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6 ay öncediscuss

Nice work; I remember browsing it during covid.

Tried AI for a standalone html page snippet renderer[0].

I tried just feeding it snippets one by one and that worked, but the raymarching ones it could not get going until I gave it the dwitter github repos. Now most, but not all (simple to fix manually though), work.

Also interesting to see Claude is terrible at trying to write the art (the demos itself) and seeing what it tries to do; not surprising given the challenge.

[0] https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d8b357df-5982-48c6-be58-7...

4 yıl öncediscuss

That is fantastic to hear; you are doing very good work. But history tells a story for most companies. I hope you keep it going; I might apply for a job!

4 yıl öncediscuss

He sure does but that still would form many issues with compensation as we have seen, many times, with open source companies. Everyone shouts red hat or something but that’s one exception; most other people who make Libre software, die of hunger under a bridge, or, more likely, have a day time job and simply will drop the Libre project when things get too busy. This is why companies now go from Libre to something quasi Libre to try to make money. There are some Libre (supabase for instance) projects now getting fairly large amounts of VC cash to get going, but once they have to ‘stand on their own legs’ usually pattern emerge that are not Libre to pay back (provide ROI to) the investors and then some.

I wish we would find a way to properly do this; I would insist on creating only Libre software, but for now, it is fairly random if it will make money while closed (saas) software is much more straight forward as in; if I have clients, I make money. With Libre software that I ask money for, I might have 100k stars and a lovely following while making no money at all.

4 yıl öncediscuss

I don’t know; some companies are forgiving with repairs; my experiences; Apple (anything I sent them the past 20 years was fixed or replaced without any questions asked) and Fujitsu (I used to swear by Lifebooks as the customer service was brilliant). Worst I had were MS (blaming me for dropping on a factory faulty Surface; not once but twice in a row) and Samsung (also blaming me). Guess some train their staff to be customer friendly and the other to prevent repairs?

5 yıl öncediscuss

I did Antler in the EU recently: going in pretty much thinking it would not be beneficial, but it was. So going to say yes: for the mentoring and contacts it will be, even if you already have a bunch of startups under your belt.

5 yıl öncediscuss

It is not very difficult to manage: a company of mine was bought by a squatter (I found out after dealing with a broker for the sale; I had to integrate it with their 'tech team' and walked away after) and for many years already, this all has been fairly easy to automate. The registars have apis, cloud flare has apis. There was 1 tech guy keeping it all up and running and he didn't have to do anything. It would register and provision with content automatically. There is really almost no work involved besides keeping money in the registrar account and the costs are only the domains probably, maybe they have a little hetzner load balanced setup with 2 machines but that's likely it.

5 yıl öncediscuss

But this is only for snippets right? Which I think is the issue: it has never been tested in court. Basically if you put:

     /* web user management */

And copilot comes up with complete user management lifted out of another repo with all pages, db structures and logic but the copyrights stripped then yes. But, as I understand it, that is not what it does. You will need to slowly tell it every tiny part of how user mamagement is to be implemented and for those snippets it copies code. But when you are done, there might be snippets from 100s of different repositories potentially. I think it is hard to show that breaks copyright as many people already come up with roughly the same stuff 1000s times/day all over the world.

5 yıl öncediscuss

As do it does to me. The ambition here is low but I do not know how to fix it without destroying what makes it nice here. I do not think anyone does. And playing the odds is just much easier here. Almost 0% of making a billion but never under a bridge and a quite high % chance of having a good life.

5 yıl öncediscuss

I think people take a lot of risks here: a lot of people would be dying of starvation if they did not have the safetynet. But yes, agreed, people do not seem to want to go all out. I think you need some existential panic to excel (depending on your definition of excel of course), but I am not religious so I do not want existential panic or any type of risk really. And I guess most people have the same feeling here. Just playing risk yourself is no risk as there is the safetynet, but once you start witb other people their lives, it becomes different.

Where I was born, everyone has money and people are generally modest: do not need ferraris or whatever so they just want a happy relaxed life. And that is very easy to get here. I worked very hard since I was 15 as I wanted (and have) (not ferraris but travel) more, but I was never interested in money or fame that can get someone kidnapped. I believe if I lived in the US, my parents would have sent me to Stanford or something and things might have been different somehow. I will never know: I like not having stress, at all so no regrets.

5 yıl öncediscuss

You have that everywhere, but yeah I think without a safetynet more people fight harder. So as you do not have the extreme upsides(but also not the extreme downsides) I guess we will never have the facebooks or googles here. It takes some kind of battle. Or being rich from birth and being able to hire people like that. Personally I do not enjoy that very much.

5 yıl öncediscuss

Been living there for almost 50 years. Works fine.

5 yıl öncediscuss

Universal income would be a next step in that.

5 yıl öncediscuss

> Because risk. Rich, privileged people can try different things with zero risk of becoming destitute

You can do that as well in many EU countries. Without being rich.

5 yıl öncediscuss

I never did that and will never do that (at almost 50 y/o); I was raised with Christianity but no-one could answer my questions at a very young age so I have no faith which means I have 1 go at this life. So no offices, suits, bosses, jobs, meetings or whatever. I had 2 kind of stressful years in my life and I am well off; I do whatever I want and is good for my family. I think it's a good score. It helps living in the EU; I never had to worry about living on the streets which makes some decisions easier.

7 yıl öncediscuss

I have been writing software professionally for almost 30 years now and yes, this is exactly what I see too. I find the underengineering far more productive though; because of time constraints I hack something together which works but is brittle (decades experience do help fight the brittleness even in a hurry though) and I do revisit to fix and refactor if the software survives.

7 yıl öncediscuss

No, they just had to check that box to make sure that they did ‘everything in their power’ to make it secure.

7 yıl öncediscuss

> but one man's garbage is another man's treasure.

Not entirely related, but there is usually the incentive to at least say this for a new person/team coming on because money. Especially for frontends, the new person/team we talk to when going into an existing project, says that it has to be redone because it's 'not up to standards'. That is not because it's not fine and maybe even beautiful; it makes more money to rewrite it. And job security perhaps too. So when someone says something is garbage, I need to assess the reason why; is it garbage or does the person saying it benefit from a rewrite somehow.

7 yıl öncediscuss

Yep... I returned yesterday from Germany and it is awful. I thought the UK (rural) was bad, but Germany takes the cake. There are even (expensive) hotels which still ask money for using their wifi. When you go to have only a meal at a hotel, they tell you internet is just for guests (we had this 5 times in 2 weeks). And driving around with 3g/4g you notice massive patches without data reception. I live in the mountains of Spain where I have cheap 4g and even cheaper 'radio' uplinks. They are enough to download gigs a day (not that I need that; I need stable, not a lot of bandwidth, but it's both). I was used to drive out of London a just a little bit and everything dropping, but Germany is even worse. And when it does work, it's slow.

Compared to Thailand (including in the middle of the forest), Romania and other random countries I have been, it is strange to see such a difference.

10 yıl öncediscuss

Aren't Alan Kay and Bret Victor working together at SAP currently?

10 yıl öncediscuss

What solution do you suggest instead?