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by edanm 2y ago
I'd hardly call that a logical fallacy. I'm fairly sure there's some correlation between success in business and success in other domains.
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by edanm 2y ago
As opposed to all other interviewing methodologies which are rigourously tested? Unfortunately in our industry it's pretty much all personal anecdotes on what works better and what doesn't.
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by edanm 2y ago
Because most people who've been involved in tech interviewing have arrived at the same conclusion - these kinds of questions are too easy for candidates to answer in ways that make them appear great, while they can't actually pr
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by edanm 2y ago
Yep exactly that.
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by edanm 2y ago
> In other words: "if you are extremely tall and/or extremely strong, you don't need be shredded to still be athletic". Who would have thought? It's more than that. Being shredded is actively anti-athletic. This
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by edanm 2y ago
I couldn't agree more. It was masterful, and had an enormously shocking ending emotionally - in multiple ways, including the Stan ending, though I'm sure we're both talking about something else. Btw, funny enough, on rewatche
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by edanm 2y ago
FWIW I absolutely love The Shield, one of my favorite shows. The Americans is better. But it was also hard to get into, and I stopped a few episodes in the first time. It gets much better the more the story goes on. As a fellow The Shield
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by edanm 2y ago
First of all, I'm not sure what you mean by "disclose" - you took that from my HN profile which is a click away. Do you think I should mention this in every comment I make about LLMs? Secondly, you're confusing cause and
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by edanm 2y ago
> Impressive numbers, but have you ever tried to use one of these things to get actual work done? They're terrible at it! If you mean "have you tried using an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude for doing development work", then yo
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by edanm 2y ago
I think the second point in the article is the main reason - compensation from Big Tech changes the financial equation considerably. There's still a lot of upsides to starting a startup (as well as plenty of downsides), but the financi
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by edanm 2y ago
> That never was sustainable, I think What makes you think that? Still plenty of startups being founded, many achieving success. It's long odds, of course, but what exactly is "unsustainable" about this? (And unsustainable
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by edanm 2y ago
Why? I disagree, but genuinely asking why you think that. Why is it ok if it's on the market level but not on the individual level? Price discrimination is all around us all the time, often "hidden" because people get uncomfo
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by edanm 2y ago
That's a really cool well of "visualizing" this.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Can it be? I have no idea. The common criticism is that Netanyahu never really worked on a day-after plan, so while the IDF managed to take lots of territories and gain many military victories, there was no clear idea of what to do whe
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm going to push back on this a little bit. I agree that most reporting, and most statements from US officials, put the blame squarely on Hamas for not having accepted a deal earlier. But there is also at least some sense, definit
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by edanm 2y ago
Just to highlight what's in the first paragraph of that link - a Palestinian prisoner died due to a hunger strike, which caused Palestinian Jihad to fire 100 rockets at Israel. This is what caused Israel to bomb Gaza. I'm not sure
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by edanm 2y ago
The goal is to eliminate Hamas, or at least prevent them for returning to rule the Gaza strip. That has not been accomplished.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Democratic structures like fatah and hamas ? This refers (I imagine) to internal Israeli politics - a certain portion of the Israeli populace fears that Netanyahu is attempting to make Israel less democratic by various means. This was
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by edanm 2y ago
No, people superficially said the same things. Except if you know anything at all about the underlying tech, or about business, you immediately see the difference. This is why so many people disliked and totally ignored the blockchain hype
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by edanm 2y ago
> Except, it’s probably four times as hard to verify the 80% right code as it is to just write the code yourself in the first place. Why would that be true in general? You think it just so happens that a new tool gives an X speedup in ab
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by edanm 2y ago
I agree that context is one core focus, but I really don't agree that it's the only thing a startup can focus on. Context aside, you have the generation aspect of it, which can be very important (models trained to output good
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by edanm 2y ago
> Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them. You can pretty easily disprove this theory
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by edanm 2y ago
> Suppose I "scrape and store" every book I ever borrow or temporarily-owned, using the copies to fill several shelves in my own personal library-room. Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bo
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by edanm 2y ago
Yeah, I wasn't criticizing or anything, that's why I wrote it as clarification. I assumed other people like me might read your comment without having read the article.
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by edanm 2y ago
What? This makes no sense. Of course you're allowed to own copyrighted material. That's the whole point. I have bookshelves worth of copyrighted material at home at this very minute. If you're implying that the scraping and
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by edanm 2y ago
> Agreed - This article is wrong at the beginning, Chatham House Rules are not a gag FYI gag as in "gag order" not gag as in a joke. In case anyone else was confused about this as I was :)
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by edanm 2y ago
I obviously don't share your general opinion of the Israel/Palestine issue. But I do wonder - what about the first tweet (thread) do you think is wrong? Even if you think Israel is pure evil or something - especially if you thin
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes, I understand the sentiment and am familiar with this argument. And sometimes it's totally true! But I'm pushing back because I think it's sometimes not true, and that this is more an "anti-growth" or "he
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm fairly sure Word, Excel, Google Sheets, Youtube, Photoshop, etc. all have fairly high counts. As do many tens of thousands of applications that are the backbone of services we all rely on. The systems that run banks, that run power
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by edanm 2y ago
> If you code, you should be building a business on the side. This is incredibly far from being the universal claim you say it is. 99% of software developers work for someone else, not at their own business, and most are perfectly happy.

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