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markm248··on Weather.com/Retro
weather on the 8s
markm248··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
Idiocracy
markm248··on Claude in Chrome
AllI want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?
markm248··on Why $30B in settlement money goes unclaimed – and how I started fixing it
This is a subscription service w/a $79 payment required after you fill everythign out
markm248··on My Family and the Flood
This is the most gripping thing I've ever read
markm248··on COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
markm248··on Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?
It's really good at generating sample data and reformatting.
markm248··on LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers
This is what the AI wants us to believe.
markm248··on Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
Way more fun if you try to see high you can get your crash score. 26.3 personal best
markm248··on Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
George Carlin was right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBRquiS1pis
markm248··on Ask HN: How are you holding up?
Transition to managing a team is difficult in normal times! I've been doing it for 10+ years and still suffer from the lack of direct feedback and a feeling of being unproductive. Be sure to remind yourself that your ability to impact is broader now and the results are longer term. Even when it doesn't feel like it, your team needs the leadership you are providing.
markm248··on I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected
"True" I think as I spend yet another hour clicking links on Hacker News.
markm248··on The Cost of Developers
I don't understand the last sentence:

"That, though, is exactly why Microsoft had to pay so much: buying in directly is a whole lot more expensive than using leverage, which can produce equivalent — or better! — returns for much less investment."

markm248··on Ask HN: Is 2018 the end of Facebook?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-...
markm248··on New research indicates ‘Unicorns’ are overvalued
New research indicates lottery tickets are overvalued.
markm248··on Snoopy Has Been Fired by MetLife
Bastards
markm248··on Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?
ReactJS for Stupid People is an excellent place to start:

http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people/

markm248··on Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
Your move Slack.
markm248··on Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
Kind of on the right track but I don't think that is it though... But if you had shown me facebook in 2005, I would have said the same thing.
markm248··on Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
Remember that you read it here first, there will be a unicorn built on the concept of SRS. I use Anki daily and love the application but there's a learning curve and you have to build your own workflow to make it work. Someone is going to take the concept and make it accessible to the masses.
markm248··on Occupy Google
Linkbaited!
markm248··on 101 Ways to Save Apple (1997)
I wonder what James is up to these days.
markm248··on Y Combinator Startups Now Have A Combined Valuation Of $13.7 Billion
And combined revenues of???
markm248··on Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Google on price'
Or said another way: 'We're TOAST'.
markm248··on Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project
I have a blog BECAUSE twitter doesn't do this.
markm248··on No way I am calling you for a price
With all due respect, that is a terrible way to determine the payroll tool that will impact every current and future employee. I, like most of the commenters, agree the last thing anyone needs is another call from some underpaid, under-polished inside sales rep who has attended to one too many Zig Ziglar seminars, but benefit to your employees will outweigh the inconvenience.