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by dzonga 5mo ago
web-components & vanillaJS will solve their slow UI.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
this is the typical layer at a big tech co. you can simply cut out so many layers of management & coordination tax & remain with a leaner organization.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
maybe the 'microservices' approach + agentic coding (self directed agents) that have agency to pick up old tickets, open merge requests with maybe a human in the loop will fix all that. that's the story being sold. I don&#x27
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by dzonga 5mo ago
such an incoherent argument. > professional athletes & construction workers - work in physical fields which means there's physical limits to what they experience both in terms of what they do & what their body can do. > s
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by dzonga 5mo ago
the autocomplete can be shit some times.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
yet - Facebook Ads manager dashboard is shit.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
desktop & mobile software is run by a cartel. they can charge you $99/yr cz they know you ain't got choices. which is why web software is a blessing. web software runs without permissions from the gatekeeper.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
the A.I (LLM) merchants will tell you - that AI is now writing software (agentic coding they call it ) - yet one they can't bill you properly or have a broken billing mechanism. their dashboards are trash & don't work - Google
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by dzonga 5mo ago
> Consider the risks of VC backed initiatives, which far more often than not, return less than market salary to entrepreneurs, and less than the S&P 500 to capitalists. once people get honest about this - that VC losses tend to be ta
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by dzonga 5mo ago
your output !! but is the industry output over 10X ?
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by dzonga 5mo ago
you know this whole exercise is both a marketing exercise and a way to make noise. would the world come to a standstill tomorrow if every Bun instance out there ran on Node.js ? they know their A.I can't sell without the noise that it&
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by dzonga 5mo ago
this is why those mandatory military programs for youth work. & at times boarding schools. in boarding school - if I know where you sleep & I have always access it incentivizes you to behave better. one system - where all the aggres
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by dzonga 5mo ago
a cynical part of me thinks this can be a lucrative angle to sell an added verified program with end to end encryption. a lot of shady messages go around in Insta DMs - whether it's cheating spouses, athletes getting exposed etc then o
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by dzonga 5mo ago
Go is simple, but Rails is pragmatic for web stuff.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
instead of using downloading software via npm (in case of your computer being taken over there's a secure option provided by the web - no build - scripts at the top / bottom of the page they're executed in a secure sandbox
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by dzonga 5mo ago
people like to shit on carbs - but they have done wonders in terms of ensuring food security & population growth. that same "koku" ensures - you can buy your portion of rice once a year & as long as you keep it dry - you&#
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by dzonga 5mo ago
corporate lawyers tend to do the same shit. s say a lot - while saying nothing.
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by dzonga 5mo ago
but London VCs are poor quality compared to what you find in the States. having had my run around with London VCs - poor terms, slow moving (btw this is at seed stage) - it's better to bootstrap unless you're in deep tech (which L
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by dzonga 5mo ago
before Brexit - a decent number of polish people in the UK doing all types of work. after Brexit - noticed polish engineers didn't want to be in the UK
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by dzonga 5mo ago
if you have ever met the African bureaucrat - typically has a PHD from a high end Western university. selfish lot - old - would rather spend time playing golf and traveling while doing nothing. sadly the West is now going through the same t
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by dzonga 5mo ago
this problem with older people not giving in to younger ones is prevalent everywhere. professors - with tenure - they can die on the job. board rooms are visibly older e.g average age of Apple board members 68. the partners at law firms etc
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by dzonga 5mo ago
American automakers - good engineering, good designers but politicians i.e protecting the jobs & Wall Street short-term thinking get in the way. though GM seems to be the only american automaker that hasn't really given up on EVs
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by dzonga 6mo ago
Tesla has no moat. BYD makes better EVs & is leading in battery tech. FSD has been promised forever & not delivered. Now Musky says - for cars to have real FSD they need to be newer hardware tech. Robotaxis - Waymo is better.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
in rails I just authentication-zero. no need for 3rd party provider.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
there's a lot of domain knowledge in some of those areas. that domain knowledge is acquired by talking to people - which A.I can't do - all kinds of people since the knowledge isn't written down. I know this having dated a gi
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by dzonga 6mo ago
can't wait for 2028/9 - when this AI noise comes down - & the harvester comes for their share. by then A.I would've proved its impact or 0 impact on the economy & numbers will be the only thing to show not potential.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
I have worked in big tech, venture funded scale up - series D etc and yeah early stage pre-seed. the places - where pure managers just existed i.e manager, senior engineering manager, director, vp etc - just added unnecessary overhead. pla
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by dzonga 6mo ago
the best code is the code you never have to write. this means code also written by 'A.i'. seems as an industry we're hellbent on optimizing for the wrong-thing.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
how some people gobble up Tesla FSD - when it's clearly inferior to options out there from Waymo, GM Supercruise or hell even Ford.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
well written guide. even their follow up - Docker Compose vs Kubernetes. Docker compose for me has been great - no complexity.

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