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by akurilin 8mo ago
Love it, statico. Brought me back to the early days of the Web when people were experimenting with new wacky ideas.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
So hard to say in abstract without knowing more. I always wonder if this is something you can fix through process and habits, or if this is something you just need to feel intensely first, and only then will the right behaviors will emerge.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
The paragraph was supposed to be descriptive of what one sees in the field, not prescriptive of what managers should do. I can see that it doesn't obviously read that way. Will edit, thank you for the feedback.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Hey Tikhon! The Haskell thing was such a great way to filter for interesting frontier people back in the day, as we both experienced. That was a contrarian bet at the time, but it paid off handsomely for at least a few of us. The number of
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by akurilin 9mo ago
I've often heard the idea that you can always teach someone how to code, but you can't teach them to want to be great at it. At the same time, I think there's a limit to how great someone can get even with a lot of experience
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by akurilin 9mo ago
It's perhaps a little reminiscent of stock picking. Everybody wants the best deal they can get away with, everybody wants to get lucky, occasionally you find alpha with "one weird trick", but it turns out you just got lucky,
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by akurilin 9mo ago
It's interesting that most of us have that story of someone who didn't pattern-match and yet ended up being absolutely stellar. Makes you wonder just how much latent talent is out there not being given the chance for one reason or
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Great point, definitely a possibility. I think I've gotten lucky in the past here where either the process caught that kind of abnormality early in the funnel, or these folks just happened to actually be super early in their careers an
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Those are fair points. The bit of nuance I would add here is that: 1. Having FAANG-level budgets to hire vs three packs of ramen and a spool of string at the average startup makes it so that you have to learn how to spelunk through less obv
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Totally fair, thanks for pointing that out. I would extend that even further, I'm a fan of the idea that you should thoroughly vet the founders for excellence if you want to maximize your chances of ending up at a great startup. Not ju
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by akurilin 9mo ago
I would love to learn if many of these ideas are applicable in the S&P500 world, and if not, why that is the case. A little outside of my first-hand experience for me to have an opinion there.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Never noticed that, thanks for pointing it out. Where are you seeing this?
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Thank you! I wanted to mention toasted coconut flake snacks as well, but the sentence was long enough already. If your company has those in the kitchenette, you're definitely well-capitalized. And yeah, high agency is really trendy at
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What “The Best” Looks Like(kuril.in)
101 points by akurilin 9mo ago|58 comments
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Thoughts on finding the hidden gems in early-stage startup hiring.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
You make a good point. I imagine that they will eventually add Perforce-style versioning to the product and this issue will be solved.
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by akurilin 9mo ago
I've had a similar experience. My sense is that there's no way this isn't how eventually most of knowledge work at the computer is going to work. Not necessarily through a terminal interface, I expect UIs to evolve quite a bi
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by akurilin 9mo ago
Nice. I love that the community as a whole is exploring all these different methods of containing undesirable side effects from using coding agents. This seems to lean towards the extra safety side of the spectrum, which definitely has a pl
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by akurilin 1y ago
I recently tried using Qwen VL or Moondream to see if off-the-shelf they would be able to accurately detect most of the interesting UI elements on the screen, either in the browser or your average desktop app. It was a somewhat naive attemp
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Why Game Devs Don't Merge Files(kuril.in)
7 points by akurilin 1y ago|1 comments
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by akurilin 1y ago
Sharing this one as a corollary to the "The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916783 - I didn't see any mentions of exclusive locks in the post, an often valuab
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by akurilin 4y ago
Awesome, thanks for adding that extra color!
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by akurilin 4y ago
Impressive. Any chance there will be an API version of this product for real-time apps?
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by akurilin 7y ago
I actually interned at EA Mythic in summer 2007 and remember everybody out there being talented, obsessed with games (I miss those lunch chats, people would work on games and talk about games when not working on games) and great to work wit
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by akurilin 7y ago
This is actually what Sweetwater does too when it comes to music gear. I've gotten a few duds from Amazon in the past, but smaller, focused online stores like Sweetwater will inspect your gear for you before shipping it out to you, wil
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by akurilin 7y ago
I've gotten quotes through a few of these sites in the past, and I was getting at best 50-70% of the value I would have gotten by selling in person through CL. I imagine it's in part because you ship it over to them, they have to
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by akurilin 7y ago
Startup idea: create a high quality camera gear buying and selling experience for the web, with many protections and conveniences built in. Selling your gear on Craigslist and meeting with random strangers at McDonald's and Starbucks i
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by akurilin 7y ago
Donkey Kong Country would be a great addition for the next batch of these.
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by akurilin 7y ago
Also Youtube, Honey, Bird, Headspace, SpaceX. Nowhere as dense as the Bay, but there are a bunch of success stories.
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by akurilin 7y ago
Same with the area around Golden Gate Park in SF, being close to so much well-maintained and curated nature is delightful. The place is a real treasure.

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