andrekandre

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by andrekandre 2mo ago
if its like anything i've experienced in multiple places, they are just implementing scrum and calling it a day. meanwhile the business runs on quarterly projects that have to be done by a certain marketing date, so its usually scrum +
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> fired half of them always a winning strategy...
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
isnt it how marketing is done these days? people/companies buy views, clicks, articles, posts on social media saying how great something/someone is or how its changed their life etc etc. it really becomes hard to separate the whea
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
its definitely the playbook: screw up the govt then make the point that cant do anything right
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
true, though for me it’s an ipad mini, just small enough to fit on my pocket but big enough to read a whole page of code (and it only goes for a few hundred bucks vs thousands)
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Demon's souls prototype presentation for gameshare iv [video](youtube.com)
2 points by andrekandre 2mo ago|1 comments
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
A newly discovered presentation of the Demon's Souls prototype version and planning documents showing first-person gameplay as well as many other small differences from the final product.
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> Any recipe R that uses LOOKUP automatically works with all the data structures that LOOKUP works with, even though R itself may be a specific recipe for a specific data structure of its own. this seems similar to protocol exten
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
i wonder if people who use llm's for business critical documentation would have the same opinion, and if so why?
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
its almost as if we over-financialized our economy...
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> Bubbles are not good. They are harmful. bubbles are bad for society too; families get thrown out on the street, big players/individuals buy all the cheap/discounted assets furthering economy divisions, and depending o
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> gained something as high as 20% gains all other things being held constant, i suppose it should be as easy as +20% profit rate? tho im not an executive so what do i know...
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
it may just be actually incredible what they are doing. on the other hand it could also be absolutely insane...
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> “hey, do you REALLY want me to use this local privilege escalation bug so I can download your Google Drive file?” yes, this exactly but, there is a fatigue that sets in and i've experienced it myself. - is it ok to run scr
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> What seems like a manageable margin suddenly starts growing and destroying everything probably where the 1 trillion+ dollar valuations are coming from.... lots of thick saas margins they can siphon/skim from the whole indu
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> And that is how almost every successful company that uses AWS eventually ends up paying six-figures or more annually. the best thing to do is avoid the first cigarette (but everyone at the office smokes, and if you want a promo
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> The ROI is besides the point. It's about breaking the spirit of engineering labor with irrational decisions made outside of their control. it may be where you are at (not disagreeing at all with your experience), but where
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
i've seen this kind of thing nearly first hand and have similar sentiments... btw, my manager in that conversation later said "it doesn't matter, all code will be done by ai, so we better get on board"; i think there is
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> just because the UI frameworks are too hard/unfamiliar i'm not sure if thats the biggest issue. working at a few large companies that had to support multiple platforms, the management was always looking for ways to de
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> You can't rely solely on technology to solve problems rooted in human nature. i just reply to highlight this; so many people don't get this...
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> it mostly turned into animated brochures instead just my crazy opinion but it was inevitable unless there was some law to prevent commercialization (in the ad sense) of the internet (keep it a public good for individuals only)
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
your argument is basically: the industry is moving to it so we should get on board or be left behind it would be more convincing if you had concrete examples of technical merit and quality/speed improvements that worked for you or your
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
this matches my experience at $work with others as well... when i brought this up with my manager they just said "you need to engineer a better harness" and "aren't you cultivating your agents.md file? thats probably you
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> They update the docs every year. it doesn't help that docs are utter garbage... the fact everything is slopped into a video is so annoying
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> If Apple had embraced reactive programming 15 years ago, SwiftUI would be UIKit's new layout system, not a whole new API. apple/obj-c had bindings and automatic ui updates more than 20 years ago in appkit; apple could
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
this is basically the settings app in mac os
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
i love swift, but i can't help but feel the same... after all this time we still can't get good error messages or fast incremental compilation; it just feels like we are boiling the ocean to get largely the same features but handl
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> accelerator cards that you're able to purchase and plug into via usb-c that are able to achieve thousands of tok/s how do you update that baked-in model for things that have happened in the last say 2 months? if i&#x2
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
well, that is a problem with automation in general i think; if you go too far instead of a simple process a complicated processes get encoded in the automation and if it hits an edge case or breaks for whatever reason the babysitting kills
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by andrekandre 2mo ago
> Well, it wouldn't work for politicians that pick decisions based on what end benfit they get. Would work fine for people. Would need actually honest media tho one idea i have toyed with: what if politicians could easily be

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