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by speby 17d ago
This starts going into a pretty fuzzy territory here. Yes, you're exploiting software (Claude and its Auto Mode) but also this same technique could just as easily exploit a regular human doing this, no?
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by speby 20d ago
Neat. Kinda novel. But sort of impractical and doesn't solve a problem anyone actually has with current navigation UIs. I still like it anyway.
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by speby 2mo ago
Likely, every company ghosts, either occasionally or often. So really this is kind of a 100% hit rate problem.
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by speby 1y ago
I think it is very easy for the average person to forget or not realize how incredibly easy it is to get calories into the body and how little food is necessary to do so. Most people in the world (I know, this is not everywhere and everyone
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by speby 2y ago
Sounds like software engineering is not for you.
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by speby 2y ago
One of the biggest weaknesses of a non-technical founder looking for a technical founder are basically the following: * Not really having 'much' to bring to the table other than the idea and self-proclaimed knowledge of the proble
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by speby 3y ago
This is pretty well said. I tend to agree and as a founder of multiple companies, as a well an engineering-background co-founder myself, I have definitely had interactions with "non-technical" founders looking for people (like me)
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by speby 3y ago
This is true except FoxPro really was more of a 'normal' relational database model. It just had this 'tabular' view for its Database Viewer client front-end. FoxPro was certainly not a 'spreadsheet' product in
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by speby 3y ago
Remember when a T-1 line was considered to be like the god-level status of internet connections? Whoa.... 1.5Mbps!? Later, more affordable DSL speeds would reach single-digit Mbps and it felt like being on another planet. Now all of those s
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by speby 3y ago
This rationale doesn't make a ton of sense. Say they had paid you more. You'd still have these back issues. You wouldn't say, "I have these back issues every day of my life now but at least they paid me $2X instead of $X
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by speby 3y ago
The whole premise of comparing a company to a family is not only flawed. It's just straight up incorrect/wrong. Very little about companies and the way they run and operate looks remotely like a family.
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by speby 3y ago
It does, but temporarily. If layoffs caused terrible, permanent, irreversible, core damage to a company, then companies would stop doing them. But they don't. It's not new, it's part of the up and down cycles of markets. If w
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by speby 3y ago
You mean like how crowds of people at live music events ALL have their stupid smartphones up recording the same damn recording which they should be paying attention to and absorbing the experience and living in the moment? Forget what peopl
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by speby 3y ago
Affordability is a factor, but also one of several. Affordability, among other issues, certainly would lead some couples to decide to have fewer children than they otherwise might (1 instead of 2, or 2 instead of 3). Besides affordability,
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by speby 3y ago
This can 'sort of' be done thru loan assumption. But it is a provision that only some loans have. And it isn't tied to the borrower but to the asset. Example would be you were selling your house and a buyer wanted to 'as
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by speby 4y ago
I messed around with it. First, it didn't look one bit like myself as a younger me. It was like an artificially blemish-free version and it even tries, haphazardly, to fill in a receding hair line. To be honest, it was funny. I'm
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by speby 4y ago
Ya know, I remember a time when Airbnb was still pretty new (this would be 2010 or 2011 or so). Didn't have all the fees and other bullshit UX problems they have now. And it actually was pretty cheap. Often, you could get an interestin
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by speby 4y ago
It's possible, yes. Empires rise. Empires fall. Toyota will adapt and 'missed the boat' implies that that's it; they're done. They're absolutely not done. They were also miles ahead of others when they introduc
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by speby 4y ago
Lol. Now that’s taking it to the next level.
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by speby 4y ago
You answered your own question. Yes. Who removes a CEO? The Board. If the Board does their job (correctly), then they will make the right decision to release or retain the right CEO. If the Board fails to do its job? What, then? Yep, shareh
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by speby 4y ago
Seriously? What 'fairness' exactly is it people want when companies do layoffs? "Hey, we are laying off 3,000 people. Because of that, I am firing myself and the company will no longer have a CEO and will have to find someone
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by speby 4y ago
I think your argument is advocating that the 'person who probably wrote half the damn code' should get a lot more, right? What should that person have gotten, exactly? Either they did not negotiate for a better package with compen
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by speby 4y ago
My pet theory is that tipping became more common by almost accident. As the proliferation of various kiosk-based credit card processing machines took place (Square, etc.) where a little screen gets shared with a customer, the 'tip&#x27
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by speby 4y ago
Short answer is, like anything in these cases, it has complications and an investigation unit is needed first in order to collect data and evidence, assess which, if any, laws were broken and file an appropriate warrant for arrest. Until th
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by speby 4y ago
... all families are dysfunctional ... all people have [different] problems ... nothing is perfect ... perfect is the enemy of good\ ... life is hard.
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by speby 4y ago
That makes complete sense! I wasn't even thinking about that angle.
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by speby 4y ago
I've wondered why embedded tends to pay lower. C++ (and C) tend to be 'harder' languages for the average mainstream developer, particularly web developers. I guess I expect embedded jobs to pay more, yet they don't and l
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by speby 4y ago
I tend to agree. What goes up often comes down. The same company that may reduce staff by 20% may have seen revenue growing at 40% in the last year but suddenly sees growth tapering off, and as such, re-evaluate that they've over-hired
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by speby 4y ago
I mean, it's not just anecdotal, or only looking for bad news. New job postings in general are down markedly: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/jolts-august-2022.html
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by speby 4y ago
This is pretty fabulous news, Garry. You've been an inspiration, from meeting you back in the Posterous days during Summer '08 and seeing your contributions and achievements along the way since then. Bravo!

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