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salomonk_mur

366 karma · joined February 15, 2024

Father of twins, tech entrepreneur, maker enthusiast, proud Colombian.

You can read about me and get my contact details in my website: https://www.salomonmuriel.com

meet.hn/city/co-Bogota Capital District - Municipality

Socials: - linkedin.com/in/smuriel - cal.com/salomuriel

Interests: Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Maker Culture, Programming, Social Impact, Education, Python, Go, Typescript, Data Science, Web Development

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salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
Ditto this. We use this in our ~100 company and it works great. Plus, it can hold more than just IT/Tech passwords. Everyone in the company uses it constantly and only has access to what they need.
salomonk_mur··on ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor
I think you should be able to select columns you want to show in the diagram, and hide the other behind a small ... Button. That way you can keep table box size small.

A default of "show none" is probably sane for visibility, in particular if you have many tables or columns in the whole diagram

salomonk_mur··on Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal?
Almost everything that is a blade is designed to be curved or slanted, yes.
salomonk_mur··on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
Or most likely in today's scenario, demand is miniscule in space compared to earth's so you sell on the earth market while demand in space materializes.
salomonk_mur··on Show HN: Open-source OneSignal alternative – MagicPush
Does this support staggering notifications over a period of time? We keep on running into infrastructure ceilings due to traffic spikes after particularly engaging notifications.
salomonk_mur··on There's Now 10k Active Satellites in Orbit
Nothing? They are not ignorant of the rest of the world existing.
salomonk_mur··on L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
Dollars have not been purchased with gold for a long, long time.

As a matter of fact, most dollars are indeed created without "paying something for them". Out of thin air. They are just points in a database, no more real than the Bitcoins you say need to be "mined".

salomonk_mur··on Training of Physical Neural Networks
It is extremely trained already. Everyone alive was born with the ability for all their organs and bodily function to work autonomously.

A ton of that is probably encoded elsewhere, but no doubt the brain plays a huge part. And somehow, it's all reconstructed for each new "device".

salomonk_mur··on Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
What would be the advantage of using this instead of simple jsonb columns?
salomonk_mur··on Company Missions Are Bullshit
Some companies truly have a more altruistic mission behind them that drives their decisions.

The issue is that many companies that are truly after just money pretend they are not.

salomonk_mur··on Company Missions Are Bullshit
I've been heavily advocating for this honesty in my current organization. It's painfully obvious that money is all that matters, we can stop with the unnecessary lies.

The mission can be capitalistic. We can say our mission is to be the best in our industry for our region. No need to say we are changing X amount of lives (because we aren't).

Then you attract talent that is keen on working in an organization striving to be the best (meaning being on the leading edge of tech in a given industry). But keeping a more altruistic mission when it's not true is just a recipe for disillusionment and higher personnel rotation.

salomonk_mur··on Against the burden of knowledge
Hence, more savvy researchers would rather get private funding instead of jumping through grant hoops.
salomonk_mur··on Against the burden of knowledge
There is another way.

Reinvent the way academic careers work. No need to even have the concept of tenure. No need to get a PhD degree to be recognized as someone researching something.

Anyone should be able to publish research without being on such restrictive terms. The article's main takeaway is that the institution of academia has perverse incentives that hold back innovation. I believe the way jobs and degrees are structured are part of that.

salomonk_mur··on Moving objects precisely with sound
How?
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
Observability is a huge upside.
salomonk_mur··on VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team
TF2 is a decades old game. They don't have a responsibility to anyone to keep maintaining it.
salomonk_mur··on Parable of the Sofa
In the floor or a mat.
salomonk_mur··on Chickens in Trees
In my country, whenever a chicken was running too old, you'd just make a great sancocho out of the opportunity.
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file?
Pandas is absolutely the way. The code you gave looks ok.
salomonk_mur··on Show HN: Simple and fast resume document generation with AI
It would be great if you had the option to get the data from LinkedIn. Typing everything out is a chore when it's already typed.out somewhere else.
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: Why don't VCs just "suck it up" and pay founders a competitive salary?
If you are the Ontario Provisional Pension, you expect to make roughly the same in every category you invest in, since every higher return option comes with higher risk.

It's the cornerstone of investing. You diversify to hedge risk, not to increase total yield.

salomonk_mur··on Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
Why would the ability to modify HTML matter at all? Most users don't even know what HTML is, much less how to open the dev console.
salomonk_mur··on Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
While this sounds good on paper, it's very hard to do on practice.

You can "easily" assign KPIs to the company as a whole or to business units (and hopefully you pick the right ones, as other commenters pointed out). But the more granular you get, the harder it is.

How do you assign KPIs to an individual person? Sales sounds easy. But what about finance roles? Software developers? The cleaning staff? Office administrators? Then you need to make it really specific for each person. Should the KPIs for a Junior Frontend Dev be different to those of a Mid or Senior? What about a Data Engineer? And MLOps Engineer? DevOps? How do you measure the exact output of a Creative Designer? And UI UX designer?

Its VERY hard to do what you suggest, and the typical result is that people mend up being measured not on what really matters but only.on what could be quantified easily for a spreadsheet.

salomonk_mur··on Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
Douglas Adams had it right, as usual.
salomonk_mur··on Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
Why? It's the truth.
salomonk_mur··on Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time
I'm pretty sure you are severely understimating the amount of work that goes into quality art pieces, no matter the medium.

Also, thinking of customers as "fools" only makes sense if you believe you are selling/producing garbage. If what you make has value, then whoever buys it is no fool.

salomonk_mur··on Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
Been using pyenv daily for years now. In what way could it implode? It's worked great so far.
salomonk_mur··on Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
30 USD per month is extremely expensive for most web services in general.
salomonk_mur··on Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
Yeah, I wouldn't say the benefits were marginal at all. CPUs went from dozens of MHz in the 90's to over 4 GHz nowadays.
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Nearly everything UX related is better in iOS.

Default logo sizes are larger, settings menus are basically the same no matter the device, software and hardware are coupled and designed by the same company making everything snappier. The subtle.design difference also come into play.

I use Android myself, but it is a fact that Apple is superior in UX, which is unsurprising given that they are obsessed with UX as a company in general and the whole ecosystem is designed by themselves alone, while Android is designed and developed by many players. Even a 2 year old can use iPhones and iPads.

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