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by danjl 1y ago
The authors rely on themselves, not other people. The developers of local first software take on the responsibility of making sure the app runs entirely on local resources. That's not the job of anybody else, and you don't need to
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The reason it's easier to scale local software is that it does not rely on cloud resources. As a result it's cheaper for a startup to distribute local first software since they don't need the infrastructure of a traditional c
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Correct. SaaS is a business model, not a technical concept. But the real problem is that there is no equivalent business model for selling local first software. Traditional desktop apps were single purchase items. Local first is not because
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Goal #2, your data is not trapped in a single device is the hard bit, especially with goal #3, the network is optional. For #2 to be true, this means the network is *not* optional for the developer, it is required. Thus the entire complexit
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by danjl 1y ago
What if education became research? If, in the hypothetical future, the AI can answer any question about any book or scientific theory, perhaps the educational system could focus on teaching people how to come up with good ideas to research,
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by danjl 1y ago
And Florian is an ILM OG who wrote some of their most amazing tools.
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by danjl 1y ago
Unlimited vacation is in no way the same thing as 6 weeks of actual vacation. Look into it a bit more. You'll see that unlimited vacation is really just a scam. In your case it's worked out. Actual vacation days are tracked and pa
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by danjl 1y ago
The problem with unlimited vacation is that the majority of engineers never have the guts to ask for it, just like they don't know how to negotiate. Unlimited vacation is a benefit for the company not the employee. It avoids taxes and
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We're you willing to walk away if you didn't get what you wanted? Or were you just hoping they would capitulate? IMHO, The key to negotiating is knowing where your red line is, and being willing to walk away if you don't reac
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by danjl 1y ago
Startups also have more non-cash options. E.g. they can offer more than 4 weeks of vacation, unlike many enterprise companies. As a CEO, when I gave people 6 weeks of real vacation, they would never leave, since they cannot get that at bigg
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by danjl 1y ago
What's going to happen? Maybe it will help make the LLM better at code gen, and help everyone. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code that have disappeared into the void of history. It would have been nice if all that
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by danjl 1y ago
If I had to guess, the reason WebGPU is not implemented in Linux is because nobody is paid to add features to Linux. This means that new features are delayed by several years. WebGL is old, and well supported. WebGPU is newer, and has less
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If only it was exponential in the beginning, as word-of-mouth spreads. Sigh. The reality is that you need to claw and scrape your way to your first customers. The numbers vary depending on whether your product is b2b, consumer, or more nich
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by danjl 1y ago
Or, O(n^2) companies are founded and run by people motivated solely by making lots of money, while O(n) companies are there for multiple reasons: passion for the topic, making employee's lives better, and helping their customers solve
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by danjl 1y ago
Or, really, to say the unsaid bit out loud: there are lots of important considerations when taking a job. The author seems to assume that money is the only driver, when, for many top candidates, money is not their primary motivation. The ab
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by danjl 1y ago
Normally, with big-O notation, the goal is to reduce complexity. The author's wording kinda reverses that assumption only to "surprise" you in the end? A somewhat forced irony.
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> O(n) companies can’t afford to hire the absolute best talent. O(n) companies tend to have more experienced founders and engineers in my experience. This is partly why they have "nice deadlines, clear SoW" and "understand
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by danjl 1y ago
Those hallucinated libraries exist in the future where the LLM lives and works. You just haven't caught up in time yet. ;-)
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Another way of saying this that might not trigger your alarm bells is that even a perfect image analyzer is not enough to replace a radiologist. The job consists of much more than just analyzing images.
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It will be glorious! LLMs Will replace most managers and all executives. Developers will use their corporate AI to answer all questions from the outside world, allowing them to focus entirely on writing code. No need to talk to other humans
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by danjl 1y ago
I'd love to see things like Brokk experiment a bit more with what other information to include in our git repositories, besides the code, that helps improve AI-based code generation. For example, perhaps the repo should include more de
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by danjl 1y ago
I am a huge supporter of completely re-working the IDE UI as well. I'm not arguing for keeping the existing IDE interfaces. I like that folks are experimenting with entirely new interfaces. In fact, I'd go further and suggest that
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The "Read" file list sounds a lot like Copilot Edit mode, where you manually specify the list of files that are added to the context. Similarly, Copilot has an Ask (Chat) mode that doesn't change the code. One of the downside
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Nice!
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Ok, then where's the ray tracing? ;-)
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What's with the circular ball?
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It is exceedingly rare that voting shares play a role in any of these decisions. When you need cash to pay salaries, the decision lies in the hand of the stakeholder with the cash, not the shares.
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At a smart business, you work for your customers. If you're at a company that works for your investors, you're going to have this problem over and over again. In fact, you might as well give up on the idea of planning and decision
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The problem here is that your company is on the "get the next round of funding" train instead of on the "get revenue from customers" train. It's a bigger problem then irrational love of AI. You will consistently sac
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I've always found ecards to be insulting and never read them. The article has nothing to do with financial commitments. It's about time, a much more valuable and limited resource.

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