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Yeah. Did the author actually go to these stores? I grew up in the 80's and 90's, went often, and did not have any of these experiences. Generally didn't have any conversations bey…

Odd - when I'm at a cafe, I'm almost always asked if "whole milk" is ok. It work, we have fat free, 2%, and creamer...

"hired an architect 18 months ago who used AI to architect everything" Huh? 18 months ago? I've been using it that long - it wasn't able to do that back then....

Awesome post - really insightful!

Wow. Yeah. That's unreadable - my frustration and annoyance levels got high fast, had to close the page before I went for the power button on my machine :)

(and yeah, I don't love the term "Vibe" - but it's kinda established at this point, so I'm just going with it...)

Been working to write books for a while now using LLMs. Wasn't very good until recently- the newer models with the larger context windows are pretty good at it, and Cline is amazin…

As many have said, don't treat them as side projects. They were apps or products you were working on - if they were at all "real" (e.g., had users or customers) than it was a start…

Uhhhh.... holy crap, sorry... but what is the author smoking? I started out with PC's in the early 80's. They were HARD to use (granted, as a pre-teen, I fell in love right away - …

I'm sorry - but - HUH? > re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use. Because of course if CASH re-enters the steam of commerce is somehow different?

Great over all story. Not sure what the McDonalds part has to do with it - a huge number of kids start there. I did - and in the next 40 years I've been Chief Architect of a startu…

shrug before I used my phone for music, I used my iPod. Before that, my Walkman. Personal music at the gym is not new or anything specific to phones

On another side of this - I've seen places where employees were essentially locked in - unable to leave, because they couldn't sell any stock, and exercising cost too much, or, mor…

I wrote a book on this last year, out of my frustration with dev interviews https://www.amazon.com/Whiteboard-better-hire-best-developer... I've interviewed and hired a lot of peop…

This is what I created over the years, and what I found gave the company the best results (great, happy teams that worked together very well, creating great software) Is this somet…

I wrote a book on this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJ6N8P1 (the book will be free tomorrow - would love for you to give me some feedback...) Lighter-weight then this paper - just…

Cliff notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

The key words you probably need to look at are "multi-petabyte". Not saying they shouldn't be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts 1 Petabyte (an…

> WORKING with someone (for a long time) 100% tells you what it's like working with someone Not sure how that's not clear...

Correct. Best way to know what someone is going to be like to work with, and how good they are, is to work with them. Interview is that helpful

And yeah, I have strong opinions on this - I've been on both sides of the table for a long time, and don't think the average interview is a good indicator of how they'll do in the …

> because someone knows someone and has worked with them for a long time only And this is the #1 thing that gets a near auto-hire from me. I'm not saying don't interview them, but …

What in the world are you basin that on?