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by nikanj 1y ago
It's a Google project: Batteries included, and once the batteries are empty, they throw the whole thing away
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by nikanj 1y ago
It's still rules-based, but the rules change daily now.
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by nikanj 1y ago
Shopkeepers do want it, because it expands their market from those with funds to also those without. Klarna carries the lending risks, for the shopkeeps it’s a risk-free customer base
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by nikanj 1y ago
Accountability sinks are a huge issue with large corporations. The people you can reach are not allowed to act due to policies and processes, and the people setting the policies are not reachable to a regular customer - nor would they chang
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by nikanj 1y ago
Still waiting for that bug that was solved by using ipv6, not caused by ipv6
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by nikanj 1y ago
Essentially no organizations actually reward telling your superiors that they're wrong. You pretend to sip the kool-aid and work on your resume. If one or two high-ranking leaders are steering the ship to the rocks, there's basica
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by nikanj 1y ago
The LLM is very happy to give you an answer with high confidence. The answer might be bogus, but the AI will sound confident all the way through. No wonder sales and upper management love AI
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by nikanj 1y ago
The older code is, the more people probably have at least a passing understanding of it - just by virtue of osmosis and accidental exposure. A thorough rewrite means only the person who wrote is is familiar with it. Of course you can start
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by nikanj 1y ago
I believe one of the biggest growth steps on the path from junior intern to senior fellow is recognizing that code does not rot, and refactoring code biweekly because someone thought of yet another way to organize it brings zero business va
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by nikanj 1y ago
It doesn't matter if we roll our eyes. Adding the AI-powered to your pitch deck multiplies your valuation by infinity, because without AI you get zero investor interest, with AI you might find some funding. Pretty much every fund I&#x2
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by nikanj 1y ago
Having only a single box is a fully self-imposed leg wound
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by nikanj 1y ago
He wrote that in 1974. Software products were orders of magnitude smaller back then.
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by nikanj 1y ago
I’d be happy if it catered to exactly one edge case: ”Show me all emails that contain this word”
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by nikanj 1y ago
And if you try to bring up perf at any point during the design phase, people pull the ”Knuth said premature optimization is the root of all evil” card. As if you could design and build a Ford Pinto, then hotspot optimize it into a Saturn V
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by nikanj 1y ago
"Enough to get by" is still a variant of "make money" Have people forgotten how enjoyable dancing, painting, making music or any of the other arts are, even if you don't get paid a penny
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by nikanj 1y ago
"Why try to engage in the arts if you won't make money" is perhaps the most capitalist dystopian statement I've read the whole year. I sing with my friends regularly. I'm not expecting to ever get paid a dime.
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by nikanj 1y ago
A dead-simple 1000-line app? $8 million from Accenture, IBM or similar
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by nikanj 1y ago
With public sector procurement, $8000 is a pretty standard price for a line of code.
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by nikanj 1y ago
I don't think the BSD license is compatible with "you may not distribute this for a fee"
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by nikanj 1y ago
"It's not impossible, you are just obstinate. Get it done or we find someone with more skills" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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by nikanj 2y ago
> Why do they keep releasing these products if they don’t plan to support the users? Because the money is made by selling the products, not by supporting the users.
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by nikanj 2y ago
The previous time the big mad that Obama was (supposedly) not born on the US soil, now the problem is that someone was born in the US. Is there an acceptable way for POC to get citizenship anymore, if it's not by inheritance and it&#x2
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by nikanj 2y ago
Microsoft's primary business is software running on Microsoft platforms. In the past that was Windows, nowadays it's also Azure. That famous "developers developers developers" video with Steve Ballmer was a prime example
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by nikanj 2y ago
It's slow expensive postgres _with_AI_
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by nikanj 2y ago
The greater fool strategy has worked well for unprofitable tech companies for decades, and shows no signs of slowing down
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by nikanj 2y ago
As a pure cutting tool, a traditional saw is more powerful than a chainsaw. That doesn’t mean it’s actually the fastest tool for the real job. Programming is not text editing
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by nikanj 2y ago
The laws are still there, but who enforces the laws at this point?
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by nikanj 2y ago
Ate only 1000kcal in food. Added in 1400kcal in sugary drinks and 2000kcal in small bites of this and that (that don't need to be counted, because it's just one spoonful of peanut butter!)
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by nikanj 2y ago
If there really was a gene that allowed you to survive on substantially less food than your peers, pretty much all humans would have said gene. The history of humanity is rife with famine, and that gene would be a game-changer for survival
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by nikanj 2y ago
And it's not enough to explain it to management, you also need to explain it to your ISO auditors, your customers et cetera ad nauseam.

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