Success as a product company relative to others. I'm talking about simple selection bias.
A no-financing company with a decent head count is probably in the top 1 percentile among peers. Chances are they're delivering real value.
A VC backed startup hiring a bunch of people is perfectly average. The top 1% for startups would probably be post-IPO/exit/very-late-stage.
So it seems perfectly normal to me a VC backed startup in most cases will look like a total trainwreck compared to a bootstrapped company of the same size.
The vast majority of bootstrapped companies die before they even had a chance to hire anybody. Unlikely you'd ever have to deal with them.
A company that makes it to a few dozen employees without much financing is already extremely successful. You're very unlikely to ever work for a poorly run company without financing - they can't hire.
You can recommend just based on content. I hardly ever open the youtube homepage. And often open links in incognito mode. Still get to see all these recommendations next to a video.
I don't see how you could not have a "recommendation bubble" as long as you have recommendations. Even if they were to be 100% manual it's still a bubble of some kind.
Not only that, you effectively have these bubbles outside the internet too. A book will recommend further reading, friends will recommend certain things and so forth. There's no escaping it.
When I go to the YouTube homepage these recommendations are absolute junk. Links friends send me are much more relevant and influential.
IMO the most charitable reading of this initiative is that they believe the algorithm is somehow biased towards exposing and warming people to harmful content in an unobvious way.
Seems like nowadays, to grow a user-driven content/social site you just have to be backed by a big player or grow extremely fast to be too big to censor. Or pick a category that somehow totally flies under the radar.
Well, the way you ask your question in abstract sort of biases it towards a CS-heavy approach, doesn't it?
What's your goal?
I've written non-trivial macros that could be understood to be a tiny compiler, but wasn't ever interested in compiler design and I can't claim to know much about it.
Wow, that's pretty shocking. As an emacs user I'd often stumble upon his articles. Even bought an emacs autohotkey-mode from him. It's so strange to see a person you thought was this amazing genius that surely did well for himself struggle like that.
Hope you take care of your problems Xah.
A no-financing company with a decent head count is probably in the top 1 percentile among peers. Chances are they're delivering real value.
A VC backed startup hiring a bunch of people is perfectly average. The top 1% for startups would probably be post-IPO/exit/very-late-stage.
So it seems perfectly normal to me a VC backed startup in most cases will look like a total trainwreck compared to a bootstrapped company of the same size.
The vast majority of bootstrapped companies die before they even had a chance to hire anybody. Unlikely you'd ever have to deal with them.