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by rexstjohn 4y ago
I used to work with a very senior engineer who is now retired who had a job which involved VERY LITTLE OR NO WORK. This may or may not be your situation. He was one of the happiest people I have ever met. I think you are feeling the default
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
Probably because there is no worthwhile business model. Selling single chips doesn’t work. And they tried bundling with cloud services to get it and that probably didn’t work. And by “work” I mean: Generate the levels of business required f
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Getting ChatGPT to implement a dice-based combat system(rexstjohn.substack.com)
1 points by rexstjohn 4y ago|0 comments
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Training ChatGPT to be a fun dungeon master(rexstjohn.substack.com)
1 points by rexstjohn 4y ago|0 comments
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
This list is missing Guillotine from the extended “legend” section. He wasn’t himself guillotined but for awhile there was confusion that he was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin It’s locked othe
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
You are correct. If you lay them off there are lots of expenses. If you scare them off then they will leave for free. He is attempting to shake the tree before taking over on purpose.
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
They probably have a layoff coming which is closer to 50% than to 10%. Does he want to be the one who does it? Probably not. Does Intuit need another CEO floating around? Probably not. He pretty clearly feels not much meaningful work is hap
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My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade(youtube.com)
16 points by rexstjohn 4y ago|17 comments
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
Tasteful plug: https://youtu.be/Hjt5Mnrb__w Been expecting this since working on edge computing software ecosystem at NVIDIA.
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
I was working at a similar company the last two years. I was completely bored and not learning anything. Now I feel like I am learning more in a daily basis than I learned in an average month in Big Co. at a startup. Working at the big comp
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
The model that makes sense to me is what DYDX is doing with their decentralized platform. They use the blockchain to settle and track finalized transactions and offload computations to the validator nodes (which are effectively servers dedi
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
I feel this article misses a lot of the historical context when RoboCop was created, it's themes and why it fit this time. I don't see how you can talk about RoboCop without mentioning the cultural climate at the time. Rewinding t
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by rexstjohn 4y ago
I once was in a discussion between two former <FAANG> VPs. They were mentioning someone who had been at their prior <FAANG> co for 20 years. VP 1: “Jason? He is still there? How?” VP 2: “He never managed anyone.” I thought about
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
Similar experience The good news is there is nearly unlimited demand for programming work. However, you have to filter it very carefully, learn how to market yourself and become very selective and specific about what you want to do. Pick a
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
Preface: This article is likely focusing on non-developer platform projects. There are plenty of scenarios in Web3 which don't target developer end users so this article is probably perfectly valid for all those use cases. Neat article
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
This is probably meant to be, partially, in comparison to Warren Buffet, who famously claims to invest based on reading of financial statements (and other documents) in search of “good businesses.” https://www.amazon.com/War
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
The problem with incoming recessions is if everyone expects them, then everyone knows they are coming, so they price it in, then they go “well, we priced that in, so now we can go back to business as usual.” It’s a reflexive system. Honestl
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
This is actually very good advice from personal experience. The best career results (promotions) I have seen came from people who built a prototype of some sort then evangelized it, even if it wasn’t necessarily a complete product, often ju
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
imo there are often several components to burn out... - going at it too hard, for too long - letting your health and body deteriorate - having your goals change without noticing - bureaucracy taking too much % of your time - creativity go
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
The bad news is it sounds like you have absolutely nothing. The good news is it sounds like you have absolutely nothing. How I would love to move to Taiwan or Vietnam for six months making my current salary and work remote right now. Or eve
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
This article came up on twitter last month. I remember finding it very interesting and taking the time to systematically untangle it. I will try to do a good job of explaining all the problems here. This article is interesting to analyze re
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
OP does make interesting point. Why didn’t the capitalists (if they are so powerful) bring America into the war sooner? This is a very valid point. Maybe worded badly but a perfectly valid thing to point out. There is a clear contradiction
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
Sounds like you have a lot of leverage to tell them “this isn’t what I signed up for. I’m going to start looking for new jobs now, I’ll keep getting paid etc but I’ll be doing the minimum here until I leave.” Heads you win, tails you don’t
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
I am trying to think what advice I would give you if you were my friend versus an internet anon (because I am going to assume the advice I give to my friends is the best advice). If I were talking to one of my close friends: I would never,
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
I spent the last decade working for semi’s (Intel, Arm, NVIDIA) (all opinions here my own) on IoT and Edge Computing ecosystem. My take away is that the concept of a “Digital Twin” has evolved. In the IoT space, a digital twin tends to be a
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
Federal Reserve was crafted in a secret meeting on Jekyll Island ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve ) between industry and government. Still exists and functions today. Lot of people don’t like it, but it’
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
I know several people who are fractionally employed at several startups. These people tend to be highly talented and oversee areas where network benefits are beneficial. For example: If you run social media accounts for ten companies with a
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by rexstjohn 5y ago
Frameworks are a whole discussion about the topic of complexity, switching cost, sunk cost, incentives, personal preference, market position and job security. I built enterprise B2B applications for several years, saw a lot of frameworks co
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Run Folding Home and Rosetta Home on Android Phones(neocortix.com)
2 points by rexstjohn 6y ago|0 comments
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The Mystery of the Missing Computers(linkedin.com)
1 points by rexstjohn 6y ago|2 comments

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