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by anself 1mo ago
It’s not actually less certain now than it was then. It’s just the media has gotten louder. Cuban missilie crisis, civil rights, world wars, nuclear weapons, it has all been happening for a while.
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by anself 2mo ago
Who ever said coding is solved??
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by anself 2mo ago
I agree, don't pre-emptively put too much control over your agents. But they do need guidelines and guardrails. All of the constraints I've added on my agents, I've added because when I let them cook, they went down the wrong
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by anself 11mo ago
Pessimists are going to read this and call BS
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by anself 1y ago
The 100m / 10k analogy is fantastic, but the reality is even worse. Let’s say you expect a candidate to stay for average five years. That’s about 1200 working days. If you get to interview them for 1 day, then that day is 8.3m to the
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by anself 1y ago
Came here to say this! So many ways to parse it. But the key issue was not knowing that “pregnancy-test frogs” was the central concept. Without that, the headline is so confusing… at some point I had to consider whether “frogs” was being
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by anself 1y ago
Too much developers relying on bloatware, not enough “implement it yourself” because in reality every hash map doves a unique problem that a Palin hash map is not necessarily suited for. Embrace NIH
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by anself 1y ago
You need at least one or two somewhat disagreeable folks in a team. Because without this, groupthink emerges, teams have too much inertia, they follow the assumed norm instead of challenging it for something better, they don’t debate the op
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by anself 1y ago
Agree - but The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt) is a rare exception to this. It’s written as a novel but actually contains valuable and counterintuitive lessons about optimizing for efficiency in a complex delivery process. Worth every page
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by anself 1y ago
Agree, it's not testing. The problem is here: "In a typical testing workflow, you write some basic tests to check the core functionality. When a bug inevitably shows up—usually after deployment—you go back and add more tests to co
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by anself 1y ago
I don’t think there’s zero demand recommendation apps, a lot of founders choose this because it’s a problem they want to solve for themselves, and there are a few success stories out there. It’s just that it’s a super-hard problem
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by anself 1y ago
Is there a way to consume this in text instead? Video is far too slow and cumbersome and requires headphones
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by anself 2y ago
Having worked in banking for many years (no longer), I can say with confidence, the big banks have a giant moat: regulation. They want to be heavily regulated so that new upstart competitors will not come in and spoil their cozy space. And
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by anself 2y ago
Aren’t “utterly toxic” and “scammer” kinda the same thing? The only difference is the intention, and does that really matter?
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by anself 2y ago
Where did the wastewater go before the first rodwell was finished?