but not too much), etc., but that's not just not the way it happens.

Acknowledging this fact, getting okay with it and still forging a highly functional team in the midst of such chaos and tragedy is the key. That's a tall order.

New comment by rsbrown in "PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps"

rsbrown — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:54:26 +0000

This looks like a really valuable tool to have in the iOS development arsenal.

It also underscores my loathing for cutesy, irreverent naming conventions.