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This is an employee's mindset.

Your future customers don't care about references written by your former boss.

They may care about testimonials from other customers.

Sorry to read about your experience with this person and I think you made the right decision taking the legal route to address the issue, and it's important that justice is served. The enforcement of the judgment you obtained is essential, as it holds individuals and businesses accountable for their actions and commitments.

However, while your frustration with Upwork's inaction is understandable, the decision to ban Aaron H. or Ceed Civil from the platform or any other business listing should ideally be in line with the legal framework. If the court's judgment mandates that his business be prohibited from operating on certain platforms or in general, then it would be fair and appropriate for platforms like Upwork to enforce that.

On the other hand, if the court has not explicitly ordered such a ban, it may not be entirely fair to expect platforms to take this action solely based on individual judgments. Platforms typically have their internal policies and processes to deal with such situations, and it is crucial that they adhere to the rule of law.

it did, on the desktop

1) build a clone of old.reddit.com with the better features of RES baked in

2) scrape the original reddit

3) using the data, fine tune a LLM to reproduce the type of content posted on the top subreddits (fake it till you make it)

4) launch multiple agents using the LLM to generate the content and interact with each other, in order to make the site feel alive

5) put ads for the Reddit competitor on HN, Twitter, popular forums and Reddit.

6) eventually start to turn off the agents.

Plenty of options at Home Depot

It's not that hard to install a caching plugin that essentially serves your entire site from static files. Nor is it that hard to put it behind a load balancer.

I have a 3TB pgsql db running on 32 CPUs with 128GB ram

People could also create beautiful pictures with daubs of ochre and charcoal mixed with spittle and fat.

Same. I'm a time traveller from the year 2152 and I was very happy when GIMP added non-destructive layers last month.

Or if you can convince around 3 businesses that you're their go-to person for all tech needs, you're there.

You decide what's easier -- acquiring 170 customers or 3.

Around 12 hours.

Yeah, I don't particularly see the value of having the founders back - they haven't been hands on for a real long time.

Well, Sundar and Google leadership have been massively outmaneuvered here by both Nadella and OpenAI. It's really quite embarrassing, particularly in the context of the fact that Google was the undisputed leader in AI for over a decade.

As a Alphabet shareholder, I won't be sad to see Sundar go.

Unlikely, as small differences in the models can widely affect the expected responses. If anything, people would pay for a way to freeze the model at a specific version.

> They said if I only care about money I’m not a good fit for their culture of builders

As a large corporation, do they care about something else other than money?

A long time ago when I was a student, I would run my papers through Turnitin before submitting. The tool would sometimes mark my (completely original) work as high as mid 20% similarity.

As a result, I have taken out quotes and citations to appease it and not have to deal with the hassle.

I expect modern day students will resort to similar measures.

> I love simple bootstrap sites.

Thanks! I picked the simplest thing that I know that could work.

That's really great insight, actually. I definitely thought about adding the affiliate links, however I am somewhat unsure about the legality of promoting sportsbooks within the US. I think there are certain licensing requirements. I may look into it in more detail in the future, if the site picks up in traffic and search rankings.

> See https://www.bestfightodds.com/ if you want a site that does this for MMA rather nicely

This is super on-point. BFO was my inspiration for doing this and I know Catena and other affiliates typically have an interest in successful sports sites, so that thought, as a potential eventual exit strategy, crossed my mind.

> If you eventually add historical data people will scrape your site and try to clone it so that may be a problem.

I do have historical data in the backend, but I haven't done anything with it yet. Great point about the scrapers. I don't have a solution for that yet, although I am aware CloudFlare offers certain tools.

Player pages are a great idea, although I need to think what data will be useful and, preferably, won't require a lot of manual upkeep.

I have not been laid off, but, as a contractor, I am well-aware that, at any point, I could have no income. I like golf and I've noticed there aren't many good sites on the internet, so I'm trying to build a golf portal. So far, I've implemented a very basic golf odds aggregation service -- https://www.golfodds.io/ if anyone wants to check it out. I plan to work on it in my spare time and build it up. Also open to any cool ideas, if you want to share -- feel free to email me from the site.

I also code in production

I have no opinion on the MBA bit, but I think you're spot on about people starting to treat companies the way the companies are treating them.

~10 years ago, when I got my first job, I was in the minority, pretty much the only person cynical about big companies' claims how "people are our most important resource", how important is the company "culture" and all of that corporate kumbaya. And, at that point, the vast majority of people around me cared and wanted to do a good job, going up and beyond.

Fast forward to now, and pretty much everyone has the attitude of "f**k these guys", doesn't want to be there and will do the bare minimum to get by. And that's exactly what companies have demonstrated that they deserve.

People are tired of job hopping to get market pay, dealing with bulls**t, and being thrown under the bus at the slightest hint of an economic downturn.

You don’t get it. The point of the author is that you want to be in the position where a company is hiring you, as a consulting business, to solve a particular problem they’re having. That means having very large freedom in your implementation, as long as the problem is solved.

What you’re describing is basically being an employee. When you’re an employee you typically aren’t hired to solve a problem, you’re there to fill a role. To fill the role you will need to fit whatever mold the employer wants, including tech stack.

For those of us who wondered what form of governance Twitter 2.0 will have, I think it's now safe to say it won't be based on any particular set of rules, principles or ethics. It will be totalitarian -- whatever Elon feels like at any particular moment in time.

Until 2019, the 500 euro note was issued. It is still legal tender, so 10K euro is just 20 notes.

Basically, no. You still owe taxes in Spain and, as a US citizen, you need to report to the US and likely owe taxes there too.

If it's true, it's a hilariously bad decision

Well, they missed the boat being a platform on mobile or desktop. So, now they have Apple/Google dictating terms to them.

They are really desperate to own the next big thing. Whether that'll be VR, who knows.

Same. As a casual Camera user / not an enthusiast, I find the camera experience on the 14 pro unpleasant and a downgrade from the 12 pro.

Just imagine having to ask some guy in accounting to spin up a VM.

you know they can already buy that data from ad networks, right?

Yeah. Ever tried to convert Classic Editor users to Gutenberg in Wordpress?