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One explanation:
The models will not be a moat, but the products can be. More specifically "sticky" products / killer apps like ChatGPT, and whatever forthcoming products this acquisition of Jony Ive's company may lead to.
Windsurf acquisition may be explained in part by the same logic of owning a strong and sticky product, as well as a good source of data for training.
Alternatively, this may be Deno’s “Dip”: A tough period of time before continued gains and small breakthroughs that build up over time to a new plateau. Maybe all new creative projects will have this as a part of their journey. I am confident Ryan Dahl is unlikely to give up, and is aware (and working to become more aware) of what is necessary to improve for deno to achieve the vision he has for it.
This is why we need to transition the USD away from being the world reserve currency.
https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...
One problem I have is that AI is writing code I don't understand completely, yet I'm still responsible for it.
Vibe coding seems like an echo from the future.
I came here just to post a few words of encouragement. I think this is fun project. Thanks for making it!
Never were legal.
US scientific research funding is largely driven by nepotism and favoritism. Insiders know but don't talk too much about it. They have a few options: a) just quietly stay in the system trying their best to do good work b) join the gravy train through social climbing c) quietly leave and move on with their careers.
Yup, and right on time we have a fresh update to their revolutionary ideology into which a majority of people with degrees have been indoctrinated.
I had the advantage of having a mentor early in my career hold my code to the highest standards with regards to using the semantics of HTML. We were working on a big redesign of a large website for BigCorp, but we were still a small team on a deadline. She would not accept any excuses, and she guided me to think through HTML element selection until we found what we considered the best choice. I was taking the bus to work most days and used the time to read on the bus and at home the thick book "CSS: The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer cover to cover.
As you mention, working with HTML, and even more so CSS, can be a source of frustration. The UX of actually working with them is tedious work. However I can write today that all these years later, the high standards that my mentor held me to (and the project required) helped me to master HTML and CSS in a way that made doing that work less tedious, and easier over time. I was being paid to be educated by an expert - I considered it a great opportunity, and believe I have been proven correct.
In the post Vasilis writes that they told their students the assignment "doesn’t have to be semantic and shit". I consider this a missed opportunity to hold them to higher standards and help the students build a strength that can help them for years to come. More broadly, I believe this to be an example of current generations being limited by their mentors and educators lowering standards, and potentially robbing them of opportunities. Impedimentum Via Est.
RFK Jr and Nicole Shanahan are running, and already on the ballot in 29 states. Though you won't see them interviewed on CNN or Fox News, many polls show them winning against Trump.
One of the reasons that RFK Jr started his campaign last year was a poll by Zogby which "surveyed over 26,000 likely voters across all 50 states, indicated that Kennedy could potentially outperform both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in head-to-head matchups." I believe the poll showed the majority of independent votes going to RFK Jr, and a significant portion of D and R votes going to him as well.
Given recent events, perhaps Trump is now much more popular, but previously polls showed RFK Jr beating Trump.
ClojureScript Koans is also quite nice: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
When Rails became popular I started using it on basic web site catalog / e-commerce projects in 2007. It was very difficult to deploy. Thanks to Heroku and other pioneering companies that is different today. However, at the time I left behind PHP and LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which provided very simple and cheap deployment. Years later I regret that transition from using LAMP to Rails. I wish I had just stayed using PHP, it would have saved a lot of time and difficulty.
Question for people here on HN: Could a similar position to the blog post be taken in 2024, ie "Just use PHP (and LAMP)"?
I find this exciting because after reading Brain Energy [1] by Christopher Palmer I was convinced that his thesis that "Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain" is certainly worthy of research.
I believe you are correct that public schools are instruments of social progress, but to assume that this is good for the students is a terrible assumption. A society may "progress" at the great expense of the people it's institutions purport to care for.
By definition progress is movement in a direction. Who set the direction? Toward which destination? To achieve which aim and goals? Who benefits? To assume it is the students, the teachers, or "the people" broadly, is a naive and destructive assumption.
