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by koliber 3y ago
Maybe. Another possibility is that the company is capable of solving problems. It identifies a problem, creates a plan, and comes up with a solution. OP feels good in such a process. Maybe the company is solving the wrong problems and is us
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by koliber 3y ago
Imagine you are in a new city for the first time. You have an old-school printed map in hand. You're trying to find your way to some landmark. You can sit down and plan out a route along the map. That will work. You'll find a way
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by koliber 3y ago
As an aside, the gibberish-ish output is a goldmine for brainstorming brand names, proper nouns, and inventing sci-fi terminology.
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by koliber 3y ago
In 2001 or so, I was building an HTML based email client. We used a hidden iframe to execute JS to load data from the server and manipulate the DOM with the result. It was not quite as neat and elegant as this—the browser support was not th
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by koliber 3y ago
For people from Europe not familiar with the big drug stores the parent is referring to: these drug stores are more like a Rossman with a pharmacy counter in the back.
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by koliber 3y ago
I like O(fuckit) even better than O(zero)! Thank you for sharing this.
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O(zero)(koliber.com)
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by koliber 3y ago
I have an impression that it has become easier to fit carry-on luggage. When I was younger I was that guy with the giant carry-on. It used to happen that I needed to hand off my carry-on to the flight attendant as there was no place for it
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by koliber 3y ago
I am not an expert here so I may be mixing terms and concepts. The way I understand it, there is a base model that was trained on vast amount of general data. This sets up the weights. You can fine-tune this base model on additional data. O
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by koliber 3y ago
LLMs are able to utilize “all the worlds” knowledge during training and give seemingly magical answers. While providing context in the query is different than training models, is it possible that more context will give more materials to the
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by koliber 3y ago
That’s generating 60,000 PDFs per minute, or 1,000 per second. That is not slow. As a very rough benchmark, print this page to a PDF file to see how long it takes.
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by koliber 3y ago
My favorite interview question is “What have you changed your mind about in the past 6 months?” Usually it leads to a short and interesting conversation, either about their answer, or about change mindset in the meta level. Sometimes there
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by koliber 3y ago
A lot of this advice is truly good. However, each of those “actions” requires you to learn what exactly that thing entails. It’s vague because it’s a gross summary, not because it is worthless. Building a company requires a lot of different
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by koliber 3y ago
Often OKRs are forced into engineering teams and the result is that they don't deliver value. However, there are ways of doing OKRs in engineering teams as well. I recently wrote up a little account of how I used an OKR around linter e
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by koliber 3y ago
If the metric is stupid, then you're right that it is a waste of time to hit it. Part of the OKR process is defining meaningful goals (Objectives) and ways of measuring progress towards them (Key Results). If you do this part decently,
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by koliber 3y ago
What do you do instead to drive non-trivial goals that take a quarter or longer to accomplish? How do you plan the work? How do you motivate yourself and your team? How do you show progress? How do you communicate with other teams on whom y
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by koliber 3y ago
OKRs are often done wrong. I would not go as far as call them "bullshit" or useless. Just because many people are doing something incorrectly, does not mean that there is no way of doing it well in a way that provides value. The b
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by koliber 3y ago
In a similar fashion, you can not type the capital letter Ł in Notion. You type the letter with SHIFT-OPTION-L on the Polish keyboard on a Mac. Notion uses the SHIFT-OPTION-L keyboard combo for it's own purposes. This happens in many p
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by koliber 3y ago
You could crop the picture and the result would no longer be singed. However, if someone wanted proof that the cropped picture is genuine, you could offer the uncropped signed version and do a pixel by pixel comparison of the cropped area.
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by koliber 3y ago
How would adding a hyperlink to the black line cause the black line to show up more often?
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by koliber 3y ago
The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander. It’s about designing houses, and in a more general sense spaces for people. There is a powerful philosophy that he conveys in this book which applies to software engineering as well. S
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by koliber 3y ago
I spoke w. a Palo Alto vendor rep a few months ago. We were talking about the features of the firewall appliance one of my clients was using. They have a feature that effectively "tests" what the user is about to load in a virtual
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by koliber 3y ago
That’s a good point.
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by koliber 3y ago
So the beavers were getting too stressed out when transported on horseback. To solve this, they decided to drop them out of airplanes with parachutes. I don't like horseback riding either, but I would flip my beaver-lid if I was droppe
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by koliber 3y ago
Would it help to think of it as two workflows? The first workflow ends with a human. The second workflow is triggered by the human. To build those two workflows, use whatever tools allow you to build such no-human-in-the-loop workflows.
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by koliber 3y ago
There are companies that do this! It’s for proving that something existed at a particular moment back in time.
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by koliber 3y ago
Silly prediction: the only way to get guaranteed non-ai generated content will be to go to live performances of expert speakers. Kind of like going to the theater vs. TV and cinema or attending a live concert vs. listening to Spotify.
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by koliber 3y ago
How does this architecture handle this concern: Say I have a web application, written in JS running in the client browser. It uses the REST API. I also need an Android app. Does the Android app use the same REST API? If so, is the business
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by koliber 3y ago
Hindsight makes this easy to appreciate. Looking at it from the perspective of when these mobility companies started, there was a chance it could have worked.
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by koliber 3y ago
It’s called culture. Every culture is different. It takes generations to shape culture. A system such as a social credit system can have an impact on culture. But it’s not a prerequisite. Regardless of what methods you use to shape a cultur

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