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by waldopat 1y ago
I wish I could like this post, but it unfortunately shows a lack of historical framing. So, as an elder millennial, I thought I'd backfill with some data from the 1990s onward. (I'm a bit of a management/tech history nerd as
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by waldopat 1y ago
That's actually a really good point, particularly in this era of LLMs. I'm curious about an example that might only be available in a physical book. I can imagine out of print or hard to find books would be up there, but anything
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by waldopat 1y ago
Also a Safari Books subscription is free through some libraries. Personally, I haven't completely cut the chord on subscriptions like HBO or Netflix, etc. but you may have given me some inspiration to give it a go. Overall, I'm tr
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by waldopat 1y ago
I'll kick off. Yes, I have a library card. Although, I'll be honest since the pandemic I pretty much stopped going. In contrast, my wife has been using her library card more since the pandemic, particularly to listen to audiobooks
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Ask HN: Do you have a library card?
5 points by waldopat 1y ago|10 comments
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by waldopat 1y ago
Thanks! There's a lot to chew on here, but it's a very important discussion.
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by waldopat 1y ago
Right. You want free beer not freedom.
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by waldopat 1y ago
I was quoting from the article that OP linked to...
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by waldopat 1y ago
I was quoting from the article that OP linked to...
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by waldopat 1y ago
That's amazing. Do you have a reference to it? I'd love to learn more. I also have some extended family in Spain.
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by waldopat 1y ago
Yay civic engagement!
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by waldopat 1y ago
Totally. You see this happen a lot. Centralization happens for a reason, even if it's a bugbear of a concept these days. It's because the market is demanding it.
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by waldopat 1y ago
As a public institution you, the citizen, own it. What you are talking about is hoarding access. You want complete unfettered access to content without barriers and without friction. Typically the only way to do that is via pirating. Let me
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by waldopat 1y ago
Moxie Marlinspike nailed this in his web3 critique from a couple years ago: "People don't want to run their own servers, and never will. The premise for web1 was that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer
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by waldopat 1y ago
“If a GoTo user looks for ‘New York Yankees,’ the first 10 choices are paid advertisers (‘Buy Yankees gear at Fogdog Sports’). On the 11th try you finally get Yankees.com, the official site of the world champs. (On Google, this comes up fir
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Guide to PDF security(unicornforms.com)
5 points by waldopat 1y ago|0 comments
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by waldopat 1y ago
Congrats on the successful side project. That is its own feat, so take kudos where kudos is due in a world where 90% of startups fail. I'll be honest. Go sign up for Oxfam or Peace Corps, teach ESL somewhere, volunteer. There's ev
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by waldopat 1y ago
Totally valid response :-) And I think that's another great angle as well that you can bring to a conundrum like Gmail or Google Search, like Time to Value or Engagement, etc. As an extension, what we're seeing with OpenAi et al.
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by waldopat 1y ago
Agreed. And I added an update to give a more thoughtful response. I've been on the receiving side of trick questions, so I do understand. How you ask the question, which I didn't phrase here, is important. Google Search or Gmail a
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by waldopat 1y ago
Yup, but my earlier comment was a bit flippant, so here’s a more in-depth response. It was an answer to the OP’s question about why Gmail search feels broken, and a nod to the previous comment pointing out Google’s core business is selling
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by waldopat 1y ago
While it may be easier to build features, or even a simple product, marketing and sales are only getting harder. Your moat is your ability to grow fast, capture market and earn customer loyalty. From that perspective, technical skills need
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by waldopat 1y ago
This. As an interview question for my product managers, I often ask what Google search's product is. The ones who say ads move to the next round.
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by waldopat 1y ago
This is a great article, but sadly there's just too much cognitive dissonance in the ecosystem for critical thinking and worse it's not rewarded by the algorithms, so articles like this end up making far smaller splashes than the
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by waldopat 1y ago
Totally agree. Passion is the key ingredient. For me, as a self-proclaimed self-taught dev, I learned the most on side projects because my main jobs didn't always offered job training or clear paths towards advancement or eventually th
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by waldopat 1y ago
I was actually talking about this with a dev this morning.I might reframe this away from self-taught and more towards on the job experience. Obviously, I think it depends on the domain you're working in, but most comp sci majors really
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by waldopat 1y ago
SWE-1. They built their own: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1
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by waldopat 1y ago
I recently added an llms.txt. I have heard anecdotally that some peers in my ecosystem have seen my startup recommended. Oddly enough, ChatGPT recommended a blog article I had written back to me when I was trying to edit another blog articl
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by waldopat 1y ago
Not a marketing ploy. On the practical side, thanks for the suggestion. My experience with contacting YC, though, is they get too many emails and are not able to respond or you get a generic response. That said, I'm more curious if the
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by waldopat 1y ago
Classic HN. A comment meant in half jest is dissected technically and literally and down voted. LOL Anyways, I'm glad the Perl crowd is alive and well!
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by waldopat 1y ago
One day Perl will be on this list

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