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One of the best programming lessons I've learned was actually an attempt I made to learn something about design. Typography (which deals quite a lot with the presentation of information hierarchies) is an essential skill in making code actually readable. It gives you a framework for thinking about how to draw a readers attention to the places you want and how to signal that it is important. Which you can do even with tabs and plain-text.

If you view the LLM as a computing platform that’s not so different then saying startups built on AWS are “scams”.

I do think we’ll find a lot of these aren’t defensible companies (like Lensa) but sometimes you get instagram even when the value prop seems slim.

As an interface layer GPT is amazing. In some industries things still require humans to pick up a phone or send a text to make things happen. I’ve seen very promising results with pure LLM solutions that replace web forms people often never really understand. The ability to provide deep reporting insights from a question is huge.

I don’t think AI as a general computing platform or as a replacement for coders is particularly close but there are lots of game changing incremental things LLMs do extremely well today. Something I could never find with crypto.

She could but courts aren’t going to hear it. They almost always make decisions on the narrowest criteria and this case (and others like it) are about old fashioned collusion. The fact that participation in Real Page requires you to use their pricing is the thing that will decide this case. The algorithm won’t really be at issue at all.

I mean it’s had an enormously negative effect on the planet in general. Democracy in the states is on the brink mostly because of Facebook and Twitter.

This case isn’t going to be decided on “is using the same algorithm collusion”. It’s going to be the fact that you are contractually bound to use RealPage’s rent number or face expulsion. There is a bunch of law dating back more than 100 years about exactly that type of trust.

This. I’m far enough along in my career I’d be willing to take on teaching for even half of what I make now. I want to share what I know. I’m passionate about it.

It would literally be a 80% paycut. I can’t even begin to justify it.

It absolutely was. At the end of the day our product was measured against fidelity to Excel… so any deviance was always bad for us.

I believe Google made the same choice with Google Sheets even.

Starting in 2003 I spent several years as a principal developer developing mobile office software.

When we launched our excel compatible spreadsheet we diligently formalized every function and wrote tests to verify behavior. It was beautiful.

Then we started receiving lots of bug reports from users because our calculations often didn’t match what they were seeing in Excel. Older Excel versions had lots of bugs and Microsoft had been carrying them forward because at that point it was “better” to carry the errors forward and display results people expected rather than fixing them and having everyone confused by the changed results.

So we copied their behavior as best we could. I wish I had the list still but it was long and full of weird edge cases which caused formulas to be incorrect.

I will gladly take the role of whipping boy off of Sundar's hands.

That's all well and good. I suspect their investors have a pretty different idea about their positioning tho.

Why has that not happened on Android phones?

Reducing headcount is a pretty common outcome of increasing efficiency tho. It's why productivity is far higher today than 30 years ago but wages have decreased. Those increases in efficiency means fewer people are required to do a job which means the market for said job becomes more competitive.

It's the Google Home app. Hopefully they'll invest in the interface quite a bit over the coming year but it does a good job of managing all of the devices in my home right now. So this isn't a huge issue. The weird problem of having both the Nest app and Google Home has always been really weird.

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The big issue is that condos come with a bunch of additional issues surrounding mortgages. Along with very different maintenance models.

It's one of the hidden problems of the housing shortage: condos are very difficult to get financing for which artificially deflates the market for them. Which means that our best form of housing in terms of the efficiency of building units isn't terribly attractive to actually build.

The United States has added 100 million people since 1995. The pace of building hasn't even come close to that. The best estimates I can find is that we've added about 30 million units in that same period. The answer to your question is: the people already there. The cost of housing has spiked because we've let supply get low after all.

This tracks with my experience (WARNING: Anecdotal evidence incoming). I'm currently aggressively hiring for development roles (in particular around data). Despite the layoffs our candidate pipelines are only modestly bigger and the quality level is similar to before. Layoffs haven't really moved the market down very much except for some pretty major outliers where someone was being paid pretty far above market.

I can't turn up my spreadsheet just this second but I did something similar when I worked in Manhattan. I did 54 slices. My big takeway was that I really don't like Joes and that I will die on the hill that Pizzeria Suprema, despite being touristy , is the best slice that I've had in Manhattan.

That's exactly the antitrust issue Microsoft ran into isn't it?

Apple will make that decision for you. I'll bet anything they would require exclusivity for listing in their store (in the event they're forced to allow for third party installs).

I worked an application that was distributed as part of the OS for pretty much every nokia symbian phone. We hired quite a few folks who had worked directly for Symbian. The stories were crazy.

There were major components people refused to even touch (like messaging) because the code was basically unmaintainable. An aggressive refactor of the entire OS was needed but they never really got comfortable with that. Symbian was originally essentially an operating system targeted at a calculator that outgrew itself several times over.

The first modern slab phone I ever saw wasn’t an iPhone… it was a Nokia prototype in like 2005. If they had a real operating system in place maybe Nokia is the world’s most valuable company today.

This is so spot on. Right now I work from like three places every day. I do some work at home. I'll move to a coffee shop or something somewhere and then my company has an office I'll usually spend some time in as well.

I walk between those spots. I like to take meetings on those walks or just use the time to clear my head. It's great.

It's not about officed or not officed... it's about my ability to find the best spot for me to be in any given moment.

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The product manager in me squealed at this part:

"Predicting and correcting is a more efficient way to run a system than constantly reacting in an uncertain world."

They use the serial number as a means to identify that you are actually the owner. Denver has a system where if you register you bike with the city and your bike is found they'll notify you.

Is agency over ones body not a civil rights issue? I'm fully vaccinated and even boostered, but I'm extremely uncomfortable telling other people that they have to do something to their own body.

And I don't think taking vaccines (usually as a child) by mandate in the past changes the ethics of it.

I think it's fair for there to be consequences to refusing the vaccine. Your work may decide they don't want to expose their staff to an unvaccinated human... so you may lose your job. Government may decide that the risk of sitting inside with someone unvaccinated is too high so you may not be welcome at certain businesses. Maybe you have to wear a mask when others don't.

That doesn't cross a line to me, but saying "you absolutely must take this vaccine or we're going to use the force of government to make you" does.

A hack requires three things:

1. Someone locking themselves in a dark (usually smoky) room with someone in a button down shirt (with rolled up sleeves) standing over their shoulder.

2. Green text on a black background

3. The words "I'm in" yelled at some point.

Doesn't sound like any of that happened here.

I would argue that the internet has been very good at decentralizing power. The problem is that this is what decentralized power looks like. There are a seemingly infinite number of groups flexing their collective muscle, generating their own realities, and even their own economies.

I get that the rich have gotten richer and corporations have gotten bigger, but in so many ways their power has decreased. We live in a world in which the most important force in modern American society is freaking 4Chan (QAnon). The billionaire class has lost the thread on how to control this. They try to put the squeeze on the Facebooks and Youtubes of the world, but that seems to have little effect on the spread of very insane but incredibly meaningful movements.

I some times wonder if the mistake we all made was thinking decentralizing things was a good idea.

There are a bunch of different models but they mostly come down to the regulatory agency (IE: the PUC) creating a pot of money for utilities that is paid out when they reach energy reduction goals.

You can learn more by looking into Demand Response programs and Demand Management programs around the country.