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by dahwolf 3y ago
Well, the idea is that you can't buy the training model of a competitor.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Their decision makes sense, in a weird way. A lot of value in some SaaS apps is in the initial investment it took to build it, not in the cost to host a customer's assets. If the runtime costs of a new customer are negligible, would yo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The first hack is to be honest with yourself. Everybody is busy but at the same time people easily spend 3-5 hours on their phone, which used to be TV. Most people do have time. So be honest with yourself and look at that weekly usage repor
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Agreed. Take something as simple as a "quote tweet". The physical analogy is that you're listening to somebody, then turn around to speak to a group of "friends" about it whilst the other person can hear you do it.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Normal people for the first time got a public podium (or they think they do) and thus behave as if the whole world is watching." I strongly object to the word "normal" here. Normies, as in the common masses you know fro
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Very insightful and I'd say this is true for the internet at large. Vocal internet is overly tech, overly American, overly progressive, overly academic, overly LGBTQ+, overly neuro-atypical, overly "misfit/alternative",
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It depends. We once were quoted 300K/year by a SaaS company. We replied by saying that our budget is 20K. "Fair enough, we'll take that".
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's exactly opposite. The entire point of an enterprise option would be that you DO train it on corporate data, securely. So the #1 feature is actually missing, yet is announced as in the works.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Devil's advocate: I get into your home by bypassing (poor) security. I take pictures and make copies of anything inside. Then I publicly announce the breach and demand that you fix your security based on a deadline I made up. Then I sa
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Value for money and value for time will apply regardless. Both entertainment and reading in-depth paid news are one and the same: luxuries one does in their (typically) scarce spare time using an (often) modest budget.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm on IA's side here but I do take issue with the lack of introspection. We frame this story by defining some villains, like lawyers and Google, whilst no fault is upon us. We're victims even. And yet the typical internet us
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by dahwolf 3y ago
And yet another side effect, the one that I believe trumps them all: a loss of meaning. If somebody with zero skill in the arts can produce output of similar quality as a craftsman and about a thousand times faster, what is the point of art
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"There is no excuse for any public facing website with a fully-qualified domain name to not have encryption anymore." This is a display of arrogance and lack of empathy matching the Chrome team's article. There is a sizable &
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Funny thing is that the example given of a "bad workflow" is in fact a fairly basic software development flow: 1. Ready to start (requirements and technical solution direction clear) 2. Working on it 3. Merge (to see if it also wo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's ironic that "costly context-switching" is listed as one of the primary reasons, as this normally is considered a "feature". Modern front-end development heavily embraces small components, composability, clean a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Not sure, the typical HN user has JS disabled.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'd take that point further and state that React is in no competition with anything. React was invented because Facebook had very interactive/stateful UI as well as large teams of developers working on the same codebase. The then
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by dahwolf 3y ago
There's no need to imply anything as this very much happens. In the late 90s the Netherlands had extremely generous disability benefits. It was so generous that a US president that visited wondered why anybody would work at all in this
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It means you sit in a chair and send meeting invites.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's an interest effect indeed: social poverty. As a kid in the 80s we owned close to nothing. But nobody did and we just made the best of it. I never felt poor because this simply was the living standard of the time and our objective
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by dahwolf 3y ago
He's a bare-footed scamming dopehead that belongs in prison.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Look at the abundance of comments on COVID and the lack of walkable cities. Own your shitty lifestyle. I make poor health choices all the time. It's bad for me and it makes me feel bad about myself. But it's on me. Nobody forced m
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Fully agree. Not an artist myself, but this basic assumption in tech that you can just take somebody's shit without informing them, without permission, without compensation, without basic due diligence, and then go do whatever the hell
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but neither is this Mike guy. I'm quite suspicious about how confident he is in stating that all of this is legally fine. From the creator himself: "When I ran out of books on my own shelves, I looked to the
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by dahwolf 3y ago
A recent internal company poll/discussion about the design of the new office building revealed a pretty hard split: talkers and workers. All the manager types, HR, comms...people that spent all day talking, they all want more "col
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Strongly suspect you work for Google ;) My neutral stance is that this is a potentially marginally useful tool. There's nothing fundamentally new about it. Github has an online IDE, as does Amazon, as does everybody. In particular at G
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Indeed, Android app development is why I added the non-core part. Try as I might, I can't deny that it's a vast (business) ecosystem. Too big too fail and part of the money printer. I wouldn't call IDX core because it doesn&#
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by dahwolf 3y ago
We vastly overestimate the intelligence of us and underestimate the intelligence of any other living creature. Or rather, humanity acts as a highly intelligent collective but individual humans are only moderately intelligent in comparison.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'll join the army of cynics. You should not do anything serious on Google-based technology, especially not on non-core technology, as it cannot be depended on to be properly supported or even exist at all. Similarly, it's safe to
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by dahwolf 3y ago
ASML's EUV machines cannot be reverse engineered. There's over a 100K parts, several of them from exclusive suppliers. You'd have to recreate several industries from scratch or somehow bribe all suppliers. You will absolutely

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