I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the product. I built Beacon (https://anvilyard.com/beacon), to fix this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at play in an organization that affect how teams measure their progress, but I am trying to shape the tools we all use to make it easier to focus on end goals, not just features.
Readit Newsmjouni commented on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? · Posted by u/jackedEngineer
- Having it write Ansible tasks for me to automate setting up my infra.
- Generating test data for integration tests
- Create sample data for demos and marketing material.
mjouni commented on Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer? · Posted by u/gpa
During my teenager years Colobot helped me cement a lot of the core programming concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot
The syntax is very C++/Java-ish.
More than often, reading the schema is the lowest hanging fruit when you are trying to understand the domain knowledge of a startup.
This becomes even more true when the codebase is not that readable. Now this is not an enough of a reason to shy away from NOSQL data stores, but should make you pause and consider what you will be losing when you invest in a schemaless DB.
Signal and the noise by Nate Silver(Very nice read. Chapters on climate change and GDP forecasting were a bit slow, but everything else was a page turner)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420411X
Why I left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith (Good insight into the 2008 financial breakdown and a look into the day to day operations of Goldman Sachs) http://www.amazon.com/Why-Left-Goldman-Sachs-Street/dp/14555...
The Hobbit http://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-There-Again-Illustrated-Author/...
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques(Great intro into data mining) http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Concepts-Techniques-Manage...
Programming Collective Intelligence(You can play around with actual implementations of the concepts in the previous book) http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (Was really nice to see the details behind Mitnick's adventures) http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/d...
On War By Clausewitz(Really enjoyed this book.)http://www.amazon.com/War-Carl-von-Clausewitz/dp/1448676290