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Ahh thanks. I didn't follow the article links.

I personally hate the anthropomorphization of AI as much as anyone, but technically can't you make the same reductive argument about human consciousness? It's just molecules, just …

Anyone know how this outcome is affecting Figma employees? I can imagine it's a huge letdown waiting 1.5 years for a big liquidity event and having it evaporate. Do employees see a…

I wasn't really meaning to criticize the blog post. It's very intelligent and interesting. I just think the title is kind of silly and highlights how extremely complicated and impr…

Very interesting blog, but also kind of hilarious that a post about keeping a concept "simple" proceeds with a dump of insanely long, dense, esoteric code, variable names and jargo…

Databricks is a pretty good example of a huge company built around and open source project (Spark).

As someone who only does a frontend/full-stack project once a year or so, I do feel like some of this tooling mess is getting better. On previous projects I remember the frustratio…

Yea I don't think it's the only principle that should drive product development, but it helps ensure you're always solving real problems for your users. There is still a lot of roo…

I work on the algorithm for a widely used search engine and can confirm that this line of thinking has been very effective in improving our product over the years. Rather than tryi…

It seems like a lot of the issues were around sharing code and libraries, resulting from isolated codebases per service and the versioning hell of shared libraries. I work in a org…

> If someone answers the question with a mainstream view, it’s possible that they just aren’t self-aware enough to know a view is well-held. To be self-aware means you ask question…

Glad to see investors are starting to push back on these ridiculous fees. For decades, the whole hedge fund industry, along with more traditional actively managed funds and financi…

Lovely long-form piece. Seems very analogous to the choice many tech companies face: focus on growing a moderately successful, proven model, or lever up to the gills with VC money …

Mid NYC Hack day. This is mildly inconvenient...