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by fijiaarone 1y ago
“Close” meant secret in the 1940s. A “close secret” was next to “top secret” classification. See also the use of the word “close” in literature, eg The Lord of the Rings “Gandalf is closer that ever”. To keep it close or to hold it close me
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
At what point before the US coup on 2014 was Ukraine not controlled by Russia? There is an answer, but probably only an actual Ukrainian “nationalist” can tell you. And it was only a couple of years.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
It’s like the lesson told in the paragraph above “this is what my team did” and imply “and I am their manager”. This is what I learned and imply “and I can help you learn too”
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Does “consumer co-op” mean that you have to buy a plastic card in order to get the corporation money, like Costco?
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
VCs don’t have ROI. They’re gambling with someone else’s money and taking big fees. ROI implies that there is a return — but they’re already making more than they deserve just for the fee, and they are not investing anything themselves.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
100 units isn’t 100% of available cash and equity. It’s the minimum number of units that founder (investors) think they can get employees to work for. Most of the time in well funded startups they can afford to pay 200 units of cash and 50
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
I definitely thought like the first commenter at first but the realization that you admitted what you did wrong and accepted responsibility for it really won my over by the end of your post.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
NCR maintains legacy POS systems with a mostly outsourced labor force. Splunk maintains a logging aggregator with a mostly San Francisco staff. A manager’s job at NCR is mostly about cracking the whip to try to get your team to solve boring
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
If the younger generation is too pandered and can’t take criticism or honest feedback, thats the fault of the older generation.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
The protocol for interacting with code is files and text. You need to define an interface for Ai to click buttons? Or to create keyboard macros that simulate clicking buttons? We are all doomed!
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Google and Amazon were doing things at roughly the same scale* 20 years ago on slower hardware and less of it. * They might be serving twice as much (but definitely not ten times as much) as they were in 2005 but mostly that scales horizont
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Conway wasn’t proscribing a goal, he was describing a problem.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
The problem isn’t refactoring, its that it was failed, abandoned, or incomplete. And that’s usually because the person or small group that began the refactor weren’t given the time and resources to do the refactor, and uninterested or unkno
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Mostly I agree with what the author is saying. But there is a clear distinction between the simplest “system” and do the simplest thing. The simplest thing to do is almost always the easiest, but knowing what is easiest thing to do is a lot
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Mostly I agree with what the author is saying. But there is a clear distinction between the simplest “system” and do the simplest thing. The simplest thing to do is almost always the easiest, but knowing what is easiest thing to do is a lot
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
There's nothing stopping humans from visiting websites. But humans don't want to do that. They want AI slop, they want Google SEO spam. They don't want to hear from real people. They want the YouTube/Tiktok/Insta-
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
DynamoDB is actually an anti-product, and MySQL/PostgreSQL costs $10/month for a faster, more scalable version.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Somehow I knew what RFC2549 was without knowing what it was.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Exactly, you're selling inconvenience. Management usually has to work hard all day long to annoy the employees under them.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
The goal in sales is to flatter people (with attention) whose job is to spend other people's money.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
You're clearly not the type of person who makes buying decisions at a large company.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Ah...but have you considered that there are also CEOs?
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
That logic probably applies to NVIDIA too.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
It takes me an hour to write 100 lines of slop -- code or text. AI can do it in 1 or 2 minutes. That might have something to do power usage.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
CEOs don't have any data.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
Well, in Intel's case, they were already in a nose dive, so it's not really macroeconomic. But for most tech companies, yeah -- when money isn't free (or cheaper) there is no business model.
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by fijiaarone 1y ago
The job of the high paid people in finance at prestigious firms is to look nice in an expensive suit. Know many people in tech with those qualifications?
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by fijiaarone 2y ago
Yeah, react developers don’t even realize that there is execution time as well as download time for an app.
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by fijiaarone 2y ago
You’ll add at least 100kb of text for class names styling each HTML element using tailwind.
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by fijiaarone 2y ago
After IBM & AT&T

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