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After 7 years, Iām going from working at Cloudflare to building on Cloudflare! Tomm is my last day
Iāll miss working with so many insanely driven ppl who made each day funānone more than @rrnn & @KankaniAbhishek. Thanks @dok2001 for the life-changing DM that started it all š§”š
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have a graveyard of tightly scoped side projects that iām just feeding to this thing and itās just spitting out codeā¦ā¦.that just executes lmaooo
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a16zās refusal to even hear ftx pitch shows insane conviction
this isnāt getting even 1% of the attention adam neumann did because it goes against the mediaās a16z narrative
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Pre-elon: Twitter execs tweeting word salad disguised as thoughtful āPoLiCyā
Post-elon: Twitter engineers tweeting raw demos on a Saturday afternoon š„
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SoftBank is pouring money into new companies at the same run rate as *all* of NYSE:
- NYSE IPOs have raised $19.3B this year.
- In comparison, SoftBank alone has invested $45B of its Vision Fund in the past year.
-2,400+ NYSE listed companies
-41 IPOs, raisingĀ $19.3B
-12Ā International IPOs, raisingĀ $5.2B
-9 spin-offs,Ā $24BĀ in market cap
-6 Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
-1st NYSE Direct Floor Listing: @Spotify
-1st in ETFs, with $7.5B AUM
-1st female NYSE President: @stacey_cunning
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finally walked into a pizza place for first time that Iāve ordered from 50+ times this year on ubereats:
āIāll have a chicken panini no š , no š§
, no olive oil, extra š§ , very light chicken, light...ā
*interrupts me mid sentence*
āare you zaid? hey make him a zaid specialā
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The moment you put a paywall in front of something, abuse decreases by an order of magnitude
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Retailers spend 9.1% of total cash collections on collecting, reconciling and safely depositing the cash. This makes credit card processing fees of 3.5% seem like a great deal.
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Common view: Facebook is lucky to have Instagram and WhatsApp because Facebook as a product is dying.
Uncommon knowledge: Facebook made 40 BILLION dollars in revenue in 2017 and a vast majority of it did NOT come from IG or WhatsApp.
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Silicon Valley: āBuild painkillers, not vitamins.ā
World: āDid you know the market for vitamins ($37B) is 2x the market for painkillers ($19B)?ā
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The single biggest thing twitter can do is stop promoting industry celebs and start promoting users with quality tweets but < 200 followers
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If you think Google spends a lot on its "moonshots," it still spends a fraction of other companies.
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āIf enough of your customers say your food is too hot or too salty, you change it. But if a few tell you to add bananas to your lasagna, youāre going to turn them down and thatās okay.ā
āRework by @jasonfried & @dhh
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zuck and elon are far better custodians of billions of dollars than the government will ever be latimes.com/world-nation/stoā¦
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"Our mission is to kill this Excel spreadsheet"
One release later...
"fuck it, if they wanna do it their way, just let them export to Excel"
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āMacyās will be the most successful retailer of the next five years, not Amazon.ā āsame guy, in 2015
Overvalued unicorns:
ā Pinterest
ā Snap
ā Twitter
ā Peloton
ā Slack
ā DoorDash
ā Lime
ā Palantir
ā Uber
ā Compass
Will lose 80% or disappear:
ā Tesla
ā WeWork
ā Robinhood
ā Lyft
ā OYO
#nomercynomalice
profgalloway.com/mdma
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GrowSF is among the best things to happen to SF
Itās fighting for (and delivering!) common sense reforms that make SF safer and more livable for people across the city, not just in Pac Heights & Marina
Hard left ideologues can no longer con lifelong Dems as easily anymore š
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The Chronicle would like to inform you that if you donāt want to be killed by 2mg of fentanyl, you should become a habitual user and build up tolerance
Welcome to the clown showā¦
sfchronicle.com/opinion/artiā¦
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It all makes more sense now thedailybeast.com/nyc-lawyerā¦
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This quote could explain every billion dollar consumer company from the past decade: "Take a simple idea and take it seriously" (Munger)
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The best thing that can happen to driverless car adoption is mass strikes by cab drivers. It worked for elevators!
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āā¦in a neighborhood no one can afford to shopā
another lie. picture on the left is from the same whole foods location chronicle calls expensive
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If youāre building the next ig or tiktok, Cloudflare Stream + Images can help you ship your dream app in a fraction of time for as little as $10/mo
And as your app gets traction, you can focus on growth without wasting a minute on things like load balancing and storage buckets
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Today, Indian people who can afford to pay for Internet decided that all who can't afford should not be able to get free limited internet.
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āRich people should pay more in taxes!ā must be the worldās oldest technique to pacify the masses and distract them from demanding an answer to āHOW ARE YOU USING THE TAX MONEY YOUāRE ALREADY COLLECTINFG?ā
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Biden's clemency of Judge Michael Conahan has to rank pretty high on the list of most unconscionable actions taken by a President
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itās like tweeting āArea woman visits tenderloin, discovers residents wearing bullet proof vests, shocked to find out people shoot each other on the regularā
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A major perk of being at @Cloudflare is that you can have a long conversation about crypto without hearing words like ātokenā or āblockchainā even once.
