adamdonahue

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by adamdonahue 8mo ago
So a floppy disk has a disc inside?
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by adamdonahue 8mo ago
This post is pure AI alarmism.
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by adamdonahue 2y ago
This.
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by adamdonahue 3y ago
Hammer meet nail. The same issue plagues the American higher education system, which is wildly overpriced.
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by adamdonahue 5y ago
Right-o.
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by adamdonahue 5y ago
There's an opportunity here. Put the video on both YouTube and a blockchain, make it easy to find on the latter via the YouTube URI, then when one discovers a non-working link you YouTube you can pivot to the blockchain-based backup.
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by adamdonahue 6y ago
It was indeed "diddle," not "twiddle." At BAML, it's a "tweak." Beacon Platform is another implementation by the same team (but with support for the public cloud, and many more advanced features, I belie
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by adamdonahue 6y ago
Spot on.
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by adamdonahue 7y ago
But it's only debt if business decisions mean you must change it. I've seen far too many programmers crawl through legacy code that need not be replaced (it does its job) merely because it's using an outdated technology. Bu
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by adamdonahue 7y ago
It's only debt if you have to pay it back.
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by adamdonahue 9y ago
I'm having trouble grokking the results here. If I put in 50 basis points for a seed-funded company it calculates as no return until a $40M exit. I'd like to see the justification for this.
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
Hacker News is the ultimate waste of time. Correction: Hacker News _comments are the ultimate waste of time.
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
It's definitely not "zero cost." It may be a low cost, but as with any choice, there is always an opportunity cost.
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
Yeah, Altman is a hypocrite. Zero respect for this guy. "Let's ban certain types of speech unless it's from me, of course."
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
Exactly. You are someone who gets it.
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
The general trend in software development appears to be toward generalization over specialization. I'm not sure this is a good thing.
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by adamdonahue 10y ago
Reads like an advertisement for Copperfield. But in terms of advancing the art form and of classic prestidigitation, I can think of no better current practitioner than Ricky Jay.
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Recognizing magic as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure(congress.gov)
22 points by adamdonahue 10y ago|43 comments
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by adamdonahue 12y ago
To say FlightFox 'copied [the] entire site' is a bit of a reach, to put it mildly. The idea, perhaps, but I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for attribution for that.