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> That sounds a lot like work. Correct. This is why the Product Manager role exists - to define "what problem are we solving, why, and for whom?" by engaging with the market. But i…

> If you've listened to NPR or watched PBS, you know they're about as neutral as you can get while still covering both mainstream sides. NPR is about as far from neutral as media g…

Side note/feel good moment: the author Raymond Chen is an OG beyond-super-engineer at Microsoft, and is an incredible person to work with. He assisted me with my intern project man…

And just using the phrase "performative erudition" is itself an example of performative erudition!

I'll add that real world sensors (including cameras) are noisy in ways that are difficult to model 100% accurately in simulation. Same thing with aerodynamic effects, especially wh…

The US DoD already has drones with these capabilities for recon in contested buildings and caves: https://vimeo.com/316222669 https://shield.ai/products/nova-class https://www.wire…

AFAICT they are. You can't find a GTX 3060, 3070, or 3080 for less than 4x MSRP right now.

> developers control the cryptocurrency issuance because despite the issuance is (usually) determined algorithmically, developers have the power to change these algorithms...If we …

Sleep Cycle [0] does this with "Intelligent" wake mode, and has a standalone app for the Apple Watch. I'll also be shocked if this isn't a native feature of Apple's Sleep app withi…

"Noob gains" doesn't have anything to do with setting goals or quantitatively measuring progress. It refers to the speed at which unadapted athletes are able to progress (e.g. add …

One of the engineering teams I work with is building an image pipeline to correct rolling shutter distortion from a robot camera. I still have no idea how they're generalizing a so…

Video games will become a much more powerful force at sparking kids' interest and creativity in a subject, which will lead to better educational outcomes. In my experience, video g…

Don't know if I agree with "never" punching down, but I wanted to share a poignant example of what punching down poorly looks like: https://twitter.com/davejorgenson/status/1269288…

This is one the most important jobs of product managers, if you have them: building out a backlog of shovel-ready high ROI work aggregated from customer requests, user analytics, a…

GIMP's UI/UX has been garbage since long before 18.04. Not contradicting anything you're saying, just noting that it might not be the representative example you're looking for.

Amazon effectively leveraged investment capital to do exactly what they said they would do - innovate, learn into the market, and improve iteratively. From investors' perspectives …

Not backwards. The point he's making is that hard problems attract talent and capital, which makes them easier to keep going.

Optimism is arguably a form of error, just as pessimism is. And yet it is one of the most valuable qualities you can have when undertaking ambitious projects.

I'd love more info how Netflix propagates schema changes to downstream stores. How do you apply migrations to heterogeneous databases? Applying binlog messages only works if downst…

Came here to suggest Streaks, I've been using it for a few months now. My favorite features are: - Streaks that track Apple Health data. Really nice job with the integration. I use…

Would love to learn more about this. Any resources you can recommend?

Probably not what you’re looking for, but I started writing regularly after getting an iPad and Apple Pencil. There are a number of good apps that let you mix handwriting and typin…

Bit of a crypto-tangent: more than anything else, the hope of replacing advertising as the economic engine of the Internet is why I care about the cryptocurrency space. In most cas…