danjl

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by danjl 2y ago
> The reality of the world is that product holds the money and software development is seen as a cost center to be minimized towards zero. This is only true for mediocre companies. Software development is really a force multiplier, not a
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I wish it could write integration tests. That requires an understanding of the testing scaffold and the fake data it produces. LLMs aren't ready for that yet, but someday it will be magical.
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Sounds like you've been unfortunate and have spent all your time with financially driven people. A bunch of that might from from working in advertising. I can assure you that there are founders and companies that are ethical and moral,
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Are you similarly frustrated that microwaves and coffee makers can easily take 1,200 Watts or more?
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One of the pernicious aspects of using AI is the feeling it gives you that you have done all work without any of the effort. But the time of takes to digest and summarize an article as a human requires a deep injestion of the concepts. The
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We've had the capability to feed the entire planet for decades now, and yet, a large portion is underfed. Even if Sam's wildest dreams come true, this sounds like another "divide the world into haves and have-nots". One
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Okay, so, GPUs will go away to be replaced by AI, which... runs on GPUs? Even if the target application changes from games to AI, we still need widely parallel processors (aka GPUs) and serial processors (aka CPUs) if we want to keep growin
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This is about individual freedoms, not public health, and is directly related to this post. Unfortunately, no law can protect against poor parenting.
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This law affects companies, not students, as it should be. Enforcing limits on students is the job of parents, not teachers or police.
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You can't enforce silly laws. Who would enforce this ban? Teachers? That would be a school regulation, not a state law. Or do you want police walking around school arresting kids with phones? Do you enforce all of your guidance for you
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Check out the book Traction, to get a bunch of free marketing channels and a strategy. My favorite is to go after the bloggers that are read by your target customer community. https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-
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The reasons GPUs are useful is that they allow us to stay closer Moore's curve. Power is the problem, not AI algorithms. AI algorithms are a tensor processing best case right now. It took us decades to develop widely parallel algorithm
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Glad to hear money isn't your focus. Your comment "...then we realized it was also monetizable" was the reason for my interpretation. Its also a very common rational. I don't know what "nerd-sniped" means, so..
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You said (implied?) that your reason for starting a company was that you were waiting for somebody (MS) to build your favorite tech, and you realized it was monetizable. Finding a gap is a great start. But, if money is your goal, it is far
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I recommend getting a job at NVIDIA. They care deeply about SW. It is a great place to learn about HW and the supporting SW. There is much to learn. Maybe you will learn why you are unimpressed with their SW offerings. For me, the hard part
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Why start a company to make this product? Why not go work at one of the existing chip manufacturers? You'd learn a ton, get to design and work on HW and/or SW, and not have to do the million other things required to start a compan
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And the auto and Defense markets are so easy to enter! /s Both of these markets have long lead times, tight HW build times, and move incredibly slowly. They are not the kind of markets that like using stuff from new companies with no h
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I think the only way this could work is if you had the backing of one of the major LLM providers who decided that your ideas are worth doing a PoC. That way you actually have a client on board before you spend all the money. I know you guys
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I cannot see any way of building HW profitably for the Jetson market. You are really competing with Raspberry PI, not Jetson, IMO. I mean, I'm no expert, but I would suggest doing a deep dive on your business plan if you intend to targ
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In my experience, trying to switch VFX companies from CPU-based rendering to GPU-based rendering 10+ years ago, a 2-5x performance improvement wasn't enough. We even provided a compatible renderer that accepted Renderman files and gene
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Absolutely. Startups should not hire junior engineers. They don't have time to teach people until they are a functioning profitable business. However, I would not encourage learning at an agency or consulting service. The best place to
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Nothing will really change. Even if they are found to be a monopoly. The appeals process and the commensurate change in the world during those years will allow Google to work around any proposed remediation before it is enacted.
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You can scale revenue without growing the number of employees. That's precisely why product-based businesses, like SaaS and software in general, are famous. Service-based businesses require scaling employees in order to scale revenue.
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There may be projects that require more people, but there are many that do not. Why must all companies grow?
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What's the benefit to continued employee growth?
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The only way to win is not to scale. Most of the problems discussed by PG and in this post revolve around scaling company culture, and the associated management style, as the company grows the number of employees. Unfortunately, my feeling
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The best part are the follow-up emails of people trying to cover their ass and pass the buck within the giant corporation. I'm sure all those emails and the time it took to read and respond to all of them, and all the meetings about th
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That second paragraph, "hungrier and greedier", is the problem with the entire capitalistic system. If only people stayed small, they'd be happier, have more time, and there would be a wider more diverse set of products avail
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HR should not be evaluating coding skills. Senior developers should evaluate their future peers.
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Also ironically, kinda like English, which is ugly, and has even more ways of saying anything. Language and writers, have done far more damage to the world historically than coding or programmers. Also many great and wonderful things, just

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