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by papito 4y ago
Tim Apple was the one who brought the company from being a financial war zone to an extremely profitable company - by overhauling their logistics. He is ultimately a logistics and supply chain man, and he hates waste. By the way, this is
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I saw his tortured video of asking the crowd to go home on January 6th, on TV, and then many times elsewhere. He made multiple takes, and himself inserted the line about "loving" the insurrectionists. What are you TALKING about? W
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The HackerNews crowd really needs to figure out how to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "the business can do no wrong while chasing the profits" and "but ma' freedoms".
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The fact that it happened so long ago makes it more likely to happen sooner. Also, my understanding is that we don't really have a good grasp of what's out there outside of of the immediate vicinity of Earth. There are millions
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I will argue that the corporate world is the exact opposite of the training and discipline of a submarine crew. Most of the time I wonder how the businesses even survive the chaos and mismanagement, let alone make money.
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I sweat over "idiot-proofing" the smallest systems, while multi-billion dollar operations don't seem to care enough. Like the S3 being blown away with a simple change in the early days, or GitHub running a test suite with pro
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Pretty much. Every project I start, it's the same kind of yak-shaving. Database schema, logging, authentication, display of errors, build tools, CI/CD, backend, front-end. Full-time is not even enough for this for one person. Ther
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When I was in my 20s, I could code for days on straight. I had so much energy and the perception of the bottomless capital of time. Now that I am forty, the cost-benefit analysis is getting tougher. Can I have my big break and retire early?
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Red Ventures seems to me like a regular vulture capitalist outfit. Acquire a property and then squeeze it for money while keeping it on life support: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/a
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At least we are getting a good class in clinical-grade narcissism. Notice how it is never, NEVER his fault.
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An idea is worth $20. An implemented idea may be worth $20 million.
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I mean, you just described a gimmick. There is nothing wrong with it being a gimmick, to be clear. I get the ritual part of it, but it's still a ritual, not an objectively better-sounding product.
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I mean, you CAN still develop against Twitter API, just don't get too popular and end up in the top 20 when Elon sorts descending at 2AM one morning.
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Musk on chess: "I did as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc."
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Oh GOD. Why do other headlines not start with "Tim Cook's Apple does X", or "Satya Nadella Microsoft revolutionized Y"? These writers need to stop fawning over Musk and giving into the personality cult. Elon Musk
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I bet a lot more people can be explained fraud faster than they can be explained crypto.
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"Effective altruism" should go the way of web3.0
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Humans will always $hit where they eat, so I say, go full hog on the Universe. We are less than a rounding error in time and space in terms of the damage we can do to it. It's like peeing in the ocean. The Earth is unique and precious,
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On the contrary, this sort of creative thinking is what's needed instead of automatically reaching for that shiny Cloud Toy. It's easy to get a proof-of-concept working, sure, but at scale , you start torching through cash. Many
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Same thoughts. You can make that fly on a Mac Mini (provided it can be made to work close to the metal and not in an emulator)
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Yeah, I just love the ingenuity and sometimes brazenness of 90s effects and stunts. They look way better than today's green screen atrocities. Just yesterday I learned that in Cliffhanger (also aged amazingly well), they paid one mill
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It was the golden age of special effects, when weak computing power had to be supplemented with effects as craft - mechanical and chemical. Those impressive liquid metal bullet holes are NOT computer-generated: https://www.instag
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A lot of that goes away if you avoid Javascript/Node as your first ecosystem. The unnecessary complexity and cargo-culting there is off the charts. It's overwhelming even for the experienced engineers. I got so jaded dealing with
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I don't remember Jack telling everyone to "vote Republican".
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Still remember reloading a page and seeing another customer's forms. mod_perl teaches you quickly about state.
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Instagram, Dropbox, many of the major tech companies still use a monolith. Or you can think of it as trunk/branch architecture. One main "trunk" service and other branch services augmenting it, which is a simpler thing to r
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I have never seen a "hard boundary" in a small to medium sized company. Everyone still ends up communicating, and there are simply not enough resources to maintain truly separate services. The rigor of maintaining resilient, backw
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If you have Dropbox, a password manager is part of the value. I migrated from Dashlane and it’s been fine.
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Anybody who thinks they have the grit for Mars life, for your own good - try it here first. Take 3, or better 6 months of your life to spend in one of the remote Inupiat villages in Alaska. In a few weeks, you will be climbing up walls. Her
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100%? Really? Just take it all away? There must be a middle ground between the former 95% top rate and the current near-zero rate. Yes, no one paid the 95%, I realize - the loopholes have always existed. The point is NOT to take all of your

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