kamens

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https://kamens.com

Bootstrapped family biz: elbobooks.com

Spring Science founder / CEO (now part of Genentech)

Khan Academy founding engineer / VP eng

Fog Creek early engineer / VP eng

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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Same situation here. Dropping to 4.7 for now.
Comment · 6 months ago
this is beautiful
Comment · 7 months ago
I love this. It needs to exist because it's fun.
Comment · 8 months ago
Personalized educational activity (real, physical) books: https://elbobooks.com

^^ project with my daughter

Parallel agents debate your ideas/work: https://murderboards.ai

^^ solo project / code review agents for non-coders / inspired by Compound Engineering plugin’s code review flow

Comment · 8 months ago
You, Thomas, Watsi, and crew have been an inspiration for a long time. I loved getting to know you all back in the day, and I've loved being a small donor since the early days. Deep respect for what you built.
Comment · 9 months ago
i'm torn between my stupidity re:your first comment and my love of eliminating pinch points (now you're speaking my language). i need to read up a lot to better understand your suggestion!

(most pinch points are gone these days, it just required a lot of edge case hunting)

Comment · 9 months ago
thank you! we've generated ~600 crazy unique mazes for kids so far, kinda want to make a gallery
Comment · 9 months ago
The main difference between the above tool and most custom shaped maze generators out there is breaking the assumption that the maze's outer shape must be defined by adding or removing regularly-shaped cells along the edge.

To have mazes look more human drawn, cells need to be irregular and the inner walls need naturally follow the contours of the outer shape.

Comment · 9 months ago
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Comment · 9 months ago
Same question to you: did you read his blog and arguments in detail?
Comment · 9 months ago
Further, he didn't just make multiple contrarian predictions in the hope he'd be credited -- he had a way of making predictions in ways that could be interpreted multiple ways later.

I both (A) found this infuriating and (B) found his understanding of what Trump is to be deeply insightful.

Comment · 9 months ago
I agree with you trymas! I myself spent time cataloguing a number of his predictions that did not come true.

I am still asking a specific question: for the prediction of Trump's rise, did the critics downvoting me read his actual writing and arguments? It was not a single contrarian prediction. It was an extended, thoughtful, and informed perspective that has helped understand the world for the past 10 years.

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