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Is there any reason to believe the ride sharing companies won't reorganize their drivers using a similar model to what Amazon uses for their delivery drivers: contract to external …

Clubhouse has been a good balance of structure and simplicity. They have a good API for automation too. https://clubhouse.io

Moving Day is an example of something I thought was normal but only realized was a local custom when I moved to another country. Frozen thinly-sliced fondue meat (beef, pork, turke…

I have used ASCET, another model-based design tool. It exports the models as XML and has a separate executable that diffs the XML and renders the diagram with red outlines around t…

"Located or willing to relocate" is in Preferences, but yeah we should make it clearer in the listing that it's a nice to have.

Particle | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Front-end Engineer | San Francisco, Minneapolis or worldwide REMOTE | www.particle.io Particle is the largest developer community in the…

Also try "what the hat". Heard it from my 5 y.o. son.

8/40 I heard the story of the Exeter research on NPR while driving back from the airport at night last year at it floored me! I never realized that other people could actually pict…

Google Photos is still missing a lot of functionality of Picasa. For year I've been uploading pictures to an album named with the current year. My parents and in-laws can check the…

Did you end up changing your routine or did you stick to it? I started stronglifts 5x5 a few months ago and the weights are heavy enough now that I'm failing sets in most exercises…

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality instructed Flint residents to flush their tap for 2 minutes before sampling the water which under-represented the amount of lead in…

The "closed by default" attitude drove me nuts. Teams develop tools to improve their work and refuse to share the source code, even internally, even when there is a business reason…

All good points. The CPU, Flash and RAM share the silicon die with lots of specialized peripherals like CAN controllers and hardware timer units. There's a lot more on the chip tha…

Without going into specifics, there was a static analysis tool that was part of the toolchain that caught multiple writes in different modules or in tasks of different priorities. …

You're welcome. There is only one OS task for each rate (10ms, 100ms, etc). The order of the function calls in each task is determined at compile time while respecting constraints …

Background: I used to be an automotive software engineer. I speak for myself only here. Whenever the topic of automotive software comes up on HN there are comments alongs the lines…

VW does not own most of the software running in their cars. Most software is IP of their many suppliers. Those suppliers sell the same software to many car manufacturers so to say …