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AWS is basically just rebranded open source on a centralized admin dashboard, there's an infographic somewhere breaking it down.

True genius is always making someone else's blood and sweat into a package that gracefully solves a big pain point and Amazon building up AWS has been nothing but genius.

You can't see the admin dashboards or the cac/ltv numbers, round after round doesn't show up unless there's real growth happening.

The vaccine to senior citizens is a game changer here. If successful, it'll cut deaths by over 90% at which point safety protocols can be drastically loosened.

Nope, built a leading recruiting platform. You probably have a profile already.

Don't worry so much about the role, just make sure you're working under/with someone who'll get the best out of you.

Having a good manager is the single most important factor to success and happiness at work.

(I've placed over 10k developers at 100s of companies, mostly startups)

This is the best idea I've seen all year.

You can make it so that every website is fully searchable and the data easily viewable/extractable. Set up the marketplace for user created plugins, the possibilities are endless.

I would happily contribute $25k to this. reply if interested.

Can't think of a product they've fucked up more with every iteration than Maps. Could argue Search here but Maps has been absurd.

It started around the time they were pushing Material design and hasn't stopped since then.

Scarcity = value only when the underlying asset is actually an asset i.e. it produces something or can be used to purchase goods & services.

Bitcoin is pure mania, it's completely worthless and enables the worst of the worst people in the world.

Please take my advice if you want this thing to last.

Add payment/subscription support for writers. Take on substack directly.

Mukesh does nothing if he can't be a monopoly.

He will allow thousands to succeed or fail under him, but nobody will participate without paying their tax.

lol the book is selling for Rs30,000 used on amazon. New books cost Rs300.

What you are posting is a self certificate of ignorance.

There's also this, which forced verbatim search on google.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unfuck-google...

Warning: bug with clicking image results on the main search results page.

Functional testing is underrated.

I can't believe all the crypto hype has led us to bogus "defi" ponzis instead of a widely adopted protocol for transport and delivery that cuts out these middlemen idiots.

Oh and ticketing too, venues and artists pay an absurd amount to Ticketmaster etc. Needs to stop.

Nope, they benefit from the systemic robbery of your time and attention while giving you almost no value in return.

I do in $20 or less what costs $800 there. Americans pay probably $200 of that $800 and think "oh insurance covered it" when really they just payed 10x the price.

The US is so full of morons they must love being ripped off or something.

You should do a course in Automata Theory. Check out cs154.stanford.edu

I used the book "Language, Proof, and Logic" which was also excellent.

These courses will formalize concepts and allow you to apply them much better than random anecdotes.

India figured this out years ago. Launched a domestic government Visa alternative called RuPay and also launched BHIM - an interface where everyone gets an email address like payment address and can send/receive directly. Both have traction.

Sidenote: A bunch of the payment gateways began integrating BHIM and charging merchants a cut of the sale for what they pay 0 for. Can't see that lasting if people move off V/M completely.

Everyone knows google is "better" software. Just like employees are promoted to one level above their potential, companies always push the envelope one step too far when pushing for growth/monetization. Google has been pushing way too much, way too often.

At this point, something that doesn't read my emails, give any bullshit law enforcement request a master key, and doesn't try and abuse the spirit of antitrust laws at every step is worth trying out, even if it's just only workable.

VCs are not necessarily wealthy at all. Only partners get real equity share (carry) and those can take 10+ years to return if at all.

The 1% management fee gives most employees like a normal tech salary, which after cost of living and taxes is pretty slave.

Agree on all the law enforcement spaghetti fucking up of course but this would never happen to an actual wealthy person.

Cold fact - America is amazing to you if you're wealthy. They're still slave owners and if you don't know that you're wealthy, then sorry but you're the slave.

I stopped trusting reporters when I was 14. Did some cool CS shit that got national press - reporters wrote ridiculous made up things in articles all over. Most common was putting words in my mouth, less common was using my words without attribution.

That's about when I started reading multiple sources to figure out wtf happened anywhere.

It's super prevalent. If a reporter wants to chat, tell them to fuck off.

This is the kind of bullshit solution that results in class action lawsuits paying millions of people $5 each (only the lawyers win)

A better idea would be to give each user equity in the company. An even better idea would be give that equity voting rights.

Side benefit: platforms would have to KYC human beings and we'd kill off a lot of bots and other generated horseshit.

Let's put aside originality for now. I think with a few small deep structural changes, you can get 80% of the way there.

I would have all posts require a tagged context, let's call it a topic (in reality it'd be multi facet hierarchical object). I would also have all profiles list the topics they'd like to be credible in.

The credibility score for a given topic would be an algorithm that would use followers credibility scores to "rub off" on your score for that topic. You seed the profiles you know to be credible and then propagate the graph. It'd initially be a guesstimate and then gets refined as more humans rate, interact and judge the post. Over a few posts, I think you'd be able to get a broad credibility bucket for a given profile/topic pair.

Btw I've built a social network with tens of millions of users and we used this approach and it works pretty well. It does require a bit of moderation and bad actor weeding out but for the most part it works.

Also, FB and Twitter aren't full of retards (shockingly) They know they can do this but they also know they would tank a shitload of their core quantitative metric for a vague qualitative metric. It'd just never happen from within.

If Twitter has taught us anything, it's that everyone should not have an equal voice and an equal platform. A person or company's reach or audience should be a function of 1) what they're talking about and 2) what credibility they have re: 1.

I'm all for anyone being allowed to say anything but I'm completely against anyone being allowed to amplify anything.

Also, the Republicans would do well to introduce legislation expanding data portability and making it much harder for these completely unethical platforms to keep your data locked into their walled gardens. Friends names, birthdays and emails as a csv is basically impossible to export from FB for example.

Friendship with Chrome over. Firefox is my friend now.

Needs ublock origin and a cookie auto-delete feature and I will gladly switch.

Used to be that developers would decide between different browsers (or any other software really) and the rest would follow. Chrome/Edge/Safari bring built in to devices and being super hard to remove has changed that. All while not offering a better experience at all.

Big tech needs a couple anti-trust passes real bad.

I'd suggest building a sign up flow that captures info about candidates.

The thing that's valuable here isn't your curation or the jobs, it's the candidates.

Would love to see more people who haven't already profited from the evil they currently attack. Roger McNamee is another case.

These guys make a shitload of blood money, get guilty and think that writing a blog post absolves everything.

Until product/market fit only care about your code quality enough to not make your best engineers quit.

Post product/market fit, care about it deeply and enforce strictly.