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by beoberha 3y ago
I just went to echo this. Most of the reviews I’ve watched or read have raved about the eye tracking, regardless of if the reviewer was a fan of VR in general. It feels really cool that we might finally have a new computing paradigm. There
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by beoberha 3y ago
I wonder how much money is enough to give the middle finger to all your customers? Really disappointing to see.
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by beoberha 3y ago
Phil rocks. Highly suggest following him on twitter. He’s pretty outspoken about writing. This is a great post of his that I need to reflect on more: https://notes.eatonphil.com/is-it-worth-writing-about.html
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by beoberha 3y ago
I bought a million dollar home in Seattle after less than 5 years of employment out of college at a publicly traded non-FAANG company in the area. It’s doable, you just need to compromise on location or luxury
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by beoberha 3y ago
This isn’t true at all and paints a dangerously dystopian view of things. You could easily buy a home in Seattle or the neighboring area after 5 years of senior level employment at most publicly traded companies. It’s not going to be an ama
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by beoberha 3y ago
The simple answer to this is that not only engineers write database queries. Personally, I’d be interested to see a system like the one you describe. Part of me thinks that SQL would still be simpler to reason about (though probably not to
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by beoberha 3y ago
I think these GPT wrapper apps are not too unlike Dropbox. They face a good amount of (fair) criticism as too simple of a solution for any technically minded person. But if you wrap some of the annoying parts into a nice app, you could have
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by beoberha 3y ago
What do you mean by “higher level”? AI code generation tools are extremely useful to people who know how to code, but how is it useful if you can’t understand the code it spits out. They are far from bug free and prompting it to handle comp
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by beoberha 3y ago
This goes back to my original post. Is this “doing Kanban” or is this just another process using a Kanban board?
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by beoberha 3y ago
For us, visibility isn’t an issue. I would say estimations are by far the biggest struggle we have in “doing Kanban”. Luckily, they’re not super important for us and I usually bubble up a very rough estimate in monthly reports to management
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by beoberha 3y ago
I’ve fortunately never had to do Scrum other than an internship where I had no idea what was actually going on. We do almost exactly what you describe. We just take tasks off the board and we don’t have sprints.
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by beoberha 3y ago
I get that, that’s what I do with my team, but I’ve never heard that referred to as “doing Kanban”. Maybe I’m just being pedantic, but writing an article to say “you don’t need Scrum, just pull tasks off the board” completely misses the poi
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by beoberha 3y ago
Is “doing Kanban” just having tasks on a board without any sort of sprint structure? I feel like it’s a bit of a false equivalence. While I won’t ever defend all the cruft that comes with Scrum, the article seems like a bit of a straw man.
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by beoberha 3y ago
Here’s a link to the actual blog post from Amazon: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-th... It’s worth noting that the team that wrote the article is just a small part of Prime Video. The headlin
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by beoberha 3y ago
Every year I’m reminded how diverse the recipients of this award are. You have a provably correct microkernel, DNS, Wireshark, and Jupyter Notebooks all being recognized as significant software systems.
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by beoberha 3y ago
From what I understand, Pinecone is a wrapper around a lot of this. It utilizes these libraries under the hood (or their own implementations) to store and perform search on your vectors for you. All in a nice managed PaaS offering.
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by beoberha 3y ago
What are your thoughts on KQL? I’m biased, but I love it. Kusto/ADE as a whole is an amazing platform - it’s a shame how poorly it has been marketed outside of Microsoft
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by beoberha 3y ago
I completely agree with you. In Southern California, you see people all across the political spectrum driving Teslas. As more options emerge, I don’t think it’s too crazy to see their market share go down.
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by beoberha 4y ago
I’m with you. Powershell is a jarring experience for someone not used to it. Heck, it’s still jarring for me and I’ve been working at Microsoft for over 5 years. I truly dislike writing it. That said, it’s so much more “usable” than any oth
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by beoberha 4y ago
You’re exactly right. I work for a large cloud database service and the vast majority of our top customers shard by customer. This also gives you the benefit of using higher levels of sharping abstractions that map to performance SKUs for m
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by beoberha 4y ago
I know enough about how neural nets work to be absolutely blown away at how good the GPT are. I only skimmed the paper, but even chatGPT showed a lot of these “sparks”, IMO. We are certainly a long way off from any semblance of general inte
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by beoberha 4y ago
This shit is hard. Running a cloud service at one of the Big 3 is hard, I can’t imagine doing it with such a small team with your own infra.
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by beoberha 4y ago
Cool! This definitely fills a niche I’ve felt the pain for. I want to love Airtable so badly, but it severely limits how expressive you can be with your own data. I’d check this out, but I’m admittedly not interested in managing my own db s
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by beoberha 4y ago
Do you have evidence for that? Even if they’re profitable, they may not have enough on hand or it may make sense to raise this money to pay off the expiring options
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by beoberha 4y ago
No I just didn’t mention it. Mostly because I see companies like Google and Microsoft rolling anything remotely useful for businesses into their offerings.
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by beoberha 4y ago
At least with the crypto bubble, VCs could easily drop their bags on the general public. Things are going to be interesting when all these GPT wrappers being billed as “AI companies” start to centralize (how many AI copy writers do we reall
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by beoberha 4y ago
I own a home very close to the PCC you’re talking about and only ever go there if we forgot something in the large weekly grocery run we do at the QFC. Met Market isn’t really an economical option either, but we do love their pre-made food
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by beoberha 4y ago
Agree with all these points. The 80/20 rule is alive and well at big companies. In aggregate, customers want all 100% so you need to do the 20% work that takes 80% of the time whereas startups likely write it off as out of scope.
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by beoberha 4y ago
I’ll admit I don’t know a ton about stage of the art AI techniques (just a couple grad level AI courses in college), but one of the things I don’t love about ChatGPT is that it doesn’t really “know” things and essentially just word vomits b
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by beoberha 4y ago
I mean this is our entire point. SQLite isn’t built for HA. You’re stuck replicating it yourself or using non-enterprise-ready solutions. It’s not SQLite’s fault, it’s just not the tool for the job if you need HA.

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