malthaus

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by malthaus 1y ago
you're delusional. of course if you take the cheapest possible offshore workers you get terrible results when compared to an experienced engineer in a developed country. but it's a bit like ikea: if you buy their cheapest stuff it
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by malthaus 1y ago
you could have shortened your advice to: "leave germany"
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by malthaus 1y ago
isn't palantir just a bottom-tier consulting company (ie a body shop) with a brand, track record & contacts that get them on those "evil" projects? if not them, someone else would staff the grunts to fill up the demand in
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by malthaus 1y ago
and in what fantasy world would a system primarily used by questionable countries/organisations/individuals ever become a global standard?
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by malthaus 1y ago
im really tired of all those ai players just winging it can someone please find a conservative, sustainable business model and stick with it for a few months please instead of this mvp moving target bs
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by malthaus 1y ago
nothing grinds my gears more than "management wisdom" like this and people who then attribute success to small details like that. amazon could have thrived the same way had they used powerpoint, maybe even more. we will never know
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by malthaus 1y ago
the vast majority of people doesn't care about payment technology/channels, they just want it to be convenient and work and not having to context shift between "if i pay on vacation i need to use this card, if i pay this guy
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by malthaus 1y ago
it sounds like they're buying your confidence primarily
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by malthaus 1y ago
indeed armani lui has been my "signature scent" since i've turned 18 in 1999 (give or take) and those bastards just randomly changed the formula at some point. i still use it, it's still my fav scent by a mile but it&#x2
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by malthaus 1y ago
a16z is the new softbank when it comes to signaling short or run
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by malthaus 1y ago
same for me, i see it also as a mirror of people's approach to a happy life, ie. ticking the checkbox goals: marriage, kids, career, house, money for x, etc and finding (apparently?) satisfaction in that. while i never would or could,
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by malthaus 1y ago
in writing good sql code? i definitely would ai is not going to replace the senior sql expert with 20 years of battle experience in the short-term but support me who last dug into sql 15 years ago and needs to get a working sql query in a p
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by malthaus 1y ago
zuckerberg's next big miss in a future where AI is doing most of the mundane work, real / personal connections are infinitely more valuable as everything else becomes commoditized background noise
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by malthaus 1y ago
they have an infinite war chest and building windsurf/cursor isn't the hard part, building a brand and sales environment around it is. why risk failing the execution and losing focus when you can just buy one with momentum? it&#x2
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by malthaus 1y ago
communication is probably the most important skillset in any organisation and 9 months of interim work is not sufficient enough for you to realize it. so this reads like any other salty engineer who thinks he's smarter than everyone in
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by malthaus 1y ago
i'm happy someone is considering new physical ideas/approaches at least as i find the trend in recent years of basically putting full "computers" into eurorack modules ridiculous. not just raspberry pi's behind a eu
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by malthaus 1y ago
the smartest pattern is used in mutable instruments beads, the "attenurandomizers" it packs a ridiculous amount of functionality into a single plug & knob combo
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by malthaus 1y ago
don't be so cynical, maybe 10 of us on the waiting list can actually use it before it gets discontinued again
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by malthaus 1y ago
isn't that the same guy who said the metaverse is the next big thing?
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by malthaus 1y ago
i've been writing lowercase only since the 90s and i'm a first year millennial the genz kids are just the first ones who made it broadly acceptable... thank god, because it's a waste of brain cycles without added information
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by malthaus 2y ago
i'm swiss living in berlin currently (leaving soon) germany is a country on the rapid decline. the recently decided investment effort and the new government are a step in the right direction but wont halt or revert that decline. the co
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by malthaus 2y ago
let's see if the "mega round by softbank" as sell signal is still valid
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by malthaus 2y ago
not the case in europe at all, hence my comment. you guys should travel more.
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by malthaus 2y ago
that's 100% wrong, i live in europe in a whatsapp country and no listed phone number EVER has an associated whatsapp account so don't downvote me if you're in india and certain countries in sa asia where that is the case but
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by malthaus 2y ago
but most phone numbers you are clicking on a web page (the cited use case) won't have a whatsapp account behind it
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by malthaus 2y ago
the future where you have to be a micro-influencer and sell (to use the diplomatic word) yourself out on social media to land a job is a dystopian one.
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by malthaus 2y ago
why do you think you will be able to generate "consistent income" with a trading bot in a field that is highly scrutinized by some of the best talents in the world with access to better & faster data and backed by a mountain o
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by malthaus 2y ago
you have to judge people for their actions, not their philosophical essays. ycombinator (which, nota bene, also spawned sam) is nothing but distilled capitalism with a fig leaf to appeal to a subset of nerd culture and you all ate it up
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by malthaus 2y ago
i can't believe the elon musk anti-hype train turned ketamine (which is pretty non-addictive as far as drugs go) into the posterchild drug, impressive
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by malthaus 2y ago
just having the right ingredients doesn't make you a great cook

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