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mizzao

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About mizzao

Me: https://www.andrewmao.net

Startup: https://parsnip.ai

Recent public activity

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    I strongly disagree with this on the steak part and maybe the coffee too. Many people pride themselves on buying expensive ingredients and thinking they have the best steak but it …

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    Comment #49159184

    We started with no design expertise of our own and over 2 years, learned the ropes and evaluated 300+ portfolios in our designer hiring process. I wrote these notes up in case they…

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    Comment #49089199

    Paywall bypass: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-v...

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    Comment #48923680

    Or we can just start school later because kids no longer need to leave at 2:30 to go help on the farm.

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    Comment #48923648

    I doubt anyone in the media is paying attention to projects being rewritten in Rust...

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    Comment #48850543

    Not sure if you're alluding to this but it's analogous to the same differences between startups and big tech companies. Startups = have few resources, product has to work or compan…

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    Comment #48800236

    Why does he call Android the "Nothing Phone"? Missing the context.

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    Comment #48625744

    Is "being mocked" not also "facing the rage of many"? What do you imagine with the latter that would be so much worse?

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    Comment #48597846

    McMaster-Carr has entered the chat...

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    Comment #48565829

    I actually didn't smell AI at all while reading this article, because the idea density seemed high, rather than when AI just expands a few ideas into repetitive mumbo jumbo. The la…

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    Comment #48359713

    Seems like a good reminder of https://xkcd.com/2347/

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    Comment #48359655

    What is the CPU/GPU architecture of this and how could a collaboration between whoever made it and Nvidia possibly outperform Apple Silicon?

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    Comment #48359251

    Good luck, and please don't be discouraged if it takes 20 launches to figure out what works! That's completely normal.

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    Comment #48288827

    Time is money, and it's easier to negotiate with a dealer from whom you're buying a car than to coordinate many meetings with randos on Craigslist.

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    Comment #48288794

    Don't forget the mortgage interest deduction as well, which is a huge subsidy for those who can afford to buy.

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    Comment #48262817

    2 years ago AI coding agents had barely emerged yet, right? Couldn't have gotten good results even if a good engineer was forced to use it...

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    Comment #48137846

    This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see hi…

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    Comment #48137757

    How do you use Claude Code to access your browser memory?

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    Comment #48099841

    A skills-based personalized learning platform: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/knowledge We started this because we were building https://www.parsnip.ai/ , an app to help people lea…

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    Comment #48075867

    Was that Matt Pittinsky?

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    Comment #48075854

    The fact that one of the em dashes has spaces around it, and the other does not, makes it more likely to be handwritten. I personally love em-dashes and hate that they're a sign of…

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    Comment #48057226

    No-logo clothes are actually the ultimate flex now...