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by fhd2 2y ago
Absolutely, very happy Fastmail customer here! My only qualm is that their apps could be better at multi account (switching is too much of a hassle), but that's the only problem I ever had, and I work around it by using different mail&
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by fhd2 2y ago
Agreed. Even if right now this seems like stuff companies want to throw money at for novelty/FOMO related reasons, I think eventually reality ought to catch up. Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the most efficient companies of
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by fhd2 2y ago
Not sure why this is down voted, that is the key question. Impact means different things to people. Could be: 1. Building a sustainable business and making decent money 2. Building a market leader and making ludicrous amounts of money 3. Ad
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's tragic, that the whole "superhero" narrative around neurodiversity was probably meant to be hopeful, but yeah, it's almost the opposite nowadays. Plenty of people with autism e.g. don't have special skills, the
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by fhd2 2y ago
This. If your company is on two floors, you have a remote company anyway. In my experience, it's not _entirely_ that simple though. For some people, chatting and video calls feel super awkward and makes them avoid communication. For ot
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by fhd2 2y ago
Not affiliated with OP and therefore unable to answer your question, but there's a lot of products that built traction that way: WordPress, GitLab, Discourse, Docker, Ubuntu, ... I think it solves the problem of gaining traction today,
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by fhd2 2y ago
I actually was thinking about saying "maybe you can only do the one, not the other". I think it's naive to assume that any one country or association will regulate without regarding the effects on their economy and political
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by fhd2 2y ago
Parent talked about tech companies, not "AI". If you mean companies focusing on generative AI, there's a few here, like Mistral.
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by fhd2 2y ago
As a EU citizen, if I had to chose between those two, I'd go for regulating. Sure, I don't get perks like SV level salaries (and the costs of living to go with it), but I do believe regulation like this takes a large amount of vis
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by fhd2 2y ago
It is higher: "[...] up to €35 million ($38 million) or 7% of a company’s annual global revenue, whichever is higher. "
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by fhd2 2y ago
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but the phrase "So long, and thanks for everything" used in the tweet reminds me of "So long, and thanks for all the fish" from the dolphins in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Seems a bit harsh. Playing video games has no particular ROI (unless you want to go into creative arguments), but they cost money and take up time. Fulfillment, joy, wisdom, those are valuable even if you can't exchange them for cash.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I don't care about Apple, so I don't care about the ad. It lowers my (already pretty low) opinion of them, but that's about it. If this kind of thing was done by a company I'm a huge supporter of, sunk a lot of money int
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by fhd2 2y ago
Not the parent, but also degoogled as much as pragmatic lately. For files and photos, I use an NAS in my home (Synology). Works pretty smooth with automated photo backup etc. For office stuff I just use Libre Office, I don't need colla
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by fhd2 2y ago
You would. And if the juniors don't really _write_ code in the languages you use, if they don't make mistakes and do research themselves, it'll take them a lot longer to learn them sufficiently to be able to do those reviews.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Is that a bad thing? If you're building an MVP, do you really worry about how 2k developers are going to work on this 10 years from now? Requirements change and the code base needs to adjust with those requirements, that's gonna h
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, the nice thing with Python types is that the _only_ difference to untyped Python is the type annotations. Last time I worked with TypeScript (two and a half years ago), it felt more like a different language _similar_ to JS. In my exp
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yeah, I think that's a good point. I'm actually quite on the fence about dynamic and static typing - I like both. With a small team that knows what they're doing, I tend to go dynamic. With a larger team, it does tend to beco
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by fhd2 2y ago
Why don't you like it? Personally, I don't like it either. Firstly - entirely irrationally - because I don't like Microsoft. I grew up with them acting incredibly hostile towards the open source community and the rest of the
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yup, essentially what I think. With the caveat that I find the act of programming to be one of the best ways to deeply explore, understand and learn things. So in other words: I see a lot more value in coding than I see in code. I'm su
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by fhd2 2y ago
My perspective (as a CTO who's hired hundreds of developers in the past 12 years) is that I don't have a use case for Devin, from what I've seen about it. That comes down to why I hire developers in the first place: To share
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by fhd2 2y ago
Depends on where you live I suppose, but you can get by even on unemployment benefits in most of the EU from my experience. That's a good safety factor. And I don't think anyone here said to only do things you want to do at all co
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by fhd2 2y ago
Excellent advice I also give! If your main passion is something other than making money (I know plenty of people whose primary passion that seems to be), I guess you can't really go wrong with trying to do something you're good at
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by fhd2 3y ago
> But it was of course a complete non-starter for pair programming. After having tasted Visual Studio (± Code) Live Sharing, there was simply no going back. Interesting that the straw that broke the camel's back for the author was p
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by fhd2 3y ago
People working on open source don't necessarily do it for free, I know tons who are sponsored by their company. That aside, at least in Germany, there is a considerable amount of volunteers, e.g. in social work.
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by fhd2 3y ago
> One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing [...] Bri
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by fhd2 3y ago
Didn't downvote you, but that's not a hopeful attitude. If the damage is done, figuring out who to blame doesn't repair it. Sometimes we gotta clean up somebody else's mess or nobody will. As programmers, quite routinely
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by fhd2 3y ago
That sounds like a fitting definition of art. I do think it is a viable career path though: Maybe you won't make things with 100% freedom 100% of the time, but you can apply the skills built for your art in profitable endeavors. I know
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by fhd2 3y ago
They're trained (and possibly scripted) to not "know" things or not be able to do things. But at their core, they're going to generate the most plausible continuation, even if that isn't very plausible (like non-exi
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by fhd2 3y ago
Right, I was thinking of Figma in 2024 for some reason (they seem to have conquered the market, I'll just assume they're profitable with that pricing they have), the article talks about Figma in 2022, from what I gather. Should ha

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