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danhodgins

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About danhodgins

I talk culture, architecture & teams with senior AI / ML / platform / software engineers, and place them with stable PNW companies in Seattle and Portland.--- dan@devtalent.org

Outside of work and family responsibilities I am a hobbyist DJ, multi-instrumentalist (was a jazz drummer in high school, guitar/bass/vocals for 25 years) and hobbyist gold prospector with a passion for the outdoors here in the Pacific Northwest.

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    Yes. I thought maybe Blockchain might be able to provide some of that robustness for the public web, but it's all about speculative investment now.

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    Solid Xanadu reference. I wonder what percentage of the current generation of young people would have any idea what this is from. I'm not a film buff, but took a film course in col…

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    Comment #49037972

    He should go to TikTok headquarters and watch a movie on his phone next to complete the circle.

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    Comment #48856333

    If the tail is gone, the dentures become useless

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    Comment #48848602

    In a metaphorical sense, Ukraine is the scrappy 'startup' aka highly maneuverable speed boat that can turn on a dime, and the US Department of Defence is a cargo ship that takes ye…

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    Comment #44319557

    I thought the headline was discussing all of the yurts in Mongolia that are using machine learning.

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    Comment #44110331

    Fight fire with fire. Use AI to determine potential essay topics that are as close to 'AI-proof' as possible. Here is an example prompt: "Describe examples of possible high school …

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    Comment #43623045

    Start going to tradeshows for every possible industry you can think of, and bring resumes. People who network in person almost always have an advantage compared to people with simi…

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    Comment #43243908

    So far in my early forties I have: * Learned to pan for gold on creeks and use sluice boxes * Learned QGIS from scratch to play with mapping, data viz, gov't data sets and API's, e…

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    Comment #39309514

    A performance benchmark examined compilation times in seconds for a large XCode data set. Surprisingly, the 2023 Mac Mini 10 core M2 Pro with only 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage …

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    Comment #38630036

    Excel-erate your breath... or spreadsheet

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    Comment #38629664

    @ExoticPearTree - "Google is an advertising company with hobbies." This should be Google's mission, purpose, values and tagline.

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    Comment #38060822

    Totally agree. An idealized journal of one's life over time on Instagram is way more interesting and revealing than any dating app could ever be.

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    Comment #38060740

    The reductionist argument is that everyone wants to feel 'good', and that life is solely is about chasing a chemical high from natural dopamines, endorphins, oxy, etc that are prod…

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    Comment #37677520

    You either need to: 1. Spend time getting good at marketing (read books, do the work, get feedback). 2. Spend money for an agency or consultant to do it. 3. Spend equity and/or pro…

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    Comment #37676593

    Google is lucky they have so many monopolistic elements in their business model, otherwise customers would be leaving left, right and center due to non-stop shutdowns of serives th…

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    Comment #37676545

    I actually prefer that Spotify have both podcasts and music in their app. I would be more annoyed if I had to use a separate app for the two use cases. In my view, both are audio e…

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    Comment #37050747

    To everyone who created, maintains and improves Homebrew - thank you! It's an awesome solution that makes things really easy. Your work is appreciated.

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    Ask HN: Is the future of forums not 'topics', but 'prompts'?

    I'm imagining a world where users will submit a 'prompt' to a 'forum' that will then deliver responses from various agents such as AI's[], API's[] and humans[]. This would require …

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    "Writing is rewarding. Writing is empowering. Writing is even fun. As human, we are wired to communicate. We are also wired for “play.” Under the right circumstances, writing allow…

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    Exactly, one type is called BNPL (buy now pay later).

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    jjeaff - BNPL (buy now pay later) by companies such as Affirm may help level the playing field in applicable industries/cases as a 3rd party can shoulder the risk. With BNPL, small…