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by ernopp 13d ago
As an engineer, your job is to solve problems with the tools & resources at your disposal. AI is a tool that vastly improves your capacity to solve problems. But inside that engineer is also a creative person enjoying manually writing c
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Bottom-up vs top-down product management(ernest.oppet.it)
2 points by ernopp 2y ago|0 comments
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by ernopp 3y ago
https://ernest.oppet.it/ I blog about books, podcasts, courses I've done, product management thoughts du jour, and the occasional rant
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by ernopp 3y ago
The case for doing what they did is that it helped a lot of people access books (eg school curriculum ones) in the middle of Covid (not everyone knows how to pirate things). Not saying it was the right move but you can see where they'r
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by ernopp 4y ago
Someone on Twitter said: > You do realize that grant was issued several years before 2020? This is just how much was paid in 2020 > This is extremely misleading
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Guillaume Poncin on Stripe Crypto’s Roadmap(ernest.oppet.it)
1 points by ernopp 4y ago|0 comments
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by ernopp 4y ago
Can you expand a bit on the quality of Google's internal practices with user data? eg what would an engineer on Google Photos need to do to be able to access my photos, if possible at all
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Show HN: Meme Garage(meme-garage.com)
1 points by ernopp 5y ago|1 comments
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Objections to crypto I have time for(ernest.oppet.it)
2 points by ernopp 5y ago|0 comments
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by ernopp 5y ago
No one repping the old drop sort. Just returns the first item of the list, which happens to be an ordered list. Simples.
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by ernopp 5y ago
I just hope there won't be too much of a performance impact on my browser or the page load times
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by ernopp 5y ago
Awesome! I've always wanted something like this to exist. Thanks for building it <3
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by ernopp 5y ago
Here we go again.
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by ernopp 5y ago
Yep, it's not delicious.
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by ernopp 5y ago
Yep, accounting for carbon offshoring lowers the difference (US emissions gain 7% if you count consumption not just production, and China's lose 14%) but it still holds that China emits more per capita. https://ourworldindat
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by ernopp 5y ago
It's much easier to move teams than move companies, so worth having a look around at other adjacent teams you could move to.
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Electric vehicles: recycled batteries and the search for a circular economy(ft.com)
1 points by ernopp 5y ago|0 comments
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by ernopp 5y ago
It's from Preston Byrne (added this in my original comment). The reason I think it's relevant is that posts like Palmer's attack only the "scam side" of crypto (the 99%) without acknowledging the "new paradigm&
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by ernopp 5y ago
"You can believe that 99% of crypto is bullshit while also believing that the 1% that isn't will change the world" - Preston Byrne
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by ernopp 5y ago
Thanks, I didn't know. I've updated my original comment
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by ernopp 5y ago
Nice post. For permanent storage you should check out https://www.arweave.org/ rather than IPFS + centralised pinning services like Pinata. With Arweave you pay a small upfront fee to have the network store your file foreve
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by ernopp 5y ago
DeFi protocols don't have KYC/AML systems. All they know about is your wallet, and from that wallet you can buy any token, borrow/lend, add liquidity to a market-maker pool, etc.
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by ernopp 5y ago
Indeed. There was a great article in the FT on this looming battle recently: > Human society, the historian Niall Ferguson says, oscillates between the dynamic of a metaphorical “tower” and the “square”. Sometimes institutions or leaders
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by ernopp 5y ago
The French equivalent to Lambda school is https://www.42.fr/ which actually predates Lambda by 3 years and is operating at larger scale (29 campuses worldwide). It's also free unlike Lambda.
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by ernopp 5y ago
Spot on. I've been working in startups for 10 years (my whole career so far) because I was optimising for learning, not financial return. I made the bet that startups would be the fastest way to learn (breadth of tasks, workload, expos
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by ernopp 5y ago
Could we do that with a low-enough performance hit?
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by ernopp 5y ago
I wonder how we could get more people to experience this effect... Something like what Stewart Brand did by pushing for and publicising the first whole earth picture (in part via the Whole Earth Catalog) but more for the internet age. I was
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by ernopp 5y ago
I love this quote from Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14) on seeing Earth from the Moon: You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something abo
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by ernopp 6y ago
He can write all the posts about software engineering practices he wants his server is still down right now :)
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by ernopp 6y ago
Apparently there is a 1 year lock-up period for the sponsors & directors during a SPAC [1] Which I guess means it's harder for e.g Social Capital to do a pump & dump (in the case of Clover they couldn't sell until June 202

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