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by wiremine 2y ago
> I also think asshole behavior is a subjective label in many cases. It is absolutely subjective, but I think the advice still applies: "No assholes" means no assholes, regardless of your definition. That said, I also see a lot
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by wiremine 2y ago
I'm a CTO, and this is one of my cardinal rules: no assholes. We hire by it, and we fire by it. I took me a while to become such a firm believer, but here's what I've learned: 1. The true, genius level assholes are very few a
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by wiremine 2y ago
I fell through the rabbit hole on this one, and found this post with a delightful video from the The Computer Chronicles about RISC, circa 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIccm7H3OA0 I'm so glad we have these sor
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by wiremine 2y ago
Taking a step back: The UX/UI for LLMs in general are very immature. We're in the very early days of to best interact with these tools. We need more experimentation like this to help figure out what works, and doesn't work.
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by wiremine 2y ago
Very cool story. For those who don't know what CP/M is, here's some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M LT;DR: It was a disk operating system before DOS.
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by wiremine 3y ago
Agreed. Discriminative AI, in general, is further through the hype cycle than generative AI, and this is a clear value proposition with clear financials. And, really, they're two sides of the same coin. I could imagine the tulip robot
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by wiremine 3y ago
Agreed. The target audience knows exactly what it is. (BTW, I wasn't involved directly)
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by wiremine 3y ago
I'll take your Tulip killer and raise you one. An almond tree mummy remover: A robot with Airsoft guns. https://www.insighttrac.com/
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by wiremine 3y ago
> the case rests on specific claims In this case, could a resolution involve resolving the individual claims, or are the plaintiffs looking for a more all encompassing solution?
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by wiremine 3y ago
> Isn’t the point of markdown that it’s a bridge to ordinary text editors? Yes, but visualizing the _rendered_ markdown is very helpful to debug the content.
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by wiremine 3y ago
> This cannot be known until it is litigated. Fair Use is not something you can unilaterally declare and have it be so. Correct, but what isn't clear here is their rationale for why they think they're covered by fair use. Does
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by wiremine 3y ago
> I think ThinkPads are better than MacBooks. You can get P14 with 32gb of RAM... > The problem is that Windows sucks more and more... Not to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like the ThinkPads have been technical specs, but the
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by wiremine 3y ago
Here's the quick quote from the article explaining why this is "sustainable" over a long-period of time: > "While many have suggested that borrowing is what explains households’ ability to keep spending (it is, some),
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by wiremine 3y ago
> They can be all dissatisfied they want but a few crackdowns always put them in line, and in the end this is what matters. Until it doesn't. World history is the history of power being consolidated and then (often forcibly) distrib
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by wiremine 3y ago
Came here to say the same thing. The lack of plain English is funny if it wasn't such a sad situation. I also know it's nothing new or unique.
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by wiremine 3y ago
216! Yes! I has totally blocked memories about that. I think I built my first website in 1997, and it was wild what we had to do back then.
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by wiremine 3y ago
It's funny because it's true. Instantly took me back to the late 90s. I remember trying to optimize images for 16k colors, and dealing with all the weird, disparate javascript versions.
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by wiremine 3y ago
True, but land is only part of the expense. Labor and materials have gone way up over the last 10 years as well.
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by wiremine 3y ago
A lot of tech industries, such as operating systems, search, and social media, benefit greatly from network effects. The rule of thumb is there is a major winner, an also-ran second place, and everybody else. Again, it's a rule of thum
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by wiremine 3y ago
Feels lick click bait. I think we're going to see a lot of "Is X the Next Crypto?" articles for a while.
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by wiremine 3y ago
And seems to be growing? I'm not close to this space, but it feels like Objective-C should be decreasing. I'd be curious to know why it's increasing.
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by wiremine 3y ago
> This has been my experience with conferences lately: Way too much emphasis on the next big trend, to the point of being counterproductive for actually getting work done I've been going to tech conferences for 25 years. This isn&#x
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by wiremine 3y ago
Just to add to my previous comment. We use AI heavily today, and we're seeing a 25%+ productivity improvement. And our Devs are happier, as they get to focus on high order problems.
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by wiremine 3y ago
> Would you allow employees to subcontract and outsource their work? No, but I do encourage them to use the best tools possible. :-)
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by wiremine 3y ago
I'm a CTO for a small software studio. We've used mini projects and code reviews in our interview process for years, and it works great. The code review is a great way to explore a candidate's ability to code, and also to com
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by wiremine 3y ago
Much of the time GCP feels like a science project, and not a real business. AWS (and Azure) seem to be driven by customer requests, instead of Google, which feels very engineering-centric. Which is on brand with Google. They have no problem
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by wiremine 3y ago
Go to die, or go to provide incremental improvements? Maybe a bit of both? Either said, it's a good question. Some projects are going to die, and I don't think that's the fault of the organization behind it. I'd love to
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by wiremine 3y ago
100% agree. That was my point saying "_if_ they really wanted to own it."
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by wiremine 3y ago
> Online dating sites have gotten worse because the Match Group monopolizes them. There's hardly any competition. I recently helped a group look at launching a dating app over a six month period. Here are a few take aways: 1. Nobody
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by wiremine 3y ago
I'm torn on this. I'm the CTO for a small software firm that does a lot if IoT. We've seen a number of startups build their prototypes using Arduino. Historically, there was no clear path to production. So, I think they'

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