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Yes, I have experienced it, too. I was building a web crawler using Replit as an agent. I could have done that in 2 hours without LLM help but I wanted to see how the LLM would do it. I gave it a set of of instructions but the LLM could not execute on it. It later choose an alternative path but that also did not yield. I then gave an exact list of steps. Results were slightly better but not what I was expecting. Overall, it's good to get something going but you still have to hold hands. It is not the best but also not the worst experience.

Yes, they are generally very stringent about these rule. I would suggest you use another provider such as Braintree.

I believe "privacy-first social network" begins with a pretext to have privacy from advertisers, data hoarders, etc.

"We should strive for execution where at least your comrades also win." --> this won my heart!

It is not a zero-sum game. You win when your comrades win. The glory is not in taking it all but taking pride in what you have created and can potentially create and expand on over and over again. :)

This is from 2016 and original authors are no longer at PayPal..

I like reading posts like this one. May be they serve as a form of therapy for me that I’m not in this alone. There are others in a similar boat, fighting the good fight, making similar mistakes, and having the same realizations.

Very well; now, I can go back to work with my head up high. :)

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Bill Karma | iOS Software Engineer | Full-time + On-site in NYC | https://www.getbillkarma.com

This is a full-time, staff hire and not a contract engagement. The ability to work remotely is a possibility for an exceptional engineer.

We are looking for a dedicated and an experienced IOS developer to join a specialized, and small mobile team.

This is a key position in the engineering team and you will have the unique opportunity to shape upcoming product features. You will be able to drive the implementation from ideation, scoping, development and ultimately to production.

About You:

You are passionate about slick UX design and pixel perfect UI.

You have deep understanding of UIView classes.

You can design and develop without using storyboards.

You are not afraid of going deep in client, server and network code to troubleshoot any issue.

You have strong communication skills and are passionate about building cool products together as a team.

Desired Experience:

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

3+ years in iOS development experience (Objective-C, Cocoa, UIKit, Swift and Xcode).

Extensive experience keeping up with regular iOS SDK and tool chain updates.

Previous experience working in a start-up environment is a big plus.

Equity exchanges have cutoffs for limit prices. Even if you are able to do that you're setting aside capital that could have been used somewhere else.

Gave me goosebumps throughout the entire time reading it. Much success to the author.

One thing to note why you'd always have all these ideas and others don't is because you're a founder and they are programmers. It takes a certain level of conviction to voice your ideas. Not every programmer has that conviction.

Looks do matter but they only get you so far. What's more important is how you carry the conversation. You can make up for pretty much everything if you are good with words.

Here is a background on Xiao: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/asia/tiananmen-era-...

Does the likelihood of getting into YC increases after you have been rejected five times consecutively?

serious question

This is a classic technique for influencing people. The rule of thumb is nobody likes to be criticized in any situation whatsoever. The worst thing you can do is to tell them they are wrong. One way to get a difficult message conveyed is to get the other person say "yes" a few times before being told things as they are.

Anyone interested in learning more I would recommend reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

I like the sample data they have used:

  id  first         last            birth_year
  1   Blaise        Pascal          1623
  2   Gottfried     Leibniz         1646
  3   Emmy          Noether         1882
  4   Muhammad      al-Khwārizmī    780
  5   Alan          Turing          1912
  6   Srinivasa     Ramanujan       1887
  7   Ada           Lovelace        1815
  8   Henri         Poincaré        1854

They also suggest friends based on who has viewed your profile.

I believe some of the data aggregation is done by reverse engineering APIs of mobile banking apps. You can easily do that by setting up MITM proxy to intercept requests. In some cases, you may need to decompile app binaries to decipher password encryption algorithms.

I also think it's super important to make something you can sell in addition to making something people want. Frankly, there are so many things people want but not every founder has resources or is well-equipped to sell it.

Your goal as a founder is to maximize chances of __your__ success. Having the right founder-market fit goes a long way.

I think this is part of the reason who RoR, MEAN and other such frameworks are so popular. They tend to be easier to setup and many developers love it. My own theory is there are so many bad devs out there so that contributes to the hype because so may devs end up adopting it.

Take it with a grain of salt...

OO favors indirection to make code supposedly "maintainable." FP likes completeness in one place so code is more readable.

There is a new edition of the book mentioned above if anyone's interested: "The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man."

Horizon uses push architecture by default so there is no need to pool.

The fact he is using Windows is alarming.

So good to see RMS being recognized for his work. A lot of my interest in computers is due to being inspired by RMS. stallman.org is a good resource for anyone wanting to learn more. Stallman's commentary on politics is also second to none.

_Revolution OS_ is a really good documentary that goes over the genesis of FSF and how Stallman played an in important role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c

Would be interested in hearing your analysis on IoT.

Does anyone else also find the following statement plainly stupid:

>H1B immigrant labor from India has clearly become a "strategic" sourcing model for tech giants as in the past 2 years as both Microsoft & Google have appointed CEOs and other executives from India--while backing open borders, pro H1B tech lobby FWD.us.

Does the author really think the two Indian ex-pats were made CEOs of respective companies because of their country of origin?

Duckduckgo.com is not marked dangerous:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...

I bet LinkedIn was not started with the intent to allow spammers to take over. It became a business need over time as the result of being a for-profit enterprise. Starting projects with a noble cause is a good idea but one also has to maintain them for continued growth.

Clourfare provides free SSL - just proxy through them.