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by leros 4y ago
I think there is an additional layer of complexity in understanding this topic because the scale of software at large companies breaks our concept of impact. You might feel like you're really impacting the world if you directly helped
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by leros 4y ago
That's true. He went from managing a 400 person group to now being an individual contributor in an intelligence role. I think he did some sort of training in between those jobs.
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by leros 4y ago
I have a friend who is an Army officer. It's interesting to talk to him about his work. He's weapons trained and all that, but his job basically boils down to being a mid-level manager managing a team of logistics people. Basicall
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by leros 4y ago
I can't read effectively for a long time on a screen, especially academic papers. I have a laser printer and print everything out to read.
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by leros 4y ago
I don't think it sounds that difficult to pull off. The underwater communication technology is probably something already developed, they just had to modify the devices with a new trigger mechanism.
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by leros 4y ago
I would probably say that 95% of my creative problem solving type work happened in unstructured conversations like hallway conversations. A lot of value was definitely lost there.
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by leros 4y ago
I used Papier, which is a Chrome extension that turns your new tab into a Markdown editor. I use it as my scratchpad. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...
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by leros 4y ago
I use text to speech on my phone about 5-10 times a year. My use case is when I don't know how to spell a word and I can't get autocomplete to figure it out for me.
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by leros 4y ago
You would be shocked how big seemingly small tech companies get as they grow/age. For example, you might start your site off by spending a week building a billing integration with Stripe. Ten years later, you have 10 engineers, 3 PMs,
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by leros 4y ago
I bet you're massively over-exceeding expectations, whether you realize it or not. I would challenge you to think about the performance of your coworkers and how you compare. How little can you work and still get a "meets expectat
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by leros 4y ago
Oh yeah, nothing wrong with it at all. Plus, you need the human team to be creating the training data set.
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by leros 4y ago
Amazon sends order confirmation and shipment emails, but all they do is reference an order number. Getting an email like "Your Amazon.com order #112-7222326-5625868 has shipped" is absolutely useless for me. I'm not a robot,
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by leros 4y ago
Ah yes, the classic AI startup with a team full of humans actually pulling levers behind the scenes.
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by leros 4y ago
I'm not unhappy about anything in particular. Superbase is fantastic and many of the upcoming things are things that I'm excited about. It's just that something I plan to work on for a long time, with lots of people, and that
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by leros 4y ago
This sounds really cool. I struggle from anxiety and the occasional panic attack. The only thing I've found so far that helps is the Wim Hof breathing exercise. Three rounds of that gets me grounded again no matter how bad my anxiety i
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by leros 4y ago
I like using ExpressJS with Typescript and a Postgres database. There are lots of great hosting options, but I'm using Heroku right now. I do really like the Firebase/Superbase options, but they impose restrictions and I don'
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by leros 4y ago
Is there an example of a company like Google getting broken up? It sounds like a nightmare from a technical point of view. Microservices from different divisions all using each other. Numerous divisions at Google sharing internal tools. All
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by leros 4y ago
I pay for a few software licenses through Gumroad. The people on the other end are successful small businesses.
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by leros 4y ago
I have noticed the font sizes getting a bit larger in recent updates to a few of the UI frameworks that I use. It must be the standard new thing.
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by leros 4y ago
You're numerical analysis is not wrong, but the implication that GumRoad is overrated is incorrect. There is nothing wrong with a platform like Gumroad only having a small percentage of very successful users. Gumroad itself is no magic
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by leros 4y ago
Recruiters and sales people use a plethora of tools that boil down to databases containing personal data from a variety of sources all linked together. It's very likely the recruiter was on your LinkedIn page and had a browser plugin t
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by leros 4y ago
This is pretty common these days. Whether you like the change or not, I doubt is anything nefarious.
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by leros 4y ago
I can't effectively read a screen. When I was in grad school, I got a laser printer and printed out nearly a ream of paper a week.
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by leros 4y ago
I think about it exactly the opposite. I'd rather have a team of engineers at Elastic waking up at 3am and fixing things than me having to wake up and fix things by myself. My most critical infrastructure for my one-man SAAS is all thi
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by leros 4y ago
I don't have fun so I can come back to work energized. I have fun because I want to have. That being said: I enjoy woodworking and other maker activities. Its nice to work in a physical space, rather than on a computer. I enjoy hiking,
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by leros 4y ago
Does this argument extend to suggesting that we have a moral duty to create life as long as that life lives a good life? If you you only have one child, should you have more? If we can raise animals humanely and kill them humanely, is that
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by leros 4y ago
This is the answer. I worked on a product that started out as a fixed price and we were pretty successful. We switched to a pay as you go model, and it just about tanked the business, despite it being cheaper for most of our customers. We l
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by leros 4y ago
Patience is a good advice. I'll also say, it's often important to let people in various functions add their input, even if you can operate all those functions yourself. My super power is being able to understand many aspects of th
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by leros 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm about to build a 20-30m long installation of LEDs and I've been working out the power distribution needs and such. This site is a perfect resource.
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by leros 4y ago
I used to have this problem, then I realized I was over optimizing. The eye opening experience for me happened when I needed to quickly setup a new kitchen so I went to Wal-Mart and just bought a bunch of cheap stuff as a temporary solution

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