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SisypheanLifeon Ask HN: Is there a hardest type of engineering or is it all easy?

Hardest === Whatever type of engineering I happen to be doing that week.

SisypheanLifeon I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

This would require AWS to invest in Chaos Monkeys.

SisypheanLifeon “Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber

He was one of the youngest professors ever at his University and was one who was experimented on by the CIA. There are some novelties here that exist other than him being a random school shooter.

SisypheanLifeon GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_lighting_energ...

The phaseout was defunded.

SisypheanLifeon Twitter employee, transit advocate dies after getting caught in SF shootout

Paywall

SisypheanLifeon SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff

Yikes! I just interviewed at Zume Seattle less than 3 months ago and they had over 100 head count open with plans for an office move that doubled the space. Wasn't the right place for myself at the time and I seemed to have dodged a bullet. Seems they banked a little to hard on their relationship with SoftBank and the promise of future funding.

SisypheanLifeon Going to court without a lawyer is new normal for U.S. litigants

Most legal plans offered, even through third parties, explicitly do not cover employee-employer disputes. This has been the case at both Microsoft and Amazon that I have seen.

SisypheanLifeon Reinventing the Network Stack for Compute-Intensive Applications

These types of multi-tier compute systems/MITM processors are now being implemented. Microsoft publicly discusses their efforts here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat...

SisypheanLifeon The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas

And Seattle avoided all of these:

https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/seattle-tunnel-lesson...

SisypheanLifeon The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)

Is selection here not a byproduct of chance?

SisypheanLifeon The war Microsoft should have won

Looking back at the keynote where Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, the progression from the iPod served as huge leverage and represented one of the core three components of the phones marketing strategy.

The iPhone was about combining your music player (that everybody already owned) and with your phone and then adding an incredibly smooth web experience. Without the iPod functionality, it would have still been a revolutionary phone, but the mass adoption and hype surrounding it would have been reduced.