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jbs789 commented on Company as Code blog.42futures.com/p/comp... · Posted by u/ahamez

squeefers · 3 days ago

I suspect hes designed a system for HIS company, which is in a data heavy industry. this doesnt apply to most other types of company, and I suspect when he tries to actually do it, it falls apart when he tries to define any requirement or obligation that stems from legislation. If the law was a coherent and unambiguous specification, thered be no problem, but the reality of it is messy and not so easily defined.

jbs789 · 3 days ago

Made me laugh bc you’re right - there are a whole host of decisions that are better left undocumented and ambiguous.

jbs789 commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25

nabla9 · 10 days ago

The operating cost is the maximum Apple can come up with when their accountants attribute everything they possibly can to digital sales for the sake of legal argument. R&D shouldn't really be included, and Apple uses those same tools and APIs themselves. I think the actual profit margin is closer to 90%, and Apple could maintain a 20% margin with just a 3–4% fee.

jbs789 · 10 days ago

Or you could argue the App Store wouldn’t exist without the hardware, so the relevant reporting is both combined - lower margins.

jbs789 commented on Design Thinking Books (2024) designorate.com/design-th... · Posted by u/rrm1977

yakkomajuri · 17 days ago

I'm a dev and recently picked up "The Design of Everyday Things" as an attempt to become more design-oriented. Everyone raves about this being like the bible of design.

So far I'm about 80 pages in and have found it extremely academic and not very practical, sometimes deriving conclusions that are so far from reality that they are a bit concerning, like how a strong password does not matter because once they inevitably leak they can always be cracked via rainbow tables (the author doesn't use this exact term). As we know the exact point of a strong password is that it will not be in a rainbow table.

Of course the original version is pretty old but I picked up the latest revised version. Still some interesting insights and I haven't given up on the book quite yet but it's been a ton of theory and a lot of terminology so far.

jbs789 · 17 days ago

The Norman door was a powerful example for me, as it emphasises that the user is not the problem but the push door with the handle is the problem.

And if you’re designing the door, it is your responsibility to think deeply and observe behaviour, to design an intuitive interface.

I do agree that it’s rather academic, but I did leave with that one takeaway.

jbs789 commented on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge theregister.com/2026/01/2... · Posted by u/dijksterhuis

verdverm · 19 days ago

I heard it posited that the Ai stuff is uncovering corporate dysfunction better than any tool in history, i.e. garbage in garbage out, because their processes are so broken

I must admit the idea has a lot of appeal, because there are people seeing good ROIs, so it does not seem to be the tool as much as the tool user

jbs789 · 19 days ago

Yeah, I think the moral of the story is if your company is not good at technology AI does not magically make you good at technology.

The company needs to have the right culture and ability to integrate leading technology, whatever it is.

jbs789 commented on Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? · Posted by u/newbebee

raw_anon_1111 · 22 days ago

There are an infinitesimal number of tech based startups that are “lifestyle companies” that were bootstrapped and use revenues to grow without taking investor money.

There are even fewer that are “successful” - ie where everyone involved wouldn’t be better off just working as a LOB CRUD developer.

The goal of the founders don’t matter even if they do “care” about the customer. The customer is at the whim of the strategies of the investors of the company and if an acquired, the customer will probably get an email about “our amazing journey” when the company is shut down

jbs789 · 22 days ago

These smaller companies are doing well, they just aren’t incentivised to tell you about it. The VC backed companies are, either targeting you as a consumer or an investor and n an eventual IPO.

jbs789 commented on Raising money fucked me up blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

yakkomajuri · 22 days ago

Hey, author here. Totally agree on how helpful these people are. I have a psychologist and also some great mentors. This doesn't make you immune to things like I wrote about but helps you process and get over them when they happen.

As a side note, I'm in a much better mental space now, largely due to facing these things straight on. Things are good, and I'm motivated and sharp!

jbs789 · 22 days ago

Awesome to hear. Best of luck!

jbs789 commented on Raising money fucked me up blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

jbs789 · 22 days ago

Finding the right psychologist/coach/founder to chat this over with will probably do you and the company wonders.

jbs789 commented on The Dilbert Afterlife astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/rendall

michaelt · 22 days ago

> But t-shirts saying “Working Hard . . . Or Hardly Working?” no longer hit as hard as they once did. Contra the usual story, Millennials are too earnest to tolerate the pleasant contradiction of saying they hate their job and then going in every day with a smile. They either have to genuinely hate their job - become some kind of dirtbag communist labor activist - or at least pretend to love it.

At least in the technology sector, work has changed a lot in some regards since the days when Scott Adams was in the workforce.

No suits and ties needed, show up in a tee-shirt and denim jeans. Flexible work hours, and work-from-home. Top 2% salary. Free food. Clean, well-maintained, offices. No request for annual leave ever denied. Pick the work you like from the top of the backlog. No bosses sending interns to get them coffee or any nonsense like that. Go ahead, play some foosball or table tennis on the clock. Is two screens enough, you can have a third if it'd boost your productivity?

And senior leaders try to project the image of "Stanford CS PhD dropout" rather than "Wall Street Harvard MBA" - they're "just like us", look at that hoodie he's wearing.

The world of Dilbert, meanwhile, is trapped in amber. And the wry insights that fax machines are hard to use don't really land like they did in 1995.

jbs789 · 22 days ago

You are describing a top 2pct experience.

jbs789 commented on Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/7777777phil

tombert · a month ago

I find it a bit odd that people are acting like this stuff is an abject failure because it's not perfect yet.

Generative AI, as we know it, has only existed ~5-6 years, and it has improved substantially, and is likely to keep improving.

Yes, people have probably been deploying it in spots where it's not quite ready but it's myopic to act like it's "not going all that well" when it's pretty clear that it actually is going pretty well, just that we need to work out the kinks. New technology is always buggy for awhile, and eventually it becomes boring.

jbs789 · a month ago

Because the likes of Altman have set short term expectations unrealistically high.

jbs789 commented on Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) phrack.org/issues/71/17... · Posted by u/krrishd

huijzer · a month ago

How money works? Well look into fractional reserve banking and do the math. If you’re a bank, you can just loan out 10-100 times what you have in assets and ask say 5% interest. Then 5*10 to 5*100 is your annual interest to the bank. That’s why the Bible and Quran are against usury.

jbs789 · a month ago

This is not correct. For starters, loans are assets.

Banks start with some capital, borrow in the form of deposits, and lend in the form of bonds, mortgages etc.

The regulatory capital ratio determines how much capital they must hold to support the assets.