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> I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle What's on the approved stack? I imagine .N…

> I bet they could have 2 interns porting the thing to Google App Engine and then migrate the database How can you possibly have this assessment without looking at the code/infra? …

The real reason is probably maintenance due to some hidden costs like conflicting infrastructure and they couldn't justify migrating it. Related discussion (2 days ago): https://ne…

Normally I'd not pay too much attention to these comments but the assessment here is spot on. I'd say LLMs articles in general are: 1- Always longer than necessary with a lot of fl…

> What are the use cases you Invision? Not OP, but they said the following in an answer to similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940707 "The technology is extrem…

I think you're on the same page here. They might not have expressed it clearly but it's about pivoting and adapting to the market. I'm also reminded of Mike Tyson's quote: "Everybo…

> Feature factories are a thing for a reason. If anything that goes against the parent comment, how Apple has more revenue per engineer while not being a feature factory by any str…

What does revenue got to do with producing/shipping products? maybe you quoted the wrong sentence? You can have millions of dollars in revenue without producing anything, on the ot…

> from this obviously bad take This is like saying your evaluation of my property, back when it was in bad shape was wrong... because after renovating the entire thing and fixing i…

PG wasn't wrong, it's just that Microsoft was resurrected later in 2014 by Satya Nadella. When Paul wrote this, the industry was witnessing a technological revolution across the bo…

What are you expectations of Google X based on? in other words, what are you measuring against? Are there similar research ventures pursuing moonshots that are doing better? Your c…

> Google X is a failure. Waymo is the only worthwhile thing they ever did and it predates X (as Chauffeur). A failure in what sense? It's their research arm. It feels crazy to bash…

> Seems strange that people were damning algorithmic social media walls but are now welcoming preprocessed reality. Are they the same people? The vast majority of users are consume…

> Not if they're trying to sell me something... How do you know they're trying to sell you something without even reading the email? Your question was "Do you read/answer cold outr…

> If someone manages to generate a letter that I actually find useful and interesting But that's inconsistent with the example you put forward. For the email to be interesting a hu…

> Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why? Do you only read emails from recognized addresses? No new communication whatsoever unless it's initiated by you?

> what’s the difference? The key difference here is personalization. Traditionally, if a message was personalized it fell under 'cold outreach' and users were more likely to intera…