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by sghiassy 6mo ago
I won’t deny he created his own fortune from PayPal. But if you come from “so much money we couldn't even close our safe” as his father put (quote from Wikipedia Then you do have a leg up
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
I’m not an AI evangelist or anything, but humans have done the same thing.
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
I’ve used state charts in multi-billion legacy apps and they’ve stayed quite clean. Just don’t use one state chart for everything. Just like any data structure, use multiple of them scoped appropriately
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
One of my favorite data structures Created StateKit for ObjC/Swift some time ago, it’s been production tested in some very large apps: https://github.com/sghiassy/StateKit Such a cool data structure
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
The world is getting weird
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
Every mode of transportation has a sweet spot in terms of range If you can drive somewhere in an hour - you would never take a commercial plane, etc etc Trains peak around the 2-5 hour driving range. Which is perfect for Japan’s geographies
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
^ this is the answer
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by sghiassy 6mo ago
Anyone know what’s the underling map/tile technology used? I’m on my phone and can’t check
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
Chinese competition can always be banned. Example: Chinese electric car competition
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
Momentum??
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
Heroku has been going downhill ever since Salesforce bought them.
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
If you’ve seen Back to the Future 2, you would know we’re in this state because Biff got the Sports Almanac
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
There’s only 1 POI in the USA???
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
It’s the insider betting that’s the problem. Not the intrinsic nature of gambling
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
The amount of suspicious bets around international politics is disturbing One data point of many: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/politics/iran-war-bets-predic... Fact: Donald Trump Jump Jr is an advisor
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
I’ve always wondered about these new High-Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission lines. I always thought AC’s primary benefit was its transmission efficiency?? Would love to learn if anyone knows more about this
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
Another great optimization is storing the year as two digits, because you only need the back half… … oh wait, nvm. Don’t preoptimize!
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
As a prerequisite you’d want to understand the purpose of Ralph Wiggum Loops But in general this is meta to the CLI agent. So if you were to use the CLI to perform a review of some code. This tool would allow you to loop the output of the c
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
Remember, even Apple had the Apple Newton
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
10 years from now: “come with me if you want to live” Terminator 2 Clip: https://youtu.be/XTzTkRU6mRY?t=72&si=dmfLNDqpDZosSP4M
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
I’ve been an Apple fan boi since the Apple II in my room. 44 years later, 15 in software engineering, and I’m still very happy with Apple
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by sghiassy 7mo ago
I appreciate the article and agree. If you have a desire to learn computers, just get your hands on whatever you can and learn.
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Not being fired because of AI
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
I just like writing code. It was fun
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Been coding since 13, now 44 working in FAANG. Love AI explaining code Dislike AI for writing code (that was my fun part)
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Been a startup founder - work at Meta currently. AI is making everyone faster that I’ve seen. I’d say 30% of the tickets I’ve seen in the last month have been solved by just clicking the delegate to AI button
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Did anyone notice how the last paragraph links to a paid course on talking to strangers… paid advertising??
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Very much feel this. I wrote a SaaS project over the weekend. I was amazed at how fast Claude implemented features. 1 sentence turned into a TDD that looked right to me and features worked but now 3 weeks later I only have the outlines of h
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
In Portland Oregon back in 2000s we had - Incredible Universe - CompUSA - Fry’s (later on) I’d beg my dad to drive me to them on a Friday night. Great times!
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by sghiassy 8mo ago
Agree But would you share your salary here right now? If not, is it purely cultural? Or are there other motivations?

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