JCW2001

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by JCW2001 2mo ago
Most companies are not successful. That's all you need to know.
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by JCW2001 2mo ago
Precisely.
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by JCW2001 2mo ago
Oh yes, I tell you're a real market analyst. SpaceX is exactly like every IPO ever. Except actually it's unlike just about every IPO there has ever been for so many reasons: The tiny float, special treatment, the intense lockups,
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by JCW2001 3mo ago
"Cost of revenue" isn't the entire cost of running the company, (ie R&D, operations, sales, marketing, etc). It's just a cost they've associated with revenue IN ADDITION to the other costs I mentioned. HSBC say
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Why is nobody talking about Oracle's imminent demise?(youtube.com)
4 points by JCW2001 5mo ago|3 comments
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by JCW2001 5mo ago
The numbers here are staggering... Oracle spending ~$340 billion to build infrastructure that generates ~$75 billion annually, financed almost entirely with off-balance-sheet debt, while its free cash flow is negative $24.7 billion. Yikes.
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by JCW2001 6mo ago
Ha. Try again
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by JCW2001 6mo ago
Amazon just did something unprecedented: they're forcing a 90-day safety reset across 335 critical systems after their AI coding tool caused catastrophic outages. The March 5th incident alone lost 6.3 million orders and triggered 21,71
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If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?(claude.ai)
15 points by JCW2001 7mo ago|21 comments
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by JCW2001 7mo ago
Those who think Gary Marcus, Ed Zitron and Yann LeCunn are wrong, and believe in AI: How do you reconcile things when AI thinks the market is highly likely to collapse? Quote: "The entire system only works if AI revenue grows fast enou
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by JCW2001 2y ago
Amazon sells all kinds of crap. I doubt there's any reason they wouldn't stock it.
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by JCW2001 2y ago
In practice this simply doesn’t pan out. There are many many terrible freelancers out there. And without someone technical in-house vetting their work, you’ll have no choice but to judge their based on their output. This is a huge problem.
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by JCW2001 3y ago
"Engineering Jeopardy" -- perfect summation! And good point about companies that are very one-sided in their interview process. What message are YOU sending to the candidate by drilling them like this, for example?
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How not to assess a developer's ability in an interview(thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com)
3 points by JCW2001 3y ago|2 comments