mwilcox

dating probably

VC funded companies are often the worst when it comes to hiring because they are overcapitalised yet time sensitive - employees are more like contractors when they're brought on to address a short term issue without any real guarantee over a longer term than 18 months

I don't think you could come up with a better critique of the problems with silicon valley today than "this product wouldn’t have billions of users, but you could charge the elite few quite a bit for using it."

I get the idea but technically this is just making HTML more complicated.

I think the best thing to do is use the existing system as a really, extremely detailed interactive requirements doc for a complete rewrite with modern practices and good documentation, then run both in production until you can switch the old one off

So it's facebook

Is it really complete if it ends with "-> GPU"?

Even in the situation I described, the original company would leave the free / client side version on the site as free marketing. This is the standard today for enterprise-monetised open source software.

Solving this problem isn't about being local-first. It's about being local-last. You have to be able to make more money by selling a software license than you make by selling equity and chasing user acquisition and retention.

Then we'll see people waking up to the fact that all this proprietary data is a liability and subscriptions are golden handcuffs and people will finally get back to making real software again

any marginally successful "local-first" app is going to go and raise $10m in vc, switch to software as a service, and add an enterprise mode that requires user permissions and data access to be managed on the server

The entire debacle with the city council wanting to spend years "reimagining what the city could be" instead of getting back to work building new infrastructure immediately is why Christchurch has taken so long to come back to life.

MetaNet

there's a good soviet russia joke here.

This seems harder to use than the command line tool

I think "HQ" is an intentionally overloaded term, and what will eventually happen is that Amazon will build something in most of these locations, constantly fighting against ballooning budgets typical with massive infrastructure projects

Slack would do well to introduce a bash client if only for the purpose of ui design research

Well, you still need to consume, eat, house yourself etc. Any situation where you're not paying for that without a productive output is one where you're increasing the ratio of consumption to production. Of course not all work is productive, but solving inefficiencies is _work_ not leisure

You don't drive to the mountain when you go for a hike or wear shoes when you go running?

This makes no sense. Moving emphasis from Production (work) to Consumption (leisure) increases carbon usage, and halts progress towards more sustainable technologies and conservative behaviours. Climate progress takes effort not entertainment.

It's about distributed _ownership_ not necessarily physical distribution

The price increase and subsequent quality increase of the X made the purchase make sense given that it would be a longer-lasting phone.. on the 3-4 year timeframe rather than a 1-2 year timeframe. If they didn't refresh the X (kept the name) and just released the larger and cheaper versions, it would have made sense. Given the diminishing returns and higher prices, they should put more time in to make sure they have breakthrough releases. Even Jobs did this with the tick-tock of the 4/4S. The naming scheme is all messed up

He was promoted to handle all design including software. He was best focusing intensely on industrial design for hero products, under Jobs

What about the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...

Really easy to use, I personally don't need anything more than they offer

This is called gravitational lensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

On WiFi in Cambridge NZ

  PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=7.65 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=8.53 ms
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  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=7.92 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=7.85 ms
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You hit the nail on the head but it's in contradiction with your point. Proof of work frees us from the burdens associated with protecting ourselves so that we can perform creative functions. Clearly a GPU, as a general purpose chip, is not well spent performing proof of work over something that amplifies one's creativity. But pow with asics, which couldn't have been used for that purpose, certainly helps. You could argue both are wasteful -- but an investment in security is an investment in creativity by providing a safe environment

Purely scale / number of launches. They're certified to launch up to 120 times per year.

It's a lot more likely that the attackers make money via the markets than via a direct ransom.

Palantir is hardly a startup