barrrrald

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by barrrrald 4d ago
I have many issues with Anthropic, but I will say that their actions are fully consistent with a group of people who earnestly believe that AI is extremely dangerous In fact, I would say that the Occam’s razor explanation is not that they a
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by barrrrald 28d ago
pay this man
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by barrrrald 1mo ago
We've built our whole platform around DuckDB at Hex. Our product truly could not exist without it.
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Why Snowflake is so expensive(greybeam.ai)
1 points by barrrrald 1mo ago|0 comments
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by barrrrald 4mo ago
The iPhone 5C of Ferraris – and I am sure it'll have the same fate. It's doubly a shame because Jony actually owns one of the all-time most beautiful classic Ferraris – the 250 Europa. I was hoping they'd do a modern re-imagi
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by barrrrald 6mo ago
Who hurt you?
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by barrrrald 7mo ago
I mean the whole product is a Hex clone, literally every feature is something Hex has had for a long time...
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Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering(barry.ooo)
1 points by barrrrald 7mo ago|0 comments
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by barrrrald 11mo ago
I don't think an LLM wrote it; this has been their brand voice for a long time...
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by barrrrald 11mo ago
Not surprised - this stuff isn’t fully mature yet. But I interact with their team a lot and know they have a commitment to it (I’m the other guy in that video)
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by barrrrald 11mo ago
One thing I admire about Snowflake is a real commitment to self-cannibalization. They were super out front with Iceberg even though it could disrupt them, because that's what customers were asking for and they're willing to bet th
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by barrrrald 11mo ago
I’m surprised not to see a discussion of the biggest drawback: despite being fewer characters, “uv” is harder to type than “pip”. It requires two different hands to participate and a longer reach with my left index finger. pip is convenient
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by barrrrald 11mo ago
VCs often help companies find homes within their portfolios
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by barrrrald 1y ago
no idea how the product itself works but they have set a new standard for small startup launch videos with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKOVAa1KAo
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by barrrrald 1y ago
Windsurf didn't not go through because of regulatory or MSFT issue – that was always a fig leaf. OAI walked.
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by barrrrald 1y ago
The implication of her article is that they’d have a hard time raising that money and/or that they somehow aren’t doing well - I don’t see any evidence of this cited anywhere in her post.
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by barrrrald 1y ago
This post didn't age well – 3 weeks later Substack announced a $100m fundraise at $1.1b valuation. [1] Ana's contention that Substack is "rickety" seems motivated by her conviction that they should adopt a more assertive
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by barrrrald 1y ago
Keep the vested equity and move on. Anything else is asking too much.
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by barrrrald 1y ago
congrats to Nikita and all the wonderful folks at Neon!
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by barrrrald 1y ago
Congrats to everyone. Some of the smartest and kindest people in data coming together!
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Congrats to everyone, very excited to see how these come together
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'Forward Deployed Engineering' and Why You Probably Shouldn't Do It(barry.ooo)
1 points by barrrrald 2y ago|0 comments
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Component dependency is pretty wild and could massively simplify some complex apps
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Congrats Taimur!
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Seems like it's mostly died off, most people I know have moved to hosted solutions like Hex or Colab
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Either! Basically any measure an objective observer could look at and be like, "oh yes this is a breakout hit with a bright future ahead of it"
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by barrrrald 2y ago
GitLab is a really interesting example, but I don't know if it'd have positioned itself as an "open source alternative" As for Mattermost, RocketChat, and Outline – I think these are great examples of projects positioned
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Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
96 points by barrrrald 2y ago|152 comments
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by barrrrald 2y ago
Packaging on this is interesting – from pricing page: How much will Figma Slides cost when it is generally available? Figma Slides will be included in all Starter plans for free or can be purchased for $3 per seat/month on Profession
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by barrrrald 2y ago
We love love love https://arcade.software/

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