Nick van den Berg

@lewiscarhart Let’s go! Afghans are very hospitable. Every home is basically a coworking space there.

whos up for an indie hacker retreat cabin bbq whiskey mountains of afghanistan or something

@dangc8k @afonsolfm Usually the best developers have some sort of entrepreneurial mindset. Because the mindset to get really good at smt is quite similar as skills needed to build a successful business. I’d even go as far to say that actually, a dev with zero entrepreneurial skills is a red flag.

@dangc8k @afonsolfm This + developers who think like entrepreneurs usually are faster in understanding business needs, thinking along with future steps, reducing tech debt etc. Entrepreneurial + technical skillset makes you an *extremely* valuable dev to have on the team.

when I was hiring for the full stack role, I interviewed about 20 people and the following red flags were: (btw I'm not demonising anybody this is just my preferences) 1. indie hacker / trying to build own thing this is the biggest red flag of all, I don't want to hire an entrepreneur AT ALL. I know these folks will be dedicating the minimum amount of time possible so they can focus on their own thing. I want somebody who's seeking stability and a place to work on their craft. when I was trying to bootstrap my own products, my mindset was to dedicate the least possible amount of time to the companies I worked for. 2. relocating / transition phase some folks were a bit stressed since they were trying to move to Europe, or figuring out visas and all of this. it gave me zero confidence that I could rely on these people. I want someone that has a stable life, so that 8 hours (at least) can be dedicated per day. 3. bad communication a lot of people simply don't know how to talk! specially if you're from india, you need to work on your english so you're completely fluent. i can't imagine myself working with somebody on the daily basis who cannot grasp complicated concepts in english. 4. lazy talk / low energy some people are just super depressed like they look empty inside. bring some enthusiasm to the talk otherwise how can I feel that you really care about what you're doing? depressed energy brings everything down 5. bad internet a lot of pakistan/india/bangladesh ppl had shitty internet and even though they looked skilled how can we work together like this? i cannot even properly do a call. make sure if you go to an interview you setup the right conditions including internet

@GergelyOrosz Which makes me think #3 would be: SO continues to exist because of strict regulation around AI. But thinking this’ll happen is naive because big tech is effectively holding internet hostage. Maybe this is how capitalism eventually destroys itself? at least the internet🥲

@GergelyOrosz This is what’s problematic with the idea of an internet that’s mainly consumed through an LLM. The lack of interaction between publisher and consumer means there’s no more incentive to share content publicly. Which sooner or later will become a bottleneck for training new models.

This is both amusing and predicable. What is your reaction, as a dev, when you realize your efforts to help other devs with their problems (by answering questions on StackOverflow) is now a way for StackOverflow to sell this data for OpenAI train ChatGPT to perform better?

@culturaltutor Interesting! This leads me wondering: who would be today’s Bel Geddes, envisioning what cities look 40 years from now?

Why are cities dominated by highways and cars? It's partly because of one of the most influential people you've never heard of: Norman Bel Geddes. In 1939 he created "Futurama", a huge exhibition that tried to predict the future — and ended up changing the world...

@marclou @Vlad_Smolyanoy Congrats! Have you thought about building a Vue/Nuxt version of Shipfast? Might be a good way to enlarge your target audience

0 → $3,300 in 14 days. Maybe shipping fast doesn't work for everyone... But I receive weekly DM from founders who make their first $ online. Congrats on the launch @Vlad_Smolyanoy

@Atinux @nuxt_hub Just requested Alpha access. Curious to see what you've been cooking up =)

We now have real-time logs in the NuxtHub Admin UI as well ✨

@GergelyOrosz Well @GergelyOrosz, I recently figured out my own dark pattern to deal with this: Update your payment method to a prepaid creditcard that doesn’t have any balance. Problem solved! Not the way I like to do business, but I guess it’s eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth here.

This is why I say do NOT buy from Adobe. This exact scenario happened to me in ~2020. Adobe tricks people into “annual, paid monthly” subscriptions via a dark pattern. They note there is a “cancellation fee” for early cancellation. They just don’t tell you how it’s this much.

@levelsio @Aidancramer @AndreyAzimov I can see this becoming really powerful when you’d be able to instruct the AI to look for subtleties, like particular tone of voice that points to certain soft skills.

