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AKifer commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) · Posted by u/whoishiring

AKifer · 2 months ago

Location: GMT+3

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: tbd

Technologies: Ruby, Rails/RoR

Résumé/Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfrancky/

Email: andyu.kifer@gmail.com

If you are looking for a solid Full-stack founding engineer to bring a SaaS/Platform project to the real world beyond the MVP, I do the 0 to 1 work. I can work solo collaborating with founders and product/marketing people, or within a team of highly effective mission-driven engineers.

AKifer commented on M3O – An open source AWS alternative github.com/m3o/m3o... · Posted by u/decrypt

parhamn · 4 years ago

While "AWS Alternative" sets the bar really high, I've always thought that it'd be cool to have a coreutils for web stuff.

Things like weather, geo-ip, geocoding, translation, currency, basic signup forms, etc could well be an all-in-one single payment type thing.

It seems like this does a lot of that and I would focus branding around that part specifically. Running an s3-like and DB is also a much harder problem that there are good solutions for!

Will be giving it a try!

AKifer · 4 years ago

This is apparently the trend right now, and these utilities are already there. What's still hard to do is the "glue" that connects the infrastructure/scaling side with the building blocks: that's "still" developers/devops work. Maybe a vertical approach will likely work in practice: like having a platform that allows idea to app in 1 week or less with minimal human intervention (authentication/signup, authorization/permissions/credentials, marketing automation and analytics, billing, email collect, static pages templates, CRM, media storage and delivery, infrastructure and scaling) in a specific domain, let's say for example in the edtech space.

AKifer commented on Cryptocurrency system using body activity data patentscope.wipo.int/sear... · Posted by u/borjamoya

simias · 6 years ago

I don't understand what makes this a "cryptocurrency" instead of just any kind of currency token. I know that it's mostly a buzzword these days but at the very least I'd expect cryptocurrencies to involve some kind of cryptographic proof for transactions.

Here as far as I can tell it's just some centralized system monitoring user/guinea pig activity and issuing some token currency based on an unspecified algorithm. I mean isn't that effectively equivalent to store cards that reward you with store credit when you purchase certain products? Or videogame editors who give coupons to elected Steam users based on their previous purchases? Or credit card rewards?

> [...]verifying, by a cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user, if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system; and awarding, by the cryptocurrency system, cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.

I can't continue this comment because the sound of the bullshit alarm blaring in the background is starting to get deafening. Excuse me, I meant cryptobullshit cryptoalarm cryptoblaring.

There have been many attempts at making a useful proof of work for cryptocurrency systems, the problem is that it's not enough for the proof to require work, it also needs to be trivially and "objectively" verifiable by any user of the system and it needs to reference the transaction data somehow to avoid reusing old proofs. If you get rid of these constraints I don't understand how you can claim that it's a cryptocurrency system or even that there is any novel aspect to it.

AKifer · 6 years ago

But this might find a fertile ground at those proponents of an universal basic income. So anyone doing exercise "good" for his/her health will be rewarded, perhaps the intrinsic value here is the saved indirect cost of healthcare.

AKifer commented on US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies latimes.com/politics/stor... · Posted by u/notRobot

AKifer · 6 years ago

Just yesterday, reading these lines in Atlas Shrugged: ... said Scudder. "When the masses are destitute and yet there are good available, its idiotic to expect people to be stopped by some scrap of paper called a property deed. property rights are a superstition. One holds property only by the courtesy of those who do not seize it. The people can seize it at any moment. If they can, why shouldn't they ?" "They should" said Claude Slagenhop. "They need it. Need is the only consideration. If people are in need, we've got to seize things first and talk about it afterwards."

And that was written 2/3 a century ago.

AKifer commented on Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller openculture.com/2012/08/i... · Posted by u/oblib

carapace · 7 years ago

Bucky Fuller. The only person in history to have a form of carbon named after him†.

He calculated (he was an engineer) that, if we applied our tech and resources efficiently, we could provide for everyone "without disadvantaging anyone."

> Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

AKifer · 7 years ago

The soviets also thought the same, unfortunatelly a system with bad actors cannot be solved from within. Especially when the "bad" actors controls means of production and distribution, and have incentives to continue acting such and in return creating incentives for "good" actors to imitate the "bad" behaviours. Anyway, defining what's good and what's bad when you are an actor within a system is a very subjective exercice, a seemingly "good" actor will turn "bad" overnight given the right incentive and vice versa. The real question is determining who distributes the incentives, and who should. And for all the systems in this world, it spans from random to being concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs or a single dictator.

AKifer commented on A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) biologicperformance.com/s... · Posted by u/hairytrog

phillc73 · 7 years ago

After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/

AKifer · 7 years ago

That same old war, even today.

AKifer commented on A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) biologicperformance.com/s... · Posted by u/hairytrog

AKifer · 7 years ago

Did anyone try introduce an animal in such a closed system, insects for instance. Does it self sustain ?

AKifer commented on Boeing 737: Australia joins Singapore in barring Max planes bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia... · Posted by u/gadders

AKifer · 7 years ago

Just like for VW, all this story will end up by top Boeing management saying "It's the fault of [sofware] engineers".

AKifer commented on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ nytimes.com/2019/01/28/te... · Posted by u/ot

AKifer · 7 years ago

Can some top notch hardware be made in USA ? For sure. Did someone made a top notch hardware, even some prototypes ? Please tell us who. Perhaps the real issue is that nobody is excited to make hardware anymore in the US as westerners expect to retain ownership of the working capital in the Chinese industry, which is getting less and less relevant when China is getting richer and richer. The western world needs a mental leap as Tesla did with the car industry if it wants to keep up with China in this ground.

AKifer commented on C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us... · Posted by u/longerthoughts

AKifer · 7 years ago

Given the link between the US and the KSA, from a pure analyst view, if the CIA is giving away conclusion like that publicly, it's highly probable that something is brewing and under preparation somewhere.