tofuahdude

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by tofuahdude 3y ago
The jury is definitely still out on whether that content is actually worthless inventory to advertisers. Shit tier websites with "quality" ads (ie something I want to click on more) can be very valuable to advertisers. This fight
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Yet here you are talking about old spice due to their ads. It worked. They got what they wanted from you.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
And so will they.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
He's been broadcasting exactly this plan for several months ("X", The Everything App), which is what WeChat is.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Same, except that I've added Obsidian as a UI on top of it. Check in markdown, have decent visual on top.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Fiduciary duty is not an obligation to make the business successful; it is an obligation to do what you think is in the best interests of shareholders. In other words, to TRY to make it successful, but failure still exists in this world.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
I'm kind of surprised the JD doesn't describe more qualifications and requirements. It's a pretty high level role.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Occam's razor is a safe starting point for this situation.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Then they're able to use an unreleased plugin. A user being able to do something that the company intends to prevent is a vulnerability.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Given the number of times that Docker the company has rugged the community, I am highly pessimistic of their organization / paying them. I'd rather run my own registry.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
So that the investors end up with preferred stock.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Can confirm. This is the best use case I've come across. You can dynamically compose queries and not even think about argument positioning. No concern about injection. Better performance than named variables that are translated into po
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
The classic example is .then .catch callbacks vs async await, though .then is still occasionally useful.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
If you carry this attitude, you aren't a senior engineer.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
We're in the middle of the hype phase for LLMs; it'll die down when hallucinations are widely understood and the investment community + public realize that none of these organizations have built something that replaces Search (YET
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
How is using LaunchDarkly home-rolling a feature flag system?
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
For what reasons would AWS falter in less than a decade if it were on its own?
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
3 years in
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Except that nowhere did I advocate for child labor. That is obviously abhorrent and clear false equivalence. Are the employees adults? Yes. Are they being forced to work there? No. Are they choosing / trying to work there because the p
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Rising supply of jobs increases wages and quality of life. This is a good thing. The wages they're paying are substantially higher than all the local averages. This is a good thing. How is this "severely exploiting"? The alte
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
I'd be surprised if "demand" is the right demeanor to use when optimizing for public/social outcomes. In my experience, it's much easier to convince people of your position with a more calm, measured perspective tha
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
I truly loath product hunt in its current state. It's just a game of who can get the most friends/bots to vote. Further, it is only relevant to those present in the echo chamber.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
I'm also interested in this setup!
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
I'm pretty surprised by this and certainly don't trust Medium's intentions. Medium's entire model has been centralizing blogs and writing to accrue profits in a centralized c corp.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Living at your parent's house with an ankle bracelet, only out of jail on a $250 million bond is quite a different scenario than being in a Bahamian mansion.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
"Unexpected consequences" for a core piece of the technical approach suggests there are architects that are in the wrong role.
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
No, it isn't. The entire ad-tech industry is built on CPM (latin mille for thousand).
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Or is it the other way around?
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
It is more accurate to separate software from the people operating businesses that use the software. There are MANY (so, so many) scams in crypto, but the underlying protocols are just protocols. Just like there are MANY (so, so many) scams
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by tofuahdude 4y ago
Ironically many YCombinator businesses support the opposite. Perhaps the first thing YC needs is a mirror.

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