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by pyb 4y ago
That's the correct take, thanks.
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by pyb 4y ago
Definitely. We still have this unfair situation today, where "founders" get most of the upside, and "founding engineers" hired immediately after get ~1% or less.
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by pyb 4y ago
Because it was a loan ?
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by pyb 4y ago
Sounds like McGee might not have got his fair share of Id's success. Maybe Carmack felt bad about that.
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by pyb 4y ago
Anything you can think of that's made of plastics was, prior to the mid 20th century, made of metal, ceramics, glass, fabric, or wood. You'll realise these materials are usually much less suited to the task. In aggregate, the poly
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by pyb 4y ago
My take is that 10+ years ago, the average Google or Amazon engineer would have been comparatively more offended to see so many fake products, reviews, websites, fake everything on their platforms. Today, they see all this as someone else&#
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by pyb 4y ago
In the context of tech, the normalisation of grift happened in the last decade. This is due to 2 factors IMO : cryptocurrency ; and, separately, the "tech is the new Wall Street" situation, with an increased influx of tech workers
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by pyb 4y ago
They had to believe 100% in the assembly-line strategy, in order to work on this in the first place, and to sell it to investors.
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Whatever Happened to Google Search?(ft.com)
4 points by pyb 4y ago|4 comments
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by pyb 4y ago
Google Search's drop in quality has been well-documented here. I notice for the first time that the mainstream media are seeing it too.
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by pyb 4y ago
Sounds like they didn't have access to GPT-4, but "Based on anecdotal evidence"... they still predict this.
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by pyb 4y ago
Directionally agree with all your points, except for real estate (said governments will forever prop it up to satisfy their boomer-ish electorate) ChapGpt is most likely to be disrupted by openai itself
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by pyb 4y ago
For some reason, every startup that gets a modicum of traction immediately attracts copycats. Most of these don't get very far.
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by pyb 4y ago
You are correct that the pivot to industry is not particularly fairly to the rest of the user base. Not only that, but it was not very sound business-wise either. RPi's stable, rock-bottom, "cost-plus" pricing policy is great
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by pyb 4y ago
Who's "we"?
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by pyb 4y ago
Weird that we keep hearing that tech is overstaffed, when literally every other sector reports labour shortages. My hunch is that many tech cos will soon realize that they're short-staffed too, and will have to start to hire again.
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by pyb 4y ago
A good MVP consists in releasing something a few people desperately want, rather than something many people vaguely like. So right now, I'm not sure they're going at it the right way.
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by pyb 4y ago
If they need to "boost their holdings" in USDC in order for their customers to withdraw these coins, what had they been doing with their customer's deposits ?
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by pyb 4y ago
Steve Yegge said that India had basically run out of software engineers.
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by pyb 4y ago
No, a degree in physics today is at least as demanding as it was back then. For instance, the topics discussed in the article, quantum mechanics and practical optics, are requirements in any physics degree I know of.
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by pyb 4y ago
Clojurescript
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by pyb 4y ago
Who said anything about a third party?
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by pyb 4y ago
We're not talking about cities here.
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by pyb 4y ago
The countryside around Reading is incredible. Did you explore it ? In contrast with the city itself, which is pretty generic.
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by pyb 4y ago
This is kind of true of Venice as well !
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by pyb 4y ago
"Very few people take me up on this part of the recommendation: get out of the cities if you are here for more than a week in your life." Same situation for visitors to the UK. I've given up trying to tell tourists to get out
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The Breakout Tech Company of 2022(semilshah.com)
1 points by pyb 4y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 4y ago
Journalism is about trust. In a sense, scientific magazines are only as good as their worst articles. My opinion just shifted from "if it's in Quanta, it's probably correct" to "I need to fact-check everything they
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by pyb 4y ago
This. It's been a buyers market in the last decade. If employers were really struggling to hire great engineers, they wouldn't be "playing with their food" so much.
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by pyb 4y ago
I agree that this person is trying very very hard to sound like pg ! You could be right actually. Could still be a "wannabe" though.

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