markbao

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by markbao 9mo ago
Hi randomsofr, this posting has been continually posted since we are hiring on a rolling basis, not just for a single position. We have made hires for this position over time and continue to have openings. We mention in our post-submission
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by markbao 9mo ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 10mo ago
This is very cool. Great that it’s built out of metal for longevity and repairability. Wonder if they could make the radius of the rotation smaller since that seems like the most likely ergonomic improvement I could see from the demo.
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by markbao 10mo ago
True, that’s a good example of the commenter’s “last 5% is the 95%”
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by markbao 10mo ago
I don’t like them either. The UX is annoying and it’s way too large. The benefit is that I get to see more options than can fit on the screens and they have photos, but still in person just seems better. But I’ve read they’re effective, app
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by markbao 10mo ago
McDonald’s is an interesting example because they’re increasingly replacing cashiers with kiosks. Robotics/LLMs seem to have diminishing returns compared to that in the order taking realm.
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by markbao 10mo ago
Just right-click any file in VSCode/Cursor to see how absolutely chaotic and tedious a long menu is without icons. Now imagine that Google Docs example without icons. It’s much easier to recognize the funnel icon to make a filter, than
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by markbao 10mo ago
AI-generated section “NVIDIA’s earnings” nerfed the credibility of this piece.
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by markbao 10mo ago
“Bad” seems extreme. The only way to pass the litmus test you’ve described is for a tool to be 100% perfect, so then the graph looks like 99.99% “bad tool” until it reaches 100% perfection. It’s not that binary imo. It can still be extremel
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by markbao 10mo ago
I think those machines are super fun and a snappy Linux experience is very satisfying. I use a lightweight WM myself on Linux and prefer it over the heavy ones. But this segment is 0.1% of technology users and we shouldn’t constrain applica
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by markbao 10mo ago
I disagree that we should be optimizing for low end machines and holding back on product improvements for the 80% mass market. Technology improves, it’s one of its best traits. We don’t need to be stuck in the past.
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by markbao 10mo ago
In a lot of ways, I agree with you. I think the key thing is that the complexity should be appropriate to what needs to get done. Animations and etc. that distract from the actual content are superfluous. Agreed! I hate it when sites scroll
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by markbao 10mo ago
To me it’s so obvious that it doesn’t require testing. The market shows it; there are nearly no production vehicles at volume with crank windows.
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by markbao 10mo ago
I do like the old JS Gmail UI. But the current JS Gmail UI doesn’t feel any slower. It is cluttered with more features, but some of them I find useful. (Displaying my calendar and being able to accept invites right in Gmail being a big one.
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by markbao 10mo ago
I’m glad you want that! But, most people wouldn’t. Also, electric seat adjustments give you way more options than the manual adjustments could. And typically with more precision than the under seat bar with discrete positions.
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by markbao 10mo ago
Newspaper websites are a good example of bloat, true. I think if you’re in the business of primarily serving text content and not doing much interactive stuff, you don’t need a heavy site. A lot of them tend to cram their websites with trac
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by markbao 10mo ago
Most people have phones that can handle webpages with 1-5MB JS bundles. Why artificially limit what you can do on the web? Why limit ourselves to 1GB RAM when more resources means tech becomes more useful? Returning to simple webpages is po
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by markbao 10mo ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 11mo ago
The Dropbox thing is exactly what I was thinking of when I was writing my original comment. Here is the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 The basic summary is that a HN commenter suggested Dropbox was red
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by markbao 11mo ago
Most of the loudest critics - and, I’ve found, many commenters on HN - are entirely out of touch with the majority of technology users. To think that nobody wants these features isn’t based on what we see in the real world, which shows a
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by markbao 11mo ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 1y ago
Just as the core idea of a book can be (lossily) summarized in a few sentences, the core crux of an argument can be quite simple and not require wading though the whole discussion (the AGI discussion is only 30 minutes anyhow). Granted, a b
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by markbao 1y ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 1y ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 1y ago
Most engineers spending their own money maybe, but the cost of Opus is not that much compared to the output when the company is paying for it.
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by markbao 1y ago
Kei trucks are small but they look like a workhorse in a similar way to a classic Hilux giving them a respectability that I think this design lacks. I agree there should be more approachable designs, just seems like this went way too far in
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by markbao 1y ago
This is cool I guess but I don’t get why some of these electric car companies have to design cars that look like toys. Rivian and this. It looks like a golf cart with a flatbed. I think an electric kei truck would have a huge market in the
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by markbao 1y ago
Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX. I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO
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by markbao 1y ago
Don’t agree, but to each their own. The native app experience for every app noted in the article is better and smoother than the mobile web version, in my opinion. Lots of people hate Electron apps, which suggests to me that my preference f
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by markbao 1y ago
The point of SPAs was never page transitions. I can’t name a single major SPA that does good page transitions, can you? They all just replace the content. And to take a popular SPA framework as an example, it’s almost impossible to do page

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