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clapthewind

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    Comment #48625467

    > almost entire set of humans that it made the deal with walks away from the deal You missed mentioning a million new humans will gladly walk into the deal. This is a list of 1600 …

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    Comment #48616027

    Build trust, collect data from cdrowdsource, if you want to succeed on this. Build trust by: truly making this a public good, by open sourcing it. Be the maitnainer. Data dump ever…

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    Comment #48599785

    In India, by law, companies above a certain size are required to spend 2% of profit on social responsibility activities. So in my city, you see lots of things around adopted or fun…

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    Comment #48595248

    Why is that (framed as) a bad thing? We don't go around life understanding everything that we do because it would be exhausting. Sometimes all you want to do is use something and i…

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    Comment #48595162

    Just because it didn't meet your preferred outcome does not mean it was rubberstamped. The truth is that it is transformative.

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    Comment #48594513

    I didn't try it. Given jslinux exists, and works, i suspect WASM based linux will be faster and more streamlined.

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    Comment #48583848

    So we can run this on a browser? a demo on the github page would be great. combine it with an extension to support networking, and you have a winner.

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    Comment #48445047

    I suspect you're a junior engineer if you think that way. Domains (any) are deep, and require thorough understanding before you can have business or revenue impact.

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    Comment #48339227

    Is it smart to pick a path that's probably not going to be appreciated anymore? One that's probably going to lead to unemployment?

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    Comment #48277398

    > It's perfectly possible for an engineer to be both a fantastic engineer, and bad at using AI In this era, AI native skills are the major factor, alongside system design, which de…

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    Comment #48196731

    I think Hollywood is in for a rough era. The disruption is happening at break neck speeds.

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    Comment #48130942

    It sounds like you're championing labor using ai. But capital will also use it and leverage it more. There's no mechanism for only labor to exploit a technology, apart from common …

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    Comment #48034011

    Putting it politely, I think you may have xenophobic tendency. And for all your buster, I suggest you work on having a more sane world view.

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    Comment #48017617

    Some people are playing the global optimization game; a world where anyone can have any (production grade) software they want.

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    Comment #47906859

    AI "disciplining" is arguably much simpler, easier and cheaper.

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    Comment #47861946

    Low pay, to be fair.

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    Comment #47847077

    BTW the skill to develop to direct your career towards this: build deep understanding of one part of a domain, develop thinking in abstractions and systems, follow TDD in all agent…

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    Comment #47847048

    I'm seeing this in some teams I am aware of. It is usually a 3-4 people team working very closely. They're not using gas-town or such, but are typically creating abstraction after …

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    Comment #47792459

    Do not get hung up? Sounds like English ESL rewrote some insights for language. Content > Form.

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    Comment #47760774

    DSA itself may now not be as indicative, but grinding is absolutely a key trait in good hires. That type of person will put in very effort at work.

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    Comment #47676154

    No magic pill: you can't work backwards. Pivot away from current idea if it's not getting word of mouth or any other traction, and for the next idea start with finding problems for…

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    Comment #47670938

    You've to go into founder mode - solve problems that exist for customers you've already discovered, rather than build something and expect magical "marketing" to find customers. Th…

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    Comment #47670461

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