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by berniedurfee 2y ago
This is 100% true in my experience. Founders are good at founding, which is generally a very shortsighted and aggressive activity. At some point, the business needs stability. Founders that stick around too long often cannot make that trans
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Rats leaping from a sinking ship swimming to shore we were.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Kurzgesagt did a video on this. Though they discuss how advanced civilizations could have existed on Earth and we might not even know it because there wouldn’t be much left and what was left might be so unusual that we might chalk it up to
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Seems like we need to start trading anonymity for credibility? Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Anonymity on the web has led to some pretty atrocious behavior. Plus, at this point, anonymity on the internet is an illusion anyway. Just use
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Which Starbucks?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
If I put in the work to build a successful business and someone offered me a hundred million dollars for it, I’d have a hundred million dollars.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I was in a similar position in a company that _might_ have been able to make a good enough offer, but never could convince the brass how amazing a company it is and I never got any traction. Disappointing to hear about this, Hashicorp was a
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Written by a robot that was written by Amazon and runs in AWS. Vertical integration indeed!
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
The starving software artist. I like it! :)
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think they have the benefit of mystique. I don’t think you’d find their code quality any better than the average. I also think you’d find the same rush to market mania that plagues the rest of the software industry.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Except the redo and cleanup part never happens. The PoC becomes a pilot becomes production becomes an exit becomes someone else’s problem. That’s the SLDC that has gotten us to a place with endless amounts of terrible software everywhere yo
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I was thinking about this the other day. An implantable Yubikey type device that integrates with whatever device you’re using to validate your identity for phone calls or video conferences. Subdermal X.509 maybe with some sort of neurolink
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
“… all the instructors who worked there back in the day were absolutely fucking passionate about getting students into jobs and changing the world” 100% The fundamental concept had merit, but the business had a very very low probability of
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
It would be absolutely fascinating to talk to the LLMs of the various government spy agencies around the world.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Yahoo.com will rise from the ashes.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
9 of the 10 authors work for the company that makes the $2k mattress cover?
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
When you find one cockroach, you can be sure there are thousands more you haven’t found.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Not just nation state actors. All that data is available to anyone with a credit card from legit data dealers.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
There was definitely good cop/bad cop going on. That’s a really powerful psychological tool.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
For the same reason that Ponzi schemes are so successful.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
As I was reading this it reminded me 100% of GE. Another manufacturing giant that put profit above all else and many people suffered for it as the company collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence... though many also became stagger
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Our local convenience stores still use them for various items. Milk card and ice cream scoops! But no, supermarket chains are all heavily data driven now.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I don’t believe HN was created or is being maintained out of the goodness of anyone’s heart. HN has monetary value to someone somewhere. Plus it’s cheap to run. It’s also a good advertising and recruiting platform for YC. There by the grace
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
It’s less automation and more about cheap labor. Content farms sprung up and flooded the landscape with worthless content to get a micro-slice of the pie. Very discouraging to many content creators when their work is just going to be buried
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I wouldn’t, only because the big O is behind MySQL. Otherwise, why not? It’s basically a Chevy vs Ford decision.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Madoff was in his 60s.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Not a fix per se, but a safer system going forward. Given all the variables, is it feasible to build a system that continuously runs through multiple failure modes, predicts where the ship would end up and then guide the ship on a course wh
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Is it feasible to run large ships on autopilot? Large airliners land mostly on autopilot now, right? Seems like a somewhat solvable problem to combine a bunch of sensor inputs to keep the ship inside of a safe corridor, such that even a los
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
How many people can say they own 74 houses. That might be the end game.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
What’s the mechanism? You swallow a pill and it what? Enters your bloodstream and eventually makes its way out of the pores on your skin all over your body? For weeks?

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