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by dzonga 9mo ago
this is one way to spread positivity, not the usual doom & gloom around European-tech spread by tech bro's on shitter. prosperity and openness for everyone - however europeans tend to shoot themselves in the foot with the extra bur
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by dzonga 9mo ago
the people competitive in this space - your Waymo's, the Chinese auto co's (banned in the US), Mercedes | GM (won't do this as it cuts into their main profit lines) - so that will only leave Waymo as the only player in automa
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by dzonga 9mo ago
this means getting into non sexy things - i.e ecosystem e.g PHP / Wordpress / Shopify etc not as sexy as ML etc that HN raves about but you will survive
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by dzonga 9mo ago
let's be honest option 1: is non-viable in this economy - those places are not hiring & most places are not hiring. only viable option in an economy that's not hiring is to hire yourself - but don't swing for the fences -
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by dzonga 9mo ago
fintechs are a hard hat area - they make a lot of noise while raising money - but hardly ever mention costs, profitability hence few fare well in the public markets or when its time for acquisition
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by dzonga 9mo ago
UK has been the easiest place to form a LTD but UK sucks with reporting requirements - now they even require IDs for directors if EU-inc can have incorporation costs of less than 30£ - then no reporting requirements if say revenue is under
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by dzonga 9mo ago
we should get to the state of software being finished. then for live games etc -- release servers maybe after 7 years so people can run their own servers for games I think we can all agree 7 years is a good enough timeline for games to have
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by dzonga 9mo ago
Vista Equity operates along a similar model for SAAS cut wasteful spending, find a way to increase revenue - milk the SAAS for a few years - then either sell it off or shut it down - or it can keep running as a lean cash generating machine
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by dzonga 9mo ago
Laravel has - Flux UI [0] Personally though I use rails - I just opt for Bootstrap, otherwise just inertia + PrimeVue if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia Rea
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by dzonga 9mo ago
example of focused leadership - a commenter already noted how wondering listings drive revenue if it was some Bozo executive as we see at most tech companies - they would be advocating to implement the Open Agentic Commerce whatever being p
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by dzonga 9mo ago
wasn't usurlla saying this was now law at her Davos address ?
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by dzonga 9mo ago
we've new dev's been trained that this is normal - a.i putting out slop / trained on this cz its the default yeah sad state of affairs
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by dzonga 9mo ago
this is how dictatorships start -- paid intellectuals who lack integrity -- they will argue every cause that they can, to debate if it's valid or not.
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by dzonga 9mo ago
a lot of these luxury brands have been eating off china the past few years but now they've lost their luster since china makes cars better than most luxury brands and china has a moat in EVs so what's left is either the US or emer
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by dzonga 9mo ago
if the gvt worked - they would've done something about that illegal monopoly but you already know that monopoly is costing the country & holding it back in terms of 1. intellectual capacity (all the smart kids going into ads) 2. mo
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by dzonga 9mo ago
> In 2017 I predicted that most programmers would lose their employer <-> employee bargaining power in the next 15-25 years. even if written in retrospect - this would've been interesting to see. since likely some of the reaso
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Tell HN: A.I Has No Winners
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by dzonga 10mo ago
it seems us is fighting yesterday's war wars / empires etc are built on mastering an energy source the Brits on Coal the US rose on Oil China is rising on renewables my worry is can renewables be quickly brought online to power in
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by dzonga 10mo ago
keep ya head up & high. thinking slow and straight is key at this time. expand ya thinking - your options are not exclusionary i.e XOR but AND and don't define yourself in terms of your current state. hell the friends you envy - if
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by dzonga 10mo ago
F-150 Lightning is better vehicle than Cybertruck - however Ford is a political company (not like Musk) as in the fortunes of Ford lie to an extent with politicians, unions etc so hopefully ford can turn the F-150 into an Extended Range Ele
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by dzonga 10mo ago
however mysql is easier to deal with - I say this as Postgres guy mysql less maintenance + more performant
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by dzonga 10mo ago
this!! 100%. pass around ID's
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by dzonga 10mo ago
from Scott you learn to separate the idea from the person. biggest impact was probably talent stacking + affirmations I say this as a black person
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by dzonga 10mo ago
if A.I maximalist gospel was true - we would see a company raising $10M Series A | Seed (these days) spend 60% on A.I, 30% on Humans and 10% on operations but I can bet you my sole penny that's not happening - so we know someone is try
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by dzonga 10mo ago
to me the impressive thing is Coca Cola was formulated in the 1800s and yet even with modern equipment - most people fail to replicate it. the original chemist who made Coca Cola was a genius
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by dzonga 10mo ago
antirez gave us reddit - but somehow I think the part him and other smart folks who talk about A.I so much is they forget about agency | self-sufficiency. If A.I writes everything for you - cool, you can produce faster ? but is it really tr
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by dzonga 10mo ago
one of the linked articles - that most people will only have 1 good idea for the rest of their lives - and yeah we should learn that lesson. I remember Jason fried - 37Signals - saying the same thing - that Basecamp was such a home run for
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by dzonga 10mo ago
I don't really know the details of the architecture - but I bet there's heavy use of sqlite - if the sprites can be paused without consuming resources.
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by dzonga 10mo ago
young enough i.e 50. highly technical with a bunch of technical wins and organizational wins (Asia supply chain, m-chips etc) hopefully the guy if he takes over is assertive on the software front. the software recently has been a mess.
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by dzonga 10mo ago
this is usually more accurate than most indicators - as America's economy runs on trucks not donuts. more trucks on the road - more goods flowing - heavy machinery included, things getting built etc. less trucks - trouble

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