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thatoneguytoo

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Currently building trydeepwork.com
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thatoneguytoo··on Never Bet Against Humanity
We can't relax. Solving problems on tight deadlines means that we are inherently paranoid about doomsday scenario. But at the same time, no need to be overly pessimistic :)
thatoneguytoo··on Understanding Big Tech Salaries
Absolutely. It's purely vanity in a way it's a power play. They can afford to negotiate, so they will.

If they don't have to negotiate, for example when the market is bad or when there are competing offers from a non-peer - they choose not to.

thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: What are your Favorite Things?
* Logseq for notes

* trydeepwork.com for focus

* Google Calendar

* Next.js for frontend

* My high performance PC

* My pixel 4a

* My MacBook Pro 13

thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
trydeepwork.com. i created it for my own use, but thousand others joined me :)
thatoneguytoo··on Jeff Bezos on AI (1998) [video]
>But oh, hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS!

I have worked on the same recommendation systems. It's also the most often oncall issue. The problem is mostly due to lag in event processing (especially orders).

thatoneguytoo··on The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)
Sorry for kinda hijacking this, but it is the main reason I am building trydeepwork.com, to actually put deep work or deliberate practice into actual "practice".
thatoneguytoo··on Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
This is exactly the way trydeepwork.com works. You should give it a shot :)
thatoneguytoo··on Childhoods of Exceptional People
we see the same in tech too. many of the genius billionaires somehow just got started during the boom period.
thatoneguytoo··on Childhoods of Exceptional People
IMO "abundance of low hanging fruit" is the main factor As Physics got more saturated, and matured, these geniuses somehow just stopped.
thatoneguytoo··on Bun v0.5
C'mon dude.
thatoneguytoo··on Tell HN: We Need Robots.txt but for AI
Even if it's not legally binding, it will be, and should be embarrassing for a big corp to do things that they are specifically not asked to do.

For example, Google doesn't really surface those pages hidden by robots.txt, even if they can.

thatoneguytoo··on Tell HN: We Need Robots.txt but for AI
The problem is that AI is infinitely scalable. Yes, I can get inspired by your writing, but I won't be able to replace you by churning out huge number of articles. AI can.

Scale changes (and should change) how things are done.

thatoneguytoo··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
It felt as if I was reading the Stripe memo.
thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
I completely agree (as another employee of FAANG). It's ridiculously hard to do anything against policy once it's set, and trust me, the policies are set. Media overplays a lot of things which aren't just there.

The sad reality is people are very predictable, even with basic data.

thatoneguytoo··on How do you get to do deep work?
I've recently started using trydeepwork.com! Nifty little tool for tracking your sessions.
thatoneguytoo··on Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team
Exactly. This is the right explanation.
thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
I've recently started building trydeepwork.com

It has one user: me

thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?
most of the outages usually happen when there are changes. hn has no changes.
thatoneguytoo··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
If you follow Amjad on Twitter, it's evident that he is incredibly petty.

Repl.it is a company with no moat. They are features are literally used by dozens (check the number of runs of the repls)

Only companies which are so insecure about tech get into petty fights with college interns.

thatoneguytoo··on Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
Wow. I have more than 5 meetings a day, I miss meetings, and I still don't see myself installing it, let alone paying for it.

Is it really such a big pain that you need to join a meeting on time? Usually someone messages me asking me to join in case I miss it.

Someone at YC be: Ima give this $120K coz why not.

thatoneguytoo··on Notion for everyone
There are major disadvantages to using something like Notion for personal work - including non discoverability of work or thoughts. Most people are better of with pen and paper.

I've gone into further depth here: https://usedone.today/blog/posts/davinci/

thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?
https://usedone.today - Thinking of how to make it better
thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Something I made to keep me productive. I've to say, this is the most I've stuck to a todo list (definitely some bias) :)

http://usedone.today/

thatoneguytoo··on Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?
^this. Part of my team at AMZN is in Bangalore, and they really are way below average compared to US. Usually its taken as low cost centre to send less lucrative work there, like operational stuff...