philipjoubert

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I Created GTA with Artificial Intelligenc(cassoviacode.com)
2 points by philipjoubert 1y ago|0 comments
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Gumroad’s source is available(github.com)
486 points by philipjoubert 1y ago|205 comments
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by philipjoubert 1y ago
This is great - I've actually started building something similar myself a few months ago. Requests: - Split Spanish between Spain and Latin America - Add difficulty levels (consider speaking speed and vocabulary used) - Ability to sele
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by philipjoubert 2y ago
> It's hard to think of a scenario where there's a child technical enough to run Gemma 3 locally but somehow unable to access any other written erotica. The reason you're struggling to understand is that you're thinki
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by philipjoubert 2y ago
I watched my mother spend 30 years building her company...it's hard enough to build a manufacturing company in 3rd world country. Applying Western labour standards would make it impossible. The way out of poverty is to through. You nee
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by philipjoubert 2y ago
The people who worked in these companies are usually incredibly grateful for the opportunity to do seated work indoors for reasonable wages. Applying Western labour practices to third world countries would prevent them from ever developing.
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by philipjoubert 2y ago
As someone who grew up in a 3rd world country and whose mother owned a clothing factory, this product seems...fine? The response is an indication of how little people know about how their t-shirts and shoes are made.
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Meta allegedly used shadow libraries, including LibGen, to train Llama(p4sc4l.substack.com)
4 points by philipjoubert 2y ago|0 comments
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Software Explosion(philipjoubert.com)
4 points by philipjoubert 2y ago|0 comments
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by philipjoubert 2y ago
This looks really great. Are you planning on adding shortcut keys anytime soon?
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by philipjoubert 3y ago
Thanks <3 2023 was not the ideal time to be operating a tech recruitment company, but we pulled through.
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How to build a lukewarm career in tech(philipjoubert.com)
4 points by philipjoubert 3y ago|0 comments
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by philipjoubert 3y ago
Author of the blog post here. I wrote blogposts for two reasons: 1. To think through things 2. To get external perspectives from interesting people This definitely ticks the second box, so thank you. Could you suggest anything to papers&#x2
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Cheat Sheet for Building Startups in South Africa(philipjoubert.com)
1 points by philipjoubert 3y ago|0 comments
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by philipjoubert 5y ago
Would be extremely weird for someone to do phishing with YC applications. Either way, it's a verified Stripe domain: https://support.stripe.com/questions/verified-stripe-domains
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Stripe will review your YC application before you submit(go.stripe.global)
5 points by philipjoubert 5y ago|3 comments
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It’s better to be different than it is to be better(philipjoubert.com)
2 points by philipjoubert 5y ago|0 comments
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Vettery Acquires Hired.com(techcrunch.com)
5 points by philipjoubert 6y ago|0 comments
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Valve Index Review: Next-Level VR(engadget.com)
3 points by philipjoubert 7y ago|0 comments
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Social Capital Annual Letter [pdf](s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com)
5 points by philipjoubert 8y ago|0 comments
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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship (2014)(inc.com)
2 points by philipjoubert 8y ago|0 comments
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WhatsApp Cofounder on #DeleteFacebook and Why He Left $850M Behind(forbes.com)
12 points by philipjoubert 8y ago|1 comments
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by philipjoubert 9y ago
Does anyone know which South Africa startup was in this batch?
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by philipjoubert 9y ago
In case anyone is curious - these videos were shot in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
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by philipjoubert 11y ago
Whatsapp is an outlier in many ways and comparing them with any company will make that company seem bloated. As for the comparison, Whatsapp has no monetization model, no marketing and a simpler product.
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by philipjoubert 11y ago
Thanks for clarification. I have used Whatsapp and it worked great until 08:30 PT when it suddenly stopped working. When you say "natively integrated" what do you mean? As far as I can tell there are no APIs for either Whatsapp or
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by philipjoubert 11y ago
The AirBnb angle is completely misleading. It seems for a marketplace like this to momentum you need talented drone pilots as quickly as possible. Currently the quality of the sample footage is terrible e.g. 2 out of the 4 videos look like
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by philipjoubert 11y ago
In junior school I had a friend who was considered a little weird. One day during break I came across him repeatedly hitting his head against a wooden wall. He wasn't doing it especially hard - but I was certain it was hurting him. Whe
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by philipjoubert 11y ago
They also monetize with a paid translation service. The service is exposed as challenges to users and in effect they crowd translate stuff.
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by philipjoubert 12y ago
Actually this kind of thing gets fairly complex. Consider for instance a scenario where the government was sponsoring an event like this - would that be OK? Or consider a company that has a table reserved in their cafeteria specifically for

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