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by firefoxd 2y ago
When I was leaving a job, I decided to start documenting things. I had a solid documentation before I gave my two weeks notice. Then I used the remaining time to refine it, it was a pretty good documentation. A month after I left, they cont
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I think this article is teaching you how to dance on a song that isn't being played for you. Unless the feedback is something that is going to benefit, or improve your own work, then toss it aside. My experience [1]. Unless your compan
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I've completed the draft of Part 1 of my online book "Automated Agents: How effective chatbots work" I'm writing about my experience building a chatbot at a startup as engineer #1. It started as a blog post, but I had so
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You have to see those whales skeletons in person to understand their sheer size. And if you want to know more than you need to about whales, pick up a copy of Moby Dick. Don't be intimidated by the size. I still can't believe this
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Just the Facts About US Energy Use, Production, and Environmental Impact(youtube.com)
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The problem is everyone thinks Data will give you the answer. Does returning to office increase productivity? How do you measure productivity? Let me tell you how we increased productivity by 19% last year. Our VP aimed to increase producti
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I'm writing a book publicly: Automated Agents [1]. When I first joined a startup building a chatbot for customer service, there was a lot of noise and hype. We built a decent product and our company went from 3 people to 30 in 2 years.
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What 2 decades of coding taught me is, it all depends on the company. We all aspire to write clean code that scale. But most often then not, you inherit the code. If you work for a company that is built to sell, you will code fast and break
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Where I used to work, their theat was less subtle: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxqnx/dont-mess-with-us-web...
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I haven't blogged in a while, so i decided to write a blog post about my experience building a chatbot that was actually generating revenue and helping people. There is a lot of noise in this field, but at the same time no real informa
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If I compared it to the service provider in Guinea, I can also say that you are overpaying way too much.
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It's now possible. I work for a mvno that was recently acquired. We have a $5 pause plan. It has no data, voice or text, it just keeps your line active.
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I think you are talking to the right audience who will be excited about all the tools you shared. But to me all these things get in the way of writing. I wrote my first book (short story) entirely on gedit 2.x. It's only when I complet
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There is Adlam for Fulani [1]. Widely spoken in west Africa. However, I'm still trying to familiarize myself with the writing system. The word for "yes" in fulani does not translate in writing. The best way I can write it is
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When the hype was focused on chatbots, I joined a startup that built one focused on ecommerce. It turned into a useful product that actually help real customers. Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a useful chat a
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Yep, you can print it out. My goal was to provide the printing. You can purchase a bundle of QRs stickers, or print it for free. Next year I'll do a show hn.
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Eventually I'll get to it...
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You can chat through the dashboard. Email only. Basically, the finder scans it, sends a message. The owner gets a notification through the app, or email, replies. The scanner can create an account to chat. No personal info is exchanged, unl
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Except they don't have the cutesy startupy mascot that I have.
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Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations. The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all so
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No one is dropping the term AI. There's only one culprit in all this: McKinsey. They are never the first to write the research, but when they do everyone follows. > McKinsey research estimates that gen AI could add to the economy be
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When I was leaving for America, my aunt pulled me aside and had a serious talk with me. "Be very careful," she ended. My thoughts? She was jealous that I was going to America and not her kids. I had just turned 18. But then, I fou
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Earlier in my career, every single person in my team had a website. At lunch we would talk about how we built it, servers, fail2ban, zipbomb, etc. Many years later, one coworker has a website under construction, and others say they have not
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Couple weeks ago, I took my kids to a class at the mall, then decided to use their free wifi. I logged in successfully with my laptop, but it said no Internet. I checked the default gateway and it took me to a cisco modem. It had all sort o
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I started mine in 2017, after I left the start up i co-founded. 2 months later, the app was. I still haven't posted a show hn. In fact, after 2 years, someone approached me saying he is building the exact same product, but in Germany.
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At some point automated emails will be read by auto reader, then the cycle will be completed. I've actually made an internal company April fools website. Too bad I've never kept a copy but here goes. It's called Proxy Ai. It
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Fun fact, we fixed this issue by adding a #profanity tag and dropping the message to the next human agent. Now our most prolific sales engineer could no longer run demos to potential clients. He had many embarrassing calls where the Ai woul
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Well that was fast. Kudos, really neat. Speed trumps everything else. I only noticed the robotic voice after I read the comments. I worked on an Ai for customer service. Our agent took the average response time of 24/48 hours to merely
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They could have saved money by hiring developers who are cheap. Not cheap developers. My team requested access to a tool in the company, and the finance department said it was too expensive to get an additional license. We fought for 6 mont
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I remember the hype around BigData. I was in those meetings where vendors pitched their product. Our director would asked "Do you do Big Data?" Any vendor who said no was immediately dismissed. I still don't know what the an

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