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Especially at Apple where it’s very well known that ultimate decision making is centralised around very few, very senior people.

That wasn’t out of benevolence, that’s because they hadn’t discovered the ads business model yet. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle now.

It’s ironic as static typing exists precisely because developers don’t trust their instincts?

It’s a formal acknowledgement that humans make mistakes, implicit assumptions are dangerous and that code should be validated before it runs. That’s literally the whole point, and if developers by type were YOLO I’ll push it anyway, TS wouldn’t have got anywhere near the traction it has. Static typing is a monument to distrust.

One of my least favourite genres of post. The Medium equivalent of standing on a milk crate at a coworking space to declare, “I’ve transcended Figma, and so can you, if you’re as spiritually advanced as me.”

The core idea (designers solving problems instead of pushing pixels) is sound. But these kinds of posts are always packaged with this kind of missionary zeal, as if discovering the usefulness of sketching or systems thinking is some kind of personal enlightenment.

Infinitesimally small. Like throwing a grain of sand from either end of a football pitch and expecting them to hit each other small.

GenAI.. generate another Indian..

Yes - what this will mean in most if not nearly all situations is using a hyperscaler’s services in a data zone that you or your customers are more comfortable with, not switching off them wholesale.

Yes, to be fair, Nielsen essentially has had the last laugh. Simple navigation, consistency, fast loading times, and ruthless minimalism, and the full Flash intro page is a relic.

Yep, and Kant's writing in many ways is like early compiler design. Painful. Necessary. And built at a time when the cognitive architecture didn’t yet have shortcuts. He was writing in metaphysical FORTRAN.

Interested to know how much Immanuel Kant pg has read. Kant's whole project was about grappling with how the mind structures experience—and how language mediates, rather than transparently transmits, thought. You can never fully get to the thing in itself.

I can see how re-editing can make the ideas more coherent within pg's frame of representation, but I'm struggling with the idea that it makes them any more true.

> Moreover, the vision that I am going to postulate here would not even require very much in the way of work. I say this because by all I have seen, many young people today find the idea of indefinite wage labor to be a dismal one. They seem to prefer a “low-work lifestyle,” but very often, the manner of living that such a lifestyle would require is completely foreign to them. Because of this, right alongside the many social media posts on the topic of the awful expense of buying a home — there are just as many posts, it seems, complaining about “life in the 4HL,” or pining for remote work, or (rightfully) bemoaning the scam-infested, difficult-to-navigate, often cynical and fake job market that they’ve encountered.

It's cheeky because it frames itself as rejecting the status quo, when actually what it is doing is saying "accept the status quo wholesale and just move to somewhere the status quo hasn't reached yet." And of course, if enough people do that, no one will be around to fight against the status quo anymore. The main difference between this and Thoreau's cabin in the woods is that Thoreau could have chosen to do differently.

> Indeed, companies that try to staff only with experienced devs face a pipeline problem. Without juniors today, there are no seniors tomorrow.

This one seems like a classic Prisoner's Dilemma. Defecting (hiring only seniors) is rational in isolation, but if everyone defects, everyone loses. What incentive for a smaller company to hire and invest in training the junior if in two years they'll leave for a larger company anyway.

I agree, it’s often held up as a “risk taking” show but I don’t think it wasn’t really anything of the sort.

At the moment post 1997 when Britain was starting to change and become more diverse and sure of it itself it reinforced an identify of Britain as it used to think of itself: silly voices, binary identities and oddballs.

It has more in common with Love Thy Neighbour than anything that came after.

Little Britain just hasn’t aged well. The sketches were always more about repetition than wit, relied on caricature a lot and mistook shock value for satire.

You couldn’t make Little Britain today mostly because it wasn’t very good, and the standards of the time were lower.

You could absolutely remake The Day Today, Brass Eye, Goodness Gracious Me or Peep Show today and they’d be just as good.

