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xae342 commented on Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjx... · Posted by u/pseudolus
ForHackernews · 7 years ago
So more like a software "engineer" ?
xae342 · 7 years ago
Sort of, but if the software engineer had never had access to CS material and worked in a company where practices were based in CS so they naturally picked it up. These are villagers that build small homes without machinery and very basic tools, and haven’t learned from experts.
xae342 commented on Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjx... · Posted by u/pseudolus
SlowRobotAhead · 7 years ago
If there is one thing spending time in SE Asia has taught me is that the value of human life is just different in some places.

Good or bad, from scooters to skyscrapers. It’s just different.

xae342 · 7 years ago
Yes life is cheap there, people get sick, injured and die for preventable reasons all the time. Life expectancy is 10 - 15 years less than in developed countries as a result. The west I think mixes up politics with their world view which makes them think everything is equal somehow, it’s then surprising when they see such foolishness that leads to such suffering first hand.
xae342 commented on Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjx... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rytor718 · 7 years ago
Can you explain how this is not "calculated engineering by engineers"? My impression from the video is that these are architects and engineers building these.
xae342 · 7 years ago
It’s Indonesia, engineer doesn’t really mean what we think in the west. It’s more that someone is passionate about something, not that they have a civil engineering degree and are building to some code. There are engineers like we’d think in Indonesia of course, but they’re unlikely to work on a western lady’s pet project and are going to be a lot more expensive.
xae342 commented on Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjx... · Posted by u/pseudolus
SlowRobotAhead · 7 years ago
In regards to very tall bamboo scaffolding...

A related side topic here might include near famous Indonesian disregard for safety - or at least willingness to overlook it. One of the reasons I was told that by Indonesian workers in Malaysia, whom there are many of. They’re willing to work cheaper and do more dangerous jobs.

KL in particular has a ton of skyscraper work being done by Indonesians and I saw first hand the lack of what i would consider appropriate safety.

xae342 · 7 years ago
I’ve been told by Indonesians their style is to dive head first into the water, then check for rocks. Yes safety is a big issue there and causes a huge amount of needless suffering.
xae342 commented on Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p06sjx... · Posted by u/pseudolus
xae342 · 7 years ago
They look nice, but I can’t help question how safe they really are, they’re more like giant baskets woven together by artists as opposed to calcuated engineering by engineers.
xae342 commented on Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?    · Posted by u/trulykp
hkronick · 7 years ago
I am the CEO of a bootstrapped SaaS business approaching $1mm ARR.

I still do all of the customer/technical support. To be honest, it is a bit overwhelming and starting to take away from other tasks so I likely won't do 100% of it for much longer. However, it has really helped us hone in on our customer needs & sell them on new features. I don't regret it one bit!

p.s. we are searching for a CTO to help us build out a team (large equity stake + modest salary). Email me hank (at) ordermetrics (dot) io if interested.

xae342 · 7 years ago
This was a pain for me too, despite having nearly 60 employees they were all new to the problem domain which left me and my co-founder still wearing way too many hats.

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xae342 commented on Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform   techcrunch.com/2018/11/06... · Posted by u/Sequenza
deweller · 7 years ago
In my experience, there is a tradeoff between high re-usability and performance.

Building modules that can interact with any one of hundreds of other modules usually requires a fair amount of adapter code. This code comes with a performance penalty.

Maybe their market is ok with lesser performance. But I am highly skeptical that apps built this way will ever compete with apps built for a single, specific purpose.

I do hope they can advance the state of the art in some way though, because software development still feels way more tedious to me than it should be.

xae342 · 7 years ago
We need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.
xae342 commented on What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle   bloombergquint.com/view/w... · Posted by u/herrkanin
xae342 · 7 years ago
This issue isn’t about economics of course, but what I don’t quite understand is why the right feels like it’s an injustice to change the playing field, like it’s cutting in line, or will put the laws of nature into chaos if someone gets more than their fair share for the work they did. I really don’t follow...

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