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swyx
24,262karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/
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devrel/devtools: https://dx.tips/
personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas
book: https://learninpublic.org/
but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer
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fyi http://audiosear.ch/ just closed doors after years of struggling to do in-episode search. its an expensive problem to tackle and something people clearly don't want enough fo…
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just build on it, he's trying to monetize it not ask for donations
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ah i see. might want to disclose that then. i have no problem with it but it might confuse people that you are adding your own rating somehow
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codewars Kata get hard soon enough. maybe its because youre doing it in PHP but ive had no complaints at all on python and javascript. agree with cag_ii that you should just work on projects given tha…
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how exactly do you rate "best podcasts"? not disagreeing, just interested in methodology. ever thought of giving per episode rating?
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im actually not sure why this article is doing so well. HN ranking is weird.
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i am new to robocode but from skimming through it it seems you are just controlling one tank? this two sigma game involves controlling a swarm of bots with colonizing involved so its a different probl…
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I recently discovered halite too and I think the origin story is pretty interesting. from https://halite.io/about/ > Halite I was conceived of and developed by Benjamin Specto…
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how is this made??
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these are a really good set of principles. saving these to reflect on.
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love your positive attitude. i think my weakness as a javascript peer mentor/teacher is that sometimes i get frustrated when people dont get what I am trying to teach and its either i am a bad te…
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are you referring to his comment about Electron? because React Native is a thing
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nope: https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e... …
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thank you for taking the time to share your experience! really important to get these perspectives especially for people who came into webdev at a later time like myself
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it seems to be totally free? how do they make money?
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ok whoa. this thing is completely free? how do they make money?
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and if its good, that's cheap. absurd to just talk about price without thinking about value. pple spend more on netflix.
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unfortunately rejection is a difficult identity for people to rally around. consider joining some of the established slack communities mentioned here. good luck.
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this is a bit of an awkward question but.. have you ever come across anyone who you tried to teach but in the end was just not suited for coding? can everyone learn to code?
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can you elaborate a little about which unbeatable juggernauts you have in mind? i think where in the past juggernauts have fallen its usually due to not being wise to megatrends/platform shifts. …
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absolutely. there are things that demo well and then there are things that just fade into daily use because they just make sense.
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i was also extremely excited about them but didnt bet a career. i think its a combination of the tech (esp battery tech but also networking) not quite being there yet + a lot of people just plain don&…
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the radioactive element? what was the promise you were excited about?
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i remember the Scorpion guy claimed to have built something like that and somehow applied it to war scenario modeling in Afghanistan? Smelled like a crock of b.s. but then again I don't have a 20…
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mind explaining a little more in terms of how far away we might be able to mass produce these things?
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how was that supposed to work, in your view?
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hmm that's an interesting thought. I have no explanation for it either. My best suggestion for why this didn't happen was the world went mobile and the Android/Apple app store then beco…
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these things? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor why didn't they? (at a high level... im not too smart about these EE topics)…
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hmm. im sure this has been redone by dozens of startups. have you investigated modern iterations? what did you find?