Swizec

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by Swizec 6mo ago
> Profit is the money showing your business is sustainable. Notice I said you should have nominal profits. > Ah yes. Shareholders like money. And not, you know, basic accounting like "we need money to actually pay salaries, pay f
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> Wheras only profit should matter Profit is money you couldn’t figure out how to spend. During growth, you want positive operating margins with nominal profits. When the company/market matures, you want pure profits because shareho
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> I 'm currently of the opinion that humans should be laser focused on the data model yes. good programmers talk about data structures, bad programmers talk about code
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> The people who typically have the most negative things to say about AI fall into camp #2 where AI is automating a large part of what they considered their art while enabling people in group #1 to iterate on their product faster. I am i
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> That's it. He's a colleague. Not a mentor You're missing a very important aspect of how managers impact your career: Opportunities. The manager's job is to find you impactful work that a) gets you promoted and b) ch
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> under the Predictive Processing model there is a comprehensive explanation of human cognition as hierarchical predictors It’s plausible! But keep in mind humans have been explaining ourselves in terms of the current most advanced techn
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> I'm not convinced that "actual logic and thought" aren't just about inferring what comes next statistically based on experience. Often they are the exact opposite. Entire fields of math and science talk about this.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Society is a compact between the dead, the living and the yet to be born. Having a piece of someone’s deepest thoughts is a treasure for future generations If you want to be remembered, live a life worth remembering.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> At some point, I think its okay to just use account age instead of even asking Bet you there’s already a thriving grey market for old accounts with organic history.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it with more things You fill a jar with sand and there is no sp
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by Swizec 7mo ago
Great now you have a strategy (one less MBA to hire). You still need to do the strategy. The doing is where most of the time goes. Strategy docs are cheap, my intern can give you 5 of those by tomorrow.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
It wasn’t thanks for highlighting. Can be hard to tell online because there’s a lot of people genuinely suggesting everyone should build their own software on the fly
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Well, now it'll take them 5 minutes to rewrite their code to work around your change You misunderstand. It will take them 2 years to retrain 5000 people on the new process across hundreds of locations. In some fields, whole new co
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> including totally trashing the old implementation and creating an entirely new one from scratch that matches all the requirements Let me guess, you've never worked in a real production environment? When your software supports 8, 9
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> I will die on this hill: tech firms that mandated 5 days in the office was about soft layoffs, rather than a principled stance on individual performance under WFH “True work only happens in person with human collaboration! Everyone mus
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Does it? Reverting a bad deploy is not only about running the previous version. It does. We’ve tried. No it’s not as easy as running the previous version. I have written about this: https://swizec.com/blog/why-soft
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Expect to pay me for the availability outside work hours. We pay people enough to care about the software they ship. Don’t want to be called outside of work hours? Make sure your code works. Simple.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> You also need to build a team that you can trust to write the code you agreed you'd write I tell every hire new and old “Hey do your thing, we trust you. Btw we have your phone number. Thanks” Works like a charm. People even go ou
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> New features and better UX is more useful for the users of many systems than fixing tail frequency bugs If nobody notices a bug, does it matter? There's whole classes of technically bugs that simply never happen under the real wor
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn. > $86 dollars. > Don't know if I'll ever go to a conventional movie theater again. We almost never go to regular theaters anymore. IMAX feels worth it for something like F1 or Top Gun whe
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by Swizec 7mo ago
Because the operator told the computer not to do something so the computer decided to do it. This is a huge security flaw in these newfangled AI-driven systems. Imagine if this was a "launch nukes" agent instead of a "write c
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment The biggest risk in software development is building the wrong thing
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by Swizec 7mo ago
You have a lot more flexibility around those downswings at 40 than you do at 80. For example you could retire but continue doing work that brings you joy and also happens to make money. A lot of people in this situation start lifestyle busi
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> Apparently his FIRE number is $40M > it can reflect a level of anxiety about the cost of living I think a lot of people (especially young) just haven't done the actual math. Or have lifestyle desires beyond basic not-working. Y
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by Swizec 7mo ago
I’m not saying it’s a curse, I’m saying it’s a webapp. Because the person I’m replying to used it as an example of something you can only build as a native app.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> In the meanwhile VSCode has become the most used editor by developers and it's not even close Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t VSCode an Electron app? ie a webapp shipped together with a stripped down browser I know that GitHub C
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." If you get the architecture wrong, everyone complains. If you get it right, nobody notices it's there.
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by Swizec 7mo ago
Good branding is recognizable without the logo, especially to the target audience. For HN, macs are a good example. You can remove all the apples and we’ll recognize the laptop. My Triumph motorcycle has a similar property. You could remove
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by Swizec 7mo ago
> If an org wants to fix the incentive, I think the question to ask in reviews isn’t “how big was the thing you built,” it’s “did you make the system easier to change next quarter.” This has been my personal mission and motivation to go
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by Swizec 7mo ago
I agree. What counts as a positive signal for "scope" really very much depends what you're hiring for. When looking for a manager type, people under management are a decent proxy. When looking for the world's greatest po

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