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Comment · 5 months ago
Feature Request: borrow and burn your teams token so that the whole projects looks green so that you can earn your performance bonus.
Comment · 7 months ago
The only tool you need is the one that saves tokens... the one that saves tokens ... the one that saves tokens. Currently I don't know any.

Claude code itself consumes lot of tokens when not needed. I have to steer it a lot while building large applications.

Comment · 9 months ago
You just put words in Apple's mouth. This is exactly what they should do but safer . This is entirely possible because only apple has control on their ecosystem.

If they optimize their entire hardware line (iPhone, Watch, Mac Mini, Macbook) AI enhanced with local/remote LLM model, they will win big. Imagine someone running a business can manage their entire business with iPhone/Mac/iCloud without buying any other saas services (inventory, payments, customer service).

Comment · 9 months ago
> The thing is: it's a lot easier to live your life thinking you could have done X if you wanted to, than to "disappoint" these people that believed in you by trying and failing. You can always lean on this idea in your head of what you could have been, and how everyone believed in you so it must be true, but you just chose not to follow that path.

sometimes the best decision is the one you don't take.

Comment · 9 months ago
Why not just offer dual license open source + commercial license.

If anyone is making money off the code they should pay annual fee which goes to contributors. Github can setup an escrow, manage licenses and distribute the money to contributors.

Comment · 10 months ago
This first 3 hit me very hard,

1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems.

I think this problem is rooted in early education: students learn languages, frameworks, and tools first without understanding what problems they actually solve. Once engineers have experience building a few products for users, they begin to understand what matters to the user.

2. Being right is cheap. Getting to right together is the real work.

- Sadly most of the arguments are won by either someone in power or experience. Right decisions are made with consensus. You build consensus during creative process and leverage power and experience during crisis.

3. Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one.

- Every decision is a risk management. The smart people convert higher risk into lower risk. Most people struggle here to take the risk because of the fear of failing and just waste time arguing, debating and winning over each other.

Comment · 10 months ago
Even though he said it in a rage. His few words are so powerful reflection of what is happening in the world.
Comment · 10 months ago
Hardware are more reliable and lasts longer. The software makes the hardware less useful over time.

Apple is moving into the subscription everything model slowly if you noticed. You can get new phone every year with Apple Upgrade Program, News+, Fitness+, iCloud+, Apple TV+ etc. Slowly you will be locked into the ecosystem and can't escape it. We might as well call Apple (Google/Amazon to an extent) an utility at this point.

Comment · 11 months ago
also people forget that user base can change, yahoo -> gmail, altavista -> google search etc
Comment · 1 year ago
I stopped buying kindle books and back to buying physical books. Now I own them, I can gift them to friends or pass them on to my kids.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Just a thought (I am no airline expert), If it costed 200 million to build the plane that was destroyed because landing gear can not be deployed then maybe it's time to think about building a catcher similar to spacex booster catch.

This would probably need different plane design like vertical landing and horizontal landing gears.

Comment · 1 year ago
Very true. I never got used to any of the todo apps

You just need these three things.

- A Text Editor - A Calendar - A Cloud Sync for easy access

If you need to history just backup to any cloud drives or git or home backup.

Comment · 1 year ago
Writer has a point that we have evolved into compressing lot of the information, and the problem is not people it's "abundance". This raises the issue, how do you consume it? compress the it so it's quicker to digest otherwise. Example, how many tabs are open on your browser? why?

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