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I'm pretty confident that no 15 year old would have learned about void coefficients if Chernobyl hadn't happened.

Well. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product…

Yes. China is behind on some of the crucial technology that gives the West its advantage, but this framing that the country is on the verge of collapse is just not true. Also recre…

Not an American, but I would argue that this level while little bit of a concern is not a huge issue for a superpower that borrows in its own currency and has the military and econ…

Using Pangram to detect AI slop is a very bad idea. I tried it on my own writing which I knew to be written by me and it marked it as AI generated.

Not quite in job interviews, but when I'm selling to a client, I just ask in the interview if it is okay, if I connect with them on LinkedIn. Some say yes. Others say no. Should wo…

Dammit! Why am I the only 'Ivy type' that cannot raise a round?!!! .

Yes. While they may have been justified in firing him for not following policy, they also lost a talented engineer. (I'm sure they don't care) I would have done the intelligent thi…

But why would ask these people about topics they don't understand? Or they sending you unsolicited responses?

They purchased 129 tons of gold in Europe. Their asset position did not change: they converted cash to gold of the same value. They then sold the 129 tons gold in the US vaults for…

Very true. We have a private git repository running on a server that serves as our master. Works fine for us. We backup to GitHub. But it isn't used in any way in the dev workflow

I rarely run my apps fullscreen. It's because I have multiple 4k monitors connected to the machine. Using an app even chrome or an IDE fullscreen would be too big. But do use apps …

Not true. I'm a really heavy user of AI. And it's improved my productivity dramatically as a developer, but it doesn't work in every situation even in programming. I see it as an i…

Most VCs can't read markdown.

Interesting. I required all my devs to use local VMs for development. We've saved a fair bit on cloud costs.

Learn for yourself then. I run my own company and learning new stuff so I can use it in my business is one of the few joys of being the owner. No permission required to try the new…

Code is just ‘compiled’ intelligence.

There seems to be some sort imputation that, just because someone is on an H-1b, that they are not a good engineer. I used to be on an H-1b and gladly came back home to India. I ru…

This. Right now the consumer surplus created by improved productivity is being captured by users and to a small extent their employers. But that may not remain the case in future.

What benefit could one possibly get by farming karma on site like hacker news. It's not like one can gather followers or something. I'm always mystified by folks who do this. Would…

I've been wondering exacrtly this. Surely, its not hard to get setup with your own website. It's not like substack is giving you much distribution.