ericksoa

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by ericksoa 6mo ago
I am just flattered that at 53, I am still early career!
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by ericksoa 11mo ago
This. Working at EA punching out the next version of Madden, featuring roster updates, UI changes, and tinkering with a few settings isn't exactly work designing the new Unreal engine. Your average Java CRUDster could probably do a lot
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by ericksoa 11mo ago
Sometimes layoffs are designed to give air cover for execs that want to get rid of "networks of detractors" who are causing problems, like how in a game company there might be a network of influential luddites who oppose use of LL
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by ericksoa 11mo ago
"software development is a team sport" I have heard people state this like it is obviously true. Not so sure.
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by ericksoa 11mo ago
I tried my best to make a startup that was a "fuck you" to Workday (orgspace.io, RIP). Unfortunately, HR execs said "fuck you" back in no uncertain terms.
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by ericksoa 1y ago
You either do it, or someone wraps you with one using browser_use or similar.
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by ericksoa 2y ago
Have you seen the movie "mean girls"? People of all genders do this all the time, group up and rat-fuck the reputation of someone they don't like for all sorts of reasons, not all of them particularly good. Throw in a bit of
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by ericksoa 3y ago
100%. When I play video games, I am Marl. Not going into menus or whatever to set things up, just using it to specifically not use my brain.
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by ericksoa 3y ago
When I see VCs make this argument, all I hear is "oh shit, we're late to the party" and doing something like this as a desperate attempt to bring valuations down.
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by ericksoa 3y ago
You know what is more controversial than letting robot cars drive around? Trying to make a new train line literally anywhere in the US. You are better off buying a bunch of robot cars, tying them together with a rope, and starting a company
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by ericksoa 3y ago
Charlottesville might have thoughts on this
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by ericksoa 3y ago
By this logic, we should go back to manual deploys since CD lets... aghast... computers deploy our most important software to prod
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by ericksoa 3y ago
The guy seems pretty earnest about this, seems like it is literally his first blog post. It would not shock me in the least if people work in an org where they say they are "going agile", takes them through training where some Scr
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by ericksoa 3y ago
This. I like a lot of the game, but something feels off with movement.
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by ericksoa 3y ago
Question: unless you are an anti-AI advocate, why does this matter? Why are we raising pitchforks over this? We routinely sign terms that allow product managers to analyze how we use a product and even use data for aggregation of trends. Ye
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by ericksoa 3y ago
This. 99/100 calls I get are someone trying to sell me something worthless.
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by ericksoa 3y ago
Biggest problem with the pricing is that you are selling an expensive tool to cheap bastards that tend to be in your ICP. Idea: sell this with a course to idiots and call it "how to be nerd rich", and then create the OnlyFans of F
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Use GPT to gate your pull requests for security issues(github.com)
1 points by ericksoa 3y ago|1 comments
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by ericksoa 3y ago
More of an experiment, but thinking as the AI gets better, and assuming Open AI isn't reading things from the API itself, could be used to vet for security or give other kinds of stylistic feedback... ... once the AI gets better, might
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GPT Powered Reorg Announcements(post.news)
2 points by ericksoa 4y ago|0 comments
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by ericksoa 4y ago
I'd pay for stackoverflow if it wasn't for the "but aktually, instead of $thingINeed, you should use my $shittyOpenSourceProjectWith5Downloads" low quality crap. I pay for content where quality is high. Stackoverflow is
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by ericksoa 7y ago
1.) Adderall. 2.) See 1.
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by ericksoa 9y ago
Professional services isn't a complex business model. The likely outcome now is what it has always been: - Do you bill? Cool. You're good - Do you sell? Cool. You're good If you do neither of those things, you've likely
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by ericksoa 16y ago
Now if we could simultaneously make him governor of Illinois and do the same thing. Over here we are about to donate 2% of everyone's pay to one of the most corrupt state governments in the world, without any meaningful cuts at all.
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The Unheralded Benefits of the F# Programming Language(nomadic-developer.com)
2 points by ericksoa 16y ago|0 comments
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by ericksoa 16y ago
This makes me really want to make my daughter study to become an Oracle programmer (wpps, I mean Java programmer)
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by ericksoa 17y ago
Someone should try to buy an equally expensive non-iPhone. If online fraud is the problem, it should apply to all expensive/high demand products, not just the iPhone.
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by ericksoa 18y ago
True, but isn't the combination of money, IQ, and courage to take a risk the world's only known universal hammer?
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by ericksoa 18y ago
So it is more of a scale issue then? I will admit, the 700B is arbitrary - an attempt to make it as inclusive as possible and match the magic 700B that is the number de jour. Perhaps you do 1/10th the numbers, do some of the things you ta
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New Bailout Plan - $700B to go to Startups. YC on steroids.(blog.magenic.com)
3 points by ericksoa 18y ago|4 comments

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