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markerdmann commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?    · Posted by u/throwaway_43793
simianparrot · 8 months ago
Nothing because I’m a senior and LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test, and it remains a waste of time.

I have a job at a place I love and get more people in my direct network and extended contacting me about work than ever before in my 20 year career.

And finally I keep myself sharp by always making sure I challenge myself creatively. I’m not afraid to delve into areas to understand them that might look “solved” to others. For example I have a CPU-only custom 2D pixel blitter engine I wrote to make 2D games in styles practically impossible with modern GPU-based texture rendering engines, and I recently did 3D in it from scratch as well.

All the while re-evaluating all my assumptions and that of others.

If there’s ever a day where there’s an AI that can do these things, then I’ll gladly retire. But I think that’s generations away at best.

Honestly this fear that there will soon be no need for human programmers stems from people who either themselves don’t understand how LLM’s work, or from people who do that have a business interest convincing others that it’s more than it is as a technology. I say that with confidence.

markerdmann · 8 months ago
isn't "delve" a classic tell of gpt-generated output? i'm pretty sure simianparrot is just trolling us. :-)
markerdmann commented on DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data   medium.com/dirt-protocol/... · Posted by u/iamwil
NegativeLatency · 7 years ago
I don't understand your answer. Can you explain more clearly what the process would be for removing personal info?
markerdmann · 7 years ago
By design, a public blockchain is an immutable record maintained by a decentralized network where no central authority has the power to go back and remove something from the record. This makes the blockchain an exciting technology for resisting censorship, but it also means that if someone adds your personal data to the blockchain, your options for removing it are very limited. You would need to shut down all nodes in the network or convince all nodes in the network to agree to a hard fork. In the latter case, nodes that don't join the fork would continue to have the private data.

That's true for unencrypted information stored directly on the blockchain. For applications where you need the ability to delete data and don't need strong censorship resistance, one solution is to store private data off-chain and only store the location and hash of the data in the blockchain. This article discusses that idea in detail:

https://medium.com/wearetheledger/the-blockchain-gdpr-parado...

markerdmann commented on DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data   medium.com/dirt-protocol/... · Posted by u/iamwil
progval · 7 years ago
The NYT works as a trusted third-party, because it curates a lot of information. That does not work for a narrow-focused piece of information like a jewelry list
markerdmann · 7 years ago
At the same time, it's possible for the NYT to hire a curator who doesn't act in your best interest. Jayson Blair is a good example of that problem.

If there were an economic incentive to challenge facts published by the NYT, would Blair's deception have persisted for several years? It's even possible that a subject in one of his stories would stake tokens to challenge the accuracy of the story. Blair could then respond by voting against the challenge with a large number of tokens, but would other parties join Blair or the challenger? They would probably investigate further and effectively join the challenge as neutral arbiters. The incentive on both sides is to provide persuasive information to win votes. The direct token incentive for the neutral parties is two-fold: vote with the winning side to gain tokens, and increase the value of the tokens they hold by helping the registry to become more popular so that demand for the tokens increases. If consumers of the registry value accuracy, that incentivizes the entire network to fiercely defend the accuracy of the data.

markerdmann commented on Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app   journiapp.com... · Posted by u/papauschek
markerdmann · 11 years ago
This looks terrific! I was looking for something exactly like this not too long ago. At that time my parents were about to embark on a round-the-world journey, and it was so difficult to find a simple travel blogging app or service for my mom. In the end I set her up with an account on Medium, but even Medium's carefully designed UX was still too awkward, and she never felt completely comfortable with it.

Note to UX designers: if you want to subject your designs to some serious blast testing, make sure to recruit a few 60 to 80 year olds for your user studies!

markerdmann commented on Readmill shuts down, team joins Dropbox   readmill.com/epilogue... · Posted by u/anthonymonori
hyperbovine · 11 years ago
> It was also one of the few services that would let you upload ePub books to your account through the website and then sync your library to your mobile device.

Or you could just toss it in your Dropbox... assuming they integrate Readmill into the mobile app, I fail to see why everyone doesn't win.

markerdmann · 11 years ago
That would be better than nothing, but there's still a long road between here and there! This also sounds like more of a soft landing or "acqui-hire" for a company that was running out of money rather than a concerted effort by Dropbox to push hard into the reading app space. I hope it is, but so far Dropbox hasn't even issued a press release about the acquisition, have they?

And Readmill's design is just sexy as hell. It's sad to lose the experience of using their software.

markerdmann commented on Readmill shuts down, team joins Dropbox   readmill.com/epilogue... · Posted by u/anthonymonori
markerdmann · 11 years ago
This feels like a huge loss. Readmill stood head and shoulders above other reading apps like Kindle and iBooks in terms of design. It was also one of the few services that would let you upload ePub books to your account through the website and then sync your library to your mobile device.

"Now cracks a noble heart.—Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

I wish the team all the best at Dropbox, and I'm sure Dropbox will benefit immensely from their remarkable talent for building amazing software. At the same time, though, I wish they would have just started charging $10 a month for the service!

markerdmann commented on A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky   onthemedia.org/story/goog... · Posted by u/sethbannon
markerdmann · 12 years ago
"Looking so dorky" is actually fairly low on the list of ways in which Google Glass fails to be a usable product. Dustin Curtis wrote an excellent review in which he discusses these more serious problems:

http://dcurt.is/glass

markerdmann commented on Yahoo's COO Walks Out With $20M Stock Bonus, Plus $40M For 15 Months' Work   sfgate.com/technology/bus... · Posted by u/ibsathish
ilovecookies · 12 years ago
Considering the stock went up 150% would say so, from a PR point of view, definitely not.
markerdmann · 12 years ago
At least as of July 2013, the appreciation in the stock price was due to the increase in the value of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.

"But Yahoo’s turnaround remains very much a work in progress. Although Yahoo’s stock price has soared by a whopping 73% since Mayer become CEO, that gain is almost entirely attributable to investments the company has in two Asian companies, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Yahoo’s core advertising business remains sluggish amid intense competition from rival Internet giants like Google and Facebook."

http://business.time.com/2013/07/16/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayers...

markerdmann commented on Facebook buys Parse   techcrunch.com/2013/04/25... · Posted by u/uptown
oneplusone · 12 years ago
Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?
markerdmann · 12 years ago
http://helios.io/ is an open-source backend framework.
markerdmann commented on Two Months of Soylent   robrhinehart.com/?p=474... · Posted by u/caublestone
johnchristopher · 12 years ago
> I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.

I hit the same wall when I overturned my eating habits and tried to fit all my nutrients into my three-meals-a-day habit. I succeeded by tweaking things but then it dawned on me I could spread out all the nutrients on a week. It made recipes composition much easier.

It wasn't some kind of soylent though but "regular" meals.

markerdmann · 12 years ago
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing as I was making the recipe. That brings up an interesting question: Is it fine to get 200% of your daily requirement for Vitamin A on one day and 0% the second day and let things average out, or will you be healthier if you get a steady stream of your daily requirements throughout the day? Maybe there are some nutrients that are easily stored in the body (like fat-soluble vitamins) and some that aren't?

u/markerdmann

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