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by pyb 2y ago
> it was a large team A lot of people want to take credit for it, but wasn't it started by a guy called Alec Radford ?
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by pyb 2y ago
Au contraire, it is very related. Every big success looked modest initially.
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by pyb 2y ago
Wondering what's the most successful YC-rejected company. Datadog?
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by pyb 2y ago
Now I'm even more concerned for the future of Flutter.
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by pyb 2y ago
WFH?
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by pyb 2y ago
Does anyone remember Pyramid of Peril (1985)?
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by pyb 2y ago
Perhaps you mean DOS 5.0. If I remember well, DOS 6 wasn't different from DOS 5 internally?
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by pyb 2y ago
Not, it's because Google is promoting fake stuff.
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by pyb 2y ago
It was a golden era for games, but not for music
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by pyb 2y ago
> they cannot rely on the graphics to sell themselves Game reviewers have always been saying that games rely too much on graphics, at the expense of game design. It was already a trope in the early 1990s. From that era I recommend Ultima
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by pyb 2y ago
They can do this, badly. Is it a successful prediction?
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by pyb 2y ago
Researchers should become practictioners to some extent, if they want their ideas to spread. Example : Donald Knuth and TeX. Racket programming language. etc... Of course in this publish-or-perish era, this is probably no longer possible.
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by pyb 2y ago
First time I hear of this, but one issue is that they've reviewed a pretty overwhelming number of papers, which dilutes their impact. In general, practitioners would be interested in hearing from advances in academia, but usually don&#
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by pyb 2y ago
A few of these French magazines have cult status these days : Tilt, etc. I wonder if that's the case in the English-speaking magazine world.
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by pyb 2y ago
No, just visited.
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by pyb 2y ago
For some reason it's become the place to be. I visited last November, it was incredibly crowded with tourists/nomads from all over. The rest of Portugal is incredibly friendly, but in Porto I perhaps perceived some resentment from
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by pyb 2y ago
Looking at this from the UK : it's always astounding that US has an such a ligitious culture, and, at the same time, such a backwards health-and-safety culture. At least that's the impression I get from watching American tradespeo
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by pyb 2y ago
Context matters here. This sounds like corporate advice ("managing up"), rather than startup advice.
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by pyb 3y ago
The UK recruitment industry is extremely competitive/aggressive. After Covid, they realised they could even outcompete the Americans on their home turf. UK estate agents are also expanding abroad at an increasing pace.
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by pyb 3y ago
I guess it's to reduce the validation workload at their end. They'd rather receive numbers generated and validated by a piece of software, rather than numbers that may or may not make sense.
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by pyb 3y ago
> Companies without direct access to the internet Don't think HMRC accepts this in 2024.
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by pyb 3y ago
HMRC will never launch a web app for this, as they don't want to be a custodian for company payroll data.
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by pyb 3y ago
Probably a majority opinion, but it is a silent majority.
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by pyb 3y ago
I was one of the (presumably few) people who used the Linux version, until it stopped working for some reason, a few years ago. After that, I got used to booting into Windows one a month to run my little payroll. TBH, I don't think th
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by pyb 3y ago
There seem to be conflicting reports as to who came up with the TPU https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109641269333636407
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by pyb 3y ago
Not really ? There are clear routes to a visa (France, etc) for degree educated tech workers.
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by pyb 3y ago
Another factor might be that, due to visa restrictions, many great European entrepreneurs have decided no to move to the US.
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Why European VC Is Outperforming the US(news.crunchbase.com)
4 points by pyb 3y ago|5 comments
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by pyb 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18131009 for an earlier discussion of scientific blind spots in Wikipedia. I also wish there was a mechanism to prune certain Wikipedia pages that carry way too much detail, given th
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by pyb 3y ago
With the current state of Visas for the US, most countries are now more welcoming to migrants.

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