CartyBoston

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by CartyBoston 2y ago
I did not go to MIT but spent my entire career in Boston startups and tech. It is impossible to overstate how influential CSAIL was (and is?) in addition to it sounding here like a wonderful place.
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by CartyBoston 2y ago
It's a pretty good definition if for some reason you think Paul Graham is in a position to decide what's "performative".
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by CartyBoston 2y ago
You don't suppose people are choosing to live elsewhere for any "political" reasons do you?
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by CartyBoston 2y ago
Twitter sucks because it's commercial. Threads sucks because it's commercial. Bluesky will suck because it's commercial. If only there was a pattern we could detect. Learn about the Fediverse (not just "Mastodon"),
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by CartyBoston 2y ago
This piece teaches me almost nothing about Vadim but shows me a ton about the environment he worked in. Someone built that culture, who are they? Why did they do it? Was Vadim complicit? Why did he feel so little control? Hustle culture is
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
Well the tech industry is certainly in no position to help or pass judgement, our lack of diversity is a industy-wide disgrace.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
“The vehicle is stable near or at our intended landing site,” Steve Altemus, the chief executive of Intuitive Machines said during a NASA news conference on Friday. “We do have communications with the lander.” This is the quality of communi
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
In the startup world and in much of the tech corporate world in practice predictability is valued above all else. It's because investors, perhaps reasonably, value and therefore demand predictions. But as we know that is fundamentall
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
The first two machines I touched were a CDC 6400 and DEC 20 at Lehigh University in the 70s. Both - while built by large teams - "felt" like they were designed by a single person, complete consistency across hw, OS, tools, and app
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
It's the name of an institution, not just a person.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
The meritocracy myth is s fundamental tenet of tech and Silicon Valley culture.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
The bit about PG and Altman parting ways is interesting I wonder if anyone wants to share more :).
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Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor(washingtonpost.com)
1011 points by CartyBoston 3y ago|746 comments
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
"Middle management" gets a bad rap I think, I moved from big company middle management positions to startup founding teams and back my entire career. More senior managers in big companies typically lacked operational chops.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
Just the questions show you may be on the right path. I'd look for emotional blocks inhibiting the implementation/coding work. In my aged experience virtually all procrastination is based in emotion.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
Market share for what? Inflicting ads on people? Fortunately the W3C does not care (directly) about market share.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
"If you were to heed Timnit’s warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies. If you heed Geoff’s warnings, you sit around a table at Davos and feel scared."
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‘These are the people who could pause AI if they wanted to’(theguardian.com)
2 points by CartyBoston 3y ago|1 comments
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
It would be nice to see Paul write more about the privileges he has enjoyed.
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
somebody has a no disparage
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by CartyBoston 3y ago
He went all Oppenheimer, good for him.
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
It is remarkable that this has (had) zero comments, what an amazingly homogeneous place.
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
Hunh zero comments who'da thunk. Well, here's one: "Dr. Bender is doing difficult, important, and wonderful work."
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
and ... oddly, sinks like a stone here
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
"platform with fewer features" does not sound right, fediverse microblogging apps (there are many of them) are implemented on the rich W3C ActivityPub standard. It's not a platform, it's a huge and vibrant distributed ec
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
They can hang out at home and let Fox News tell them how scary the world is.
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
I do it elsewhere, was just hoping one of you might read the article.
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
Zero (now one) comments here is kind of conspicuous, no?
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by CartyBoston 4y ago
I agree with your assessment as of today, we can accomplish some amazing things by electing different leaders over time though. I read this as a call to activism.

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