Social progress by one definition might include the production of obedient soldiers and factory workers. It might include the limiting of cultural diversity, creating a common core of cultural conformity and homogenization among the youth a country populated by recent immigrants. It might include training the youth to accept authority without question.
If one is interested enough to learn about the actual thinking of the founders and maintainers of public school institutions in the United States and around the world, you can read what they published of their thinking for yourself. John Taylo Gatto unearthed much of this thinking and shared it with the world in his books and lectures.
Here is one transcript you may find enlightening:
https://smarthomeschooler.com/blog/2021/5/28/gatto-six-purpo...
Is humanity monolithic? Are other quests available?
I recommend the book "Self Parenting - The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations" by John K Pollard
In the book it specifically teaches how to "patiently and kindly listening to one's needs"
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Parenting-Complete-Guide-Convers...
I had the sense last year that the limitless desire for a different life is a destructive force.
Mid-life crisis examples of how this desire shows up as regret: "What if I had stayed with that previous girlfriend instead of marrying my wife?", "What if I had moved to this other city instead of my home?", etc.
My personal conclusion is that this limitless desire is a dark pit of despair with no bottom. This may be part of the reasoning behind the tenth commandment seems to be applicable - "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
That desire can be toxic to the point of destruction is mostly treated as a foreign concept to our contemporary world.
So, I made the conscious choice to go in the other direction toward the light, and to see what adventure awaits over there.
Not sure fully what that means yet, but a part of it at least is accepting and embracing my own life as it is today, including all of the constraints.
It seems to me like the path out of the mid-life crisis is about signing up for the next adventure, letting go of the past, and looking forward to what's still to come. And most definitely not letting "desire for else" ruin my gratitude for the fact that I am highly fortunate, and still quite able to live, experience, do, and be so much.
Yes, you will have more time later. Now is the time to invest as much attention as you can into your child. It is the investment you can make now that will pay off massively later on.
Recommended reading: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375...
Agree - there are other forms of capital and support which are more important to children, spouses, other family members, and friends than money. It seems like many people have already proven that having more money than you need doesn't actually make a difference if your life is broken in other ways.
This series of videos by Airforce Col. Mark D. Jacobsen may be helpful:
"Tools for the Life of the Mind. These videos are intended to help my students at the Air Force's School of Advanced Air & Space Studies (SAASS) develop effective mindsets and workflows for doing rigorous academic work. I will introduce a range of available tools and discuss my own workflows. Although SAASS-focused, they should appeal to anyone interested in productivity and learning."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE87q3jjFlg&list=PLHmevVAAXt...
Has anyone tried the Shape Up method by Basecamp? Their concept of “fixed time, variable scope” seems like it might break the Gordion Knot of software estimation challenges.
Their book is available for free online, here's a link to the chapter "Estimates don’t show uncertainty " https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.4-chapter-13#estimates-dont-s...
I wonder what Rene Girard and Mimetic Theory would have to say about this. Of course, printers user experience and user interface design are terrible. But can they be made effective scapegoats for the collective frustrations of poorly designed tech?
I have taken on intractable problems and succeeded in finding novel solutions to them (with a team) Here's some advice.
Don't give up before at least you:
1. Prototype many solutions, and identify their "dead ends" through engagement with reality.
2. Share your progress as widely as you can - If at a company, share your progress internally once you reach a dead end / challenge you can't overcome. "Many minds make light work". Your challenge might not be the same as a colleague or leader has encountered before, but it may be similar in some way, and there may be a smaller piece of the puzzle that they have solved before. Have faith that creative solutions you could never have anticipated at first most likely will emerge, but maybe not first from your own mind. If a public project, share as widely as you can. When sharing, skip to the dead-end part quickly so you can spark the minds of your audience and engage them in the search for solutions.
