@norootcause I think @simonw likes to say, “Never be the second largest consumer of an open source package.”
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Daniel Silverstein (he/him)
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Daniel Silverstein (he/him)
@cubesebuc
just.a.hack... previously Eventbrite, looking for something new
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Though that open source software package might be free, the expertise required to operate it effectively isn’t. And, one way or another, acquiring that expertise will cost you.
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Yes! Thank you for making this point -- I can't believe I forgot to include it.
✨Junior engineers make senior engineers better at their jobs.✨
Teaching is part of learning. Explaining your choices will make choices better.
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Consider that hiring a new grad or junior engineer makes the senior engineers better: by forcing them to explain seemingly trivial stuff (that often turns out to be not as trivial!), look at things from a different POV and grow as a mentor/leader. Plus consider the business more!
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Free idea: instead of parties, sponsor childcare at big conferences.
I would remember and love that brand way more than if you gave me a free drink.
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@rrhoover Online or live experience oriented. There are interesting things happening in the live experience space.
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I know it's a tar pit idea but...
I'm surprised there's no music-centric social experience online at any meaningful scale.
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@alitaylor Camp out mini-festival. There was still dinner and dancing, just more of it.
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Oh god, I hated this thread. But I'm already over quota today, so I'll just drop a link to "Choose Boring Culture": charity.wtf/2023/05/01/cho…
Your job is NOT to make work "fun". Your job is to make work succeed in a healthy way. People bring the fun, if they feel safe and engaged.
Tara Viswanathan@TaraViswanathan
(2/8) Fun (and culture) cannot be outsourced. You cannot delegate “culture carriers”. You (the CEO) are the ultimate culture carrier. It has to come from you. ppl do not take “culture events” seriously if the CEO does not run it (or worse, doesn’t show up). You set the tone.
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@jonathanstray I don’t know for sure, but this seems like something @simonw may have built.
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I want to classify a CSV of strings using an LLM. Is there a simple interactive tool that will let me try different prompts? Or an easy github repo somewhere? Asking for journalism students trying to solve a reporting problem.
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@jkakar My frustration is mostly with the fact that TypeScript is purely compile time vs. run time, and if you assert something that is untrue, it will fail at run time.
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@cubesebuc Mostly structural typing fits in my head. I’ve been writing a bunch of code to represent acyclic graphs and traverse and transform them. I haven’t been Rick rolled yet, but it’s still early days so let’s see. 😅
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I’m enjoying Typescript quite a bit. It can get a bit hairy at times, but it also mostly seems to fit in my head (in a way that, for example, Python’s type annotations never have).
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@jeffreywescott I highly doubt it. Also, why should I trust them to serve me “half” the ads when they’ve been lying to advertisers and Wall Street about their numbers?
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Like, am I the only one who hates ads to this extent? Or would they double / triple / 10x their premium subscriber base with a “no ads” option?
Have they done market research here?
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I can’t believe they’re going to start charging new users $1 instead of just letting people pay for NO ads. Half ads? For $8? This is stupid.
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A reminder that the problems at this year's Grace Hopper Conference were caused by cis men, not trans women.
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would folks be interested in some kind of “get print copies of every zine julia has ever written" product?
(right now there's a 13-pack for sale on the store, but it doesn't include print copies of all the free zines)
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Made a LinkedIn for @ai_minion and posted new job openings! Check it out and give a follow won’t you? linkedin.com/company/minion…
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@alexgraveley Oh yes, I knew some of the grad students working on this at Berkeley back in the day.
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I always associated smartdust with A Deepness In The Sky by Vinge, but turns out it was also a funded DARPA project. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
Nat Friedman@natfriedman
@mayfer Eventually we'll have sentient dust and things will be pretty weird
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2023 Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Eckersley: Helped revolutionize the widespread adoption of HTTPS that made the Internet safer and more secure. internethalloffame.org/inductee/peter…
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who could have forseen that abandoning a project for several years with multiple API integrations... might not simply work when one picks it up again
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The part of the story where OpenAI has to make an email client to compete with Gmail/Bard lockin. Thereby fulfilling @jwz maxim that all software grows until it contains an email client.
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