kevdoran
Vs grad school is expensive and another 2 years of no income?
But idk my friend, amazon sucked a long time ago, it sucks even more now. sorry to be a troll
The thing breaks, the salesperson says "can you check this out?" then disappears and we're back to where we started.
I don't even find this very new: many companies I've been at have tried to spin-off a "fast" team to sell stuff.
lol.
We millennials are in a position to start giving advice the way boomers used to do with us, now that school is looking more like a couple decades ago instead of just one.
But, unlike those boomers, we don't watch the nightly news: we snort it from a tiny screen all day long from sources hyper engineered to feed off our anxiety.
So we give all this super pessimistic advice.
"Back in my day, I got a job at google right after college and it was awesome! My code was elegant! You guys are FUCKED!"
I agree that AI is creating mega changes, many very bad, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea or even true to tell GenZ people they're fucked. We don't know if they're fucked.
I think they could have a ton of fun with software and I think it's OK to be encouraging about that.
Today I was surprised to find out that matter of time was 12 hours, as I logged in and see:
"We've temporarily blocked your Wise account. We're missing important information from you."
When I click the link, it says: "That address doesn't look right" and shows my business address. That is right.
There's no way to contact nor do anything other than change the address. I of course don't want to change the address, because it's my business address. Lol.
Even published a very cool article last July about all the (considerable) challenges one runs into when going after making wasm-sqlite work: https://www.notion.com/blog/how-we-sped-up-notion-in-the-bro...
"Use this other language I know for the backend, it's the [reliable car model]. It's the {Latin, Swahili, English} of the programming world. It's JVM, it's PHP, it's Python, it's Ruby, it's C#'"
I feel that after a decade of jumping between systems, TypeScript is now the "good enough" language. We have to use it on the client. Now we can use it on the server.
The weird side-projects vibes node libraries had in the 2010's have matured into fully supported production systems in the 2020s.
And I've never been happier. It's a fine choice for the backend, and it's not really optional on the frontend. Which is important: like a lingua franca, TS/JS is not optional in a web app. This is not an attribute which PHP shares.
Hadn't seen that paper, thanks for sharing it. This is the one I see cited most often that's got some similar vibes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109
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I've had several emails from strangers over the past month asking to use my identity (i.e. Upwork profile), setup a report laptop, and "collaborate".
Until now I've just ignore them or mark them spam.
Funny enough, I recently opened a Chase business checking because of this "bank not bank" news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480159
I still have a different business checking with a Mercury-like fintech provider. Chase freezes accounts, Fintech startups go under.
Chase already froze my business credit card once. I had to send them a deed of a house that I had already sold. It made little sense.
On the fintech bank side, my biggest client cannot make transfers to that account. Their payment system throws an error when they try to ACH to it. That plus the news about Synapse going under made me want a chase.
So I don't really know what to do. I now have multiple business accounts, multiple personal accounts. I want to find like a good credit union maybe?
What's clear is being in small business requires building tolerance for money uncertainty that wasn't as necessary when I was an employee.
I feel for the author. That all sucks. I enjoyed the 'Yuppie Nightmare' reference. Many thanks for sharing.
The problem we often hit when building apps on top of LLMs is managing LLM context windows (and sometimes swappable LLM providers). For which you need different types of worker/consumer/queue setups.
TypeScript is amazing for building full-stack web apps quickly. For a decade my go-to was Django, but everything just goes so much faster with endpoints & frontend all in the same place. But, finding a good job/queue service is a little more of a challenge in this world that "just setup Celery". BullMQ is great, but doesn't work with "distributed" Redis providers like Upstash (Vercel's choice).
So, in a roundabout way, an offering like this is in a super-duper position for AI money :)
The splash page took me a bit to figure out, at first I was like like "wait is this like a UI for a vector DB?" then i figured it out. The demo video is fantastic.
Would love to hear more about what into making it.