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by wiremine 3y ago
I'll give the 37signal guys the benefit of the doubt, but it's a difficult concept to talk about in the abstract. Once the first product shifts, this might be a more meaningful discussion.
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by wiremine 3y ago
> In the long-run, it's worth asking whether a business that doesn't make money once externalities have been internalized is a business worth having. This is a good question. The short is is: of course it isn't. But it&#x2
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by wiremine 3y ago
Thanks for advocating for these issues. They are important. I'm the CTO of a small software studio who has worked almost exclusively in the IoT space for the last 8 years. We've worked on large, Fortune 500 companies, all the way
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by wiremine 3y ago
> either they must provide full (FLOSS) source code and documentation I like the spirit of this, but one problem with this is that the software stack is likely not FLOSS, and the manufacturers don't own all the software. A second pr
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by wiremine 3y ago
> Personally it feels like modern management and organizational practices have prioritized feature velocity over a lot of other concerns. I agree. In the defense of business, our industry typically does a horrible job explaining concerns
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by wiremine 3y ago
Random thought: I'll be able to see what I look like in 3D... I'm both dreading it, and am also extremely curious. I'm guessing it will be hearing myself on tape. "I _look like that?" ...
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by wiremine 3y ago
It's important to put that in context. The 80s and early 90s where abnormal going back to the 1700s: https://www.getloans.com/blog/220-year-history-of-interest-r... Conversely, extremely low rates in the 2010s wer
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by wiremine 4y ago
_why the Lucky Stiff [1] wrote a blog post about Io way back in 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080106163631/http://hackety.org... "Io is just an incredibly hushed secret. (Perhaps because it is
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by wiremine 4y ago
You could indeed argue that. I think there's a difference between the product and the revenue. Google still feels like they produce a number of technical products, even if their revenue is mostly driven by ads. GCP, Android, and Chrome
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by wiremine 4y ago
> Tech companies... Is Meta really a tech company? It takes a lot of technology to do what they do, just like Netflix. But their core business isn't technology pre se, it's social media and advertising. I don't think they&
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by wiremine 4y ago
I like the idea: I was actually looking at an open source tool that does something similar: combine spreadsheets with python. I do have a question: Similar tools tend to fall down after the code grows to a certain size. Modularity, unit tes
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by wiremine 4y ago
I agree this is bland corporate speak. But it reminded me of a question that's been floating around: A number of pundits, here on HN and elsewhere, keep referring to these large language models are "google killers." This just
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by wiremine 4y ago
Microsoft has done a great job, don't get me wrong. My question is still legit: is there an (relatively) unbiased third-party that tracks bugs across major OS releases? Is that a bad question to ask?
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by wiremine 4y ago
> The software experience is getting worse imo EVERY OS release will have some issues, and the people who are most impacted are the ones who chime in. If it "just works" for someone, they aren't going to chime in. This is
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by wiremine 4y ago
The include their motivation in their language spec: "What makes wing special? Traditional programming languages are designed around the premise of telling a single machine what to do. The output of the compiler is a program that can b
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by wiremine 4y ago
I'm not sure, but the last commit on the github repo was 12 hours ago.
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by wiremine 4y ago
A previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17195580 On a sort-of-related topic: I've been checking out the Inko programming language, which has some similar goals/ideals as Pony: https:/&#
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by wiremine 4y ago
From the README, for those who didn't scroll that far: "While Codon supports nearly all of Python's syntax, it is not a drop-in replacement, and large codebases might require modifications to be run through the Codon compiler
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Biden Administration Restricts Chinese Access to Chip Technology(nytimes.com)
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by wiremine 4y ago
This story mostly regurgitates this Politico story: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/amazons-ftc-problem... The key paragraph: "Among the concerns the FTC is investigating is whether the dat
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by wiremine 4y ago
Simon's writing has always been crisp and insightful. If I remember correctly, Simon comes out of a newspaper background. I wonder how that's influenced his approach on these sorts of technical topics.
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by wiremine 4y ago
True. I think it's also fair to say it's more of an ecosystem than a single product. The switching costs to another similar ecosystem are high.
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by wiremine 4y ago
Small, "rapid releases" don't need to all go to the end user at once. That's an anti-pattern for solid UX design. The classic "eBay color change" comes to mind: https://kulor.medium.com/how-ebay
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by wiremine 4y ago
Recently I've been reading "When Agile Gets Physical" [1] and "Extreme Programming Explained": 1. "Extreme Programming Explained" explains the importance of separating values from principles and practices.
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by wiremine 4y ago
This is useful, but it is HIGHLY dependent on the services being offered. $300 for some work can be a steal, and $40 can be overpriced.
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by wiremine 4y ago
I see these debates and wish there was an approach that scaled better. A single server (and a backup) really _is_ great. Until it's not, for whatever reason. We need more frameworks that scale from a single box to many boxes, without s
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by wiremine 4y ago
I've flown through Dubai a few times, and I think most of their flights are early in the morning or at night. I don't know if that's for the runway or for the tires (or just heat in general), but I wonder if those factors pla
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by wiremine 4y ago
> On the other hand, Game Theory 101 tells us that forced plays are often lousy moves I think this falls into the category of "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." Teaching children, in an ag
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by wiremine 4y ago
I'm the CTO for a small(ish) software consultancy. $10/month is a no-brainer price for just the "amazing all-rounder autocomplete". Spending $10/month/dev to help maximize highly billable engineers? It's w
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by wiremine 4y ago
I had a long conversation with a coworker the other day. He has a 20 year old, and he's allowing this son to stay at home, but is charging rent and forcing him to start paying for more and more things.

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