biznickman

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I'm Nick O'Neill of nickoneill.com fame. JK nobody reads it :)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/biznickman; my proof: https://keybase.io/biznickman/sigs/qx9VgTjavJo1qeeE7e-2mIb09WHf4h8ro-mTvOU-UEM ]

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Comment · 3 months ago
I didn't know of codeberg before and this is likely the last time I'll see it.

This seems more like a marketing stunt than anything else. They previously "banned vibecoded projects".

Comment · 8 months ago
uhhh that's a wild take
Comment · 8 months ago
This is an awful read on this acquisition.

They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path.

They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric.

I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team always experiment with cool new use cases of AI and other technologies and now him and Ben have a bigger lab with resources to potentially spawn out larger initiatives.

The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more time tinkering.

Comment · 1 year ago
Only rough if you're pretentious.

Making it easy for engineers, experienced OR aspiring is huge.

Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
I cannot upvote this enough. I worked at a fintech company that was vehemently opposed to using double entry accounting and it created an incredible amount of inefficiencies and massive errors and expenses at the company. If you are dealing with money in any system and tracking it in a database, double-entry accounting is not an option.
Comment · 4 years ago
Don't quit! I SUCK at those algorithm tests but frankly the best engineers that I've hired have not done a great job at them.

Instead communication skills and a willingness to learn have been much bigger indicators. There are plenty of startups that will LOVE to have you. Focus on getting a job at earlier stage startups. Create your own projects as well. People like seeing those projects to show that you're passionate about coding.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why isn't Heroku showing a status error despite being offline?
Comment · 5 years ago
I think what you meant to say is I'll be curious to see what happens to "America". We're behind the ball on crypto companies due to the regulatory environment. Here's hoping that changes but lots of crypto people are offshore at the moment.

Yes, there are shitcoins but there are real things being built as well.

Comment · 6 years ago
Shoot me an email would be happy to help! [email protected]

I’ve written thousands of blog posts and happy to point you in the right direction!

Comment · 6 years ago
Congrats! Aside from viewing volume, where can I see the individual stocks listed on the exchange?

Also, as a side note, it would be interesting if you had an LTSE index fund!

Comment · 6 years ago
Rails already solved this with credentials files...
Comment · 6 years ago
I've attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.

I don't know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.

Normal person:

Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.

Developer:

1. Set up ReactJS for the front end

2. Set up a build system for automated deployments

3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they'll be writing

4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles

5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that's storing the newsletters

6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO

7. Sets up the integration testing framework

8. Write an article

9. Clicks publish

Comment · 6 years ago
Great job with a sensationalist unrealistic title. This isn't a scenario grounded in fact and it's written by a speculative software engineer. Not a medical professional or epidemiologist.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've been writing about this for years but it's insane to me that Twitter is not stopping this. They are contributing both to group psychosis and the destruction of democracy through the spread of disinformation.

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