mattboardman

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by mattboardman 2y ago
>A startup made for the purpose of acquisition was never a competitor You cannot get acquired unless you represent a percentage of market share, have IP which will lead to greater market share, and/or have employees who can expand m
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by mattboardman 2y ago
Arguing good or bad on a single data point is reductive. I'm raising awareness that there is a counter argument for assuming excessive M&As is "bad."
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by mattboardman 2y ago
Devil's advocate: more acquisitions creates more incentive to launch a start-up. More startups create more competition.
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by mattboardman 2y ago
My biggest complaint with gRPC is proto3 making all nested type fields optional while making primitives always present with default values. gRPC is contract based so it makes no sense to me that you can't require a field. This is espec
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by mattboardman 2y ago
Google Chrome proposed hardware attestation. I actually thought it was a pretty good idea but there were some privacy risks so it ended up DOA. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
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by mattboardman 2y ago
I just built a rig with new, top of the line, hardware and installed fedora on it without an issue. What components are you talking about specifically?
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by mattboardman 3y ago
Usually your main function can't be used by any other part of your program. You should move all component implementations to modules so they can be re-used elsewhere.
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by mattboardman 3y ago
I don't think Apple will back down in order to appease developers. Their strategy is pretty clear: make their platform so popular people pay to play by Apple's rules. Apple could charge 50% or 70% on their app store and developers
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by mattboardman 3y ago
There's more in-depth information on that subject here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23/presentation/grubic
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by mattboardman 3y ago
Why not interview someone willing to go on the record that will speculate the IPO value? There are plenty of articles where they interview professional investors with knowledge about such matters who go on the record.
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by mattboardman 3y ago
>people familiar with the matter said Why is this line used everywhere in the news? What is the consequence of getting someone on the record for speculating the value of an IPO? It's the most frustrating and lazy part of journalism.
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by mattboardman 3y ago
It looks like one core issue was designing the system around pre-determined bounds (monthly, yearly, etc). This happens in lots of systems and isn't specific to billing. A job scheduling system will have the same problem (we built it t
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by mattboardman 3y ago
I think the promise of threads is exactly what many people want. Hopefully the product improves to meet the expectations. Some things I'd like to see: 1. Native notes like feature for long form posts I can embed and share. I cannot sta
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by mattboardman 3y ago
>I don’t mean to discount individual experiences of crime, only to say I really enjoyed our stay and it seems still to be a vivacious place. Your entire comment is littered with assertions that say you felt safe/fine, but at the sam
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by mattboardman 3y ago
>If comments were on for those posts... there’s a reason why they’re not allowing comments. That is a very un-Reddit thing to do. If it's unreddit why is it a feature of reddit? (A feature, that in my opinion, is heavily abused by m
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by mattboardman 3y ago
What if it were so easy to blend in through the APIs bc enough real users are on third party apps that use the APIs?
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by mattboardman 3y ago
I think they've done everything to steer the conversation away from the topic of bots, spam, and grey market ads. If reddit is selling ad space but you can get it cheaper via vote bots, why would anyone buy ad space through reddit?
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by mattboardman 3y ago
I believe the API changes are not about third party apps or LLMs (at least directly). I think it's all about bots and spam. They only want to do business with real enterprises through their API. This raises the value of purchasing real
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by mattboardman 3y ago
I would agree with you, but Mr. Beast is very methodical and has the algorithm beat at this point.
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by mattboardman 4y ago
Mark lays it out pretty simply in the letter. People don't want surprise layoffs. They'd rather know ahead of time what leadership's planning. It's a tough pill to swallow but this is what a lot of people asked for.
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by mattboardman 4y ago
>Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here, owing partially to his lack of understanding of the involvement of these processes? Appeal to authority is just speculation at the end of the day. It's just as possible a brilliant
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by mattboardman 4y ago
If they are resource constrained then this just seems like a form of triaging where non-automated calls are prioritized. I don't see the problem with this approach if they are seeing a lot of false positives from automated sources.
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by mattboardman 4y ago
I think it's more than fair to blame the media, which has had centuries to build up their reputation and credibility. They were incapable of preserving public trust during a national crisis. They have all the advantages over individual
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by mattboardman 4y ago
Whether you blame Fox news, CNN, Trump, the deep state, the CDC, doesn't matter when addressing the failures of the state and the media. They lost trust with the public. This is measurable in polls and has created a divide in the Ameri
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by mattboardman 4y ago
>why is empathy necessary? I don't really have an objective answer for you. I do find personal value in empathy, I get less mad when I can understand why someone did something I disagree with. It doesn't change what they did no
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by mattboardman 4y ago
Relishing in other people's actions that were driven out of fear during a crisis when our institutions (media and state) failed to keep public trust for millions. Empathy, even for those who make foolish decisions is difficult but nece
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by mattboardman 4y ago
I guess they have failed in marketing the differentiation then (if there is one). I was just clarifying the product in question, never promised an ad free product.
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by mattboardman 4y ago
This reply appears to be both a strawman (I never said anything about my preferences) and an ad hominem attack (Diminishing my comment bc of who I am).
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by mattboardman 4y ago
Brave has never tried to be ad free. Instead the goal is to encourage less intrusive and more benign ads.
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by mattboardman 4y ago
I don't understand how anecdotal experience is considered noteworthy. It always comes across as subversive advertising. Even if everyone on this site had pixel/iphone/whatever issues it wouldn't mean anything significant

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