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by wqtz 9d ago
I feel like if he said, I feel like firing someone immediately for this issue would have sprouted a surprising level ownership to find the people or team (or teams) to be blamed. At the top level most people are not designed to get shit don
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by wqtz 21d ago
I made a prediction that motherduck will be acquired by GCP. But I could not imagine duckdb labs will be acquired by AWS. I do not think of AWS as a serious contender in the data space. So, we have now Pola.rs and motherduck in the market.
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by wqtz 22d ago
Theranos lady.
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by wqtz 2mo ago
It is practical. When mobile wallets was taking off a lot of people starting pitching "blockchain technogloy" in fintech and said decentralization needs to be the foundation for everything. The whole process largely become about t
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by wqtz 3mo ago
Is the guy from CoreJS still looking for a job?
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by wqtz 3mo ago
The issue is that I did not discover the problem until it was already too late. Then I asked myself is DNS level filtering even useful for me? A traditional browser based adblocker already does the job. Pihole does not block ads YouTube. Th
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by wqtz 3mo ago
Privacy tooling often is devoid of common human nature which is get shit done without making a religion out of it. Good tools are not configurable or dynamic, they just serve a purpose. A hammer or a toaster over...these are good tools. The
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Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
9 points by wqtz 3mo ago|4 comments
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by wqtz 5mo ago
I did some interviewing rounds with PaaS platforms for advisory roles. I loved Heroku and was ruined by Heroku so I thought maybe the industry has something new to offer. The model is largely "built to be locked in" model. It is n
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by wqtz 5mo ago
If you can afford it hire a virtual assistant and have them filter things for you and curate stuff. If you are suffering through things to find glimpses of enjoyment it is best you outsource your suffering to someone dedicated. Seriously, I
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by wqtz 5mo ago
In my advisory job founders always raise the question about open sourcing within the first hour of meeting me. They think that open sourcing product means transparency and developer trust which helps with early adoption. Every single founde
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by wqtz 5mo ago
I do not think that is the issue. The recent acquisitions from all these big tech companies did not have any "meaningful" user base to begin with. I think your name alone carries significant weight in the industry and you have bui
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by wqtz 5mo ago
Well, Cloudflare does not launch anything. They acquire to build products. Look into all their recent product launches. They acquired a relatively small company and converted the founding team to a product team. So, if you want them to buil
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by wqtz 5mo ago
I am not sure that is possible because I act as a buffer between him and my parents. My other siblings drew a line, and they are miserable themselves because they can't help. He is the kind of guy who will take a mortgage on my parents
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by wqtz 5mo ago
No, I am not. That is the thing—it has been 7 years, and we are stuck in the same loop. If I were to give your friend advice, it is to send a lot of warm emails. Joining a freelance marketplace is going to be brutal. Connect with folks in d
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by wqtz 5mo ago
He has a physical disability, and he had major trauma that he is dealing with, but that was more than a decade ago. He went to therapy a few times but a couple of therapist essentially gave up on him. He said they were zoned out when he kee
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by wqtz 5mo ago
My hobby involves trying to help my brother get a job. He has a disability and can only work remotely at low-skill jobs. So, I have spent years applying, starting, and doing work in virtual assistant, support desk, and social media manageme
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by wqtz 7mo ago
I do not understand what bubble even means, and I do not think the developer influencers do either. Was NFT or Crypto a bubble? The idea of a bubble means that it "pops" in a dramatic fashion. NFT prices in aggregate faded slowly,
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by wqtz 7mo ago
It would be impossible to buy a company as a steward. We worked with them. In the early 2020s, their teams were as lazy as IBM boomers. Happy to hop on a call, but let's do an rain check or whatever and come back to you after 17 weeks
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by wqtz 8mo ago
The strategy is simple. - Buy a product that has name recognition overshadowed by a monopolistic company and the leadership is trying to make a pivot and failing terribly. - Leadership is aggressively rebranding to appease a takeover. They
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by wqtz 9mo ago
I do advisory for pre-Series A startups as a last ditch effort to save them. I do not get the unified industry delusion about "why X company has a bad product". It is usually either one of two things: comfort or ego. Everyone know
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Big tech conferences: forcing AI down vendors' throat(wqtz.bearblog.dev)
3 points by wqtz 1y ago|0 comments
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In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships(wqtz.bearblog.dev)
346 points by wqtz 1y ago|212 comments
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by wqtz 1y ago
Here is the secret rule to AI for the guys who really want to use AI to replace "outsourcable" positions, "AI is a helper" not an absolute solution to means. I have an extensive experience with dealing with Chatbots and
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by wqtz 1y ago
I feel sad for this project. This was a reactionary project to elasticsearch's license change to say, heck with it, I will open my own elastic spinoff with AWS. The vibe of the project's community is pretty much reminiscent of a d
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by wqtz 1y ago
The jury is out on ip address vs GDPR. Hashed IP address is not anonymous, nor is last digit anonymization anonymous. So, let's not bother with it. I can say all IP address are located in earth and someone would be offended because now
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by wqtz 1y ago
The pricing page: https://zed.dev/pricing The pricing page was not linked on the homepage. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't but it surely was not obvious to me. Regardless of how good of a software it is or pretends to be
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by wqtz 1y ago
Databricks acquired bit.io and subsequently shut it down quite fast. Afaik bit.io had a very small team and the founder was a serial entrepreneur who is not going to stick around and he did not. I am not sure who from bit.io is still around
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by wqtz 2y ago
I geniunely and strongly believe PaaS and BaaS do not have a sustainable business model for the long term. Most of the platforms are losing money for each user they onboard. No matter how "loved" a platform is they are not actuall
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by wqtz 2y ago
23 minute video. If Patrick Boyle follows the hamburger rule of content, his video is mostly just bread. I will wait for the Plain Bagel video.

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