I just don’t understand this claim that it’s faster to tell an LLM to do something than to just do it. Yes for large tasks, but the author discusses “edits” and being heavily involved with “pedantic” requests. It’s not specific enough to evaluate but what I’m picturing from their description makes the argument dubious to me

According to Wikipedia, four other nations that permit ractopamine are Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand.

Kind of. I’m transitioning to something a little more biochemistry-oriented but I expect to be employing a lot of my tech skills

But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons. The direction of the industry is less relevant to my choices

I’m sure my new course will feature similar motifs of redundancy and soul-sucking pedantry, but I’ll give it a decade like I did software and move on to career #4 if I tire

> 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons.

This, but for mobile apps.

"Uber for aircraft", "Cross LinkedIn with AirBnB with Google Maps", "Read the news", "Foursquare but for my hobby"… it was exciting when I was young and fresh and didn't know what was out there; now I know that I just didn't realise how many others were doing the same things.

Competition I didn't spot meant success was all about discovery rather than actual innovation, "build it and they will come" is just not true. Discovery means paying an ad-tax to the gatekeepers of eyeballs. But that's a bidding war, an all-pay auction for your version of the widely-instantiated "innovation" to win a temporary monopoly before the feature becomes table stakes in a bigger product, like IE was to Netscape, and Sherlock was to whoever that was, and Skype to all chat apps.

"paying an ad-tax to the gatekeepers of eyeballs" is such a great analogy for paying for google/fb ads. Its disheartening that to sell anything online you have to pay these companies thousands of dollars just to get in front of people.

Ikr

Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl), The Color Purple (Walker), Orbital (Harvey)

Not specifically for the HN community but these are the only books I read this year that I would recommend without qualification.

I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, however. When they finally pulled it out, after months of painful inflammation episodes they dismissed in a variety of ways, they saw its unusual size (3x!) and scar tissue and fought insurance to get the op covered. This was back in the nineties tho, before LLMs

A: “it’s important to communicate honestly with your kids and spend time with them in a way that provides them alternatives to common yet inferior modes of living life”

B: “To suggest such, you must not have kids yourself”

Is someone feeling inadequate? Better to look into the mirror than to try to turn it on those who challenge you

I think imma convert my blog to XML/XSLT. Nobody reads it anyway, but now I’ll be able to blame my lack of audience on chrome.

Google is widely faulted with effectively killing RSS by pulling the plug on Reader (I, for example, haven’t used RSS since), so I don’t think they’re missing the big picture, I think they just prefer a different picture

It's probably worth considering that if the technology could be killed by one company pulling its chips off the board, perhaps the technology wasn't standing on its own.

We still use RSS and Atom feeds for podcasts. It's a pretty widely-adopted use case. Perhaps there is a lot more to the contraction of RSS as a way for discovering publishing of "blog"-style media than "Reader got killed" (it seems like Reader offered more features than just RSS consolidation that someone could, hypothetically, build... But nobody has yet?).

I never got the backslash with Reader, having always used native apps to handle RSS.

Native apps are always better, but having a web page syncing your feeds made it easier to access them, eg from the library or work computer. Not to mention nothing to install (or update) reduces friction. I didn’t have to stop using RSS, but the newly exposed hurdles were enough discouragement that I did stop

If you want someone on your team, give them what they’re worth. Don’t base it on what you think you’re worth, but rather on what you think they are worth to you

If you think he’s overvaluing himself, showing him the door is the best way to communicate that

To be honest, I don't need a co-founder (I feel). I can bootstrap the 2nd launch, the main reason is incubators and VC's don't take solo founders, and so to be able to strategically make use of that, I wanted a cofounder.