golddust-gecko

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by golddust-gecko 3mo ago
> I think it's ultimately about finding the organization that fits the workflow you want. This is a key point, and one that is rarely articulated. The problem -- for me, anyway -- with the Current Era is specifically the workload,
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by golddust-gecko 3mo ago
This is I think a very common issue. The term "startup" has two connotations: a nascent business trying to find its product/market fit and "a private business whose capital structure is dominated by VC money" Compan
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by golddust-gecko 4mo ago
> Yet I am immensely grateful that my ancestors chose to build homes and marry and have children I think this premise is questionable. I double that choice had much to do with it, for most of our ancestors. In particular a large fraction
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by golddust-gecko 4mo ago
I feel like this part is either a mistake, or a whole story in itself: > This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese scientist who demonstrated the relationship between surface roughness (an indicator
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by golddust-gecko 5mo ago
100% this. I'll also add another factor: it's become increasingly clear at our company that AI-enabled humans are getting to the bottom of the backlog of feature ideas much quicker. This makes the 'good ideas' part of th
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by golddust-gecko 5mo ago
> "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better" At best that's half of the equation. You also have to continually hire new people who give a shit, and you have to do that within the con
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by golddust-gecko 7mo ago
This is 100% true. You might wonder why, if businesses are the target, why not just make Windows a no-frills, solid base for the other offerings? Why slop it up? The answer there is cultural. Windows needs a large team just to keep supporti
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by golddust-gecko 1y ago
100% -- the conventional wisdom was that the x86 architecture was too riddled with legacy and complexity to improve its performance, and was a dead end. Itanium never met an exotic computer architecture journal article that it didn't t
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by golddust-gecko 1y ago
Agree 100% with this. It gives the illusion of understanding, like when a precocious 6 year old learns the word "precocious" and feels smart because they have can say it. Or any movie with tech or science with <technical speak&
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by golddust-gecko 1y ago
Perhaps it's nothing, but: > “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon,” says Dohmke in a memo to GitHub employees today. “I’ll be staying thr