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by muzani 2y ago
For context, I've been in mobile for 10 years and in general it's the opposite - frameworks are rigid, but the layer under it shifts a lot. These frameworks tend to collapse in an earthquake like manner after multiple updates. We
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by muzani 2y ago
I'm on the pro-VC, anti-bootstrap spectrum and so is Elon Musk. American political spectrum of right vs left, authorarian vs libertarian makes little sense to me. My political compass tends to be BRICS vs G7, religious vs secular. If y
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by muzani 2y ago
Success because of A and attributing it to B. There's a bit of megalomania too. He has a beef against VC funding. He lost 1/3 of staff once when he implemented a policy of no personal opinions at Basecamp. He is often shared becau
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by muzani 2y ago
I feel that rather than disproving the alpha myth, this emphasizes that it works well in cages. What makes a cage? I'd say something where sustainability is a factor - there are limited leads, limited work, limited territory. People sl
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by muzani 2y ago
It runs on a 2022 MBP with m1 chip. Stuff like llama is okay, but the quality does not match with claude-sonnet 3, much less 3.5. The delay and set up time can be quite significant. In the end, it's just more worth it to pay the $0.07
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by muzani 2y ago
It can 10x writing code and debugging, but neither of these are a software engineer's day to day. You still need to do code reviews, especially on the AI. It's quite bug free, more than human code, but you still need to explain th
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by muzani 2y ago
Prices per line of code have always been falling. Before AI, it was JS frameworks. But it led to an exponential increase in the number of software engineers. You still see a lot of frustration in working with AI today, and eventually people
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by muzani 2y ago
Nvidia is at a premium because it's so dominant. But the sentiment now is that China can build cheap, quality AI too and presumably they can make top dog or second dog GPUs too. US's anti-China policies further forces China to dev
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by muzani 2y ago
Tech businesses this decade are about building channels and then selling things down that channel. Moat is a bit of an odd analogy today; it's how defensible these channels are. OpenAI's channel is ChatGPT. Google has well, Google
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by muzani 2y ago
Wasn't too hard for me. It took about a month for a full prototype, another month to turn it into a full product, and another to refactor it into the existing codebase. But the team had trouble with it and there was a lot of stuff they
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by muzani 2y ago
Is it boring technology? I'm actually reluctant to pick up Rails because it had always been sold by the Basecamp cult and Jason Fried gives off Musk vibes. Many opinionated frameworks are also less reliable because of the layers of abs
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by muzani 2y ago
Some of the criticism of Clippy is that it just stares at you while you're trying to do work. Cortana doesn't stare at least.
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by muzani 2y ago
I actually loved Clippy, but I was a teenager. I think for people who were trying to get stuff done instead of playing around with a word processor, it's as annoying as those onboarding tutorials.
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by muzani 2y ago
Paypal was dominant then. Stripe was PayPal with simpler onboarding. Airbnb is a favorite textbook example of VCs being wrong. They were rejected early on because people were thinking it's risky to rent out your house to strangers, and
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by muzani 2y ago
Companies also almost never announce their death. Startups go to die quietly. Paul Graham says the best indicator is they don't reply to emails, but this is usually something that's not very visible. https://www.paulgra
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by muzani 2y ago
Generally the ones that don't sound useful do better. Why Stripe? Why Airbnb? Why Twitter? There's less competition and winner takes all.
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by muzani 2y ago
A mom and pop restaurant can compete with Burger King and Starbucks. It's not quite the same with tech, as they can pay the $300k salaries for people to do the same thing you do, and they can buy out your market. Basically everything t
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by muzani 2y ago
1. Commit for half the sprint, then add one uncommitted item. Say, you have a 10 day sprint. You commit to 5 days of work. You add another item, but don't tell anyone. Studies show the work takes about 1.8x the estimated time. But if y
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by muzani 2y ago
OpenAI already offers a limited RAG solution, and it's only a matter of time before they're a product. I would have paid a good sum for it a year ago, but we figured it out. I think it's like setting up databases. There was a
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by muzani 2y ago
What is similar companies supposed to mean? Social media? Chinese companies operating in US?
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by muzani 2y ago
I mean it's not actually summarizing the threads. It's glancing over and then giving itd own personal opinion.
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by muzani 2y ago
I was working on a game. The game is about conversations... what someone is saying, how they say it, how they interrupt and talk over each other, reading the feel of the room. There was a lot of tweaking around the pace of conversation. It
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by muzani 2y ago
True, but there's more to it. Interest rate is used to slow GDP (and inflation). Using the blood analogy, it's like lowering the blood pressure. Which means people do freeze their investments or put it into things like gold or cry
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by muzani 2y ago
To me, the bad ones are the drug dealers, the politicians who siphon billions. We still have plenty of robber barons who are doing borderline human trafficking but I don't think these are even that bad. They're exploiting some h
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by muzani 2y ago
The ones we want more of. None are perfectly ethical and none are fair. Microsoft/Bill Gates is a good example. Without MS, we'd have open source and stuff like that. But it's just nice to have Windows, MS Office, less polio.
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by muzani 2y ago
It's not fair though - part of the reason we have taxes is to take from those who have benefitted the most. Residence implies they're making use of the cities, laws, safety, infra, welfare, etc. It still makes a little sense if it
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by muzani 2y ago
This sounds like a hallucination tbh. If you look from the other lists, something like Clean Code is hardly recommended and gets criticized quite a bit. It's not something that stands to the test of time. It's not a bad book, bu
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by muzani 2y ago
Yes. It's ironic that I've never been 100% qualified (as per job desc) at any job I've been hired for, but never hired for something that I am fully qualified for. Most places are fine having you pick things up for the job. S
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by muzani 2y ago
Thanks for the references. I remember there was a Show HN that actually combed through these threads and made book recommendations based on how good someone is at making book recommendations. But many of those links no longer work.
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by muzani 2y ago
I find at the senior level, scores matter much less - you can be rejected despite getting 100%. I'm not saying ignore leetcode, but it's not enough of a factor to grind for 6 months.

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