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andrew311 commented on Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech   ianbetteridge.com/2024/09... · Posted by u/rpgbr
andrew311 · a year ago
> it’s difficult to look at people like Graham — people who aren’t as bright as they think they are

Graham’s (alleged) arrogance about his brightness isn’t really the issue here. Let’s face it, he is bright. That’s not what is causing this boredom/dismay, though.

The issue is that somehow the rest of us became entranced by the “cult of Graham” and his thinking about startups/founders, and collectively we made his way into the way, ostracizing those that lived their life outside the idealized startup paradigm that Graham crafted. Creation of this dismay isn’t on him alone, it’s on all of us.

andrew311 commented on Why British chocolate tastes the way it does   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
JumpCrisscross · 2 years ago
Which See’s do you grab? I’ve tended to find them a touch too sweet, though I suppose that can be fixed with a dash of salt.
andrew311 · 2 years ago
Sugar Free Dark Almonds from Sees[1] has to be one of my favorite chocolate products of all time. Friends and family always gobble them up at my place so I sometimes buy them as little gifts. I normally abhor anything “sugar free” because substitutes like aspartame taste absolutely disgusting to me, but this uses maltitol, which is a sugar alcohol that achieves a more subtle sweetness with none of the gross fake sugar taste, and since I like my chocolate on the less sweet side, it strikes a perfect balance for me. Maltitol is a mild laxative, but I’m pretty sure you would have to eat multiple boxes to feel anything.

[1] https://www.sees.com/dark-chocolate/sugar-free-almonds/20037...

andrew311 commented on AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/musha68k
andrew311 · 2 years ago
To me, the real issue is that content in apps is temporal with a lack of visit history, unreproducible feeds, and a lack of deep links. This means I often lose my place when a momentary switch to another app causes a refresh on the first app. Even worse, sometimes switches are accidental from a push notification popping right before I click something else at the top of my screen. Websites have this unreproducible feed problem, too, but it generally isn’t as pronounced.
andrew311 commented on Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)   zachholman.com/posts/only... · Posted by u/Fiveplus
andrew311 · 4 years ago
A memory seared into my brain from the 90s:

I was in the highschool computer lab, working on a website for the school IT administrator. She wanted me to include a patterned background, blinking marquees, GIFs, the whole nine yards. Another student was working on the project with me, sitting next to me. We were both facing the window, away from the door. The admin left the room. I told my fellow student these choices were extremely tacky, and I questioned the life choices that led her to the point of thinking this looked good.

Turns out she came back into the room and was behind me the whole time. Boy, did I feel like a jerk. I apologized.

What a different time that was.

andrew311 commented on Should I Buy a House?   cyberspace.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/mxschumacher
andrew311 · 5 years ago
This argument falls into the trap of comparing the average home to the stock market. If I was primarily concerned with returns, I would never buy the average home. That would be a home in the middle of nowhere. I would only buy in major metro areas with diverse, heavily entrenched industries and a strong desire among people all over the world to live there (places like NYC). If you look at the numbers in those places, the story is very different. On home value alone, you see appreciation of 8-12% per year on average since 1990 (despite at least three recessions during that time). Covid will impact the desire to live in major metro areas but not enough to seriously impact these returns.

If I wasn't concerned primarily with returns and instead on just saving money over renting, the math is still way better in any of the top metros in the United States so long as you plan to reside there for 5+ years. And if you aren't living in a major metro, you still need to find a place to live, so you might as well make 1% annually on that money as opposed to just giving it away in the form of rent.

In my experience, renting makes sense when you need to pay for flexibility, because you aren't sure if you will stay rooted in one place for 5+ years. Otherwise, buying for many people is a win financially and has been for decades.

andrew311 commented on NYC pilot tries mental health responders in place of police   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pseudolus
andrew311 · 5 years ago
Did anyone else read this title as “NYC Pilot (that flies planes) Tries Mental Health Responders in Place of Police” instead of “NYC Tries Mental Health Responders in Place of Police”?
andrew311 commented on Our Experience with Stripe Atlas   formcake.com/blog/our-exp... · Posted by u/CoreSet
andrew311 · 6 years ago
Does Atlas setup vesting for the founders?
andrew311 commented on Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height   scottlocklin.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/dostoevsky
joshuaellinger · 6 years ago
I just spent $50K on coloc hardware. I'm taking a $10K/mo Azure spend down to a $1K/mo hosting cost.

But the real kicker is that I get x5 the cores, x20 RAM, x10 storage, and a couple of GPUs. I'm running last-generation Infiniband (56gb/sec) and modern U.2 SSDs (say 500MB/sec per device).

I figure it is going to take me about $10K in labor to move and then $1K/mo to maintain and pay for services that are bundled in the cloud. And because I have all this dedicated hardware, I don't have to mess around with docker/k8s/etc.

It's not really a big data problem but it shows the ROI on owning your own hardware. If you need 100 servers for one day per month, the cloud is amazing. But I do a bunch of resampling, simple models, and interactive BI type stuff, so co-loc wins easily.

andrew311 · 6 years ago
What colo company did you use?
andrew311 commented on Guide to Equity Compensation   holloway.com/g/equity-com... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
tempsy · 6 years ago
No it’s not. If that were true none of these marketplaces would exist.
andrew311 · 6 years ago
I should clarify that it is certainly doable for widely recognized companies, but it’s very difficult for the majority of startups that no one has heard of even if they have some success. Also, getting on these marketplaces also goes much better with company cooperation and many startups don’t have the time or willingness.

u/andrew311

KarmaCake day137March 21, 2008View Original