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by fizzyfizz 3mo ago
The OP is mostly talking about image, not reality. What image do tech founders choose to project. OPs timeline is somewhat off. They posit a golden era for the 1980s-2007 but that’s not right. Tech CEOs have often been hard-charging sales
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by fizzyfizz 6mo ago
Tools: Claude Code and various VS Code derivatives, and Cursor at work. Generally Opus 4.6 now. I feel it made me better and other people worse. GOOD: I feel that I’m producing more and better code even with unfamiliar and tangled codebases
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Ask HN: When to leave a slow-growing company?
4 points by fizzyfizz 3y ago|1 comments
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by fizzyfizz 4y ago
I'm sure it's a coincidence that their graphics make it look like the "arc reactor" from the Iron Man movies.
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by fizzyfizz 4y ago
Thank you for a response in the spirit of good discourse. Anyway, I don't even know if he has moved on from Adjoint. I agree there's something odd about this, but I've also seen how people who are vocal critics on the inter
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by fizzyfizz 4y ago
I was surprised by the claim about Stephen Diehl so I did a little googling. I don't think it's correct to say he "works on his own blockchain company". However, relatively recently he was working on smart contracts with
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Ask HN: Evidence-based worker/company fit?
1 points by fizzyfizz 5y ago|0 comments
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
Prank submissions aren't cool here. As far as I know, there are no "crisis actors", in the sense of a conspiracy that pays protestors. At least not anywhere that has a functioning free press. While protests are sometimes orga
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
There are lots of reasons why a startup might fail. Technical competence and disorganization are way, way down the list. In my experience engineering at successful startups is often subpar. A successful startup engineer is above all product
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Ask HN: Automated fake AI / LinkedIn accounts for sales or worse?
3 points by fizzyfizz 5y ago|0 comments
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
I'm sure this person means well, and is very intelligent, but I stopped reading at the byline. I went and found what this person's expertise actually is. Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering play
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
sometimes
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
I've been tested and I'm a borderline case. Not enough for a diagnosis.
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
I like this. I do have large ambitions, swelling even as my daily achievements dwindle. There could be a sort of vicious circle there. If you respond to short-term failure by putting more pressure on yourself to be outstanding, you end up b
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by fizzyfizz 5y ago
You are the kind of person the authors are talking about. You're getting way too much of your information from social media. You think the people who are not in your defined tribe take cartoonishly extreme positions and therefore they
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Ask HN: How to Get Better at Finishing?
60 points by fizzyfizz 5y ago|31 comments
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by fizzyfizz 6y ago
What is pg trying to tell us with this story? I think it's evidence for "Billionaires Build", which is an apologia for billionaires. pg seems to think we are in a moment where billionaires don't have enough cultural resp
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by fizzyfizz 6y ago
If rich people are so great, why do founders not want to work for them?
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by fizzyfizz 6y ago
I appreciate what Slava has written here. But I noticed something odd about his recommendation. He noticed that doctors can get through the bullshit because they have contact with patients. It's anecdotal of course, but it seems common
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by fizzyfizz 7y ago
pg has written some good essays. Unfortunately this isn't one of them. As is increasingly the case, the core of pg's argument is a variant of the Appeal to Authority: the "impressive people" that pg personally knows. And
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Ask HN: Costs of acquiring a company?
2 points by fizzyfizz 11y ago|2 comments
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by fizzyfizz 11y ago
Yup. Ever since then, Gregory Kohs has been on a scarily obsessive mission to not just criticize Wikipedia, but harass individual Wikipedians. He's been banned from almost all the Wikipedia projects, and in the days when Yahoo Answers
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by fizzyfizz 12y ago
Hey, Sam, from your blog posts I have the impression you take this issue seriously. Please take this as a friendly suggestion. Anyway, if I were the OP I'd be worried that YC might be more concerned with PR damage control than justice
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by fizzyfizz 12y ago
You forgot the Berlin windowing and GUI system, back in the 90s. Rotatable windows, alpha channels, super fast, and unlike X it was actually a GUI that you could style and so on. Yeah, there was a lot about it that was impractical for its t