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Comment #48835517
I think it's focus? Anthropic seemed to double down early on being more business/prosumer focused. While OAI, Gemini, Grok, etc were also doing various side quests like image gener…
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Comment #44264530
https://archive.is/LPIH8
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Comment #43911427
The moat is Windsurf’s custom LLM and the ops around it (training pipelines, fine-tuning, infra). Codeium (Windsurf’s parent) started as a GPU optimization company, so they have de…
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Comment #43668344
IMO you don’t need to build a full app or company. You could just build a series of niche sites or properties. If your code solves a specific pain point really well, wrap it in a s…
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Comment #42745843
As someone with terrible handwriting but decent cursive, i think cursive provides a better structure for achieving cleaner penmanship compared to non-cursive writing. My theory is …
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Comment #39391632
Totally agree with you. Most of the responses in this thread remind me of why I don't typically go into the comment section of these announcements. It's way too easy to fall into t…
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Comment #33962526
I am not a doctor, but Modafinil is great. Similar effects to that of Adderall/Ritalin (increased focus, elevated mood, etc) but no major comedown or withdrawal type symptoms. Can …
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Comment #33828547
Definitely App Academy Open. App Academy is one of the original bootcamps and they have solid curriculum. They have their entire course for free online https://www.appacademy.io/co…
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Comment #32615715
that’s about as dystopian as it gets
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Comment #32518134
IMO a big part of their hierarchies can be attributed to rails default resource routing structure
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Comment #32504497
In this context, do you mean SaaS for small and medium businesses? Or do you mean small and medium (sized) SaaS companies? Or is SMB in this context some other acronym I’m not thin…
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Comment #32431398
I think that’s entirely dependent on who you follow and if you’re not actively utilizing your blocked/muted accounts and/or muted keywords from your feed. The amount of value I’ve …
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Comment #31475445
I agree, which basically sums up this entire thread and all others like it over the past couple weeks. Air-chair economists pontificating on what will happen to our economy over th…
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Comment #31383059
As a primarily backend dev, one thing that has recently helped me with my design skills is to use page builders. I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years …
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Comment #30626508
I have noticed that too in myself occasionally. I do 16:8 IF and can eat after 6pm, and I notice sometimes around 3-4pm or so, I start getting “hangry” and impatient with people. I…
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Comment #30626206
It might not be weird, but I have to recommend Intermittent Fasting. I was able to drop ~20lbs in roughly 6 weeks and the only change I made was a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedul…
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Comment #30309006
I'm working on a local SEO tool for a very successful owner of a course/community of local SEO people. It attempts to automate an arduous process he teaches about examining local S…
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Comment #29144054
this is a really great book on metaprogramming in Ruby https://github.com/dazhizhang/ruby-rails/blob/master/Metapro...
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Comment #27625182
because it's built in bubble ( https://bubble.io/ )
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Comment #26735536
Wow, the blatant hypocrisy of this comment. Imagine some cause or topic in your local government that you're passionate about and someone saying, "hey, let's just do what we want b…
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Comment #23556360
for anyone who has been in Startup School and successfully gone through it, would you say it's best to have a Startup that is a "product" instead of say a service-type business? Fo…