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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
My argument is that the maintenance overhead of a finished product (or car, or building) should require much less effort than what it takes to build it - otherwise you should seek a refund from the original manufacturer(s).
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
But for every outlier that can perpetually keep unlocking new revenue streams with more features, there's probably 100 companies that burn themselves out trying to do the same and end up sold for pennies on the dollar. The key is knowi
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Without having access to the source code we can only speculate but I believe even in those days YouTube already outgrew vertical scaling and thus had to be built as a horizontally-scalable system. That is the hard part. Adding extra nodes
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> you need someone on staff who is familiar with them to fix them But that maintenance headcount is much lower than the headcount necessary to build that machine. The same should be the case in tech - once the product is built and the
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> The reason why software companies grow, is because businesses demands growth. There's only so much growth you can achieve in any vertical - the key is to realize when you've hit that limit and cut your losses. Unfortunately a
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
No worries, all good! It's difficult to convey emotions and tone online. > it was a fellow older fellow ~11 years professional experience only - still got plenty to learn, but unfortunately seen enough shit to be cynical. Started ou
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Users pay a premium to have Google's results cleaned out of spam/trash. It's effectively paying someone to cut out the newspaper ads for you and then give you the resulting ad-free paper.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
ChatGPT did not build a search engine though. They built something else (equally impressive) and then were able to use their weight to enter the web search business where most sites now have to allow them in. While it's good that b
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> "learn" which pages the users actually found useful for the given query But due to their business model I'm not sure they are ranking "usefulness" as much as you think. Useful results ultimately don't bene
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I don't think TikTok "succeeded" compared to Youtube? TikTok succeeded in popularizing short-form video, but I'd argue that's a different product. YouTube is still king for longform video. While there might be argum
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
There is a logistics problem here - even if you had enough money to pay, how would you get in touch with every single site to even let them know you're happy to pay? It's not like site operators routinely scan their error logs t
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
All these companies have the exact same business model as Google (advertising) and have the same mismatched incentives: good search results are not something they want. Google Search sucks not because Google is incapable of filtering out
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Running the bot nowadays is hard, because a lot of sites will now block you - not just by asking nicely via robots.txt, but by checking your actual source IP. Once they see it's not Google, they send you a 403.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I guess that was poor framing on my part from the beginning; I used the term deadweight meaning overhead that can be cut, not implying culpability one way or another. Which positions are culpable or victims is besides the point here (I have
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> No one said it was. Fair enough, a minority of businesses are run as public benefit corporations. But the vast majority is ran to generate profit. Bending Spoons especially. > I wouldn't want to be just another tool to "ex
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
LLMs don't need browser automation though. Multimodal models with vision input can operate a real computer with "real" user inputs over USB, where the computer itself returns a real, plausible browser fingerprint because it
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
It's performance art all the way down - it repeatedly states they are not happy about piracy and will come after anyone doing it. This isn't aimed at pirates as much as it's aimed at non-pirates, especially companies with sig
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> the head of Communications immediately said he's going to start looking for alternatives. He's gonna start looking for alternatives and then most likely find nothing that matches the featureset vs price of the current solut
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I wonder if existing management had a lot of social ties to the existing workforce so that they couldn't easily get away doing that themselves without a big hit to their reputation. Letting someone else do the dirty work allows them to
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I'm making the argument that past bubbles like ZIRP, blockchain and now AI have given many engineers the illusion that "engineering" the same product forever is a sustainable endeavor. Turns out that's not the case and w
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
You judge how valuable the solution is to your customer and then structure your pricing to maximize your profits while still being palatable to your client. Let's say your client has a problem that will bring them 1k/hr of revenue
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The new features are an order of magnitude less complexity to build than the main feature - hosting video at scale, which is complete and just requires maintenance.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
ZIRP was the era of where any tech startup was seen as a good investment no matter how stupid. Take any stupid business that doesn't work, say you do it with tech, get millions thrown at you. Then it was blockchain - same story, conv
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> companies took on debt to fund bloated engineering teams because no one noticed the engineering was done ZIRP allowed a lot of "businesses" to exist that wouldn't in a conventional, competitive capitalistic environment.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> Software is never "finished" Software may never be finished (in your opinion) but the budget of any customer is finite. If you keep reinvesting your revenue forever into "engineering" the product there's goin
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The hard part is to get the client on the phone. Once you have them on the phone, you can not only better understand their problem but also demonstrate your skill and credibility in a way no resume or branding could. At that point it's
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Hourly rates are inherently risky for clients - you're asking them to part with money with no guaranteed outcome, so there's a natural ceiling where the financial risk becomes untenable regardless of your expertise and reputation.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Won't be giving exact figures but that's my business model as well - I charge a premium because my job for clients is to make myself obsolete. If I "deliver" something that needs my constant presence then I haven't
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I am surprised so many people don't understand the business model of Bending Spoons or are bewildered by it. In conventional infrastructure and product development you need engineering staff to build the product; once the product is bu
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The TPM needs a way to authenticate your Java application, since the TPM otherwise does not know whether it's actually talking to your application or something pretending to be it. This means you generally need an authenticated boot

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