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oq_pmgon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

Nice!

oq_pmgon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

Is something like the Reporter App?

PS: not an affiliate, just curious

oq_pmgon Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

As someone who played with the DOS text mode fonts a little, I never bothered with that question, assuming left tilt of the arrow was a way to make it visually bigger / more visible

oq_pmgon I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

Questions at the end of the article, are the ones, every engineering manager should ask

oq_pmgon A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense

Interesting. I did the same within just my team. We used Confluence to publish those, describing accomplishments of every IC. This initiative was started to appreciate the work of the team, so I still was concerned if anyone were reading those reports apart from my team, but I never had a question from the Steering Committee "what all of these peeps doing there?" since I started.

Question: what the format you have used (number of words)? Kind of a release notes? Was anyone actually reading those?

oq_pmgon Ask HN: Where do you escape for non-clickbait thoughtful/informational content?

That's it - ongoing development. You should constantly invest in the development of your SaaS product, unlike the example with the books

oq_pmgon No_color

Why focus on imposing additional work on developers, rather than users (which, by the definition, is much wider audience) having to workaround hard-coded behavior? Adding color support to cli tools is an additional work for developers in the first place

oq_pmgon Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel

Anyone cares to share how M1s performs with virtualization tasks? Say Windows desktop or Linux cli?

oq_pmgon Open source accounting software developed by accountants (2020)

I've started my IT career as an Technical Support guy in 1995. Back then, computers in local companies were used mostly for Accounting tasks and word processing. So I've seen a lot of accountants and how they work. What bothered me back then is an amount of manual data entry they did. Fast forward to today, and I still see no significant progress in this area. Sure, I am not as close to accounting professionals as before, but it still seems like some good 50-60% of their job is data entry, with various kinds of reporting filling the rest. Perhaps some kind of "IDE" can solve the efficiency problem, but I doubt it would solve effectiveness issue. Still I completely agree, that open standards for data and common protocols is the way to address this, but as long as accounting software vendors trying to maximize their profits, rather than business outcomes of their customers, I'm afraid we're stuck with what we have.