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Dunno. It’s really good with Preact + Tailwind. And I have to say that I think most problems can be solved this way and don’t require a special one-of-a-kind UI. In fact, the fewer special UIs I see, the better. I prefer standardized patterns unless they truly don’t fit a domain.

$120/hr gets you a very good developer in the US, too. Just not in the Bay Area or Seattle.

The going rate for 1099 work tends to be higher than this to account for risk, unbillable work, and increased tax rate. Agencies that lend out their developers to clients charge 2-3x this. Remember that engineers can work remotely now which makes regional rates much fuzzier.

Announcer just said “we just reenacted” the last Apollo mission. So, yep. That’ll be used as proof-text that this was all staged.

I get that there are people who think the moon landing was staged, but are there really people who think rocket launches are staged? Because it's pretty easy to go witness one yourself.

The fools who would believe that wouldn't believe Apollo happened either. No need to dignify their existence.

I missed why there’s a blackout period?

the heat generates plasma out of gases surrounding the ship, which prevents EM wave transmission. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/ngpdl/research/hypersonics/radi...

Jony Ive here. I’ll come back and help make your new keyboard perfectly flat and seamless- touchpad based, and we’ll remove all ports. Bluetooth devices only.

Alan Dye here. I'm coming back to Apple, and the next versions of the operating systems will not even have visible controls or icons. You just have to click on the beautiful, clear windows and hope you're interacting with the right UI elements.

Steve Ballmer here, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!

DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!

also, where is the new version of Visual Basic, Ballmer? Your sweaty chants can only distract me for so long…. Wait….. ITS BEEN TWENTY YEARS!?!?


Cave Johnson here. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers.

Scott Forstall here. I’ll resign before I apologize for the choices we make at Apple. All our research shows you’re gonna love it, and if you say you don’t it’s because you’re wrong, not me.

Steve Jobs here, this user is wrong and you are both fired for not realizing this

This is where the Codex and Claude Code Pro/Max plans are excellent. I rarely run into the limits of Codex. If I do, I wait and come back and have it resume once the window has expired.

Claude and Codex pro/max subs aren't supposed to be used for commercial/enterprise development so its not really an option for execs in enterprise. They need to take into account API costs.

At my F500 company execs are very wary of the costs of most of these tools and its always top of mind. We have dashboards and gather tons of internal metrics on which tools devs are using and how much they are costing.


No, I think that’s wrong. They aren’t supposed to be put behind a service, but they can certainly be used to write professional products/ products for the enterprise.

Are they also measuring productivity? Measuring only token costs is like looking only at grocery spend but not the full receipt: you don’t know whether you fed your family for a week or for only a day.

I'm not one of those execs, I'm just echoing what they tell us from those I've talked to who manage these dashboards and worry about this. I do think measuring productivity is not very clear-cut especially with these tools.

They do "attempt" to measure productivity. But they also just see large dollar amounts on AI costs and get wary.

My company is also wary of going all in with any one tool or company due to how quickly stuff changes. So far they've been trying to pool our costs across all tools together and give us an "honor system" limit we should try not to go above per month until we do commit to one suite of tools.


First you have to figure out HOW to measure productivity.

(Output / input), both of which are usually measured in money. If you can measure both of those things--and you have bigger problems if your finance department can't--it logically follows that you can measure productivity.

Measuring strictly in terms of money per unit time over a small enough timeframe is difficult because not all tasks directly result in immediately observed results.

There are tasks worked on at large enterprises that have 5+ year horizons, and those can't all immediately be tracked in terms of monetary gain that can be correlated with AI usage. We've barely even had AI as a daily tool used for development for a few years.


> Claude and Codex pro/max subs aren't supposed to be used for commercial/enterprise development

lolwut?


Read ToS.

I just did. Tell me where it states what you are claiming. Neither my reading (IANAL) nor ChatGPT’s reading could find such a blanket ban:

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms


From your link:

> Non-commercial use only. You agree that you will not use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we and our Providers have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

There are separate commercial terms for Team/Enterprise/API usage: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms


I suspect you are accessing their website from a European IP address. The clause you quoted is not present for users outside of the EU/UK.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590473


That explains it. I don’t see it from my US IP address.

Same. Codex and Claude Code on the latest models are really good at finding bugs, and really good at fixing them in my experience. Much better than 50% in the latter case and much faster than I am.

A lot of discoveries are like that. In fact, simplicity is often the hallmark of correctness, and complexity is often a sign that our understanding is incomplete and we’re still stumbling towards the right model. Not always, but often. It’s been a good rule of thumb in my programming career.

100%. I have a guiding approach when solving problems: keep reframing and exploring until the solution becomes obvious.

I often find, if I've got a complicated solution, it’s because I haven’t fully examined the problem.


A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.

Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education

Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid

Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2...

And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...

Should be required reading


My guess is the answer is: We didn’t really launch Artemis. This is all CG.

> This is all CG.

Reminds me of the classic - It is true that Spielberg filmed the moon landings, but he was such a perfectionist that he wanted to shoot on location.


ahem, Kubrik

Kubrick, even.

And here I thought it was all shoot on soundstage on Mars.

"Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement."

Now you're catching on.

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