abz10

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by abz10 5y ago
Cash, as in free cash flow. Maybe not the best usage of the term, but better than revenue. And secret in that people in this niche don’t advertise the opportunity as new competition would cut into profits.
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by abz10 5y ago
I’m amused that the 100x dev caught more flack than a likely solo $B bootstrap. In my view developer ability follows the Pareto distribution. I was born to program and have done it all my life and it’s all I do. I’ve been formally trained a
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by abz10 5y ago
Yes, I would rate my development productivity to be roughly 100x of an average developer.
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by abz10 5y ago
It’s one of those secret but profitable niches.
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by abz10 5y ago
Lol, this is me, a 100x dev, screwed over by big co employer. Decide to go solo and slowly build a company to compete with them. Started part time 12 years ago. I think I could easily hit $1B valuation within 10 years. It is already super p
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by abz10 5y ago
AFAIK the Afghan commanders stole their soldiers pay so the soldiers sold their weapons to the Taliban. The Taliban taking it back over seems like a natural consequence.
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by abz10 5y ago
Nothing new was discovered here and the key terminology is used incorrectly. To be fair, most of the industry are amateurs, but most people don’t write medium posts and continue to argue their ignorance on HN.
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by abz10 5y ago
US companies are now being hoisted by their own petard. There are not that many exploitable smart people left, even internationally. In my applied research niche they already hired internationally and the ability was rare, being high functi
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by abz10 5y ago
Some tech jobs are only available in a handful of companies that were a part of the cartel. Some of us took the bet that a big investment in education in one of these specialties would pay off. The cartel effectively suppressed the pay off.
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by abz10 5y ago
You mean Germany?
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by abz10 5y ago
I presume he would have known his writing style was unique and expected people to figure it out once he got what he wanted. It’s an interesting read.
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by abz10 5y ago
I became known as a conspiracy theorist amount my friends when I told them about this. A week later the Snowden revelations came out and yet somehow I’m still the conspiracy theorist.
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by abz10 5y ago
It occurred in both Windows and Ubuntu. In Windows “Never” wasn’t an option for Sleep (edit; I forget if it wasn’t an option or selecting it didn’t work), in Ubuntu the usual disable sleep commands didn’t work. Someone in the Ubuntu forums
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by abz10 5y ago
Years ago I bought a tiny hockey puck sized computer to act as an internal web server. AFAIK there seemed to be no way for me to prevent it from going to sleep, I presume it was due to a similar regulation. This one from the EU. Had to thro
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by abz10 5y ago
The SFO has a habit of not finding sufficient evidence, I wouldn’t read too much into that other than perhaps they too are incompetent. In my view they are also likely corrupt as well.
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by abz10 5y ago
AFAIK it was good old fashioned accounting fraud. Losses booked as marketing expenses, lifetime revenue of contracts booked immediately, bundling overpriced software with underpriced hardware to change the revenue mix to get better valuatio
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by abz10 5y ago
The Serious Fraud Office has corruption problems; so I wouldn’t expect much justice out of them at all. Mike Lynch is the bad guy in this. Autonomy was an intentional fraud that was offloaded into HP - with the help of Goldman Sachs and Meg
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by abz10 5y ago
A theory that I ascribe to is that Long Covid is viral induced CFS/ME. As someone with hEDS I've battled CFS/ME for most of my life. I don't want to celebrate too soon but in the last few weeks do I feel like I have now
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by abz10 5y ago
Megadose B3 2000mg per day does seem to be commonly effective. The theory is NAD+. Gives me a headache so an aspirin is needed as well but was one of the first treatments that pulled me out of fatigue.
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by abz10 5y ago
And I think it’s weird when people assume that nature would conform to morality. That would be convenient and I’m suspicious of convenience. It’s a proposed causation hence the ‘may’ qualifier. I’m suggesting people should check it out furt
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by abz10 5y ago
It could be genetic. RCCX gene mutations may make people more susceptible to CF/ME and being a software developer. For most people CF/ME will present as burnout.
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by abz10 5y ago
One of the ironies in banning right wing voices from popular platforms is that you teach their audiences that they have to more proactive in supporting their content.
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by abz10 5y ago
I’m sure the Navy wished it wasn’t canceled, and the Marines probably would have been happy with Harriers. The stealth window of usefulness is closing anyway with improved radar.
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by abz10 5y ago
Threat mitigation is largely nuclear shield; but if you’re taking about maintaining air superiority then the F-22 is where it is at. The Navy carrier fleets and Marines are force projection. The JSF were sold around cost savings; half the p
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by abz10 5y ago
I don’t think it’s a great example of using existential threat for sales, when the whole thing was sold as a cost saving. Pretty much everyone at the time just wanted more F-22s. I was a technical advisor on the project.
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by abz10 5y ago
The F-22 was sufficient for threat mitigation. The F-35 raison d'être was cost reduction, after that was exportability which again was supposed to help with cost reduction. Edit; comparing the logic of a 'but for' vs a &#x27
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by abz10 5y ago
The F-35 was framed as a way to save money.
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by abz10 5y ago
It's likely genetic - i.e. an inherited Anxiety disorder. I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). It disproportionally affects Gifted people and causes a bunch of physical problems that exhibit as mental problems. hEDS is rar
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by abz10 5y ago
Didn’t Galileo recant and it was his assistant who was killed?
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by abz10 5y ago
My grandparents were farmers and used generic selection to pacify their cattle herd. It was very clear from their work that behavior was inherited. I was already predisposed to the concept. Even still it was a surprise when I found out just

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