Tried @aidancramer's AI Apply today to apply to a job with AI The job is on me and @AndreyAzimov's new site GetApplicantAI.com, which is also an AI which reviews (and scores) jobs applicants automatically using GPT4-Turbo 🤖♻️ AI applying -> AI reviewing This way you don't need to search through 400 job applications, but can just rank them by score and see the best applicants immediately In this case the AI scored the applicant as 25/100 for lack of specific machine learning skills I think this will probably be the future of job seeking and hiring: AI agents talking to AI agents to match people up, it sounds dystopian but I think it'll make the job market more efficient by better matching up workers to jobs And it'll be fast/instant, assessing an applicant takes 200ms or 0.2s!

@levelsio It’s about damn time web devs are going to tinker about more complex problems than all jumping through hoops to get a nice looking button to perform a CRUD operation. Feel guilty sometimes for what I make compared to those who are washing elderly’s butts in a retirement home.

This is called Moravec's Paradox High skilled labor like software development and management is easier to automate Than low skilled physical labor like cleaning homes, plumbing, barbers etc. High skilled people are the first ones out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%2…

@Carnage4Life I’m reading all of these depressing posts of people who got laid off, and I’m wondering how much of this translates to tech in Europe? I imagine it’s less dramatic since 150K+ salaries for engineers are way less common here.

@JoseAlvarezC97 @rauchg @ylecun @lexfridman @sama Excellent UX and integration are result of deep understanding of the niche you operate in. And it usually takes more than just a UI wrapper to get to a level of excellence. And point is that this is more feasible when using specialised models fine tuned for a specific use case.

Highly recommend @ylecun’s podcast with @lexfridman. He makes a compelling case for open models: bias in LLMs is inevitable, diversity of data & fine-tunes is the answer. AI will end up decentralized and embedded into every product, with a large variety of underlying models. Also made me think @perplexity_ai is really well positioned. They’re not anchored to one point of view, and they let the user choose. UX and integrations give you the edge.

@MaxRovensky The staff rather threw away the last breads rather than sell it to me, which literally would’ve been a 1 minute task. Just because it’s 2 minutes past closing time. I wonder what the future of this content will be.

@MaxRovensky Here’s another example in the Netherlands. Walked into a bakery at 17:32 the other day. “We close at 17:30” the staff snarks at me. “But I just want to quickly get the last bread!” I reply, pointing at the 2 last breads on the shelf. “Nope, sorry!”…

Getting a haircut in Asia: 1. Walk into barber shop 2. Hello boss, one haircut please 3. Here you go boss Getting a haircut in Europe: 1. Walk into barber shop 2. Closed, het rekt 3. Find another 4. 700 people queue 5. Find another, completely empty, good 6. Can I haz haircut? 7. Yes, make an appointment 5 hours from now 8. You are literally empty, there’s zero people in here, I would like to give you money in exchange for your haircut services 9. No can do, too busy 10. Look around at the empty place 11. I am confuse

@bznotes @amasad I somehow keep thinking about Lifta a lot when I try to make sense of current events. I was recommended to visit by a local on a tourist trip in 2019. It’s a magical place. But also one that speaks history, in a way that couldn’t be more telling.

With my late grandma in Amman. She was expelled from her and grandpa’s home in Haifa by Zionists in ‘48, and shortly after, he died. She raised 11 kids on her own as a refugee—all doctors & engineers! This background makes 🇺🇸 freedom & property rights feel super special to me.

Bullshit. Raising interest rates have led to overall decline in many freelance jobs – even those unaffected by GPT. No proof that this was actually caused by AI. Correlation ≠ causation

@vnavondkooktben @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood Why was it denied?

@MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood Israël offered at least 4 times a two state solution. It was denied every time.

A little history for those wanting to 'restore Palestine'. 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. Actually, in this piece of land, there has been everything, except a Palestinian State. @rishibagree

@Danna_DHT @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood And according to this logic there should have been a state of Israel on the land were Palestianians were living. And… there is one. Which is what’s causing trouble, right?

@MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood According to this logic there should be an Indian state and a Pakistani state in Britain, because there are Indians and Pakistanis there now.

@LouisHuberman @MarcGoldwein @ImtiazMadmood The question is, why?