jonathanrmumm

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by jonathanrmumm 1y ago
3. Young people who realize this dynamic and start their own companies because old people are less energetic toward picking up new tools / learning new tricks and run circles around them.
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by jonathanrmumm 1y ago
Remember my dad taking me here all the time and being amazed by aisles full of bins of random parts. Made you want to tinker.
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by jonathanrmumm 1y ago
Embeddings are a new jump to universality, like the alphabet or numbers. https://thebeginningofinfinity.xyz/Jump%20to%20Universality
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
If we're talking conscious thought, millions of simultaneously firing neurons to form words. If we're unconscious intelligence, it's closer to latent space. A lot of intelligence that can't be articulated.
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
If we view the person we are looking to hire as a "junior dev", a "junior dev" is what you will get. But if you seek a young, competent software dev—one you might find.
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
They developed software as "juniors" in companies—we just don't belittle them by calling them "junior devs".
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
- Linus Torvalds wrote Linux at 21 - Steve Wozniak built Apple I at 25 - Palmer Luckey created Oculus VR at 20 - Vitalik Buterin designed Ethereum at 19 - Mark Zuckerberg coded Facebook at 19
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
Judgement and taste increases with energy spent—and from a company's perspective, usually you want it to grow in line with your own.
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
There has never been a more fertile environment for motivated learners to do more with less, and yet we still have a bias as an industry to seek the more experienced hand versus the energetic one.
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
Try to forget the mindset that you need an authority in order to learn. Better to pretend authorities do not exist.
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
Embeddings are a new jump to universality, like the alphabet or numbers. https://thebeginningofinfinity.xyz/Jump%20to%20Universality
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
have it format in yaml instead of json, incomplete yaml is still valid yaml
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Show HN: Actor Kit – XState Machines for Cloudflare Workers(github.com)
6 points by jonathanrmumm 2y ago|0 comments
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
good developer relations is less shotgun marketing and more proactive technical customer-support
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
> it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed yes, this is a much better explanation than the wikipedia
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
Ah so it’s more “if it’s not broken enough , don’t fix it”
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
then someone needs to update the wikipedia > It refers to the argument that software quality does not necessarily increase with functionality: that there is a point where less functionality ("worse") is a preferable option (&qu
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
yes, why? seems like not that useful of a phrase if it needs an explanation with parenthesis in a wikipedia
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by jonathanrmumm 2y ago
why not just say "less is better?"
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TokBox’s WebRTC-Based Video Chat API Now Supports FireFox(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jonathanrmumm 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Video Chat Doesn't Suck(mashable.com)
3 points by jonathanrmumm 14y ago|0 comments
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Keeping our cloud afloat during Hurricane Sandy(tokbox.com)
1 points by jonathanrmumm 14y ago|0 comments
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APIs and a not audacious proposal(janineyoong.com)
3 points by jonathanrmumm 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Review my startup—A website builder to sell films like Louis CK
2 points by jonathanrmumm 14y ago|2 comments