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Elizabeth Holmes is beautiful. Amanda Seyfried did a good job of capturing her persona in The Dropout, and Holmes is a narcissistic self-deluding villain in the story from anyone else's perspective, but she is really just beautiful. I can see where her presence charmed people into seeing what she believed.

What IDE do you use? How do you integrate it? I was using Continue but it exited its funding round to the Titler octopus and the Chat function in VSCode is choking on the Ollama responses.

Bitching is free and easier than making pull requests. And I bet it was 1 or 2 choads plus a variable pack of minions, not everyone. And Megacorp X can file all the bug reports they want, their lack of investment is not my urgency.

That also includes knowing how to process game. A dead deer or a dead rabbit has a small window between being a dead creature and a toxic mess. If you're gonna plug animals learn how to make proper use of them.

Reality is infintely analog and therefore digital will only ever be an approximation.

Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can't force him, but might be able to encourage it, not by calling someone out in a code review/etc but privately discussing some local validation they could do. Also, I'm betting the "typos" aren't for corpus words but config strings like swmn0023094 or server names or whatever. That might be more of a custom dictionary type or DSL solution to check values against valid constant values.

It's a question of what you want to invest your time in. Everyone creates output, whether it's lines of code, a smoke screen to hide your social media time, or a set of ongoing conversations and perceptions than you have a use in the organization.

It also comes that the well-compensated people are probably that because they know how to advocate for their worth, which usually includes a list of things they will tolerate and a list they will not, whereas "market rate" is just happy to be there and more inclined to go along with, ya know, whatever.

Exceeds 1. Politics is the craft of influence. And, debatably, there's a politic even when population size=1, between your subconscious instinctive mind (eat the entire box of donuts) versus your conscious mind (don't spike your blood sugar).

Well you did hire some(thing)...for $100/month.

Also, physical books are immutable; electronic content is not. Orwell was not wrong, just premature.

Ditching for what?

Yeah, capitalism. Our sense of fairness hate it but our portfolios love it.

"Seamless" may be irrationally exuberant but it's better than the others _at scale_.

LibreOffice, etc. may see similar from the UI end but if you're scaling across multiple sites/archetypes/employee models/regulatory environments, -and- want access to a wide and deep pool of administrative labor, M365 is seamless by comparison.

To me the terms mix and it helps to separate the things that are externally manageable from the things that are not. The physical is complex but straightforward - the body biochemistry operates on material in, biochemistry mix, expenditure out. The brain is physical - neurons, pathways, etc. The mind, OTOH, is a virtual little candle isolated in a prison of meat and bone trying to understand how to interact with the world around it. External forces can alter the body and brain, but only the mind can change the mind. And does, in ways that are very difficult to control because the sole operator is part of the mechanism. People who try to change on their own and can't aren't failing or weak, it's just really f-ing hard.

+1 - crap code can come out of notepad / emacs / vi or IDE-flavor-of-the-day or even the AI code sausage maker. Testing, specification, knowing what you are building and why still matters.

An all-in-one like Rational Rose may be making a comeback in terms of these agentic AI projects, because now you actually can turn a spec into code without layers of tagging and UML.

Complacency about customers requires a monopoly, which Synology does not have.

He was representative, not causative. The rot had been settling for years.

Bezus checked out long before he moved to emeritus. Wanted to be a movie producer and shoot his rockets. Andy took over with all of the vision of a corporate franchiser running a Dollar Store.

More like wine - more profitable in the attention/branding market to make your own label than take someone else's.

Debt chickens will come home to roost and once the bond interest/return death spiral starts it will be very difficult to break. Interest payments are already #3 in the national budget.

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^ this - unless looking at reporting to a CXO or director the interviewers, even the HM, are usually only slightly less of a minion than the candidate. They may have a range, but it's nowhere near what you think it is and if they want you they will offer the top of it.

You are going to learn a lot. Congratulations, leading a team in a hackathon can be an exhilarating, terrifying experience.

Create minimum (but not zero) formal communications and lots of informal routes with ways to find out information.

Slack is a great suggestion along with periodic all-team checkins/reports.

Set clear goals and a sense of mission, with open methods on how get there. As a leader, be involved and check in with team members to help clear roadblocks, connect resources and generally know where the team is at and their plans/progress/obstacles/workarounds is at any time.

A sprint model can work well, with a board of tasks and periodic checkins on process.

Hover and AWS Route 53 don't do this either. It's just the GoDaddy scumbags, and same (GoDaddy jacking a searched domain name) has happend to others I know.

I have a room I work in - you don't have this luxury, if I didn't I'd dedicate a space to the same purpose, even one end of a table or a corner of the living room. When my working period starts I dress for the office (not completely, I wear shorts and a T-shirt but due to Zoom meetings etc I clean up because I will be on camera) and when I go into that space, that's where I work, procrastination and fecklessness aside.

Conversely, when I leave that space I am no longer working, pages aside. I do check in on email via phone if there are things that need to be checked on, but otherwise I try very hard to leave my work in that place.

I think the ritual is almost as important as the place, both for "clocking in" and "clocking out". Even if it's just open/closing a laptop or turning a monitor on/off, it's training yourself to see that as the gate for being "on" and being "off".

If your work laptop is your personal laptop, you might also need to have two accounts and sign out of your work account/into your personal account at the end of the day for Ycombinator time, personal use, etc.

The process is cherry-picking by definition; you provide a use case and are then selected (or not selected) based on their perception of your merit.

They are a startup. They are looking for funding. By definition they will do whatever necessary to secure that funding.

I don't think you need a ProPublica research piece to prove the validity of that premise.

Internet radio, especially college stations. They have the most eclectic playlists and will range from standards to songs released 10 minutes ago.

The NPR All Songs Considered podcasts can also have interesting music finds, especially when they do themed shows.

That's it. In 2013 anyway, it was a good introduction to Python.