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by arnvald 9mo ago
The difference is that jQuery was replaced by other libraries, while Tailwind grows in popularity, but due to AI its creator doesn’t benefit from this popularity as much as before
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by arnvald 9mo ago
I don’t think the language itself is Japanese centric. In the past the discussions among the language development often happened in Japanese, but I don’t think it’s the case anymore (though I don’t follow it closely) since there are a lot o
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by arnvald 9mo ago
A lot of bootcamps taught Ruby and Rails in the mid-2010s, so it hasn’t been stagnant for 15 years, maybe since 2017-2018. Then Python (with DS and ML domains exploding) and JS/TS (with Node and React) left Ruby far behind.
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by arnvald 9mo ago
You can’t have it all at once. Hopefully one day there’s an alternative OS that’s not owned by and American company, but that shouldn’t stop us from building other things in the meantime
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by arnvald 10mo ago
Years ago I wrote article on this topic: https://www.notonlycode.org/why-python-has-won/ In short (all below is my opinion): it was popular in academia and got some corporate adoption, so when ML exploded in popularity
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by arnvald 10mo ago
I had a Roomba+Braava Jet for a few years and I constantly had some issues with both devices, but the worst part was that in theory they should be working well together. There's this function "linked cleaning" where Braava mo
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by arnvald 11mo ago
I’m old enough to remember when GitHub was on main page due to a cool feature they added, now they just end up here when it stops working
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by arnvald 1y ago
This is actually an interesting space, and I think there's a room for such products. Large companies struggle a lot with their knowledge bases, and discoverability is part of the problem (especially when using multiple tools: Confluenc
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by arnvald 1y ago
Unfortunately there's simply no way this is going to happen: * advertising is profitable for advertisers — they buy ad slots because it brings revenue * advertising is profitable for publishers — some of the biggest companies in the wo
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by arnvald 1y ago
Thanks for recommendation, I'll give it a try
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by arnvald 1y ago
I really appreciate that there's a company trying to reimagine browsers. Arc was an interesting idea, I used it for a few months, but in the end I switched back to Firefox. I haven't tried Dia yet, and now I'm not sure if I s
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by arnvald 1y ago
This is why small companies still stand a chance. They can build something that would fail the corpo test of metrics and surveys.
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by arnvald 1y ago
Talk to some developers with 3-5yoe, they do see Microsoft as a cool company. For them it’s a company that created TypeScript, supports open source, runs NPM, created VSCode etc. None of them thinks of Internet Explorer, Zune, or anti compe
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by arnvald 1y ago
Not to defend Mozilla (they have lots of issues), but it feels they're in an impossible position: * their revenue comes mostly from Google, they need to diversify * but nobody will pay for a browser, so they need to offer other service
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by arnvald 2y ago
I think the article suggests both - you need to consistently produce high quality output to get a chance at success. Low quality stuff has no chance to succeed (or very low), while high quality work has some, though low, chance.
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by arnvald 2y ago
IMO it's the other way around – because OpenAI doesn't focus on any particular market, they'll be launching stuff that later will be easily reproduced by market leaders that have not only know-how, but they have the whole pla
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by arnvald 2y ago
Does it mean they didn’t want to invest more in OpenAI as they’re struggling to see a positive return? Or OpenAI tries to become more independent? Either way it looks like their relationship is pretty tense right now
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by arnvald 2y ago
Interestingly with chat groups that people can sign up, IMs like Telegram fill that one-to-many short-form niche
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by arnvald 2y ago
To me the worst part is not even the feed (I can use “following” tab) but the replies. I often used to look at single threads to see replies there. Since they started prioritizing replies from premium users it turned into cesspool and I eve
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by arnvald 2y ago
If I remember correctly, Dropbox was one of the first big tech companies to publish its career framework openly, a lot of organizations (especially smaller ones) based their careers on the Dropbox’s one
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by arnvald 2y ago
I tried that with Cody (from Sourcegraph) using probably o1 model and I struggled. I had a long function with a number of conditions and early returns. At first Cody generated a single test case, then I asked if to consider all possible sce
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by arnvald 2y ago
Which one? Is it Harris?
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by arnvald 2y ago
I should have said “false” rather than “anti-intellectual”. I know the role of the host is not to be a fact-checker, but when a guest makes a false claim and then they speak about it without questioning it makes it sound like both people be
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by arnvald 2y ago
> I kept asking young people about the public intellectual landscape in China - who are their equivalents of Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and Sam Harris? The sense I got is that this kind of popular intellectual ecosystem ju
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by arnvald 2y ago
I’ve been thinking about it and if there had to be a common rule for all these cases, I would say “yes”. However, if it was possible, I would set a threshold maybe based on an annual revenue. Let’s say I run a small board game store, where
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by arnvald 2y ago
Discovery matters. Google doesn’t decide which websites you visit, but how often do you go to the 2nd page of search results? Supermarkets don’t decide what you buy, but there is a reason why everyone wants their product in middle shelf and
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by arnvald 2y ago
The way I understand it is that the 14th song is not a banger, but a song put between well known, good songs, to boost its number of streams. I’ve noticed it a few times, I was listening to something like “best of 80s” and a few tracks were
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by arnvald 2y ago
> 20% increase in electricity bills for the town's residents > residents are now faced with paying several hundred dollars more per year for electricity > The company estimates bills could rise by up to $300 monthly This doesn
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by arnvald 2y ago
I agree, I’ve been working with other languages and frameworks and in my opinion nothing comes close. People often mention Laravel as comparable or even superior, but having worked with it for a year I struggled a lot with how messed up PHP
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by arnvald 2y ago
Agreed, similarly to what they're doing with Hashicorp (though way to early to say if it works out for both sides in the end)

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