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I’ve been using the API for a few weeks and routinely get 529 overloaded messages. I wasn’t sure if that’s always been the case but it certainly makes it unsuitable for production workloads because it will last hours at a time. Hopefully th
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Just avoid JavaScript frameworks altogether.
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I’m uncomfortable using most JS frameworks. The churn is so high and something new comes out every couple of years. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old developer, I am currently using minimal JS, native when possible and jquery as nee
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It's been a while since I've read Anil's musings. I miss the old Internet and have looked for pieces of it online. I can't speak to the political motivations of Substack but something changed around 2014 and the Internet
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+1 - value proposition was super clear.
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I considered sending the prints to a company that scans them. I was in LA at one time and toured their offices. Ultimately, I decided to use Photo Scan (an iOS app by Google - not sure if it’s still around). I grouped photos by general time
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You’re right. I have a video recording of a my grandparent talking on the porch of his home in India where my parents grew up. He was describing the elephants that roamed the area and how he and his siblings would help tend the land. Truly
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The finality of death feels impossible to grasp. I think of this with my parents who are in their 90s and live on the other side of the world. I also think of it with my own children - how do you say goodbye when you’re the one leaving? I l
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I was wondering about something related. Will there be universities in 10 years? The obvious answer is yes. But I’m having a hard time imagining universities 10 years from now remotely resembling the behemoths they are today.
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Her feedback comes from using it primarily for her interior design business in which she is already an expert. She wants answers to her questions and seems satisfied with the quality of answers she receives. It was news to her that ChatGPT
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I introduced my wife to ChatGPT. A week later she told me “ChatGPT is everything I always wanted Google to be”. It was a much more enlightening comment than any detailed review or analysis could provide me. That quickly, over a decade of bu
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I’ve been writing software for 20+ years. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who hasn’t had the problems Docker solves.
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There's a camp of people who are hyper-fixated on LLM hallucinations as being a barrier for value creation. I believe that is so far off the mark for a couple reasons: 1) It's possible to work around hallucinations in a more cost
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I came to say the same thing. Ours is above our back sliding glass door which is about 8’ wide. Does a great job keeping the room cool in the summer.
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I think this is correct. Time is not, metaphorically, just the perception of elapsed seconds. There is a dimension of depth. And while it may “fly by” it can feel slow if it was spent with depth. An hour on social media and time laughing wi
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Some great suggestions in the article. The best ones I think are to stay focused and not jump to another idea and to focus on marketing. Both are hard for folks who enjoy building. If you want to make money you have to grow in the opposite
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That sounds like a terrible year. I feel sorry for the poster. Life can come at you fast and sometimes I feel like I’m just bracing myself for such a life changing event. I too was at Google. But for 7 years, not 10. And my employment termi
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Those are the exception and get me amped up.
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Ha. That’s the hypothesis I shared in my other comment. I’m hopeful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544537
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My hypothesis is that it reflects the shift away from consumer and SMB products to Silicon Valley mostly funding enterprise software. 101 North into San Francisco was an exciting drive in the 2000s. I t the 2010s it slowly started to change
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Honestly, this sounds like the sound bites I’ve seen on social media. Getting married is definitely not expensive. In Ohio it costs $30-$70. And you can have an affordable reception. If you’re talking about a reception you can’t afford - su
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The cost of homes and renting a home have seemed to go up disproportionate to wages. However, I know young couples who have purchased small homes. And I wondered why or how it differs from couples who haven’t or say they can’t. One observat
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Same. I don’t interact with any of my inner circle on social media and find it odd to see spouses talking to each other in non-private Facebook comments.
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Wireshark :) - https://trywireshark.com It’s a departure from software for me. From the site: Wireshark is a patent pending wiring system which lets experts and novices complete projects faster and at a lower cost with professio
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That’s interesting. Are companies coming to you and you propose the technical solution for their problem statement?
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Think they're renting GPUs from the cloud providers? Very plausible. I'm not sure at which point it makes economic sense to buy the GPUs and build out the infrastructure to continually be training something like Claude.
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Anyone building the largest of LLMs including Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic
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It will be interesting to see how AI opportunities evolve and if open source models will play the same role as the public infrastructure of the dotcom boom did. Or if closed models will dominate. For example, by the largest companies levera
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Sometimes, simple feedback like this leads to a complete refactoring which addresses the main point of the refactor but misses the mark on so much more...for all of eternity.
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> Slack was started because customers preferred the instant messaging part of the game, rather than the game itself. Wait, Slack was created in the same way Flickr was by Butterfield? I know this was true for Flickr but didn't reali

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