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johnward commented on PoweredByGPT: Find products built with OpenAI's GPT   poweredbygpt.co/... · Posted by u/ZionG
johnward · 3 years ago
Payment is either broken or a scam. Unsure. It gives what looks like a stripe error. Payment processor is on a Somalian domain and the contact page links to a Nigerian twitter account. Payment company claims to be Belgian. Both this site and the payment site domains have private whois info. Very suspect.
johnward commented on I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business   mostlymetrics.com/p/i-los... · Posted by u/cjgustafson222
CamperBob2 · 3 years ago
Exactly. Don't think of it as a "loss," think of it as a "student loan." Now, losing $200K sounds like something you can benefit from in the long run (which you can, with enough introspection.).

It's not as if you just went to Vegas and bet it all on black.

johnward · 3 years ago
Betting on black probably has a higher success rate than the average startup though.
johnward commented on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers   chatterhead.bearblog.dev/... · Posted by u/chatterhead
firefoxd · 3 years ago
Watson was a stunt. It's not very hard for someone on HN to figure out how much of Watson was Watson. The crowd still bought it.

But as someone who worked on software that handled the last example you gave, I assure, a few well placed if and elses do the trick. Also, humans have tendency to follow any instructions sent to them when it is titled "System" or "Administration".

*System Message:* New revised schedule for. Monday, Feb 31st, 3pm to 11pm. Qualify for overtime. Reply 24h prior to decline.

The more robotic your message sound, the more people are compelled to comply.

johnward · 3 years ago
I worked for the Watson group. It was largely a marketing play which did land with some enterprises but is ultimately a failure because the tech was not there.
johnward commented on Slack is down for some users   status.slack.com/2022-02/... · Posted by u/mrpadie
epivosism · 4 years ago
Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories:

* I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K

* I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to:<channel name>" work.

* I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left

* I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works well, channel grouping works right.

* I want to give a public emotional response to someone's statement => reactions

* I want to continue discussion of a point someone made, which may not be relevant to everyone in the channel => threads

* I want to edit a typo I just made => hit up on keyboard

It's got that quality Factorio has, where you can let yourself imagine it is the ideal product, and start expecting features you need to be there, rather than not bothering to explore because you think they won't be.

It is AMAZINGLY good at solving actual user stories around communication. I have lots of respect for their PMs.

johnward · 4 years ago
I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.
johnward commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
johnward · 4 years ago
Moveworks | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE (some positions)

We're instant help at work. An AI chatbot solution that integrates with the chat system a company already uses (slack, teams, gchat, etc) to provide help for IT, HR, Finance, and other questions and issues. We automatically resolve several types of IT tickets to free up support agents from mundane tasks.

We recently raised a $200m Series C at $2.1b valuation - https://www.moveworks.com/insights/moveworks-raises-200-mill.... We're going to be hiring a ton of people. Here are a few of the key positions.

* Engineers - Data Platform, DevOps, AI, ML, NLP, NLU, Security, SRE, Front-end, Full-stack (mostly python/go), Search Engines

* Client Facing - Customer Success Engineer, Customer Success Managers

* Data Science - Data Analysts, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists

* People - HR, Recruiting

* Sales - Pre-sales Solutions Architects, Account Execs, Sales Dev Reps

* Product - Designers, Product Managers

We're considering remote for some roles and probably hiring for many positions that aren't even listed on the website yet. If you have any interest, apply and talk a recruiter about what you're looking for.

If you are curious you can reach out to me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanward or email jward+hn [at] moveworks.ai or apply on our careers site https://www.moveworks.com/careers

It's really a great place to work. Checkout us out on Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Moveworks-Reviews-E1730936...

johnward commented on IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources   coindesk.com/ibm-blockcha... · Posted by u/walterbell
johnward · 5 years ago
I'm not sure that IBM leadership really understands what direction they want to go. They seem to pivot all-in on a tech sector and then abandon it a few years later. Rinse and repeat. It was AI/Watson, then a cloud platform, now its "hybrid cloud" because they can't compete with the established cloud providers. What will be the all-in bet next week? I also have to mention their strategy of trying to cut their way to prosperity.
johnward commented on What Happened to XPath?   webreflection.medium.com/... · Posted by u/AhtiK
johnward · 5 years ago
I do a bunch of of XML/XSLT work still. I use XPATH 1.0 basically everyday. It's also awesome for web scraping. Overall, it's a great tool that doesn't get a ton of exposure.
johnward commented on Evolving Reddit’s Workforce   redditblog.com/2020/10/27... · Posted by u/NearAP
bawolff · 5 years ago
I always thought geographic zones for remote employees are a bit weird. Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other. People would think its rediculous if we had different salary bands based on other lifestyle choices like how much you like to go to fancy resturants or something.
johnward · 5 years ago
> Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other.

Right. I'm really looking to be able to drive a Tesla and vacation several times a year on remote tropical islands. Should my company pay me more for that choice?

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