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by jm20 1y ago
It's so funny. Every single time a company raises a ton of money at a large valuation, the comments are always filled with "how do they justify this valuation" or "they aren't work X...because Y and Z do the same th
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by jm20 1y ago
The best way I’ve heard this described: AI (LLMs) is probably 90% of the way to human levels of reasoning. We can probably get to about 95% optimizing current technology. Whether or not we can get to 100% using LLMs is an open research prob
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by jm20 1y ago
Odds are this is a dev shop with more than one person doing at least some things. It would explain how “he” was able to get so many jobs and maintain appearances. And a lot of startups don’t have the best screening processes to begin with (
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by jm20 1y ago
Student visas tied into tech hiring, so it's at least tangentially related. But I agree, that should've probably been scrubbed as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted. It's literally in the guidelines: Off-Topic: Most
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by jm20 1y ago
Nintendo has never competed on graphics. They compete on having the most fun, accessible, entertaining games as possible. And say what you will about their business practices, they’ve probably done a better job of that than any other gaming
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by jm20 1y ago
Lol in what world was the US education system the envy of the world? We’ve been routinely clowned for overspending, poor outcomes, university tuition bloat, and everything else under the sun.
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by jm20 2y ago
There isn’t a single founding engineer at a publicly traded company that regrets their choice to sacrifice salary at a more stable company for 1% of a startup. Becoming a founding engineer is a wealth-building, passion-for-your-work risk, n
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by jm20 2y ago
The math simply never works out in favor of lower salaries/publicly funded healthcare for high paying US roles like software engineering. Even taking your (high, assuming family of 4) premiums and 0% employer contribution (very uncommo
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by jm20 2y ago
Never think that pure hard work leads to success, placement, privilege, or anything else. The farmhand in a field works harder than 99.9% of high paid tech employees. Hard work is important, sure, but it’s all about relative value contribut
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by jm20 2y ago
I’m pretty sure in the grand scheme of things the Forbes family is still perfectly OK with the association
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by jm20 2y ago
It’ll be a billion dollar business just like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush are. A few whales will account for the vast majority of the spend and the majority of the population won’t even touch it.
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by jm20 3y ago
I tried to use the Vision Pro for work, and I'm not sure if it was just my eyes or what, but looking at code inside of that thing was just...exhausting. When I took it off, I looked at my regular monitors with a newfound love. I'd
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Kodable is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help teach kids to code(ziprecruiter.com)
1 points by jm20 3y ago
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by jm20 3y ago
They sell an online subscription. Some states consider there to be a nexus if you’re selling to residents in the state. NC doesn’t tax digital software, so that would complicate things, but it wouldn’t be as cut and dry as “we don’t have a
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by jm20 3y ago
This is hilarious coming from a mayor that literally cut funding to schools and police to support all the illegal migrants coming to NYC
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by jm20 3y ago
Yeah I’m skeptical of the happiness metric. Most people living their day to day lives would say things still feel a lot more “negative” than pre-pandemic
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Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a Unity game Developer to help teach kids to code(ycombinator.com)
1 points by jm20 3y ago
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Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a senior engineer to help us teach kids to code(indeed.com)
1 points by jm20 3y ago
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Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a full stack engineer to help teach kids to code(indeed.com)
1 points by jm20 3y ago
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by jm20 3y ago
I think you’re right. It’s irresponsible/dangerous for a business not to try to grow as fast as it can, especially in as cutthroat a market as tech can be. Just how the system works, for better or worse. However the “poor CEO gets fire
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by jm20 4y ago
This is easy enough to understand when you decouple “success” vs “VC success”. If you survive as a business long enough you’ll be successful almost by default. It might not be the next Facebook, but it should net you a nice life. However, a
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by jm20 4y ago
As a policy Southwest is one of (the?) only airline that doesn’t overbook flights. They only sell the seats they have. From a business perspective it would be dumb to not offer all those seats for sale. This is definitely their fault, but
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by jm20 4y ago
Amazon made web-based book selling mainstream. Emphasis on web. Of course it was a tech company.
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by jm20 4y ago
One thing not getting mentioned here is the outsized influence large districts have on the broader education market. A contract with a huge district like LAUSD or CPS can be worth millions, and often these go to large incumbents because the
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Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a full stack engineer to help us teach kids to code(indeed.com)
1 points by jm20 4y ago
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by jm20 4y ago
I feel like Hacker News might be the only forum online where you can reliably find ridiculous one-off anecdotes like this on a regular basis.
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by jm20 4y ago
A therapist once told me: Let your actions dictate your emotions. Don’t let your emotions dictate your actions. Advice we should all follow more
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by jm20 4y ago
I agree with you, but that has nothing to do with the city’s management though. SF is a tragedy considering all of its natural gifts.
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by jm20 4y ago
Thoughts on Firebase vs Playfab?
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by jm20 4y ago
Bridge loans are a lot like being pot committed in poker (when the pot odds for the remainder of your chips are worse than your odds of winning that specific hand). In both situations, you have a lot more information on the immediate situat

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