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by gen220 4y ago
They deliver more ads today than they have at any point in their history. That's a function of active users, and of their UX. The instagram/fb experience of today is not anything like it was 5 years ago -- there are a lot more ads
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by gen220 4y ago
Question for folks here: what is the bull case for Meta remaining a growth stock, given the current regulatory environment and uncertainty around the medium-term prospects of VR as an "attention" category? More concretely, what is
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by gen220 4y ago
Yea, I think the point-in-time, annualized R&D expense on 2023/03 will be the midpoint of the reported figure for 2022 and 20221. (~$30bn, where EOY 2022 was $35bn and EOY 2021 was $24.6bn). The layoff, we can imagine, impacted may
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by gen220 4y ago
Hrm, no. The $40bn they announced is forward-looking guidance for 2023. In 2022 they repurchased $28bn (2021 they repurchased $44bn) [1]. Not sure that I'd call this "admitting defeat on growth" as other people have said else
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by gen220 4y ago
FWIW, most of the people laid off by big tech are technically employees until the expiration of their severance. For example, Meta employees laid off in November are still technically Meta employees, as far as immigration is considered, and
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by gen220 4y ago
WhatsApp is the platonic ideal of a consumer-facing software company. Even if your product does not fit the same mold, we all have something to learn from them. I don't think it is commonly held up as a standard. Too few people are awa
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by gen220 4y ago
They never spent their Series A cash. What you're reading is a common misinterpretation of GAAP, which values equity on a cash basis, even though it has no material impact on the company balance sheet. If you look at the cash flow stat
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by gen220 4y ago
Any solution that work with Ubuntu should theoretically work with Debian. You'll just need to cobble it together more manually, I imagine. The good news is that Debian is a very popular distro. You'll be able to find copious amoun
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by gen220 4y ago
The suffix `Factory` often gets made fun of, but there are a few places where it makes sense. Sounds like this is one of them.
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by gen220 4y ago
Based on goomics [1], I think the social capital has been rotting or at best fragile, for a while [2] [3]. Alas, money-printing machines emit strong reality-distortion fields. As long as it's working, they'll have no issue finding
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by gen220 4y ago
There are many people who reach the director level and then transition careers outside of tech, because they can no longer get hired at that level. This is especially common during a downturn, when there's less money to go around for p
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by gen220 4y ago
I mean, when we read that page, it doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth -- saying this as somebody who's generally very skeptical of VC-backed FOSS. It seems like the founders have their heads and their hearts in the right place,
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by gen220 4y ago
I think this is more a situation of a small group of individuals looking to fund their development of FOSS scheduling software by offering a hosted solution, rather than a company using open source to grow faster. AFAICT, their goal isn&#x2
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by gen220 4y ago
You can run dyndns yourself if your dns provider has an API (e.g. cloudflare). Mine is a ~10 line bash script. Basic idea is `curr_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me | grep smth)`, then `curl -X POST https://your_dns_provider?dn=vpn.jtode.com
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by gen220 4y ago
Personally, I've found the workflow of markdown --[pandoc]--> LaTeX / HTML to be very productive. Having a single source of truth for web and PDFs is pretty nice. Editing Markdown is more pleasant than either HTML or LaTeX, and
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by gen220 4y ago
If you're Yvon Chouinard, whose goal is to keep Patagonia going in perpetuity as a funding vehicle for environmental activism, what else could you do? For the record: he divided up the shares into voting and non-voting. He "donate
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by gen220 4y ago
If you want to develop a healthy counterpoint to that cynicism, you should consider reading more about Patagonia. Speaking as somebody who's generally cynical about these moves as well. I'm less read-up on OpenAI. It does feel to
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by gen220 4y ago
Have they spoken about why they don't support it? Or plans to support it in the future? It seems like the shortest path to a universal package management tool for Python is to add this capability to Poetry, rather than to build somethi
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by gen220 4y ago
Does any FOSS package ecosystem have a good solution to this particular set of problems? I know Go has historically done something interesting with selecting the "minimum viable version number" for each dependency, but that's
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by gen220 4y ago
Respectfully, this reads like you're using outdated Python tools. Give Poetry [1] a shot, it has all the things you've listed here. Just as Node.js has come a long way in the last 5 years, Python has, too. Albeit, in a fashion tha
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by gen220 4y ago
I think Go (if you started using it in the `go mod` era) and Rust have the best stories around package management. The interface around `go mod` is kind of confusing, but I have actual trust in the dependency graph it generates for me. Carg
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by gen220 4y ago
In a phrase, it's having a single "bleeding edge" for the entire company, vs 1 bleeding edge per service. Some benefits of this include: You have one commit hash in one repo that tells you what version service/consumer X
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by gen220 4y ago
The (uncomfortable for us) reality is, for many people living in NYC, the things you mention are not considered minimum standards for a happy or fulfilled life. 4.4 million people in NYC are immigrants, many of them coming from situations w
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by gen220 4y ago
Not sure about it being a dream! They've constructed for themselves quite a nice life, but because it's technically in the shadows, there's a lingering paranoia that it can all be taken away. Re amounts: it's actually do
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by gen220 4y ago
Respectfully, you're projecting far too much into my comment. There are many human circumstances in NYC that are not acceptable, tenable, or sufferable. In fact, there are many that are exploitative, coercive, and frankly disturbing. T
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by gen220 4y ago
I worked for a company that did microservices well, and this was the norm, too. The term in my head is "golden path" or "sandbox". The languages were Go and Python, speaking protobufs over gRPC. Developing software outsi
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by gen220 4y ago
Which part is insane? Put another way, how would you implement this without self-managing pieces like nginx/apache, rabbitmq/kafka, or mongodb on a compute instance? The pieces of managed infra they're depending on are all pr
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by gen220 4y ago
Yep, if we zoom into the NYC area and filter by "Employer does not provide health insurance", this gives you a better picture. In addition, many of the people would not state that they're employed, FWIW. I agree that the &quo
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by gen220 4y ago
You're right! I went ahead and edited it to hem closer to my original intent. I totally agree that NY has a significant (income:cost of living) problem. My main objective was to draw attention to the difficulties in measuring the size
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by gen220 4y ago
I agree that we don't need the full picture to take meaningful action. I thought it was important to bring attention to the grey economy aspect, because so much of NYC would literally not function at all without it, and its existence a

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