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by smugglerFlynn 3mo ago
> My goals for the end of 2027 are as follows: > Stop making stupid mistakes. I want to be able to finish a task fully without missing or skipping a step. One way to do this is to make a plan for everything you do, and only do
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
Sadly it is not unique to VC. Many in-house products of large companies follow exact same story: sunk cost fallacy, investing in expectation management instead of the product itself, risky and expensive bets dressed as 'MVPs', rid
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
The culture you are creating is actually the opposite: no ownership, and no autonomy You are delegating decisions that are in your responsibility to another person (=no ownership), and you are not able to progress unless someone else [even
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
If only things in life worked as well as things on paper
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
Once ‘them’ disappears brain loses the control, leading to unbearable stress, and we are back to where we’ve started with this article. It is ironic that original comment proposes to face the problem head on while applying typical ‘feel goo
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
You were probably thinking about geeks leaving heartwarming comments under a forgotten repository while reading this. But what really makes a trace valuable? Internet growth has proven that scaling traces does not really grow value to the s
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
People go to nature to interact with nature, not with traces of other human beings. You don't want to ride 4 hours to countryside only to find very same things you've been running away from. In contrast, people go to blogs to find
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
> Jobs was flawed and everyone knew it, but it was all par for the course. He was aggressive in his ambition, uncompromising about even the most minute details of his company, and occasionally arrogant What is it, exactly, which
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by smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
To expand on this: certain people have learned how to capitalize on “nerdiness” - i.e. how to virtue signal in a way so that investors and general public treat you like an engineering genius. Elizabeth Holmes persuaded for years that she wa
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
I wish we would start paying proportional attention to business news, instead of treating AI (or any other "cutting edge") companies as economy-defining and giving these 50+% of the attention. It is especially telling if we try to
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
“Biggest innovation in tech” at times feels like 2000 era Nokia smartphones. You got phone with circle keyboard! You got foldable phone that turns into a neat camcorder! You got mp3 player phone! All with marginal value add and having more
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Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water(waterdictionary.net)
133 points by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago|61 comments
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
It is the same with forums, trackers and private libraries. They are instantly more useful for information seeking purposes. And none of this really fits into attention-monetizing economy of Internet. I’ve recently counted movies available
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
You are proposing to fix something that is not broken by adding things to it. My point is, the Internet has already evolved in this specific way for a reason. Few old school sites like Wikipedia aside, modern Internet is serving a very diff
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
I think original web standards were solving a completely different problem: sharing information . Modern Internet is 45% appearances and 50% search traffic optimizations. For better or worse we lost all usable registries of websites, we lo
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
You are probably talking about people who just crunch out some half baked solutions for the sake of getting somewhere. But there are other nerds who care, just not about the code quality, but about conversion, testing out business ideas qui
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
I think you are mixing cause and effect in real life dynamics. In real organizations people tend to raise their performance to the [often unreasonable] level of expectations, even when situation stops being sustainable long-term for the who
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
It is not a problem if you are an assembly line robot making motions. People, however, are not robots. They get held accountable by their higher-ups for delivering on these (often nonsensical) priorities, they risk getting fired when expect
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
“Welcome to layoffemailreviews.com - your daily source of best and most honest layoff email reviews in the industry. Is there a flood of talent leaving after this one? Major breaches? Only time will tell. Buckle up, and don’t forget your pu
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by smugglerFlynn 5mo ago
> They're not going to get to spend enough time meeting each report's needs, not a chance. What needs? If you squeeze people hard enough there are no needs anymore, only responsibilities and urgent+important backlogs that have
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by smugglerFlynn 6mo ago
Exactly! What a high-profile actor’s life represents to an accountant or a programmer, that accountant’s or programmer’s life similarly represents to a factory worker, and so on. I've met "too busy for this" people in every l
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Seamaster APNEA – mechanical watch with freediving complication(stories.omegaforums.net)
2 points by smugglerFlynn 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Mate – Emotional layer on top of LLMs(huggingface.co)
4 points by smugglerFlynn 7mo ago|3 comments
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
There is no cookie-cutter approach to all software products at once. "I want classic sound / look / feel" of entertainment products like WoW is very different from, say, "I want old spreadsheet shortcuts / si
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
I would argue the only thing that does stop current situation from snowballing into something much worse are pre-existing institutions and regulations. That's also why dismantling and challenging these is often the very first priority
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
Nobody stops spammers from creating websites, but we still have search engines and web. Nobody stops spammers from sending emails, but we still use SMTP. It is just a matter of tools we build to rank and filter content. With open protocols
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
> as long as there are relatively good options of apps that do have privacy (and I think there are) Once you have enormous network effect like TikTok has, you don't really have any free selection of alternative apps. You are free
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
Because building complex product that is also useful is not quick and is not easy. Contrary to the idea that many people are floating around these days.
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by smugglerFlynn 8mo ago
Some of us lack access to good physical bookstores which are curated and allow for casual non-biased exploration. Amazon and other digital players never picked up on curation or segmentation, their store fronts are hot messes similar to dig
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by smugglerFlynn 1y ago
When it comes to tech topics this is an insiders discussion. When it comes to political topics, 99% of people in HN threads have close to zero insights, and circle around publicly known information. Big difference. It is very dangerous to e

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