3. Use true "design thinking" which is abductive reasoning and reframing. For more on what exactly that is, and how to do it, I recommend the writing of Kees Dorst in his book "Frame Innovation". "Universal Traveler" is another good resource.
https://www.amazon.com/Frame-Innovation-Create-Thinking-Desi...
https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Traveler-Soft-Systems-Creat...
Here's a good video of a talk by Kees Dorst that can help you understand what Reframing is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60jMV00kfk
Whatever gets us to successive waves "tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers" is fine by me!
I recommend the online courses (one of which is free) [1], and videos [2] on YouTube made by Anna Runkle, the "Crappy Childhood Fairy".
[1] https://courses.crappychildhoodfairy.com/daily-practice [2] https://crappychildhoodfairy.com/videos/
Others in the thread have recommended "The Body Keeps the Score", which I also recommend. It is available on Audible as an audiobook as well.
Other books I recommend:
"Self-Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations" by John K Pollard and Linda Nusbaum.
"How to be an Adult in Relationships" by David Richo
"The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Mate
"When the Body Says No" by Gabor Mate
I practice Mindful Qi Gong (healing movement + meditation) once a week as a part of a 2-hour class, as well as independently on an irregular schedule. It has helped significantly to deal with stress.
I think that for people struggling with issues like CPTSD, ignorance is the first, and largest barrier to healing / recovery / improving. We grow up and enter the adult world and often in many ways "escape" our stressful / traumatic childhoods only to start the process of creating our own trauma and stress as young adults. As we enter adulthood, we may be consciously or subconsciously masking our feelings / hide our pain / run from dealing with our emotions and issues because we want desperately to leave all that behind us. This "running away" may actually compound our problems, leading to destructive behaviors such as substance abuse. Gabor Mate, among others, presents a compelling case that the majority of the people we see on the street struggling with addictions and mental health issues may not have ended up there if they had received proper care and healing, even as adults. If only they had, perhaps, in their more lucid, clearer-thinking, younger days come to understand that they had the need and possibility for healing. The pure ignorance we have about this topic in our society is staggering, considering the widespread impact childhood trauma has on our lives.
I certainly wish someone had sat me down in my 20s and told me directly: "You had a crappy childhood, that sucks. And the effects of the trauma on your physiology and psychology may limit you for the rest of your life. However, there is good news: Now you're an adult and healing is possible."
"Conceptual integrity is the most important attribute of a great design" from The Design of Design
On this topic, Gabor Mate and Gordon Neufeld wrote the book I wish I had read before our daughter was born: Hold Onto Your Kids [1]. Thesis: Strong attachment to a parent or caretaker is foundational for human development - neurological, physiological, and psychological - the whole body, mind, and spirit. The impacts of years 0-5 cannot be overstated. Based on the findings presented in the book, if both parents want to work my suggestion would be to either hire a full-time nanny who will replace you as the attachment figure for those years and beyond, or have a family member move in with you and care for the child full-time. Be comfortable that your child will be more attached to this person, and love them at least a little bit more, than they love you. Be happy that your child will have their best shot at healthy development because you prioritized it for them.
Another great book that covers more of the science in depth is The Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel [2].
Sounds extreme? Read the books (and others) yourself and see what conclusions you reach.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Mind-Third-Relationships-I...
I would expect change in market share to be faster for design tools than CMS systems / web builders, as the barrier to adoption is lower for design tools, however, change does happen when innovation addresses under-served market needs and delivers greater value against those needs. Framer, Webflow, Jotform and others seem to be on a path to doing just that. Here's a chart that shows Figma's rise against competitors: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*gdeNbC57BJKydbYQjNdqOg.pn...
+ Atlassian buying Trello, IMO
Letting Go of the Words by Janice "Ginny" Reddish
https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-Words-Interactive-Technolo...
It is practical guidance that is durable over time. The book is exemplary of the advice on the pages. Plain language FTW!