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by asim 4y ago
Elon is a catalyst because of the rise of hate speech and an inability to moderate it but it's created the opportunity to build these cult like communities elsewhere. I don't want to point to it because I'll receive a lot of
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Yes people should go to a place where healthy discussion is fostered. I'm not arguing against that. What I'm saying is there's a group of very vocal people who have left twitter to go start their own Mastodon communities beca
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by asim 4y ago
That's not what I'm saying. It's that the people that were challenged chose to put out their thoughts in a way that welcomed it. If all you're there to do is meet fellow developers and network is should be no issue. I ne
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by asim 4y ago
Good rationale and I agree with all of it. Looks like Mastodon has become the self reinforcing echo chamber of the far right for any group. Never to be challenged again. In fact that's the point of why so many people go there right? Th
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by asim 4y ago
Less likely to take something seriously named after Nostradamus. I'm sorry but until it gets renamed it's hard to buy into it. It has huge backing from Jack Dorsey staking his reputation on it by tweeting about it but in all serio
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by asim 4y ago
The best alternative to twitter is no twitter. Let me explain. The feed and micro blogging format is a recipe for disaster. It's a combination of dopamine hits, crack addiction and rage inducing hyperbole. While there's merits to
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asim [at] m3o [dot] com
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Surely the earth's core is a magnet, hence gravitational forces and the ability to actually aggregate all this mass into a sphere and created it's only rotational force.
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by asim 4y ago
Not selling it but I am looking for someone to help maintain the infrastructure so if it's of interest let me know.
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Yup company is defunct but I left the product running while I push it toward something else. Basically why does every saas service need to be backed by a corporation. Why can't we have something community led. We have open source which
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by asim 4y ago
Depends on the measure of success. Might have been able to shrink the timelines on everything if I had a sounding board and people on my side with prior experience. They just didn't think I was worth the time.
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by asim 4y ago
Product is on autopilot, company ran out of money and couldn't raise further funding. I'm not offering help to find product/market fit and not showing these things to sell the product. Just offering help to fellow founders tr
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by asim 4y ago
Happy to help anyone starting up. I raised a couple mil in seed funding for an open source project after bootstrapping for a few years. I'm sure the YC crew would be more helpful but I got rejected by YC like 8 times and took the direc
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by asim 4y ago
The new AWS. From 2007-2009 there were countless AWS outages, a lot of heckling, including from my part as I ran on bare metal using Rackspace. Lo and behold AWS became a behemoth and a significant majority of workloads moved there. OpenAI
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by asim 4y ago
I always surmised that this was the only way to compete with Google and others. Even if you had 10k engineers, heck 1000 engineers who did it, it would be a formidable force. But actually doing it. That's the hard part.
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by asim 4y ago
I'm just astounded by Microsoft's execution in both business and open source. It's such a stark contrast to the Ballmer era. They were a closed ecosystem. And now they invest so heavily in being open. It's amazing to see
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by asim 4y ago
I wish that was the case. It never formulated like that. If you raise prices your support burden also goes up. Your need to innovate increases. The gap between profitability and the funding needed to get there is wide. Hence most startups d
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by asim 4y ago
Yea that's pretty painful. I recently had to shutdown a service for my startup but I left the infrastructure running. People will gradually transition out and the traffic will go to zero. Not everyone can afford that luxury. I just mad
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by asim 4y ago
Sad day for Linode. Great standalone niche hosting platform. I get that these things happen. I was part of a Google acquisition that eventually got shutdown/rebranded. From an acquirer standpoint it makes sense. For existing users they
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by asim 4y ago
It's funny. The way deepmind is going about it, these AI agents are going to live in a total virtual world in which we then enter and participate. It's not clear that AI will actually immerse itself in the real world. While we fin
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by asim 4y ago
Article is from 2020. Please add to title.
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Tony let me say it's super brave for you to come here and share this information. The critics are harsh but Medium is still a great resource and I continue to use it for my own personal writing. I think my only personal knock on it rig
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by asim 4y ago
This should be a wake-up call to people that we need a new operating system https://research.mozilla.org/files/2022/10/Mozilla-Five-Wall...
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Mu: An Operating System for Life(mu.xyz)
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End consumers don't care. This is the thing. We live in a total bubble. While for us this is really interesting, the long tail don't care. We're going to see over the coming years how this plays out. Redefining the search for
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by asim 4y ago
People forget that Larry Page's ultimate goal was to have Google predict what you wanted before you even asked for it. This isn't about hype. This isn't about beating the competition. This is about delivering on a 3 decade dr
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by asim 4y ago
Multitenant architectures are valuable in that you can reuse a lot of the same resources e.g shared infrastructure but they also come with caveats. Much more complex to create, harder to manage and reason about. When things go wrong they af
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by asim 4y ago
You're speaking of the holy grail for cloud. I think it sort of comes and goes. Google won't deliver they layer but someone on top might.
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It's interesting to read the comments and then look at Slack vs Microsoft Teams. Slack was the clear leader in at-work group messaging, people thought it was a run away success and then Teams basically obliterated it. Google has huge s
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by asim 4y ago
We need to be studying the history of protocols more than ever. If we're going to break out of these centralised silo's it's only going to happen through the creation of new protocols that help us rebuild for a more decentral

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