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by vlad 11mo ago
I explained to Affinity this summer, "...it would only be in your favor to have a designer learn your tools instead of Figma and Adobe, because the reason they got popular is because people brought them to work." In 2025, Affinity
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by vlad 1y ago
The authors were professor and grad student at UMass Amherst, and are the current winners of the Turing Award. https://www.cics.umass.edu/ https://www.nsf.gov/news/ai-pioneers-andrew-barto-richard-su...
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by vlad 1y ago
Facebook's "React" library was discussed here (with 100+ comments) when it launched in 2013[0]. I remember because I wrote an example to compare React with Angular, and my post was also #1 on the same day[1] :) [0] https:&#x
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by vlad 2y ago
I registered @paulg on Twitter and "vlad" on news.yc in 2007 when this website (news.ycombinator.com) was "Startup News". Besides flying to the US Naval Academy, my first domestic flight was to Y Combinator Startup Schoo
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World's first commercial biological computer has human neurons for $35k(corticallabs.com)
2 points by vlad 2y ago|1 comments
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When computer vision works more like a brain, it sees more like people do(news.mit.edu)
24 points by vlad 2y ago|2 comments
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Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy(newscientist.com)
3 points by vlad 2y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 4y ago
Adding complexity is fast and easy, adding simplicity is slow and hard. Any codebase that is simple to understand and modify is a second party's canvas to add complexity in record time, for the purpose of telling a third party they add
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by vlad 4y ago
Building a cross-platform CLI from a python script in 2009 required unrelated open-source tools to package for each of the three major operating systems. I remember asking Dropbox guys what they were using. Having an official way to do it i
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by vlad 4y ago
Microsoft was a large investor in Apple, Facebook, and Open.ai as well.
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by vlad 4y ago
Just a guess, but if companies are paying for recruiters[0] and HR software anyway[1], companies may as well keep jobs open, do market research on past compensation, give their engineers practice, and calibrate interview questions among man
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by vlad 4y ago
eGolf looks great with 88-111% on this chart, but it has a small battery. This car's range of 125 or 135 in warm weather is lower than the other cars', which start at 176 in freezing temperatures.
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by vlad 4y ago
Newspapers, magazines, newsletters, televisions, audio recorders, photo albums, pens and pencils, paperclips, staplers, stationary, scissors, stickers, ink stamps, software and video game manuals. Maybe less need for mirrors, lint rollers,
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by vlad 4y ago
> The problem, as this new generation of fans is learning, isn’t just that Ticketmaster is a bad system. The problem is Ticketmaster is the only system. It’s a monopoly. More competition might reduce fees, but won't turn ticketing s
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by vlad 4y ago
A commercial app is just a blend of software bugs that encourages profitability (not too many bugs, not too few).
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by vlad 4y ago
I worked at a B2B company with a monolith without API's that rendered old-style CSS. Big projects included defining and writing API's to support a self-service web app for admins, as well as a new web app for end users which was r
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by vlad 4y ago
I vouched for your post because you posted that companies abuse visas, with links. I don't see why it was flagged. As far as Meta, I don't understand why recent articles criticize it. The engineers themselves are just posting on L
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by vlad 4y ago
(I shortened the title somewhat since it's my own article).
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by vlad 4y ago
When I built a tool for users of eBay about 20 years ago, the CD option came in a DVD case and cost a flat $5 extra including U.S. shipping. The installer would just download the latest version. The DVD case had a printed code, the same one
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by vlad 4y ago
I used to have @paulg on Twitter. One day, a Twitter founder re-assigned it to pg. I never even got to use it :) I registered it when I arrived to Startup School 2007. All of us had never seen or heard PG speak online or video, but just ess
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by vlad 9y ago
There were places to learn how to code, but by reading books, docs, and sample code, and not watching videos. A bigger problem is what you said in the second part. When I had a short chat with Drew when he was looking for a co-founder in 2
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by vlad 9y ago
I can confirm that. I was introduced to Drew when he was looking for a co-founder in March and saw his announcement below in April. That's correct, the launch page had a heading "Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive", a shor
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by vlad 9y ago
Some of your reports have a year of experience in your code. 1) Do they not propose tasks for bug fixes and refactors? 2) Are engineers encouraged to propose their own solutions? 3) Do you only assign tasks you know how to do yourself?
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by vlad 9y ago
I'm surprised everybody else is saying it doesn't count. SaaS stands for Software as a Service, which means begging customers to make a one-time decision to start a predictable subscription in exchange for regular new features and
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by vlad 9y ago
She'll stop remote work and require all Uber drivers to come to office?
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by vlad 9y ago
Medallia | San Mateo (California); Washington DC (Virginia); Buenos Aires (Argentina) | Software Engineer, Front-End, Back-End, Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, iOS, Android, Mobile Success: I found this job with Who is Hiring in 2015 and
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by vlad 10y ago
Hi, Tom. Great post! 1) How do you synchronize features between micro-services? Each service may have a different state of the feature set during a request. 2) When you flip the feature on or off, how is that reflected in the UI? Does th
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by vlad 10y ago
"Electric-powered vehicles, of course, have no exhaust emissions. However, because they’re 24 percent heavier on average, the study found that EVs shed more particulate matter from tires and brakes, and also kick up more particulate ma
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by vlad 10y ago
Brake regeneration is a large part of the braking force for many EVs when the brake pedal is pressed, so the brake pads in some EV cars are actually smaller than their gas siblings. Brake regeneration also avoids using the brake pedal altog
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by vlad 10y ago
Medallia | Palo Alto (California); Washington DC (Virginia); Buenos Aires (Argentina) | Software Engineer, Front-End, Back-End, Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, iOS, Android, Mobile Success: I found this job with Who is Hiring in 2015 and

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