Pradeep Gowda
@btbytes
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for the love of the game. if not now, when? do impressive things. 📩 btbytes@gmail
Carmel, IN
Joined April 2007
If the startup doesn't workout, it would be useful for the interview at MAG7.
people love adding redis caches to apps with 2 active unpaid users
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> ineffable, refined intuition can surmount cerebral analysis, which is limited and cramped. only if you move in the right circles ;)
Because their primary commitment is to a belletristic, literarist, romantic promotion of elite cultural sensibilities over the tough-minded analyses of philistine scientists and technologists, their rival elite (carrying on C. P. Snow's war of prestige between "the two
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There are no fairy tales without snow. Christkindlmarkt, Carmel, IN
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"no-nonsense OS for PCs which just works, respecting user's privacy and preferences." yeah, nobody actually wants that, though there are already OSes that do all that.
Windows 11 is now the worst operating system ever. And the last good Windows I used was Windows XP. There's a great opportunity to create a new no-nonsense OS for PCs which just works, respecting user's privacy and preferences.
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Takes away the magic of entering a container and emerging inside a plane. Never experienced that wonder in other countries :(
The new Kansas City airport is the first in the country to have windows on all its jet bridges. It's a little thing but makes boarding the planes feel modestly more dignified
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Holding the fort down in Central Indiana
https://t.co/QY7Ww1Ink2 now has better mobile support, and on desktop when you mouse-over people on the map it shows their bio and looking-for without having to click
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when people say they don't find code written by LLMs very good.. who cares? for a script that only I use? I am better for having it. It makes my experience better. Code is secondary.
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Commits to my site went from this to this, all thanks to a script I used claude to write with a single prompt. world changing? no. But it will make it easy for me to remember what changes I made to my website. The prompt and resulting script on gist https://t.co/uT3jkaH3a6
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dogfooding
I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take a few weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. Here's how I did it + all my my usage stats. https://t.co/QIAOmLsffx
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Let’s pull the citations shall we.
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime
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If you know the typing speed of VSCode terminal users, this is plenty.
Why is pasting into VSCode Terminal slow? Because it sleeps for 5ms every 50 characters.
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Engineering is not about being perfect. It is about making hard decisions in this imperfect world and make the best out of it. Then reiterate with the new information.
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I wish software had a zero defects standard. Among the first things I worked on in my career were debuggers, which obviously DO have such a standard. We should ask ourselves some hard questions about why software defects are not only not 5-alarm fires by definition, but are
As a hardware engineer I can't imagine getting paged at 3am because of a system outage if our hardware had outages like that people would literally die why can't software engineers just make more robust software?
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Exa (the company advertising) > Google. 10^18 is exa, 10^100 is Googol from which google gets its name.
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'The Witch's Christmas' by Indiana author Norman Bridwell, best known as the creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
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Unironically the most profound business insight I've read this year. Makes sense that it would come from the biggest luxury company — an industry that only exists because of its ability to "create desire." Arguably the clearest distillation of the function of marketing.
Asked by the WSJ whether he spent $500 million renovating the 5th Avenue Tiffany flagship, Bernard Arnault replied: “You cannot dream when you talk numbers. When you create desire, profits are a consequence.” You need to be creating desire.
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