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by jongjong 1y ago
Sure, I agree that greed is the root of all problems. Regulations are a symptom of greed; people want to protect their interests and are willing to incrementally corrupt the system to achieve it; that's what a lot of regulations are. B
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by jongjong 1y ago
I was in relatively early in the web as a developer, I was in early on the crypto movement, also as a developer. These technologies didn't fix the problems. There is too much regulation, you can't do anything without a license. Th
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by jongjong 1y ago
You wish. The people who uphold this system almost certainly want excuses to lock up those people who see the system for what it is. Thankfully, you don't need to be a scammer to 'just get by' in such crooked system, it'
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by jongjong 1y ago
Interesting but I wouldn't call that a gotcha. Trying to read the DOM outside of the component is kind of an anti-pattern and I think this kind of behavior should be expected. You'd generally want the web component to be a black b
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by jongjong 1y ago
Government almost always seems to overpay for everything. It's a racket to benefit big finance. The idea that everything is so complex that only a small number of suppliers are capable of building any machine is preposterous. I bet you
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by jongjong 1y ago
I wonder how much macroeconomics and politics had to do with Yahoo's situation. During this period, the US had been exporting large amounts of dollars to foreign investors (US going into deficit) and these foreign investors didn't
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by jongjong 1y ago
I suppose the industry is not hot right now. EdTech was never really very hot. It was 'luke warm' at best, a decade ago. They own a lot of software, also, they publish their own math textbook (both digital and print). They have li
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by jongjong 1y ago
They have a lot of employees. I think over 50. Probably more than they need and they re-invest a lot in the business. Also, the cost of $15 per user per year is VERY LOW.
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by jongjong 1y ago
I worked for an ed-tech startup as employee number 4, joined when it was obscure; not even in the Alexa top 4 million rankings and almost no revenue. The founder was really good though and gave everyone shares instead of options. I got a bi
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by jongjong 1y ago
SPAs are nice when your app requires complex state; multiple rows of nested tabs, modals, multiple interlinked select inputs which load data dynamically, charts or graphs which can lazy-load data and update on the fly in response to user ac
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes and surely it's a cost which can be reduced over time by improving automation and/or by cutting back on regulations.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Can confirm, you can do some good vibe coding with JavaScript (or TypeScript) and Claude Code. I once vibe coded a test suite for a complex OAuth token expiry issue while working on someone else's TypeScript code. Also, I had created a
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by jongjong 1y ago
Makes sense since a model can understand any language it was trained on. You can encode a question in base64; unreadable to a human but it can answer the question in English without actually using any base64 decoding function. It can also u
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's weird because revenue can easily be gamed. I could set up a shell company and quickly sell expensive goods back and forth between the two companies and achieve any revenue number I want. Profits are much harder to fake however, es
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by jongjong 1y ago
That's an interesting framing but I'd still contend that an LLM doesn't seem to hold both ideas 'at the same time' because it will answer confidently in both cases. It depends on the input; it will go one way or the
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by jongjong 1y ago
Google Docs and Libre Office both produce compatible documents. There's really no reason to force one or the other. It's just conflating needs. Document editing and file storage are two different tasks. It's weird that people
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by jongjong 1y ago
Maybe it's the a genuine problem with AI that it can only hold one idea, one possible version of reality at any given time. Though I guess many humans have the same issue. I first heard of this idea from Peter Thiel when he described w
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by jongjong 1y ago
Microsoft is using an artificially complex everything as a lock-in tool. I learned this many years ago when I learned how to create a window in C++ and it took around 100 lines of over-engineered code just to create an empty window on Windo
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by jongjong 1y ago
I think there's not much point trying to define these concepts as there is no consensus about what they mean. Different people have clear ideas about what each concept means but they just don't agree. It's like integration te
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes especially when combined. I actually think capitalism has merit but you need a strong government on top to ensure that a level playing field is guaranteed and maintained. I think this partly explains China's relative success over t
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by jongjong 1y ago
It would take an essay to explain it fully because it's a scam in almost every aspect including in the way it uses complexity to hide the mechanics of the scam... But I can point to a few things. For example all money is created either
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by jongjong 1y ago
I learned that the fiat system was a scam so I joined crypto, then I learned crypto was a scam too. That's when I understood that everything which exists and will ever exist is or will be a scam. If something existed which wasn't
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by jongjong 1y ago
I think money is very important. My experience is; if you get lucky, you might meet someone who will stay with you even without money, but you basically have to live through trauma together, to create that kind of bond. I feel like only ext
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by jongjong 1y ago
In Australia, I'm a software engineer and don't own property so I'm a peasant but my parents are in the noble class. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find things to talk about with them because almost everything
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by jongjong 1y ago
I suspect it could be worse than that. It feels like certain countries' tech sectors are being partly taken over by IT workers from foreign intelligence agencies or from foreign entities with ulterior motives. Especially when you consi
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's totally not true that only a small number of people are spreading all the contrarian ideas online. I remember where was some media coverage about 'The disinformation dozen' during COVID; what a load of rubbish. How can a
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by jongjong 1y ago
Cursor does add value but it's just a thin layer on top of VSCode so companies could just build that in-house and don't need to acquire. There's no moat there.
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's strange why Orwell gets so much more attention than Aldous Huxley. I feel like modern reality is a lot closer to 'Brave New World' than '1984'. Brave New World describes a world saturated with endless streams o
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by jongjong 1y ago
People don't party if their life is bad.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Oh my, people complaining about getting free traffic from ChatGPT... While most businesses are worried about all their inbound traffic drying up as search engine use declines.

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