yannis7

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by yannis7 4mo ago
"we were promised social networks, what we got was social media" -- Elad Gil
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by yannis7 1y ago
briefly reminded me of my MATLAB days... back in the 2000s/early-2010s it was all the rage. Great IDE too
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by yannis7 2y ago
the USENIX YouTube link took me down quite the rabbit hole
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by yannis7 2y ago
I think the most tragic of all is that, based on my experiences in both startups and corporate cultures, most of that work people are killing themselves for is just "busywork" handed to them by managers who themselves don't k
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by yannis7 3y ago
your last sentence I think puts the 2nd pillar into the problem, which is not only technological (i.e. the abstraction problem mentioned in the original article) but also cultural
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by yannis7 3y ago
VICE seemed to make sense at a given time + place + context: * Gonzo journalism: "On my way to North Korea I'm gonna stop by my auntie where over lunch she'd beg me not to go" * Peak hipster: pre-pandemic hyper-urbanised
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by yannis7 3y ago
interesting how certain industries were never "disrupted" by startups, no matter the amount of hype that was generated in the mid-2010s [1]; banking is a major example (no startup bank overthrew JPMC) but the same seems to apply t
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by yannis7 4y ago
This is also recommended by Donald Knuth in one of his technical writing guidelines [citation missing] so +1
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by yannis7 4y ago
not according to Pew - Instagram is still strong amongst teens https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
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by yannis7 4y ago
Shazam belongs to that class of iPhone apps that when they were released I was like "wow, the future is here" -- this alongside the first accelerometer and AR ones
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by yannis7 4y ago
+1+1 spot on -- it's a very common issue nowadays that few people actually touch upon, or be able to verbalise
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On the road with Russia's train hoppers(calvertjournal.com)
2 points by yannis7 5y ago|0 comments
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by yannis7 5y ago
omg Ars Technica is still around! that takes me back..
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by yannis7 6y ago
nit: there are some fragments, say the speech of Spartan King Archidamus, which are recorded in sources like Thucydedes -- these you _may_ consider them as sources that reveal Spartans' self-understanding to some extent
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by yannis7 6y ago
curious if this is a direct challenge to Google by people like Thiel who have had a historic beef with them [0] - according to the "Super Pumped" book [1], it was Larry Page who personally ordered the litigation against Levandowsk
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by yannis7 6y ago
A few anecdotes from my side: - I had one colleague and a former boss, both staunch Democrats, who knew GW Bush from Yale; they both independently mentioned to me how likeable he is in person vs. how bad he's in his policies. This come
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by yannis7 6y ago
reminds me of a super-nerdy magazine column we had back in college, printed (on paper) in raw LaTeX
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by yannis7 6y ago
well, no matter if you agree or disagree with JL, I think it's great WIRED can still occasionally publish great articles like that
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by yannis7 6y ago
typo: "Email would probably..." ;)
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by yannis7 7y ago
as @gexla mentioned down below, I prefer looking for leadership/culture advice on historical / biographical books. For example, "Making of the Atomic Bomb" was recommended to me, for examples of how on earth did the US m
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by yannis7 7y ago
von Neumann, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Einstein, Rutherford, Turing, Teller, Szilard, Wigner, Meitner... the list goes on... -- how did that time produce so many people of colossal intellect? War certainly can't be the primary factor, given
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by yannis7 7y ago
there's a lazy sensationalist style on that article that I find off-putting -- the relevant Wikipedia page is more sober and actually (or because of that) makes you more in awe of the man in question.
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by yannis7 7y ago
and by the way, where on earth are Larry and Sergei?
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by yannis7 7y ago
I've been a social smoker for ~15 years; I attempted Juul-ing about a month ago -- had to stop it as I was immediately (from the 1st puff) feeling unwell, super dizzy and occasionally with a massive headache. Even if this is not linke
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by yannis7 7y ago
REF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzMYL901AQ
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by yannis7 7y ago
wasn't Larry Ellison last year who was bragging that the whole of Amazon/AWS runs on Oracle?
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by yannis7 7y ago
Agree with comments. Not only quant funds have been around since forever but in fact the new trend is in a hybrid approach of discretionary/fundamental & algo/quant strategy -- see DE Shaw article on their "quantamental&q
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by yannis7 7y ago
> keeping an eye out for John like an awkward combination of James Bond and Pac Man. instant classic
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by yannis7 7y ago
John D. Rockefeller was managing global oil monopoly and occasionally in the letters to his wife he raised concerns about his "mental strains". By reading [1] it seems to me that the way he very efficiently coped such immense amou
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by yannis7 8y ago
we've all dealt with such people and I hear you on all the concerns raised. But as pointed out, what you describe has nothing to do with the "generalist vs. specialist" debate

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