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by evanmoran 2y ago
Netflix is curated and not user created, so I’d say TikTok is more like YouTube. Then of course everyone copied the format including YouTube, IG, X, and even LinkedIn (saw this one just today). But even with that slight naming difference,
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I’ll try to be a bit more direct than other answers, so apologies if it is too much, but let me say that such a move would make more sense if you want to switch to a developer role. I’d say it is not a good plan for a PM role as honestly PM
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by evanmoran 2y ago
As someone who has worked in the game industry for years both in AAA and indie, I’d say the switching costs are quite high and proportional to the team and code size. The reason it can be so challenging is a late change can easily double yo
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by evanmoran 2y ago
The difference is that web/social media is branded as an intelligent being you can ask any question of. We all agree the web is _also_ not reliable, but many people will think GPT / Gemini are verifiably accurate when they aren’t.
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I’ve seen this before as well, but as a parent with two kids who loves to wonder about this very question, I can assure you a five year old (a kindergartener) is much, much smarter then a dog. They are filled with ideas and imagination, mat
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I like the sentiment, but human children who are 2 completely dominate all known animal intelligence. They can speak in sentences and use tools in complex ways. There may be studies that show a raven might use a stick to help it find food.
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by evanmoran 2y ago
Yes, I’d say “sucks” means “bad” more than uncool. Clearly using stuff that your friends think is bad is immediately uncool so I can see how these can seem to mean the same thing :)
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I would add that PMF is an investor signal more than a founder one. Basically it says the product is good enough and the company is executing well enough to show extremely strong traction. It’s easy to spot this because the traction is too
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by evanmoran 2y ago
Just curious if other people feel the same way? My kid is right on the edge of the Minecraft-Roblox divide and I don’t have a strong opinion either way (he’s almost 7)
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I like this write up. Nicely done! One think I have enjoyed doing is using named parameters as the options, but it does require a second struct only for the option parts: NewObject( required1, required2, &Objec
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by evanmoran 2y ago
I have always thought it helpful to think of the first 3 years as a parent as an emotional and mental low point. Kind of like how buying a house is often a financial/savings low point (those down payments are brutal) having kids hits y
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by evanmoran 2y ago
Amazingly, her immortal cell line was instrumental in polio eradication! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Polio_eradication
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by evanmoran 2y ago
You can now detect field presence in several cases: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/field_presence/#pres... This is very solid with message types, but for basic types you can add `optional field` if needed
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by evanmoran 2y ago
They pulled the voice because it sounds similar enough, even if you don’t hear it. There are also several long form articles about it this morning to confirm further that it’s resonating as a major tech story because of those similarities.
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by evanmoran 3y ago
This fork is LGPL. Does anyone know of a fork that remains BSD? I’m sure this is fine for many people, but it isn’t ok for what I’m working on. Update: it looks like KeyDB is a good one. https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyD
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by evanmoran 3y ago
It looks great. I’m curious did you have any trouble with iOS app approval?
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by evanmoran 3y ago
If you like this, my other favorite essay by Joel is Making Wrong Code Look Wrong: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
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by evanmoran 3y ago
T* (T-star) is a great name.
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by evanmoran 3y ago
I can’t either because I’m using a strange new device called a phone and it says my device width is too small to support.
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by evanmoran 3y ago
On a related note, here’s a paper by (Hugo award winner) David Brin that I came across recently that talks about why we do not hear communications from other life forms in our galaxy. Not being found is a pretty good strategy for survival:
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by evanmoran 3y ago
I don't believe you're accurate. All apps that could charge money through Apple payments stopped doing so long ago and now are "free" with an external subscription or ads: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Microsoft Office, Slack,
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by evanmoran 3y ago
This 100%. I promise you that I’m not secretly very interested in Dragon Rider episodes without my kids present. They have their own accounts, but it is hard to share family movies or when they just use the wrong account. I also think half
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by evanmoran 3y ago
This is the most insightful take. Licenses like this prevent certain businesses in certain countries, but it is quite harmful as it adds a powerful tool for propaganda/scammers/etc who don’t care about the laws. Additionally, it o
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by evanmoran 3y ago
I’m not the author, but my sense was that the word theory was being used because it was it couldn’t be explained fully. An “understanding” would instead but potentially full known and documented or made into an API, etc. This theory idea is
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by evanmoran 3y ago
This is what returns are for! It is definitely worth the hassle for a better chip
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by evanmoran 3y ago
Yes, but it’s 100% that bad and they are closing stores because of it: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/90-target-workers-be-displa...
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by evanmoran 3y ago
I believe you mean tentacles.
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by evanmoran 3y ago
This is great, thank you. I do keep hearing about Kafta but I’m still mulling over what is in a message queue vs a db with similar state. For example a email queue could add an item for every email to send out. Is that clearer than an email
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Ask HN: What micro-services work best?
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by evanmoran 3y ago
Same in PA. I was a math major before switching to CS and this course order has defined mathematics in the US for 3 decades.

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