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by fhd2 4y ago
True. So laid off marketers are probably more successful founders than laid off engineers these days.
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by fhd2 4y ago
Yeah, sounds like they could have just raised the price of the original. But I guess they are convinced that this would still cannibalise their other offerings, which I suppose monetise better. So it's more like you having two gas stat
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by fhd2 4y ago
From some quick research, it at least says that he's based in Denmark - but I couldn't figure out where he actually grew up. That said, from what I know, education in Denmark and Germany is sufficiently similar for my hypothesis t
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by fhd2 4y ago
I doubt the premise that everything will be NNs, but I can't predict the future any more than anybody else. What I find interesting in this imagined future is that problem definition usually happens, in my experience, while attempting
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by fhd2 4y ago
That's the key question here. I've personally not been exposed to such a sense of superiority over people of the past. I grew up in Germany, and I remember history class showing lots of examples of ingenuity and at worst mistakes
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by fhd2 4y ago
I agree, Mozilla has been on a very weird path since then. Not sure Eich would have made a positive difference though. Brave's main claim to fame is that they took Chromium and added an ad blocker. At the same time, they dabble(d?) in
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by fhd2 4y ago
Did you really not miss anything from the physical books? I tend to buy the most highly recommended books for areas I'm interested in, and the quality of explanation and structure routinely beats anything I can find about the topic onl
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by fhd2 4y ago
I've been working in the privacy space for a few years and always had the same opinion. If a customer doesn't trust the data processor, the logical conclusion is to not send any sensitive data at all, which is technically possible
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by fhd2 4y ago
I remember three events that created a massive amount of startups: Personal computing, the internet, and then mobile. What these have in common are new ways in which people use computers, combined with a large expansion in usage. AI by itse
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by fhd2 4y ago
The same would be true for developers asking the LLM to refactor or transpile a piece of code. While I agree that it takes a certain level of naivity to happily paste code into it without considering what that means for copyright you may no
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'm also annoyed by the hype. For me, it's a combination of two things: 1. I'm just naturally averse to any sort of hype. Maybe something I should talk to a therapist about because it's only rational to some degree. I&#x
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'd call that a continuous rewrite, which is also the strategy that worked best for me. If you're not willing to make these investments as you go, you may well end up in a full-rewrite-or-die situation, I suppose. Comes down to ho
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by fhd2 4y ago
How would you suggest someone new to consulting handles sales? I've talked to consultants that get all of their leads from old conference talks they did, but you advise against it. In my book, there is a finite number of options: 1. Go
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by fhd2 4y ago
These companies work not for their employees, but for their shareholders. I suppose shareholders would have revolted if they hadn't increased investment to potentially hit it big when they could. Turns out these investments didn't
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by fhd2 4y ago
That's what's described in The Mythical Man Month at some lengths. No matter what the process, there's communication overhead that increases somewhat exponentially with team size, which means you get diminishing returns from
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by fhd2 4y ago
I personally took the plunge, with enough savings to make it several months until the first invoice is paid. Some clients pay on time, some don't, some go bankrupt or just drag it out infinitely, from what I've seen. Without that
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by fhd2 4y ago
Having run a couple of development teams on tight schedules, this is also what I arrived at, and I found it to work great for bigger teams in larger organisations too. With some caveats: 1) Be upfront about it, the PM or whoever is making t
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'm interested in "build an audience before building a product" - classically you would determine a target market/niche, build an MVP, and then attempt to market it, refine it with early customers. What kind of audience
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by fhd2 4y ago
I have the same worry. Another example: Is furniture nowadays more beautiful and durable than it used to be 100 years ago? Is there more variety now? Not in my book. Same goes for a lot of products that are now produced in the cheapest way
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by fhd2 4y ago
Can't believe how long I had to scroll to find the answer I agree with, effectively: "it depends". Going with car analogies, the question is similar to "Is a bus better than a race car?" - there's no correct an
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by fhd2 4y ago
Bit of a different take - I'm a programmer, but I've held the title CTO for the last 8 years. As a CTO, I've been routinely asked by non-technical peers and PR departments to represent the company more. Sometimes citing obscu
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by fhd2 4y ago
... which leads to further saturation, which means you need a sizable marketing budget and/or a lot of luck for anyone to discover and pay for your game. If it was up to me, I'd rather pay for art than ad space. But using a Red De
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by fhd2 4y ago
"Estimations will be asked even when you don't want to give them" I think usually it's not a matter of not "wanting" to give them. It's a matter of not wanting to take a wild guess - which is talked down i
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by fhd2 4y ago
I agree, I've yet to see any sufficiently large organisation successfully change their DNA. Gates hired people who thought like him, those people hired people who thought like them, and so on. The culture can and does change, but it ta
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by fhd2 4y ago
Seconding the Steam Deck - it's surprising how many games work well on it, and as a hobbyist game developer, it's great to run my own games on it. The fact that it makes a perfectly acceptable Linux desktop with zero tinkering blo
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by fhd2 4y ago
I know you're joking, but what I suppose would need to happen is for someone to also come up with ways to do federated code discovery, search, browsing and ways to show off contributions. For issues and PRs there's mailing lists,
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by fhd2 4y ago
Absolutely agree. For some reason, empathy seems to be above average lacking in successful people, so they struggle to understand that what works for _them_ will not work for _everyone_. That's probably what happened here, and I see it
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by fhd2 4y ago
Didn't downvote you, but this is essentially why I have no desire to build anything for programmers - unless I happen to need it for myself, then I casually open source it (rarely actively maintained as soon as I stop needing it). I go
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by fhd2 4y ago
Can't tell why you're downvoted either - could have been a bit more constructive, like your second post, I guess. Otherwise I agree: 10x certainly invokes the mythical "10x programmer" to me, but looking through the list
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'm not blind, but a relative turned blind relatively early in their life (when I was still a child), so it's been present in my thoughts at least. I love the take that there is an advantage - building stronger conceptual skills i

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