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by ftlio 2y ago
Yeah this trope won’t die. You can win an internet thread with data that tells people they don’t know they’re better off, but you can’t win an election when they don’t believe it. “Nobody likes my product because they are stupid”.
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by ftlio 2y ago
This is how I’ve implemented login several times now, and it comes from repeatedly having to undo a ton of assumptions about what a User Account is when attempting to modify a funnel to just actually work how people want it to on both sides
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by ftlio 2y ago
> The semantic web has been, in my opinion, a category error. Hard agree. > Maybe this all changes when AI takes over, but AI seems to do fine without us defining ontologies, etc. I think about it as: - Hypermedia controls were been d
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by ftlio 2y ago
VCs with board seats vs you are trying to run your company with all its intricacies while VCs are often managing you as yet-another-in-some-tranche.
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by ftlio 2y ago
Great read, especially from the perspective of just trying to understand why people overfit certain thinking to certain problems. My startups perspective: I think it’s hard for people to understand the subtlety from all the memes and hearsa
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by ftlio 2y ago
Speculation would qualify almost everything, so that would be more of a statement on macroeconomics beyond Bitcoin. BTC is liquid enough while seeing billions of dollars in inflows a month to discount wash trading as a major factor.
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by ftlio 2y ago
Begging the question. What makes the prices inflated today?
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by ftlio 2y ago
I’ve used FusionAuth as well and found it to be quite good.
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by ftlio 2y ago
I suck in the kitchen. If you asked me to make you a sandwich, I would have to go to the cupboard or refrigerator a few times to end up with all the right ingredients. Then I could at least competently assemble the sandwich. My family also
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by ftlio 3y ago
I had to work on an architecture like this for a company that had no business employing such an architecture. It sucked, but in attempting to help people on team "this is good" communicate with team "this is insane, terrible,
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by ftlio 3y ago
Central Banks have allowed for the creation of tens of trillions of dollars / euro into a bases that were only in the tens of trillions. That glut of new money took a flight to quality in banks and things like tech companies. Such firm
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by ftlio 3y ago
Yeah not feeling like I’m going to fall out of alignment doing learning modules, but umm, ok thanks
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by ftlio 3y ago
Do people really need to check in with their manager about doing some task work?
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by ftlio 3y ago
My thought when I read it as well. I've owned Nexus 4, 5, 6, Pixel 1, 2, 3, 4 and finally gave up. Half of these phones were purchased because the previous model crapped out. I am not a heavy phone user either. I think I stuck with the
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by ftlio 3y ago
Where did YouTube enter the discussion? Also yes the things I search for would be in the minority of overall searches, but apparently finding Google unable to fulfill searches for these things despite it being able to do so 7 years ago is j
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by ftlio 3y ago
Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize advertisements over more accurate results that don’t calculate a ma
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by ftlio 3y ago
Google search has become nearly unusable, while Microsoft’s core consumer products still seem OK - you can still install Windows 11 without a Live account through a workaround. I can run games on Linux and do work on a Mac. Search is still
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by ftlio 3y ago
The unions aren’t that bad, but if there was any kind of accountability on budgets, they would be crushed or, more likely, just be better and faster. Between ZIRP and infinite debt, I can’t blame them for getting their cut. Also yes, I assu
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by ftlio 3y ago
Because most of the gravy is in getting those things wrong. The bank or the government will find more money to keep the work going. I worked with a GC who bragged about tripling the budget of a highschool build. If you are doing large proje
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by ftlio 3y ago
I worked in construction for ten years and then worked at a construction management software startup for a year, where maybe I could see the writing on the wall better than others. The problem is that nobody can align the incentives of the
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by ftlio 3y ago
Having worked in climate tech for a few years and also following the VCs in that space intently, I believe you've completely nailed it. Seriously, this comment is worth two trillion dollars.
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by ftlio 3y ago
I figured a modern stack would involve modern tools and not be a head first dive into enterprise SaaS contracts and integration hell, but what do I know. At this point I’m diversified enough in my investments to just start agreeing. “Yes, y
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by ftlio 4y ago
On the subject of modules, I often recommend “Composite / Structured Design” and/or “Reliable Software Through Composite Design” by Glenford Myers. It’s old. The examples are in PL/I. But his framework for identifying “Functi
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by ftlio 4y ago
The analogy is apt in at least defining a separation between the overall complexity of what SpaceX produces compared to NASA, to say something of how the two different models of R&D work, but maybe off in degrees as you discussed. &quot
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by ftlio 4y ago
I think clarity on what “level of leadership” (link, Netflix presentation) is expected is a good thing and also helps people understand that such a hierarchy exists. It gets people thinking about just handling things for you. Otherwise, I d
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by ftlio 4y ago
What works: A lead who plans out the project and works with engineers or engineering teams with different specialties to scope out the required components. Lead puts together a plan that is path dependence aware, engineers / teams work
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by ftlio 4y ago
> Does anyone... actually like CircleCI? It's a weird feeling where they once felt like a reprieve from all the PITA "enterprise" stuff, but now they're that PITA kinda-poorly-minded "SaaS" stuff, which suck
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by ftlio 4y ago
> I hire infra engineers, build engineers, release engineers and: backend engineers. I always thought DevOps the “function” just meant this, and being a DevOps engineer at a small company meant you did these with decreasing emphasis, whe
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by ftlio 4y ago
Shout out to my fellow $7.99/month YouTube Premium subscribers. May we never truly know what we’re paying for.
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by ftlio 4y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence

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