hack: do a startup only after you already have living money assured (savings from earlier corporate jobs, now invested & producing). you have time & energy, and no obligations.
Readit Newscrunkykd commented on America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/jnord
crunkykd commented on Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset' reuters.com/technology/un... · Posted by u/Philpax
now do Ironsource ($4.4B)
crunkykd commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
pure speculation: ChatGPT training dataset contains massive amounts of copyrighted material, and he told the board it didn't. now there's a big looming liability.
crunkykd commented on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity venturebeat.com/games/joh... · Posted by u/AndrewKemendo
spending $4B for ironsource ads and $1B for weta authoring stuff was expensive and took lots of their more indie-friendly choices off the table. maybe the ipo path they took made these things inevitable. anyways, their choices are behind them now. godot and elsewhere are where the parade will move on to
I still use Palm Desktop (c1996)
I remember getting a Lafayette 3-pickup electric guitar and building a Heathkit guitar amplifier. That thing had a dual-spring reverb too. I got a 4x12" speaker cabinet with Celstion speakers from the newspaper classifieds for $75. That thing was loud, and had a super high-frequency squeal when you turned it up. I think they just used a high-bandwidth amp design from their scopes rather than design a ground-up audio amp. But it taught me about oscillations, shocks from ungrounded chassis voltages, and electronics in general.
crunkykd commented on Dr. Bronner’s, the Soap Company, Dips into Psychedelics nytimes.com/2022/02/28/he... · Posted by u/wunderlust
used their soaps for years. dilute it with water and use in foaming pump dispensers for hand soap - super economical. use it to wash dishes versus using name-brand detergents (soap is soap). love their camp at burningman. their heart's in the right place. what's not to like?
There's putting in tons of hours of effort to uncover an answer. There's knowing all the ways that didn't work before and why, and then knowing where to look for an answer. Certainly depends on the field, but choose which way you want to go.
crunkykd commented on A new release for GNU Octave lwn.net/Articles/840050/... · Posted by u/signa11
Still waiting for the Octave equivalent for Matlab's Simulink. I'd drop Matlab for good if that appeared.
From a long term perspective this is very good for the future of Unity, their stock price is even up on the news, but they're going to have to do something about their cash flow situation. The 25% increase for Unity Enterprise is significant, but it doesn't sound like enough.