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by martin_drapeau 2y ago
I sometimes listen to the All in podcast. The 4 VCs recently blasted Apple saying they don't know why there are so many engineers. And they don't know why an iPhone is so expensive. They last longer now and don't need to upgr
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Pulling on the thread of executives blaming WFH for poor productivity, it just points to their lack of adaptability and poor management. WFH is a global trend and something you cannot fight. People will just go elsewhere. Executives should
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
It's all about saving time. Musk got a private jet to save time travelling around. Employees WFH to save time too. That's the hack they found to avoid commuting to work. In such they improve the quality of their lives. Musk, Jasys
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Hmm. For iPhones and Android, Apple and Samsung already have that covered. Their AI chips already exist and production must already be planned for the coming years. NVIDIA isn't going to contribute. I heard predictions for increase in
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
There is an AI chip frenzy for sure. However consumers aren't buying those - data centers are - those owned by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla and Apple. I therefore question the sustainability. What happens if AI is a bubble and th
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Do you think they can pull this off?
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Intel's five nodes in four years plan is extremely agressive and ambitious. They are trying to pull off something that I believe is not feasible. Lots of moving parts in parallel. I worked in a Fab for a year and the complexity is mind
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Focus on data privacy may ring a bell with people using ad blockers. Not for the regular joe though. They just want things to work and Chrome just works. I wonder what percentage of internet users use ad blockers? That would pretty much rep
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
iPhone Prison? That is the perspective of a very minor part of the market. I know hundreds of people who have iPhones and iPads. None have ever told me they fell imprisonned by their iPhone.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
I totally agree. And most boomers I know have iPhones and iPads. I would hate to have to start supporting my parents using a different app store. Plus, I don't think the majority of iPhone customers are asking for openness.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Mozilla was awesome when I started Web programming in 2009. Remember Firebug? But then Chrome came out and the rest is history. Nowadays Mozilla fumbles and complains. Maybe rightly so. I'm just tired of it.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Downturns is the best time to build a startup. When things turn around, you hopefully have found product market fit and can ride the up wave.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
A great way to solve for this in B2B, is to hire a customer and train them as PM. They will hit the ground running much faster to bridge the gap.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Same here. Nothing AI related from Google is available in Canada. This sucks. To add insult to injury, they have nice press releases and demos of their latest AI but aren't easily accessible or available until next year. The press and
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Good point. People often forget that the quality of life we have today comes from energy consumption and technological innovation. It all started with fire...
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Absolutely! But if you're a third world country trying to improve your quality of life fossil fuel is the most accessible. Until rich countries make other options cheaper and readily available. Solar has made incredible strides but not
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Absolutely not! Hydro, nuclear fission, solar, wind, etc. Tons of other options. My point is you need energy to cook food and have hospitals. Without those basic needs covered, a society can't function. If we want to continue improving
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Throughout human history, energy consumption has increased along with quality of life and number of humans on Earth. Can quality of life improve with less energy consumption and less humans? I'm not too sure...
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
UI, in my mind, has always been the hardest part of the stack. It is even more true today. A front-end dev must: - Deal with a subjective human (not an objective machine) - Deal with designers and product managers - Be constrained by the ba
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
I run a Canadian tech startup here. Funding to get going is of course an issue. The BDC (referenced in this article) is just another bank and have zero means to help a SaaS getting started. We turned to the US to get funding (besides our ow
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Canadian tech startup entrepreneur here. Coziness is the biggest hurdle. As a programmer, I can make a really good salary at a tech giant. Even after 4 years of grinding and finally achieving product market fit and growth, my wife doesn&#x2
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
My advice for founders building a B2B SaaS... * YOUR FIRST HIRES SHOULD BE CUSTOMERS * You'll be building the right thing from the start. Selling will be easier too since confidence in the team is just as important as the product. Onbo
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Let's face it, HTML is a markup language and that's the presentation layer. It allows for anyone to inspect a page and find a component or UI element. What Reactive frameworks got right is to respect that. Separate presentation (H
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
At Imec I recall electron beam lithography was investigated but just too slow. E-beam was analogous to an inkjet printer.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
I worked at Imec back in 2005 alongside the teams installing and researching the first EUV machines from ASML. Never thought they’d get it to work given the technological challenges. Laser-pulsed tin plasma, mirrors instead of lenses and va
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
FaceTime and iMessage always work very well and out of the box. No installation/configuration required. This, in my mind, is the biggest selling feature for iPhones to baby boomers. Locks them in forever as well.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
As a parent, I want the responsibility for educating my child on the dangers of the Internet based on my core values. I don't think the government should get involved. We have very different ideas on what is safe or not.
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Totally agree. Most particularly with your last point: > Our most crucial long-term defense against most of these risks is a deep detente, where the tools to understand and develop AI remain broadly available, so that no one group feels
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
Isn't it too late? Isn't the cat out of the bag? https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne... Meaning anyone could eventually reproduce a Chat GPT4 and beyond. And eventually it can run out
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by martin_drapeau 3y ago
This is a good point. Having a single process to handle all requests is asking for trouble.

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