Nicolas Nowinski
@nicknow
Followers
781
Following
4K
Media
24
Statuses
4K
Love your work, love those who love you..live an adventure! Entrepreneurial. GovTech. Software, ideas, strategy, investing. #Dynamics365 #MicrosoftPowerPlatform
Herndon, VA
Joined February 2008
đŻ- Now as a parent with two young kids I think almost exclusively in terms of âhow do I set my kids up so they are setup to help my grandkids achieve a great life.â It really drives your thinking when you are looking at 40-70 year future outcomes.
@shagbark_hick Immigrants see these places as the beginnings of family dynasties. Natives have to recover that capacity to dream in generations.
0
0
2
LA suffering from a plague of theft of copper wiring, knocking out our street lights and requiring very expensive repairs. As usual, because many of the members have a defective understanding of human nature, our city council is exploring every possible solution (solar, alarms,
156
430
5K
Real diversity: Whoever shows up is welcome. Real equity: We all help carry the meaningful burden. Real inclusion: Your political opinions are your own. Open source gets better when it's focused on making great software for all, and doesn't obsess over tiresome divisive dogma.
119
473
6K
Usually software has hovered between $10-50/user/month. Now, AI agents for coding are already reaching thousands per month. This is the revealed preference on the value theyâre experiencing. AI coding has some unique qualities to it that are allowing it to scale fast and in an
Some of my best engineer friends have started to hit $100+ spend a day on AI tools. Kind of wild to see the ramp
31
37
390
Itâs probably a bad idea to have millions of highly educated, low-IQ people, because more problems come from the illusion of knowing than from not knowing
65
239
3K
5-year study of 70,000 English children found that the correlation between IQ at age 11 and educational achievement in 25 academic subjects at age 16 was 0.81. https://t.co/pVT7VK9D3l
15
55
879
The networks should not show ads for R-rated horror movies during NFL afternoon games. Totally inappropriate content for a 7-year-old watching a game with his dad.
29
10
284
And they will, inevitably, have to disappoint eventually. Because nothing goes up forever. It won't even be "we don't need anymore" it'll be some big customers lacking capacity (people, space, power, etc.) to absorb thus slowing their ordering.
@market_sleuth It's not about the crash at this moment. Markets are expecting too many rate cuts, any negative print would be a major correction but have a feel would be eaten up fairly quickly. The biggest red flag I have is $NVDA earnings...if they ever disappoint... different story
1
0
0
I've never read a Shakespeare play. In high school I always read the cliff notes, because it just makes more sense to read a narrative not a dialog, or watched a recording of the play (like it is supposed to be experienced.)
Why did we make reading Shakespeare such a big part of being âeducatedâ? No one was supposed to read Shakespeare, youâre supposed to watch it. Theyâre plays. Itâs like if 400 years from now we made reading the Star Wars screenplays the mark of an intelligent individual.
1
0
1
This is really confusingâŚwho the fuck is hiring these people if they donât have skills?
0
0
0
This is b/c so much thinking is solution-based not problem-based. âWe tried that beforeâ always refers to a solution. But if the problem still exists, then we need a new solution even if the last one didnât work - and it probably didnât work because it wasnât solving the problem.
People dismiss so many good ideas with "we tried that, didn't work", only to be proven wrong by someone with enough determination and the right angle. Turns out we DID need another Linux distro đđ
0
0
0
I have not written C++ code since I was in high school. Really thinking I should take a year and learn it well.
You should know at least one programming language deeply. This language should be C++ Shallow knowledge of Python, JavaScript, Rust, Bash, Haskell, OCaml, Ruby, Matlab, PHP, Java, R, Julia, Perl, Go, C, Elixir, Zig, SQL, HTML, CSS, French, Scratch, Kotlin, Scala, C# is a plus.
4
0
19
the h1-b debate is incredibly noisy because two things are true 1. h1-b has been abused by body shops for at least 2 decades by companies like tata 2. there are many incredibly qualified people who have moved here under an h1-b the problem is that people outside of sf are
86
80
1K
We need to stop talking about H1Bs as a single entity. Itâs used in different ways by different immigrants and different companies. We need Congress to act and replace the program with one that meets Americaâs needs, not those looking for cheap labor. This is doable.
0
0
1
lemme do a quick grifter-to-english translation: "We're so bad at management that the only people who don't bail on us after a month are people who need a visa to stay in the country"
half of bunâs team is here on visas. itâs already very difficult to find great engineers. please donât make it harder
36
304
4K
The President is scaring moms with research about autism that does not hold up under much scrutiny.
536
300
2K
To everyone saying we canât be innovative without H1B workersâŚhow did the US build all of our advanced weaponry? Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, etc. havenât been hiring foreign nationals to build missile defense systems and targeting software and what not!
0
1
1
Have to love @McCormickProfâŚthis is the essence of what it means to be a true conservative.
I'd like to say something to my fellow conservatives. It's something that I hope will speak to old-school liberals as well. We must be people of principle--unwaveringly so. We must be so most fundamentally because it is right. It is morally required. And we are not relieved of
0
0
0
There will never be a need for UBI b/c the jobs wonât disappear, they never have. Human capacity to figure out new wants and needs is never ending. We canât be satisfied, if we could we would have stopped at basic subsistence farming.
The problem with post-AI UBI is it incentivizes zero human development. Everybody gets the same $2,000 a month, regardless of the level of effort. At least with work, we had an incentive to learn skills, take risks, achieve results. Soon it will be communism, run by robots.
0
0
0
@Musing_Thinking @LeylaKuni Basic calculus is useful to learn. Statistical math is really useful to learn. These really should be combined into a single course. Outside of people with a love for math or specific professional aspirations, going too deep in either has little benefit.
1
1
1