I think it’s a material different for SMEs, especially bootstrapped firms small consultancies. But you’re right, I think some skepticism is warranted since there’s a lot of factors depressing the tech sector rn.
This is an excellent writeup. Even though I come with a bias against MS, I did some work on the .NET framework and was just blown away with how great the dev experience is. Maybe I’m overselling it but I wouldn’t…
Well there’s a couple of things at play here - extreme survivorship bias in the tech and startup world distorts your expectations - most startups fail, most businesses do not see exceptional returns - intelligence is…
I've tried this but never got the PyInstaller deployment process down smooth enough for my taste. Even for small apps, I end up rewriting in C# to compile executables with if I need to deploy to people who don't use…
C has a really solid community and (imo) the best online content of any programming language. It’s the Python Effect but in reverse now: every Python video on YouTube is now clickbait about elementary pandas functions…
Banks are absolutely allowed to ask for your income and credit history. Why would phone model be a better signal than credit score, for loan defaults?
Yeah ironically enough I think what’s cutting edge about LLMs is their ability to let you spend more time in the command line and less in the gui. With AI writing the time cost/opportunity cist of writing shell scripts…
F# sounds fun, I’ve been goofing off with Haskell in my spare time and really liking how it handles parsing problems. I’d think F# would be elegant for AOC too
Wow that is unbelievably user-hostile design. I'm not able to recreate this behavior on my Mac (Ventura 13.6.3) or Chrome (Version 130.0.6723.117). Are you running a different OS/version of Chrome? Anyway if I can get…
You’ll face a high regulatory and liability burden, but neither of those are insurmountable (note that I am not a lawyer or financial advisor and this is not legal or financial advice). Liquor license to serve drinks is…
This is a weird post, I can’t help but feel you’re indirectly advertising for ChatPDF. Coursera has a native ai tool you can use to ask questions and summarize videos and articles. I feel like you would know that if you…
Thanks I appreciate the clarification. You're referring to a leaseback, right? From the research I've done, I've mostly seen it happen in the context of real estate, e.g. with Darden when Starboard Value took over [0].…
I'm curious how this actually works. If it were that easy to buy a company, bankrupt it, and somehow make money selling it off again why wouldn't everyone do that instead of going through the trouble of operating the…
Sadly there’s a bias against customer service as a functional group in most tech (and non-tech) companies. It’s a function that is normally offshored and/or outsourced, and it is extremely rare for leadership to be…
What language would help you the most in your current role? The best projects are ones you actually need, and building scripts for work will teach you more than building a generic crud app. I think the most important…
Tech pump & dump in a nutshell --> find trend/exciting tech, make it user friendly/tailor it to niche, sell. It adds value -- OpenAI isn't going to bother making special AI chatbots for car dealerships or whatever.…
These apps are pretty straightjacketed. When there’s a simply gui option to drag-and-drop it works like a charm. When you have to do anything in DAX life gets significantly worse. I’d rather be able to do data modeling…
Yeah that’s a bad look. The subtext your team gave off here is that it wasn’t worth your time to understand the complaint and seriously respond to it.
Better as in less spammy, less scammy, and less bots? That’s pretty hard to do at scale. But there’s functionality in LinkedIn that you could break out and do better. For example, it’s not a great job board, but it does…
This is a super interesting question and a problem I’m struggling with too. Really excited to see how others answer but I’ll give my 2¢. To get people to agree to projects, you need to couch its goals in terms that…
Probably not, I think threads like these attract those with good experiences in the role. Can you say more about why you hate it? I think sales roles have been over-hyped in the past couple of years personally but I've…
Off the top of my head, Alteryx is the market leader. It's pretty good but I don't think it supports XML or json (otherwise you could basically build a no-code web app). The only other one I've tried it MS Power…
Depending on where you are on the midwest (e.g. if you’re in Moline working for Deere) 100k is pretty close to the 250 your friend gets in SV. I’m pretty early in my career too but I started out in a small town in the…
I think it’s a material different for SMEs, especially bootstrapped firms small consultancies. But you’re right, I think some skepticism is warranted since there’s a lot of factors depressing the tech sector rn.
