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by bishnu 1y ago
The illustrative example to me is the construction of railroads at the beginning of the Industrial revolution. Unquestionably useful, unquestionably important there were nevertheless at least 3 speculative financial bubbles centered on rail
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by bishnu 3y ago
What about blackberries made them unsuitable for social media apps?
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I'm a Screenwriter. These AI Jokes Give Me Nightmares(time.com)
25 points by bishnu 3y ago|13 comments
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by bishnu 4y ago
How would this even work? Get it out of the app stores, fine. But presumably the URL would still be accessible? Likewise sideloading it onto Android devices?
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Elon Musk asks Twitter engineers to print, then shred, code(platformer.news)
21 points by bishnu 4y ago|1 comments
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by bishnu 4y ago
This analogy doesn't hold for "WWIII" though, right? By this analogy, I would call the current crisis "Cold War II".
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by bishnu 4y ago
I gained a lot of clarity when I differentiated "programming" from "shipping code". I still enjoy the former, but the latter is becoming harder and harder to do at large corporations.
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by bishnu 4y ago
I burned out hard towards the end of last year as an engineer. Fortunately, this preceded 4 months of paternity leave during which I was really able to think hard about what I wanted out of my career. I came back to a different position at
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by bishnu 5y ago
I believe this is the premise of an upcoming Netflix movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Look_Up_(2021_film)
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by bishnu 5y ago
100%. The answer wouldn't be "join our marketing team", it would be "you aren't a culture fit".
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by bishnu 5y ago
Has anyone read Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia journal? Was thinking of checking it out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578627310?pf_rd_r=HMREHVA...
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by bishnu 5y ago
The rubber band trick [1] really helped me. Took my unlocks-per-day from ~100 to ~20. I took it off after about 2 weeks and it's more or less stayed that way. 1: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and
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by bishnu 5y ago
I mean, a few guys stayed in orbit on subsequent lunar missions, but you're right, Collins was the first.
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by bishnu 5y ago
The NYT did a deep dive in an Indian city using this methodology: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi... The figures are orders of magnitudes greater than what's report
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by bishnu 5y ago
I feel like the covid pandemic has definitively answered the question "What's better, government policy and collective action, or a small well-capitalized group implementing a technological solution?" Efforts like this are th
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by bishnu 5y ago
https://stripe.com/climate lists some interesting tech companies working in this area (scroll to the bottom)
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by bishnu 6y ago
I don't think it is. Most popular, groundbreaking technology isn't the first version of itself. Eg, I think of this profile of Tony West: https://www.wired.com/2000/12/soul/ Tony West is the protago
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by bishnu 6y ago
If you enjoy this series I really recommend reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It's 40 years old but still the best book I have ever read about what motivates engineers (not entrepeneurs - there are tons of books about
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by bishnu 6y ago
I find no fault with the social network bans, and I don't even mind the Google Play Store ban (given the ability to sideload apps, including alternate app stores, on Android), but totally banning an app from an OS like this does give m
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by bishnu 6y ago
So, $7.2M per life lost.
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by bishnu 6y ago
Task managers must also have traffic spikes early in the new year...
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by bishnu 6y ago
If you've devoted yourself to a novel anarchist monetary project, I would imagine you might see your job as political regardless of which aspect you worked on.
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by bishnu 6y ago
I think what he's saying is that no-one would be willing to take over as CEO unless they had two years of runway ahead of them.
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by bishnu 6y ago
FAANG companies will have smaller teams working on various new/experimental products. Without a large userbase you'll be able to iterate faster. You can try to get transfered to one of those teams; I found it quite rewarding.
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Pinboard Turns Eleven(blog.pinboard.in)
234 points by bishnu 6y ago|99 comments
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by bishnu 6y ago
Here's an interview with one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiL2PgC17A It seems like a lot of elderly men in the late 1800s/early 1900s married younger women to essentially be caregivers.
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by bishnu 6y ago
Craig Newmark is a billionaire, granted not on the same level as Warren Buffett, but having your "not rich at all" threshold between those two seems not that useful.
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Quibi versus the World(theverge.com)
1 points by bishnu 7y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 7y ago
If you learn some new tech and then don't use it you'll just forget it. Learn reactively.
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by bishnu 7y ago
It's not just Boeing, airlines that relied on the Max are losing money too (Southwest in particular is suffering harshly). There's a 5+ year backlog for new A320s, so switching suppliers simply isn't an option.

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