TodPunk

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No Slop: a No Hello inspired note on accountability(no-slop.ai)
8 points by TodPunk 5mo ago|1 comments
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by TodPunk 5mo ago
My local tech community has a slack where the grievance of low-effort sloppypasta was being discussed, and one of them made this and a whole bunch of feedback looping ensued. I was pleased enough with the result to share even though I didn&
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by TodPunk 3y ago
I'm local to the area of the company. Peeps in the community here have said they issue ridiculous old or underpowered laptops for many positions and that many if not all of those 30 employees are likely using their personal machines be
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by TodPunk 5y ago
Unsupervised | Software Engineers | Full-time | US Remote or Boulder, Colorado Unsupervised is an AI driven data analysis company. We run an unsupervised learning engine we built in-house to do a lot of analysis on customer data. The value
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by TodPunk 5y ago
Unsupervised | Software Engineers | Full-time | US Remote or Boulder, Colorado Unsupervised is a Data Capitalization Management company. We help organizations find actionable insights in their data so they can make their data more of a meas
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Yes, yes you should.
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by TodPunk 11y ago
The vast majority of businesses are not going to fit any of this playbook. The problem is this playbook covers a niche. If you don't want to play that niche game, that's totally fine. However, like me, you will have to look els
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by TodPunk 11y ago
We started our company because I could fund it out of pocket for less than the cost of coffee or lunch for a week, and grow at whatever pace made sense. Even if we only occupy 0.1% of the market ever, we'll be able to pay the salaries
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I do two things for this. One, I have a separate phone line that I largely ignore, and I give this as my main contact line for people or businesses that I have no dire need to talk to. Best Buy, for instance. If it's important, they
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by TodPunk 11y ago
"People" in this instance is a handful of special edge cases compared to the majority of computer users, even if we're only looking at people that build their own computer, or hell, even just looking at only linux users. Dua
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I don't buy it. The US is bringing their cases to protect their interests and the interests of their economies. It's not about territory control, it's about industry control. I don't agree with how they're going
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by TodPunk 11y ago
This opens up my mind to a lot of possibilities. Some poignant conversation starters for your local lunch group: - What kind of investment returns did the stock of those bankrupted yellow pages make and at what cycles? - What does it reall
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by TodPunk 11y ago
You are describing turn-key solutions. They are services that provide complete end-to-end consumption methods, like Netflix. In the scenarios of content consumption (be it articles, movies/tv, or even games) even recent history has s
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Actually, the harsh reality is that we do not yet have a digital content ecosystem that makes consuming any digital media easy for the vast majority of the population (US or otherwise). This is why netflix can do what they do: they have a
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by TodPunk 11y ago
The generalized popular programming industry, largely in web, desktop, or mobile high level programming. Not an entirely useful generalization, but one that is common enough to habitually pick up on when "we" is used in such a co
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I very much agree, but I was only using startup culture in the context of that term's use in the article. If we want to get more general than that, you are very correct that startup culture as a separate principle is not overlapping a
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Not in the slightest. Hacker spaces are an extension of just about every enthusiasts club ever, and if anything startup culture is a product of THOSE. Nobody sat down and said "you know, these startups are pretty cool, I should start
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Alternatively, just get rid of the phone system entirely. Transitional points are starting to exist, and if we can do more things that interop without involving telecoms and are decentralized, you can have a situation a lot like what email
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Well, it /is/ "security" in their sense of the word. It isn't very /good/ security or very /effective/ but it's goal is indeed what it is claiming. They don't desire totalitarianism o
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by TodPunk 11y ago
You can be into all those things AND be an introvert. It's about how you connect with people or not. I'm not saying the study is true or anything, just that it could be. I find it interesting that in a mountainous region, there&
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I agree. The reason game guides make money at all is because they have shops like Gamestop pushing those guides with every purchase. Not many a gamer is going to pay even $5 for a video guide they have to watch the entirety of if they jus
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Off the top of my head: any time you want to run a computational thing in another thread without doing something like an entire celery process or somesuch. It's not about being THE solution for such things anyway. It's about bein
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I'm agreeing with you that "criminal" was too strong a word. I edited a couple words in to see if that could be made more clear. (I also agreed from the get-go that the immigration system needs reform. It's one of the
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by TodPunk 11y ago
I'm willing to concede the term "criminal" in exchange for "unlawful entrant" in this instance. Using "criminal" is actually a bit more than what was deserved for describing both her treatment and her inf
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by TodPunk 11y ago
As usual with dramatizations of poor policy where the treatment of people is concerned: response on both sides was over the top. Obviously immigration reform is needed. Obviously immigration workers and the security they employ are more t
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by TodPunk 11y ago
In that case, yes, it would be interesting to make a system to verify such and probably doable in the short term (ignoring the UI issues which are separate). The problem still remains the same that your speech recognition is going to be ve
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by TodPunk 11y ago
There is not, especially where POTS is concerned. If you want private calls, you don't want old POTS interactivity at all (and there are services for this). If you don't involve POTS at all, this become easy to achieve.
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by TodPunk 11y ago
A fair question. =c) I can't really answer that exhaustively, as I am not intimately familiar with all of GV. Phone Janitor does have some things I couldn't find in one package elsewhere that I wanted for managing my own stuff (
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by TodPunk 11y ago
That's a fair perspective and I will give some sincere thought to the prospect. Striking a balance is important to us as a team, so I can't say I will cater to everything you wish, which I'm sure you understand easily enough
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by TodPunk 11y ago
Doable, but voice recognition is severely lacking outside of targeted small dictionaries, and a simple wav file can beat it. I wouldn't rely on it for a long while.

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