This is an excellent writeup. Even though I come with a bias against MS, I did some work on the .NET framework and was just blown away with how great the dev experience is. Maybe I’m overselling it but I wouldn’t…
Well there’s a couple of things at play here - extreme survivorship bias in the tech and startup world distorts your expectations - most startups fail, most businesses do not see exceptional returns - intelligence is…
I've tried this but never got the PyInstaller deployment process down smooth enough for my taste. Even for small apps, I end up rewriting in C# to compile executables with if I need to deploy to people who don't use…
C has a really solid community and (imo) the best online content of any programming language. It’s the Python Effect but in reverse now: every Python video on YouTube is now clickbait about elementary pandas functions…
Banks are absolutely allowed to ask for your income and credit history. Why would phone model be a better signal than credit score, for loan defaults?
Yeah ironically enough I think what’s cutting edge about LLMs is their ability to let you spend more time in the command line and less in the gui. With AI writing the time cost/opportunity cist of writing shell scripts…
F# sounds fun, I’ve been goofing off with Haskell in my spare time and really liking how it handles parsing problems. I’d think F# would be elegant for AOC too
Wow that is unbelievably user-hostile design. I'm not able to recreate this behavior on my Mac (Ventura 13.6.3) or Chrome (Version 130.0.6723.117). Are you running a different OS/version of Chrome? Anyway if I can get…
You’ll face a high regulatory and liability burden, but neither of those are insurmountable (note that I am not a lawyer or financial advisor and this is not legal or financial advice). Liquor license to serve drinks is…
This is a weird post, I can’t help but feel you’re indirectly advertising for ChatPDF. Coursera has a native ai tool you can use to ask questions and summarize videos and articles. I feel like you would know that if you…
Thanks I appreciate the clarification. You're referring to a leaseback, right? From the research I've done, I've mostly seen it happen in the context of real estate, e.g. with Darden when Starboard Value took over [0].…
I'm curious how this actually works. If it were that easy to buy a company, bankrupt it, and somehow make money selling it off again why wouldn't everyone do that instead of going through the trouble of operating the…
Sadly there’s a bias against customer service as a functional group in most tech (and non-tech) companies. It’s a function that is normally offshored and/or outsourced, and it is extremely rare for leadership to be…
What language would help you the most in your current role? The best projects are ones you actually need, and building scripts for work will teach you more than building a generic crud app. I think the most important…
Tech pump & dump in a nutshell --> find trend/exciting tech, make it user friendly/tailor it to niche, sell. It adds value -- OpenAI isn't going to bother making special AI chatbots for car dealerships or whatever.…
These apps are pretty straightjacketed. When there’s a simply gui option to drag-and-drop it works like a charm. When you have to do anything in DAX life gets significantly worse. I’d rather be able to do data modeling…
Yeah that’s a bad look. The subtext your team gave off here is that it wasn’t worth your time to understand the complaint and seriously respond to it.
Better as in less spammy, less scammy, and less bots? That’s pretty hard to do at scale. But there’s functionality in LinkedIn that you could break out and do better. For example, it’s not a great job board, but it does…
This is a super interesting question and a problem I’m struggling with too. Really excited to see how others answer but I’ll give my 2¢. To get people to agree to projects, you need to couch its goals in terms that…
Probably not, I think threads like these attract those with good experiences in the role. Can you say more about why you hate it? I think sales roles have been over-hyped in the past couple of years personally but I've…
Off the top of my head, Alteryx is the market leader. It's pretty good but I don't think it supports XML or json (otherwise you could basically build a no-code web app). The only other one I've tried it MS Power…
Depending on where you are on the midwest (e.g. if you’re in Moline working for Deere) 100k is pretty close to the 250 your friend gets in SV. I’m pretty early in my career too but I started out in a small town in the…