jibolash

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by jibolash 8mo ago
Unfortunately technological progress is not always exponential. An human landed on the moon 56 years ago and people back then thought space travel would be a routine thing today so it'll be interesting to see how things go
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by jibolash 1y ago
Because too many people take Sam Altman's takes too seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5vsEUgxt3E
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by jibolash 1y ago
Okay Tarzan
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by jibolash 1y ago
So every individual becomes a company? The natural tendency of capitalism is to create bigger companies for "scale". Even if it was possible, what exactly would be the benefit of one person companies?
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by jibolash 1y ago
The problem here is the asymmetric nature of outcomes. The vast majority of these types of interactions will be positive, but it only takes 1 to ruin someone's life or reputation, that forces over-correction in behavior
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Show HN: QuizKnit, an open source quiz creator(quizknit.com)
10 points by jibolash 1y ago|0 comments
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by jibolash 1y ago
Open source quiz creator to create quizzes by pasting in text or selecting from a large range of historical categories. Started as a very simple app for me to play around with OpenAI’s API last year then morphed into a portfolio project dur
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by jibolash 2y ago
The possibility that OpenAI, Anthropic or other companies in the space can lose their investors money does not make the technology a "con". As long as they do not try to pass their losses to the tax payers, how is this a problem?
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by jibolash 2y ago
I am using OpenAI's API for the movie recommendations based on the user's input and pulling the movie metadata from OMDb ( https://www.omdbapi.com/ )
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Show HN: I built a movie recommendation app(moodvie.app)
5 points by jibolash 2y ago|2 comments
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The 'strategic mirage' of Africa's green minerals wealth(odi.org)
2 points by jibolash 2y ago|0 comments
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by jibolash 3y ago
Curious why you are referring to the termination fee as an investment, does Adobe get anything back in return for it? Along those lines, maybe that would have been a better course of action in the first place, give Figma some money as an in
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by jibolash 3y ago
This category of drugs are referred to as Behind the Counter, https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/legal-requi...
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Broadcom in talks to buy software firm SAS Institute(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by jibolash 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Companies Using JavaScript Canvas API
1 points by jibolash 5y ago|0 comments
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by jibolash 5y ago
This was a thing in Nigeria in the early 2000s too. We called it flashing.
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by jibolash 6y ago
Great article. Like every good piece of satire, the lines between what happens in real life and the parts that the author exaggerates is blurry.
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by jibolash 6y ago
Nope, not ever. Five years, 3 companies, every single codebase has been a nightmare. The funny thing is that in all these companies, everyone talks the talk and uses all the standard buzzwords about test driven development, clean code and a
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by jibolash 6y ago
You realize you are speaking of a 6 year old language right? For some reason, it sounds like you are referring to some newly launched shiny new language that nobody has ever done anything with.
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by jibolash 6y ago
Imposer syndrome alert. First, wait till tomorrow, see if you feel the same way. From experience, you're probably just in a mood bad because of some difficult task. If you still feel the same way tomorrow, then my advice will be to ju
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by jibolash 6y ago
Sleep at least 6 hours every day to see the positive effects of those two things compound dramatically
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by jibolash 6y ago
> There's also something about the competitive aspect of seeing other people in person do better than you or have better ideas than you. Which is hard virtually. Maybe even this is not that hard. People already compete virtually on
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by jibolash 7y ago
True. I find you can get a pretty good idea of what a company's tech stack is by looking at their engineering job descriptions