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antonddon Google stopping coding competitions

It's been an interesting experience watching the primo crop of Silicon Valley sweethearts coming out of age and turning into this generation's IBMs, Oracles, and Ciscos. "He who slays the dragon shall become one".

antonddon DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

Just realised the article is behind a soft paywall. Here’s a LinkedIn post by a Deepmind engineer working on ADa: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ada-ai-adapts-fast-humans-edw...

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Many moved to Ukraine too.

antonddon Show HN: Generate shared 2FA codes for your entire team

Why?

antonddon Ask HN: What pranks you do on the newcomer programmers?

Remove the tracking ball from their computer mouse... Oh wait, I'm the wrong century

antonddon $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date

Yes, anonymous blockchains like Monero allow you to ‘obfuscate’ the movement of your crypto.

antonddon Planning and estimating large-scale software projects

This brings back memories from the days of my early career (an ex-PM survivor here). I would be curious to see some data, even anecdotal, on the success of this approach. Here's some interesting statistics from the industry (not specific to software, but you can extrapolate): http://apepm.co.uk/project-management-statistics/

In my view, traditional software project management is ineffective. I would put it somewhere between the Myers-Briggs personality test and modern day astrology.