brettgriffin

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by brettgriffin 1mo ago
I would liken it more to the male equivalent of facial beauty or weight: most men have a general level of facial beauty and weight they expect in a partner. And if not met, there is really nothing else that can help bind the attraction. For
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by brettgriffin 2mo ago
Anything else I can read about smol? also, are you using a tool to collect those metrics? what is it?
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by brettgriffin 2mo ago
Look at Cursor CLI: https://cursor.com/cli
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by brettgriffin 3mo ago
I met with ~80 funds over two rounds and they were all great experiences. Especially in the early ones, when I was still learning the dynamics of pitching, they were all overly patient and polite. I'm following this trend on Twitter. I
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by brettgriffin 3mo ago
The P&L of every software company has an R&D expense (R) in a total cost (T). We can debate what R is, and R might be approaching 0, but it is not 0. This does not mean that R is on the only cost (T-R grows over the life of the comp
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by brettgriffin 3mo ago
Apologies. When I met you in circa spring 2019 you described Ashby to me as mid-market ERP, which I had quite a few thoughts on given the amount of ERP work I had done. Sorry for droning on about ERPs to you, then.
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by brettgriffin 3mo ago
He didn't say there wouldn't be competitors. He was actually acknowledging the competitors exist, but he was expressing how none of them are in the consideration set of Greenhouse's buyers because they lacked an enormous numb
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by brettgriffin 3mo ago
> Our thesis is that the cost of producing code is heading towards zero This (correct) thesis should illicit an interesting question about the future of SaaS markets: What happens to the SaaS markets when the cost of code approaches zero
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by brettgriffin 5mo ago
This is just a tragic way to view the world, on so may levels: 79 is a great run for anybody. And more importantly, Craig Venter did more in 79 years than most people could do in two or three lifetimes. Lastly, of course, life is literally
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by brettgriffin 6mo ago
The only reference I can find to this is a Business Insider story[0], and they are known for salacious and dishonest articles. It looks like they paused hiring for some number of weeks after the law was passed, probably because someone forg
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by brettgriffin 6mo ago
> That’s what dies if I can’t keep going. Your priorities are completely wrong. You need to redirect the time and energy you're spending on this project towards getting back to stable ground, starting with utilizing the safety nets
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
It's curious to see the rational argument against the emotional choice the author makes. The critical piece here is the anecdotal (but true) insight that engineering orgs have been flattening over the last few years. There are a lot of
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
> I believe this cultural divide is a big reason America won't make it back to the top What top are you referring to? We're in a thread about a US company announcing its new $30B fundraise from a group of elite US growth invest
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
Put winter tires on your vehicles. I'm surprised by the number of people who tool around in snow and ice in 'all season' tires. Also, that writing tone is obnoxious.
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
That website has an uncanny resemblance to Hex circa 2024.
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
> There is an amount of baby cash that would work Probably not. A vast majority of families in the US raise children without a nanny. If the "only" preclusion is 'I don't have enough money to hire a nanny' but be
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
I just read both articles and I think his summary is accurate enough to stand behind his claim that putting off having children (if you want them) because of a theoretical situation qualified as 'hysterical' (assuming everyone in
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by brettgriffin 7mo ago
> you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones. Empirically, that group exists, but they're often the minority to th
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by brettgriffin 8mo ago
Something I've come to accept and try to remember: people will complain about literally anything you give them to opportunity to complain about. The world is better today in every conceivable way for more people, than it was at any poi
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by brettgriffin 8mo ago
If there was serious interest, they would taken a next step by now. They won't give you a hard no unless you're an absolute joke. They will wait and see if there's any deal heat. Are you talking to other funds? You need to ta
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by brettgriffin 9mo ago
I've built up to a very similar process, but it looks like yours is a much better oiled machine. Specifically I struggle with getting enough architecture thoughts in place for the programming agent to really do what it needs to do with
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by brettgriffin 9mo ago
You'd have to be using very antiquated (by nearly two decades!) patterns or practices for SQL injection to be a concern.
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by brettgriffin 9mo ago
> Nah. Just write the good SQL for your database. You may not need to use an ORM, but hand writing SQL, especially CRUD, should be a terminable offense. You _cannot_ write it better than a process that generates it.
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by brettgriffin 9mo ago
That's not really how data is requested. Most of these identifiers are foreign keys - they exist in a larger object graph. Most systems of records are too large for people to associate surrogate keys to anything meaningful - they can e
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by brettgriffin 9mo ago
> Stripping information from an identifier disconnects a piece of data from the real world which means we no longer can match them. But such connection is the sole purpose of keeping the data in the first place. The surrogate key's
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by brettgriffin 10mo ago
Has anybody written about why this is? I recently canceled my ChatGPT subscription that I had held since November of 2022. I don't follow the benchmarks closely, but I know quality and speed when I see it. ChatGPT feels like its from a
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by brettgriffin 10mo ago
No moral hazard, but there is a hazard to not brushing your teeth: cavities, and more explicitly, the financial cost of having cavities repaired. Even the best dental insurance plans in America are capped at $1500 - $3000 of benefits a year
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by brettgriffin 10mo ago
For the uninitiated, what's the subtext here? Is this about a trend in behavior of teens in Germany? Asking for the same reason I asked OP my question. I was just in Berlin and, second only to Tokyo, I've never* seen such conscien
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by brettgriffin 10mo ago
It's more common in larger metro areas - NYC, LA and Atlanta are infamous for it - but can happen anywhere depending on what is going on further down the exit lane (an emergency vehicle, car breakdown, etc).
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by brettgriffin 10mo ago
A zipper merge is only applicable to a lane that is ending or has an obligation to merge. In exit lane jumping, the car is coming from a lane that does not end and has no obligation to merge. In fact, at their point of entry, you will notic

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