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I can take notes as fast as people can talk, but I'm much slower at writing so I needed to synthesize it into a condensed idea. It doesn't feel the same, to me at least.

If you’re gonna be a hater you at least gotta do it right! The pricing and the securities fraud were two separate things you can count against him.

It kept me listening. When I was on minute 70 of a boring lecture I started daydreaming. If I was writing even minimal notes, I'd need to briefly consider each idea and decide whet…

It's very simple; If you work 10x faster, you need to release 1/10th the bugs as before for the user's experience to have the same level of bugginess. And we're not incentivized fo…

This is great stuff; I've been prototyping with a few language-specific parsers like the Golang and the polyglot approach looks really helpful for me

At the moment I'd check the sibling comment, which has a few links!

My side project is now codebase explainability. I basically don't buy the premise that we just have to give up on comprehension as code generation scales; I just think that text is…

Because for its entire existence, the top HN comment on articles is typically a contrarian take or pointing out flaws. This goes double for a study, where people just hunt for some…

Out of curiosity, what has changed over time that has made it more toxic? I left Google in 2015. It certainly had its share of toxic traits, but it was at the "what place doesn't?"…

Nah, "Any other vector DB" starts to fall apart once you need stuff like scripted scoring like OP uses. Then it starts to be a question of, "do you need ANN for performance?" since…

I needed to set up a VPS for my blog, so I gave Claude SSH access to a fresh Digital Ocean droplet and told it to set up a deploy with Ansible and harden the instance. It one-shot …

That is indeed how things like copy/paste through the menus already work; you install an extension to get the clipboard permission or the browser limits you to keyboard shortcuts

Applications like Google Docs would be impossible without each of the four things you listed being available. We had Google Docs that didn’t roll-your-own for each of the items in …

> The decision was made to go with Eclipse. Then it magically went into some sort of internal box/decision process, and came out IntelliJ instead. I've always thought this was beca…

Yeah, a lot of people came of age with a "we'll fix it when it's a problem" mindset. Previously their codebases would start to resist feature development, you'd fix the immediate b…

The proof is in the pudding. At this point, there have been plenty of models that overperformed on benchmarks and underperformed on real work. So my stance is that I'm curious, I'm…

Yeah, this is exactly what I thought when I read this post. It seemed like the author either hasn't worked in big tech, or hasn't worked in the industry very long. It's extremely l…

And even still, it’s hard to ignore him because he’ll still have some insight like “token efficiency is going to be the big thing we care about in the future,” which was a small se…

I have some blog posts coming out soon. I’m also trying an experiment where I make YouTube videos[0] on each of them. My first video was a huge lift, since it was my first time doi…

He recruited for wall street trading firms; based on the finance types I've met over the years in NYC I would 100% believe some did this just because they hated losing. He was just…

An old neighbor of mine was a headhunter. He once told me that some companies had a trick to get around the law. Upon getting hired, you'd sign a document saying that you'd agree t…

Fun fact: I was on the Google Docs team from 2010-2015. Save didn't do anything but we still hooked up an impression to the keystroke to measure how often people tried to save. It …

There are some rose-colored glasses when people say this. Programs didn’t auto save and regularly crashed. It was extremely common to hear someone talk about losing hours of work. …

I’m on tirzepatide and it’s crazy how it can truly reform habits. I’ve been a night snacker my whole life. I don’t even think about food after dinner anymore. At a bar, I used to p…