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Carlos Villela
Personal blog · lixo.orgprogrammingai
Carlos Villela's personal blog at lixo.org covers programming and ai. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Networks Are Smart at the Edges”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts linked here cover a story about a toothpaste factory shipping empty boxes, used as an analogy for production-line timing, and a Portuguese translation of a post on privacy and police access to data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Carlos Villela is an engineering manager, technical lead, and software developer focused on practical applications of large language models.
Most-linked posts?
- Networks Are Smart at the Edges4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-01-02
- JavaScript: Put everything in a namespace2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-10-03
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this story: http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/07/21/networks-are-smart-a... A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming out o…
Comment linking /archives/2008/07/21/networks-are-smart-at-the-edges/
on “How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper”Submitted Networks Are Smart at the Edges as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThat article includes a link to an official Portuguese translation, which is still available at http://lixo.org/blog/2013/08/05/privacidade-protege-pessoas-...
Comment linking /blog/2013/08/05/privacidade-protege-pessoas-incomodas
on “Brazil arrests Facebook executive in row over police access to data”Submitted A Look at Rails’ Complexity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Networks Are Smart at the Edges (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Networks Are Smart at the Edges as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript: Put everything in a namespace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript: Put everything in a namespace as a story · 1 points
HN discussion