vinodc
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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
It's certainly AI. There are a ton of phrases that Claude loves to use: genuinely, trap, staccato phrases. continuous reframing, the list goes on.
I find it very tiresome and repetitive and simply too grating to read at this point, after already working with Claude all day.
Comment · 3 months ago
"genuinely load-bearing" is the one that triggers me the most now.
Comment · 3 months ago
This has been my experience as well. It's incredibly grating to repeatedly read "genuinely load-bearing", "honestly?", etc. I've tried to get Opus to stop using these phrases via an entry in its memory, with mediocre results.
Comment · 11 months ago
The digit recognizer that fits in one page was super insightful! Really cool concept.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comments critical of the US government do not typically get deleted from social media platforms based out of the US.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think the disconnect here is that Google engineers are much more likely to answer the low volume of technical "nerd-snipey" questions from other developers than the high volume of non-technical questions they'd get from the general public for something like Gmail.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's effective marketing for the "developer tool" app, since the content of this kind of blog post is technical.
Comment · 6 years ago
I had to google "cosplay market size" to confirm, but the paper's assertion that it's a billion-dollar industry does appear to be correct (!)
Two of the paper's authors work at the technology arm of Zozotown, one of Japan's largest fashion e-commerce sites, which points to how this could have practical benefits.
Comment · 6 years ago
I feel that complex workflows are best served by dedicated integrations, but it takes time for developers to build each integration natively into a product. We launched https://kloudless.com to simplify the process for app developers to natively integrate an entire category of SaaS services at once (I'm a co-founder).
Ignoring platforms like Salesforce, some of the "product" apps that we see adopting native integrations instead of directing users to Zapier include apps that require:
1) synchronous interactive integrations and not just background automation. e.g. a user pulling a lead from Salesforce into a marketing app.
2) complex/multi-step integrations that offer way better UX and much lower support costs to just build natively for users.
3) integrations as a competitive differentiator, or without requiring users to pay for third-party tools.
4) integrations without an API of their own to integrate to.
That said, there are always a long tail of apps and use cases so I'm certain we'll see more specialized tooling pop up to handle specific complex workflows.
Comment · 6 years ago
The critical component, MS Teams, is missing in G Suite. Google Chat feels more like posting on an internal message board, since it centers around creating threads rather than actual chatrooms. I can see why companies using G Suite, including ours, prefer Slack's UX or MS Teams' central approach to collaborate in Office 365.
Comment · 6 years ago
The author has helpfully open-sourced the scripts as well, some of which are quite helpful like this one to convert dates to unix time and back: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/homedir/blob/master/bin/%2...
Agree with the commit message; I've probably spent way too much time the past decade firing up a python prompt or using an online epoch converter to do this.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's helpful to filter out links to large content and downloadable assets from being traversed. For example, I assume you wouldn't care about downloading videos, images, and other assets that would otherwise use a large amount of data transfer and increase costs.
If the file type isn't clear, the response headers would still include the Content-Length for non-chunked downloads, and the Content-Disposition header may contain the file name with extension for assets meant to be downloaded rather than displayed on a page. Response headers can be parsed prior to downloading the entire body.
Comment · 6 years ago
I am willing to chalk this up to an honest mistake considering "end-to-end" encryption as being from the client's end to the server, although that's not the accepted use of the term. This appears to be their explanation. I hope their marketing team fixes this now that it's been pointed out to them though.