rsweeney21

I'm guessing you have 0 insight into how monopolies work.

I work in integrity (keeping bad stuff off the platform). My job is to reduce the harm Meta causes. So I'm at peace with myself. I don't think I could work in any other area of Meta though.

I also work at Meta. The chaos and instability is awful. But I think they could fire pretty much everyone and the ads business would still continue to grow at nearly the same rate.

I think it will take a very long time for leadership to feel the effects of what they've done.

I work at Meta.

1) Work with top minds in ML 2) Money

But I have enough money now and no amount of more money (that Meta could reasonably offer for my role) would make it worth staying. This place sucks now.

A lot of money is moving into treasuries, which is causing the 10 yr yield to quickly drop below 4%.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/10-year-treasury-yield-junk...

If building an app on a platform does not increase the networks effects of that platform, this will always be the outcome.

Good platforms get more valuable with more apps: iOS, Windows, etc

Bad platforms don't get better with more apps: reddit, netflix, twitter. So they always end up killing the API.

I put them in ziploc sandwich or snack bags. Keeps them from getting tangled, easy to see what each one is, and easy to rummage through.

I work for Meta. Do you have any examples of this on Meta platforms? (Facebook/Instagram?)

I owned zip folders for a while during the windows Vista days. I could have sworn the code was originally purchased, not written by someone at Microsoft. Honestly, it looked like it had been run through an obfuscator. I assumed that the original author had done that to ensure it was difficult for Microsoft to make changes/improvements.

I still have nightmares about that code. :)

I'm currently self employed, but I just accepted a role in big tech. After 4 years I was able to set up my recruiting company to run without me, so I can earn about $300K-$500K per year from that, plus my full-time salary.

I'm also working on a new SaaS product (co-pilot + CRM for small recruiting agencies). I'm looking for someone to work on it with me. Tech stack is svelte kit + node + python for custom models. I have an audience of 160K followers on LinkedIn, mostly recruiters, that I can reach when the product is launched.

If you are looking for an interesting side project that will generate revenue, email robert at getditto dot com.

It's still strange to me to work in a field of computer science where we say things like "we're not exactly sure how these numbers (hyper parameters) affect the result, so just try a bunch of different values and see which one works best."

You should answer the question...

In 2007 I worked in Office Labs at Microsoft. We explored the idea of creating presentations on an infinite canvas. It was pretty cool. It took inspiration from Seadragon. It was called Plex or PowerPoint Plex.

Unfortunately, all the demo videos were uploaded to Microsoft's YouTube competitor, which is now gone. But here's a video demo of Seadragon to give you an idea of what it was like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwTurQgiak

Love the section "Valetudo is a garden"

"But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.

If you don’t like this garden because you don’t like how it’s structured, or you feel like it’s missing something, or maybe I choose the wrong flowers to plant over there that’s fine. It’s just not for you then. You can leave at any time.

There is simply no ground to stand on to demand change to the garden."

Google is a data scraper. OpenAI is a data scraper. Pretty much every major company uses data obtained from a data scraper.

This is huge!

I've had so many business ideas that I've killed at the idea stage because giving 30% of revenue to Apple or Google made it not viable.

Might be time to revisit them...

I didn't know there was such a thing. :)

Might need to get him one for christmas.

Yes! Only happens on archive.is for me.

I've been introducing my 10yr old to Godot. He's been building games in Scratch for the past 6 months. He loves Scratch, but is also frustrated by it's limitations. I thought he'd be happier with a real scripting language.

When we started writing some GDScript he quickly became frustrated by all the typing! His hands are too small to master touch typing. It takes forever to type a variable name + method call + ...

This looks like the perfect balance. Going to check it out!

That sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Impressive!

Let's say I'm building a CRM and I want to have an "industry" or "cities" table that is the same across all tenants. I want a copy of cities in each tenant for referential integrity, but I also need to update it periodically across all tenants.

Is there a mechanism for replicating shared/system data across tenants? Can I deploy into a specific AWS or GCP region?

Would your service work for this scenario?

We charge $20K-$50K for our services after they are completed. (We do contingent recruiting.) Some customers ask if they can pay over time. We don't want to offer that because we're already billing after all the work is done, so it makes our cash flow even worse than it already is.

What I want is to be able to say, "Sure, use this service and they will allow you to make payments over time." We get our money up front and they make payments to this service provider. They pay extra to the service provider for the convenience of making payments.

I don't want to factor. I want the burden of collection on someone else. Like Affirm for b2b.

Could we use your service to build something like this into our platform? Who is responsible for collecting?

It is not that expensive to set up a team of engineers to keep a product working for 10+ years. Microsoft had/has this. They called it "sustained engineering". They don't do any new feature work, just bug fixes and security issues on legacy software. The product team gets disbanded, and ownership is moved to sustained engineering. And they keep it running for years.

One of the reasons Google has so many failed product launches is because consumers don't trust them to provide long-term service and support. At some point they will need to realize that this behavior is inhibiting their ability to become more than just an ads company.

This is one of the better corporate communications on a price increase I've seen. Clear reasoning that makes sense and seems reasonable.

I made another programmer. My daughter just finished her first year of her CS degree. I hired her as an intern at my company and gave her a project that I thought would take several weeks. She proceeded to finish it in just a few days.

Watching her deploy her code to production for the first time...absolutely the most incredible feeling I've ever had. Way cooler than when I deployed my own code to production for the first time.

I'd be proud of her no matter what career she chose. But there's something absolutely amazing about being a part of your child's journey from crawling to coding.

One overlooked cause of the return to office trend is local tax breaks.

Big companies negotiate large tax breaks from city and state governments in exchange for bringing a certain number of jobs to the area. But big companies haven't been delivering the jobs to the area that they promised because employees have been allowed to work remotely. So now they are at risk of huge tax bills.

Came here to make the exact same comment. I can't help but feel like some day we will forget how we were able to make such amazing machines.

It should make it so you don't need to do that.

Cool! We should chat.