BillyTheKing

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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
either that or Sam didn't tell Adam D'Angelo that they were launching a competing product in exactly the same space that poe.ai had launched one. For some context, poe had launched something similar to those custom GPTs with creat
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
He basically re-wrote the whole software though.. which is not -2k lines of code, but + probably a few hundred a week if not more
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
yes, and also developers grow over time - not every company starts with 20 years of experience seasoned developers. Lots of start-ups start with developers that have 2-3 years of experience. Once they reach the state of a rewrite those deve
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
It depends a little, sometimes companies (especially start-ups) pivot quite substantially - With a Fintech that I've worked with from the beginning (which went through ups and downs, but ultimately ended up quite successful) we started
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
yea one of the things I've learned at Fintechs - all that Cobol code banks run on.. yes it's from the past and hard to maintain but it contains quite a bit of invaluable knowledge that you're bound to relearn if you rebuild..
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
have you heard of rewind.ai? it sounds like it might be a possible solution for what you're looking for (not affiliated with it though, and also don't have it on my Mac, so not sure how well it works in reality)
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
That's not too bad - they only have to bring that down to 4-7 years to get in sync with their valuation!
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
agree, imo this is a big somewhat underrated advantage - gpts summarising capabilities seem quite a bit more impressive to me than its generative ability
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
There's a significant issue in that innovation isn't always at the forefront in Europe. The primary focus seems to be maintaining the status quo, particularly safeguarding pensions. Tbh this lack of innovative thinking is quickly
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
Estimates are always portrayed as 'business reality' vs. 'software engineering preferences' - in my experience using estimates many times actually impedes businesses from measuring other metrics that are just as valuable
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
And the advances in generative AI are a pre-requisite for it.. just imagine people gesturing around in the air trying to create powerpoint presentations using VR/AR glasses - that just doesn't make any sense, no-one will interact
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I think one key issue here is that Scrum without Extreme Programming and rigorous iteration can become a shallow process. Often, products that don't undergo much iteration are broken into arbitrary two-week windows under the guise of i
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
If binance users themselves hold 30% USDT on average it doesn't matter for Binance whether it's pegged or not (I mean, obviously it will still matter somewhat), since any de-peg event will also devalue any USDT user-balances
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
alright fair enough - reading it in detail now as well - this doesn't look like 'uncontrolled growth' and more like criminal intend
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
I mean.. yes - but have you ever worked in a 2-year old start-up/Fintech? Those companies aren't even remotely ready structurally for the traffic and volumes that they're handling (successful ones that is). I don't think
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
or in XP fashion you could assign it to Steve and non-Steve to work on it as a pair?
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
this assumes that there’s a buyer of software, and that the buyer decides which software to build. In those cases estimates might make sense But in many other instances (product/engineering led companies, start-ups) software isn’t bui
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
from gpt4 write a critical hackernews thread response (not long, maybe like 100 words) for a thread with the following headline Microsoft Research: GPT-4 exhibits “sparks of general intelligence” While it's certainly intriguing to hear
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
Those comments against pair-programming, or testing, or PR reviews etc. just make me wonder about the industry the author is in. I used to think similarly, but after working in and on Fintechs for a while I just totally disagree. Small bugs
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
Nick Leeson was prosecuted in Singapore though, very difficult to compare to that to the US. There's a good chance Nick Leeson would've gotten a harsher sentence was he charged by the Southern District of NY..
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted, but that's exactly the biggest real-world use-case for stable-coins. They're a way for people to buy USD and sell their own deflating currency
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
you could also skip f) by pair-program in a) and b), and then have the CI decide whether or not the code is deployable and then automatically merge into master or another pre-production branch
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
Germany did not cut its gas-supply - Russia cut the gas-supply to Germany. Europe did not sanction Russian gas (they sanctioned Russian oil among other things). So this was not really German policy, it's Russian policy to cut gas-suppl
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by BillyTheKing 4y ago
For larger 'live' production changes I've now started to rely on generative programming. I've got one script in some 'normal' programming language like javascript, or python, which in turn generates a script th
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
the whole blog-post seems a little constructed tbh - If I look at await doSomething(param) await doSomethingElse(param) the very first thing that comes to mind is that this can be very, very easily optimised by just doing await Promise.all(
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
I think what's usually being overlooked by 'people in the West' is how crypto-currencies are being used by individuals in emerging markets to evade domestic currency controls. I've recently had the chance to get a glimps
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
it's not really a video about increase of deaths and heart-attacks - it's just a video that compiles all sorts of sport-related deaths and heart-attacks, we do not actually know if there's an increase or not, since no data fr
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
I feel like article like this one are commonly used by the anti-vaccine community. They point to those ominous, rising death numbers and understand them as evidence for the dangers of mRNA vaccines. It would therefore (among other reasons)
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
I just find it fascinating that a country like Germany with a very well developed health-care infrastructure and a comparatively well protected (vaccinated) population is seemingly facing larger pressure on its health-care system than the U
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by BillyTheKing 5y ago
Currently this is the only dead-virus vaccine that is being tested in Europe. Since this is a more traditional vaccine I hope that it could pursue a few more people to get vaccinated who might be hesitant to try out newer mRNA- or vector-ba

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