In order, I would say that your most promising plays are:

Game studios - a low touch way of getting around smurfing, botting and ban evasion, cheap farming accounts, and likely already think in terms of proxy/VPN abuse. Reach them through Unity and Unreal forums, dev groups, GameSec Twitter/LinkedIn

FinTech / Crypto compliance teams - position yourself as a plug in to KYC or KYB platforms. Behavioural analytics is a big play in fraud prevention, whether someone is using a VPN won't be the whole picture, but is part of it.

Deprioritise marketers, content teams - they're promising but ultimately false positives as no one but the very biggest players amongst them are losing sleep over this.

The key more than anything for both is going to be to emphasise in your positioning the ease of integration. Remember how Stripe had the exact code you needed to use on its homepage for ages? You've got to give the impression that integrating this is going to be super simple.

I feel like you spend quite a bit of time on your homepage selling why someone would want to do it, but not so much on the how and why you make it so easy fo them. Clicking into your docs it looks super simple, but the minute someone's had to click into your docs if they’re a non-dev audience, you're losing people.

You also absolutely must have a GDPR story. You’re detecting proxies and VPNs. This means you’re inspecting user connection data, possibly in real time, and possibly storing flags or identifiers. Even if you’re not processing names, emails, or cookies, under GDPR, IP addresses, device signatures, and behavioural data = personal data if it’s tied to a user.

Your GDPR story needs to cover data type transparency, what exactly what you collect: IP, device type, headers, connection method? If you’re processing requests in memory and returning results via API, that’s low risk. Highlight it. Offer EU hosting or at least say “data processed within EEA-compliant infrastructure." IANAL but you'll want to have a lawyer look at it.

Marketer here. Your homepage says

USE CASES For a million reasons. Here's a few.

This is a common pattern ('We serve everyone!'), but you'd be well advised to actually pick a use case early on - you'll find that ecom, gaming, finance (especially), content, security, marketing all have their own specific needs and requirements, and they will want to see how you fit them before signing up.

This also makes your marketing efforts a little easier, as instead of having to spread thin across six different verticals, you can target for instance communities of indie gamers, bloggers, small shops who face this problem. when you've got validation from one of these, its easier to scale, but trying to go too broad too early in targeting is one of the most common errors founders make.

nicely designed site though and a lot of other stuff is on point.

EDIT: Your branding is also a little opaque. I wouldn't naturally associate "visitorquery" with what you were trying to do. Going for a domain like detectvpn even if you had to drop down to something like detectvpn.me feels like more of a direct match.

My understanding is that radial velocity detection only works when you’re watching the entire system from afar. Since Earth is part of the solar system, we’re inside the moving frame. We can’t measure the Sun’s wobble relative to the solar system barycentre without comparing it to some external fixed reference.

“And it's fucking useless” would have at least been honest

By definition, the Digital Ocean Zero to 1 can't have been a thing.

Providing services like virtual machines, managed databases, and Kubernetes clusters wasn't a groundbreaking innovation by the time DO came out in 2011. Even Heroku had been around for four years by then.

I think I've seen this movie before and it doesn’t end with meaningful community trust. It ends with people paying for status, accounts impersonating others with a wink and a checkmark, and eventually, trust being eroded by the very signal designed to uphold it.

It's what Chris Voss calls tactical empathy.

Netflix Revenue 2012 - $3.5bn Netflix Revenue 2024 - $39bn

Apparently the market disagrees.

I think for your own employees at the very least when you are acquired by a PE house, your thoughts are going to go to your job security.

> Whatever high-level abstraction we end up with it cannot be something that results in the wrong implementation because the agent incorrectly read the tone of the exchange.

That can easily be said of most Product Manager > SWE relationships too though

Why would I want to do that? /s

When it starts saying "Why would you want to do that?" we should really be worried.

S&P is down 5% YTD, AAPL is down 12% YTD..

Mercury is basically a big ball of iron.

Moon size is completely relative of course. Ganymede is larger than Mercury.

As Isaac Newton himself put it, “if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” It was ever thus.