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by pfarrell 2y ago
Don’t forget your investors and your board.
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by pfarrell 2y ago
It was already tried in the US. The agreed upon results were that humans want alcohol and the downstream effects made society worse e.g. increase in alcohol consumption, empowering organized crime and corrupting the police.
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by pfarrell 2y ago
“New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.
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by pfarrell 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your work. I too have the problems you’re attempting to address. Makes me think of LabView (which I would recommend checking out for inspiration if you’re unaware of it).
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by pfarrell 2y ago
Yeah, that original iPhone launch keynote is something I like to watch every so often. It really emphasized we’re only doing this because we see what’s wrong with smartphones and this is our vision. They didn’t go “we made the best stylus
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by pfarrell 2y ago
That’s what I was trying to express. We implemented the features that were unique and interesting too late. We should have led with them and build some compelling demos
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by pfarrell 2y ago
Yeah that’s pretty much what happened. What I was thinking was we over estimated what the table stakes were. We were building a collaborative SQL editor aka notebooks. We spent way too much time getting it working with different dbs inst
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by pfarrell 2y ago
I learned something similar founding a startup. If I could do it again, I would have aggressively avoided pursuing the table stakes feature in our space. Instead we should have done the minimal amount to be comfortable that our architectur
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by pfarrell 2y ago
I’ve had this same thought but was unsure what the licensing for the data would be.
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by pfarrell 2y ago
I have a daily updated dataset that has the HN data split out by months. I've published it on my web page, but it’s served from my home server so I don’t want to link to it directly. Each month is about 30mb of compressed csv. I’ve w
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by pfarrell 2y ago
A few are dated but number 74 is one I think about a lot when programming. Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble? Important to rem
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by pfarrell 2y ago
If you are distributing software to an audience who want to use your thing without having to build it, then something like this is much more appealing than virtualenv.
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by pfarrell 2y ago
And not every optimization is worth the effort.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
Let’s not forget sl
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by pfarrell 3y ago
Makes me think about Dijkstra being horrified to learn that the US was sending astronauts into space using unproven computer code [0]. Eventually, we'll have programmers trusting the AI generated code as much as we trust compiler gene
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by pfarrell 3y ago
There’s a neat documentary from the late 1970’s, “Farewell etaoin shrdlu”. It’s about the final day the New York Times was printed using their linotype machines. https://youtu.be/1MGjFKs9bnU
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by pfarrell 3y ago
I went through it at the beginning of the year. In the end, a cold inbound from a recruiter for a leadership position that I wasn’t right for led to her referring me to another recruiter with something that was perfect. The point? Work eve
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by pfarrell 3y ago
I look at videos like these as gateways to get someone excited about a subject, not as scholarly works. What you say is good to keep in mind on any video. You can’t get the full depth of anything complicated in 30 minutes, but it can make y
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by pfarrell 3y ago
Veritasium has an excellent video explaining the proof and the historical context. https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo
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by pfarrell 3y ago
Without any context or followup, this seems like old news that doesn't need to be rehashed on the front page today. This event pre-dates the Microsoft purchase of Github.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
I was wrong, there was a very light grey close button X at the top right, but I definitely got a timelagged interrupt to sign to read more modal on Firefox on Linux.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
I was wrong, there was a very light grey close button X at the top right, but I definitely got a timelagged interrupt to sign to read more modal on Firefox on Linux.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
And you have to sign up for a newsletter to read more than 20% of the article.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
A friend of mine had some content reach the front page maybe 6 months ago. I don't know this for 100%, but I think for cool projects that dang thinks are of interest to the community, he will post them to the front page manually some
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by pfarrell 3y ago
At the bottom, in the company contacts section... Oracle Corporation Mark Benioff: (415) 506-7000 Maybe I should take that guy out to lunch.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
I considered buying a pinball machine in my 20's. An older, wiser guy I knew told me, "Do you like working on small gadgets and tinkering with lots of rubber bands and motors and solenoids?" "Not really, but I l
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by pfarrell 3y ago
My takeaway is that Sussman is looking at his field after a lifetime of contribution. He's looking for signposts on where we can go next. He's not valuing one over the other, but looking at the brain and saying, "Here'
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by pfarrell 3y ago
It’s Hadoop all over again. Send the code to the data. To be clear, I think that’s an excellent idea and good to see it coming backs again.
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by pfarrell 3y ago
William Gibson wrote about similar stuff in various stories in the collection “Burning Chrome” and in Neuromancer. IIRC, there was an elite hacker whose mind had been saved in ROM, the Dixie Construct, I think. It was helping with a job. I
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by pfarrell 3y ago
As far as Joyce goes, I haven't read Ulysses . Dubliners , however was very approachable and enjoyable. It's is a collection of descriptive short stories of people in turn of the century Ireland. The final story, "The Dea

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