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by zaidf 4mo ago
An entire generation of non developers are being onboarded to products built for developers because of AI. Exampl: a very non technical friend has built a bunch of business automations with Claude and a few days ago he just dropped in the c
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by zaidf 7mo ago
He was talking about Excel. Google Sheets with a tiny fraction of Excel features destroyed Excel except for a tiny minority of hardcore finance and Windows users.
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by zaidf 8mo ago
Fair enough. But tides do shift. A lot of today’s terrible patterns (like flat design) were born in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The current generation of UI and UX folks—for simplicity, designers in their 20s—who are empowered to make b
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by zaidf 8mo ago
My hope is that the new generation of designers/UX people question and reject many of the UI/UX patterns made popular in the past 15 years and go back to the 90s for inspiration. Resources like the Apple Design Guidelines from 199
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by zaidf 9mo ago
The problem is that CSS continues to be a pain in the ass, even as it evolves. There is no other reason why something like tailwind should have the traction it has.
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by zaidf 10mo ago
This is what C2PA is trying to do: https://c2pa.org/
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by zaidf 10mo ago
40% (and growing) of Apple’s profits are from services. Margins on services are 3x of hardware. Apple doesn’t make money directly when you doom scroll but a lot of App Store revenue is a by product of people simply using their device in unl
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by zaidf 10mo ago
No. I don’t want Apple to make LLM Siri. I do wish they would become the company unlocking creativity instead of shackling it. I will give you one specific example: iOS has extreme limitations on what it allows app developers to display on
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by zaidf 10mo ago
It’s not JavaScript if you can’t make an html page locally and open it in your browser without things like an http server or need to transpile.
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by zaidf 10mo ago
Dumb question: why do news websites have such a hard time keeping users logged in? Like I can go an entire year without getting logged out of gmail. But can't go more than a few days before getting logged out of news websites. I have s
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by zaidf 1y ago
I've been stunned by how many smart people talk so casually about LLMs becoming better at math. Do they just forget that a calculator that is wrong 1% of the time is a de facto calculator that doesn't work and should not be used?
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by zaidf 2y ago
Good luck. I lost access to my Facebook account of 18 years a few years ago due to some 2fa bug (it tells me to enter a code from the fb app which doesn’t have that code.) Despite sending copies of my passport, license etc, the automated sy
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by zaidf 2y ago
Closest thing I’ve used is the mighty: https://bemighty.com/products/mighty-audio-screenless-connec... Downside is it doesn’t allow mp3s. I’ve been making my own meditation mp3s using AI tools and wish I could listen t
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by zaidf 2y ago
>I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well? John Sculley already answered this, no?
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by zaidf 2y ago
Hi, just responded to Jérôme's email. I originally sent a twitter DM and will continue over email now that we are connected.
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by zaidf 2y ago
(I work on the Images product at Cloudflare) While I continue to dig in to the specifics of the billing and support issues described, I can confirm this bit from the blog post: if you stored 2 million images and delivered 1 million images
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Show HN: Weightless CMS for Side Projects(blankspace.link)
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by zaidf 3y ago
>From where I sit, $4.8 million in cash is plenty of runway for 100 people LinkedIn shows ~350 employees with about half of them in the US. $4.8 million is far from plenty to pay 300+ employees...not counting lawyers.
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by zaidf 4y ago
Agree 100%. Lived in the Tenderloin for 6+ years before moving to a nicer part of SF.
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by zaidf 4y ago
>Credit card companies are anti-porn. False. Credit card companies are simply protecting their business. From what? The laws and court rulings that make them liable for damages from really terrible edge case scenarios.
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by zaidf 4y ago
Uzi Nissan was one of the more interesting people I met as a freelancer in college. He replied to a craigslist ad and we met for coffee. He had some crazy ideas (and conspiracies:) about all the things he wanted to hire a freelancer to do w
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by zaidf 4y ago
>I feel like others lose opportunities by not doing the same IMO it is a slippery slope to see this as opportunity too strongly. Sure, doing the right thing may be net beneficial to the business in the long run...but the $RIGHT_THING s
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by zaidf 4y ago
Could not agree more strongly!
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by zaidf 4y ago
What's a better alternative in your view?
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by zaidf 5y ago
Softlayer was solid at providing colo and dedicated servers. But they were never really architected with the cloud in mind. The pivot to cloud came later on. I always wonder why IBM didn't buy a provider like Linode.
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by zaidf 5y ago
The overarching skillset that really smart people use everyday to explain how x works or investigate a customer issue is...google
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by zaidf 5y ago
The PDF you linked cites lifetime earning data collected from the previous century. It might tell you about how things were 1950-2000. But says little about our current Internet-driven world.
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by zaidf 5y ago
In my early 20s, I deposited a 5 figure check from a client for a contract gig. The bank cleared it. Then it turned out the client had a record of writing fraudulent checks. Common sense would dictate I was a victim of fraud. But my bank (W
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by zaidf 5y ago
Ah. SF is at 87% with at least one dose and 80% with at least 2 doses. I think 62% vs. 80% could be a big enough delta to explain the difference here versus your town.
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by zaidf 5y ago
What's the vaccination rate in your county?

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