FranksTV

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by FranksTV 3y ago
It's not that I think Andy Grove is a bullshit artist, it's that I'm pretty sure the person assigning the OKRs isn't Andy Grove.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Easy to say if you live somewhere without winter. AI models are a LONG way off from the kind of driving you need in near-whiteout conditions.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
The problems in this game are vastly overstated. I've been playing for a couple weeks and it's great. Does my framer ate occasionally drop? Yes. Does it matter? No! It's Cities Skylines, not Counter Strike.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Having been sued for something like that tends to empower lawyers to turn a company into a boyscout.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Most executives are covered by Errors and Omissions insurance which protects them from personal liability.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Yeah but they also directly accused him of lying. You don't do that in a planned transition.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
So disable the lining rule with a comment? That way you don't accidentally commit it.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
agreeWithPreviousCommentOnUselessCode()
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by FranksTV 3y ago
I find throwing an error that says "not implemented" to be a good solution. Or at least logging a warning.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
You have a lot of opinions about a game you've never played.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Because the problems are vastly overstated. I've been playing fine since launch without any issues.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Space Cadet pinball is a fair game. Real pinball there are magnets under the playing surface that direct the ball and control whether the player loses the ball or not.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
It's very fun, but I also have to have restrictions on myself while playing it.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
It's not the non-competes that matter, it's the assignments of intellectual property.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
There are a ton of development tasks that I do infrequently enough that I have to google how to do them every time, because I forget how to do them. For those things, I can just ask Chat-GPT to write the first draft of it, and it saves me a
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Yeah but her lawyers know that and he'll have to pay the severance eventually. She probably has money to wait out whatever legal delay tactics Twitter counsel would employ.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
We're also in the middle of a downturn, with many companies laying off tens of thousands of employees.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
If they quit their H1-B gets revoked.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
"But the code is self-documenting!"
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by FranksTV 3y ago
The thing is for some.of the academics involved the social in-and-out are their whole careers. If you're a PhD who's entire work is about rust then this stuff matters a lot. I think that's why having more corporate involvemen
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by FranksTV 3y ago
In a way it's just a sign of its success. There isn't a lot of news about most programming languages because no one cares.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
This kind of thing has happened forever, it's just thst before social media it was confined to obscure listservs and usenet channels and most of the people using the language would never see it.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
I can explain it for you: when you start writing a long complicated legal agreement, you never start from scratch. You almost always ask your lawyer to prepare the first draft and they take another agreement that's similar to the one y
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Anyone who's written long contracts know you start with some boilerplate that contains a bunch of stuff and gradually whittle it down till it's just what you need. The error they made was assuming people would understand that proc
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by FranksTV 3y ago
Part of the problem here is too much collective decision-making. Sometimes it's much better to just assign someone responsibility for something. Then if they screw up, they can learn from it, or you give the job to someone else. I thin
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by FranksTV 3y ago
I think you're underestimating the arbitrary cruelty of the internet. Naming people just paints a target on them.
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by FranksTV 3y ago
As it turns out, the qualities and skills that make someone an excellent systems programming language developer are completely orthogonal to the qualities and skills that make someone effective in governing a loose organization made up most
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by FranksTV 3y ago
It's clearly a partnership https://openai.com/waitlist/slack
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by FranksTV 4y ago
We're in the trough of disillusionment for virtual worlds. The tech just doesn't deliver on the promise yet.
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by FranksTV 4y ago
If I wanted Facebook, I'd stay on Facebook.

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