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by koliber 3y ago
> It makes me think maybe China's social credit system might be more effective than what we have now. This whole Bird situation is horrible. Plenty unfortunate people made an investment in becoming fleet managers. Some are now bankr
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by koliber 3y ago
Your writeup, the idea of the app, and how you executed it is a breath of fresh air. The idea of building for a TAM (total addressable market) that is in single digits is a nice contrast to pretty much everything that's out there. Such
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by koliber 3y ago
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton I wonder if naming things is also tied in some way to the CAP theorem, or some other "difficult" tradeoff or mathemtically-h
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by koliber 3y ago
The original post is about income tax. While VAT is a tax, it is not an income tax.
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by koliber 3y ago
If you’re ever in need to geek out, hit up someone who posted something interesting and ask them if they’re up for chatting. It’s not the most comfortable thing to do, but I’ve had a some great conversations with random people from HN. You’
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by koliber 3y ago
Happy 2024. This year was full of surprises. Hard to tell which way they will go. Be curious, be adaptive, smile, and spread the love. Everything else will fall into place.
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by koliber 3y ago
Possibly. The courts will decide.
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by koliber 3y ago
The consumer will be free to choose what they demand from their tooling. If consumers decide that they only want to use generative AI that does what you propose, they’ll vote with their wallet. If they decide to use other ways of checking f
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by koliber 3y ago
Think about this!!!!
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by koliber 3y ago
Different hypotheses differ in strength. While a butterfly idea is a sort of hypothesis, it specifically denotes a particularly weak one with the most minimal amount of support. I like the term because it allows you to express the magnitud
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by koliber 3y ago
I’m no lawyer but I don’t think an employee has much legal responsibility. At worst, they can get fired if they keep producing work that infringes on someone’s copyright. Going with this line of reasoning, if a company uses ChatGPT to gener
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by koliber 3y ago
No. It”s still very helpful. However you can not blindly take whatever it produces and publish it. Sometimes it hallucinates. Sometimes it draws weird looking hands. Sometimes it generates copyrighted materials. Check the work it produces.
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by koliber 3y ago
The responsibility for ensuring that copyrights were not violated fall on the person publishing the work. Whether they drew something themselves, hired an apprentice artists with no legal training to draw something, took a photograph of som
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by koliber 3y ago
Your comment embodies one of the core tenets of what makes a great programmer. Great programmers are comfortable navigating ambiguity. They make mistakes but quickly correct course. They know how to test ideas in a way that yields signals f
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by koliber 3y ago
This might be a bit contrarian, but don’t read engineering oriented books. Read up on selling, marketing, and product design. These are the things that will help you make better decisions about what you will build. My bet is that you got th
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by koliber 3y ago
Your article was clear, informative, and I learned a few things from it. You can’t please everyone.
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by koliber 3y ago
Do they have only one huge table in the db that contains all of their entities? From the key structure that seems reasonable: shard id, type, object id. If that is the case, is a relational db still the right place to keep such data? It see
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by koliber 3y ago
How can I look it up?
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by koliber 3y ago
Perhaps back then it was also the case, but I did not know it. For me getting accepted and not being able to pay was the most terrifying prospect. Knowing what I know now, I would have gone about it a different way. Good advice for kids who
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by koliber 3y ago
In the paragraphs that follow he goes on to explain how people twisted their god's intent while writing the bible, at least on this particular topic.
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by koliber 3y ago
I hope you find some time to rest soon.
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by koliber 3y ago
In this case, the hook effect was so strong that I immediately thought about that writing advice. It's one of the best examples of that working on me that I can remember.
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by koliber 3y ago
No reason to be sorry. Things turned out quite well. I rarely share sad stories but this one provides a perspective that may be valuable for the conversation. Re rare immigration status: my family entered the US in 1990 as “indefinitely par
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by koliber 3y ago
I don’t know what affect striking down of affirmative action had on the stress level of college admissions. High achievers and the families that support them always had a lot of stress about college admissions. I read this article as “in 20
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by koliber 3y ago
Story time, to bring another perspective. When I was in high school, and it was time to choose colleges, I had a particular challenge. As an immigrant to the US, I had a legal immigrant status that was unconventional. Additionally, my famil
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by koliber 3y ago
Good writing advice says that each sentence has a single goal. The goal is to draw the reader in, and convince them to read the next sentence. This article does it masterfully. The title drew me in. The opening sentence finished the job. We
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by koliber 3y ago
I keep a list of recommended books, fiction and non-fiction. I try to note where the recommendation came from. Many come from people I know and who know me and my tastes. If a book is recommended by more people, it notches up. I then add mo
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by koliber 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this acronym. For a while I was using the concept of marketing awareness stages to foster change in my engineering teams. In marketing people are either unaware, problem-aware, solution-aware, product-aware, or fully a
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by koliber 3y ago
Quality of writing and quality of imagery varies a lot. It’s hard to do.
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by koliber 3y ago
You shared an interesting perspective, but ruined the delivery with the last line.

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