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Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by herval »

rsynnott wrote: post #241
pavlov wrote: post #196

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Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

it's called dunning-kruger, the epidemic syndrome of silicon valley

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by herval »

gettodachoppa wrote: post #211
pavlov wrote: post #196

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Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

Well, when Elon Musk took over and gutted half the staff, I distinctly remember HN full out of outrage and predicting (in hindsight, "impotently wishing" would be more accurate) doom and how Twitter will go down any day now. Then nothing happened. At least, nothing that I personally observed as a casual Twitter reader. The goalposts were moved to "it will go down with the New Year's Eve spike", and once again nothing…

it really is a testament to how well engineered Twitter is/was. I well remember Musk gloating about how the architecture was stupid and he'd fix it. Twitter would be long gone if his remarks were anywhere near the reality

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by herval »

textadventure wrote: post #184
sangnoir wrote: post #142

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The same self-driving company he left? His "Amazing Journey" post[1] for Comma was illuminating; once a company is "[...] no longer a race car, [but] a boat" GeoHot is likely to bounce. I like AMD as much as the next guy, but I don't want to rely the software being provided by a personality who only really gets excited by working on new projects before the "wild success" stage (if we can call it that for Comma) 1. ht…

He is still a part of Comma, as far as it seems, he is just by his own admission not the best guy to lead a company that got big enough for him and which needs certain stability and adhere to certain bureaucracy if you will. In some way, I think it's rather admirable that someone knows when to move aside and let others take the lead.

how big is it?

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

lostmsu wrote: post #161
Scarbutt wrote: post #135

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To be fair, you have group the perfect combo for initiating a crash, a google product inside firefox inside linux desktop on wayland.

Of these only Linux kernel is the thing that can take down the whole machine.

On a desktop machine, there isn't a huge difference between a kernel and a Wayland crash. Either way I lost all my state and will end up rebooting.

In this specific case, I was unable to get to a console and had actual things to get done so I wasn't going to debug it.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by Gravityloss »

rsynnott wrote: post #241
pavlov wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

https://xkcd.com/793/

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by zamnos »

rsynnott wrote: post #241
pavlov wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

> Technical people suffer from what I call "Engineer's Disease". We think because we're an expert in one area, we're automatically an expert in other areas. Just recognizing that helps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812804

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by m348e912 »

ovi256 wrote: post #234
pavlov wrote: post #225

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Did you see the news about DeSantis yesterday? Musk convinced him to announce his presidential candidacy on Twitter, and the live stream just didn’t work. I don’t think that qualifies as “nothing happened” when features used in high-profile events fail, with the CEO and a potential future president left on the line. Any other platform wouldn’t have struggled with a stream of this size. I guess you might say that’s ju…

> the live stream just didn’t work Are you sure ? Others say 6.5 M listened to the livestream that was delayed 20 mins

They had to switch to David Sack's account to do the livestream and I think there were about 700k listeners that were on at the time of announcment. The issues weren't just infrastructure related, Musk had challenges with his mute button and it was creating feedback because he and Sacks were next to each other on their phones.

But yeah, it could have gone better for various reasons.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by jeffhwang »

rsynnott wrote: post #241
pavlov wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

“Reverse imposter syndrome” is a great coinage; I’m going to start using this!

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by rsynnott »

herval wrote: post #251
rsynnott wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

it's called dunning-kruger, the epidemic syndrome of silicon valley

It's definitely similar, but I think it's _subtly_ different (though it's often found in the same people).

Dunning-Kruger is, approximately "I'm good at the thing I do" (by someone who is actually incompetent).

What I'm talking about is "That thing that other people are doing is really easy; I'd be good at it" (the thing is not easy, and they would not be good at it).

If the person in the latter case actually ends up doing the allegedly easy thing, they may realise that actually they are not good at it, in which case it's not Dunning-Kruger. This is pretty common, I think; person barges in, saying "this will be easy, because I've decided the thing I'm good at is more difficult than it", admits it's not easy, and either leaves or learns. Alternatively of course they may retreat into full Dunning-Kruger; see the Musk Twitter debacle, which is _both_, say.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by rsynnott »

jeffhwang wrote: post #258
rsynnott wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how ha…

“Reverse imposter syndrome” is a great coinage; I’m going to start using this!

Actually, on second thoughts, I should possibly have called it intruder syndrome :) (Reverse imposter syndrome could just describe Dunning-Kruger depending on which axis you're reversing...)
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