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"I could have thought of that idea!"
!=
"I could have thought of that idea and its million details for next 10 yrs of my life!"
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Instead of switching to something like Python, AP actually switched to Java from C++ in my senior year in HS in 2005. š¤¦āāļø
I wonder from time to time how much damage this single decision must have done in terms of DISCOURAGING high schoolers to take up programming.
It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision
economist.com/science-and-teā¦
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This analysis by @lwoodhouse, a former chesa campaign filmmaker, provides one of the most accurate summary of why he was recalled!
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The more appalling fact is that Americans pay 12 BILLION DOLLARS annually in tax *preparation* fees to an industry that shamelessly fights any legislation to simplify taxes.
The IRS budget is $11.1 Billion
$11,100,000,000
We pay to collect money from ourselves
And yet the system is still so complicated that most have to pay someone or buy software to figure it out
Insanity
Time for a whole new system
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OMG kanye west is live streaming donda 2 using cloudflare stream and we didn't even know ššš kanyewest.com/
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I got really frustrated w weather apps this week so I built layers.today for myself
Made with
- VisualCrossing Weather API
- Cloudflare Workers
- GPT
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It's awesome that Twitch, YC's biggest exit to date, is a result of one of its most laughed-at investments(justintv).
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Funny world of enterprise sales: at my work, a Salesforce rep convinced us to signup for a $10,000+/yr product. It was supposed to replace our current solution from a startup that charges $2,000/yr.
Two years in, we havenāt touched the Salesforce product but keep paying for it.
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Great irony of enterprise software: you take on the dominant player by not having bloat; but to become the dominant player, must add bloat.
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Introduced a friend who has been building things on AWS for years to Cloudflare
3 days laterā¦
āDude I almost have the mvp built in 48 hours on workers+kv+queuesš³ā
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The ironic thing about good software is that to the naive, the simpler the user experience, the easier it seems to "just clone it!"
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Ideas are considered generally bad for two very different reasons: (1) so uncommon no one gets it or (2) so common, seems redundant.
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I am fascinated by the idea that SOMEDAY ā 10, 50, 500 years from now ā every single company valued at $100b+ today will be valued at 0 some point in the distant future.
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One of best tips Iāve received this year: āspend as much time re-reading what youāve already read and found insightful...as time you spend reading new material.ā
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The phone line carried the Internet in its early days. The Internet is carrying the phone line in 2016.
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SF and NYC are full of ppl who are pro-immigration *and* NIMBY:
āLet em enter America, just make sure everyone stays away from my cityā
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AVIF is the next-gen format that generally reduces the file size of WebP and JPGs by 30-50%
BUT thereās a catch: converting an image to AVIF requires many times more CPU+ram+š°
Good news? If you use Cloudflare Images, you just get AVIF. No extra cost, no code change reqādš±šø
Cloudflare Images introduces AVIF, Blur and Bundle with Stream. cfl.re/3wXQy5c #FullStackWeekš»
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Excellent post on SaaS sales from the one and only Mike Cranney(@bhorowitz's VP of Sales from Opsware) a16z.com/2014/05/30/selling-ā¦
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"...for every $1 required to manufacture in the United States, Boston Consulting estimates that it costs 96 cents to manufacture in China."
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compare the cost of gallon of milk at this whole foods location vs any store within half mile radius
and you might be embarrassed for ever writing this column
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Next up: āOne of my coworkers got mugged last week in a parking lot. She doesnāt step out after dark anymore. Problem fixed. No dramatic social media posts, no "it's the end of the world!"
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Yeah these are some awful questions that are great if you are looking for excuses to block a project without saying you are trying to block a project
Advice like this is what leads to 10 page PRDs that no one reads because it shoulda been 4 paragraphs
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redfin ceo glenn kelman takes the trophy for being the most self aware exec in tech š¤£
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Interview question for the next director of CIA: "What service do you use for your personal email? Does it have 2 factor authentication?"
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Years ago, a banker friend predicted Facebook IPO was overhyped and the company was doomed.
Today, he tried to claim victory. Until I reminded him $fb market cap is still FIVE times the market cap at IPO. š¤¦āāļø
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silicon valley elites donāt live in the TL
working class ppl and families do and youāre gas lighting them
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"In 2011, a typical 2b apartment in the Mission district went for $1,900 a month. By 2012, $3,500. Today: $5,000." vox.com/a/homeless-san-francā¦
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healthdata.orgās model just decreased estimated casualties by half for the state of California š¤š»
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Six weeks ago, a cousin I was super close to took his own life
There is no worse feeling than seeing a train coming and being able to do nothing about it
There is, however, a sobering lesson: sometimes you may need to protect yourself from the recklessness of your own family
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Start up idea: the anti-cloud cloud company. Archives all your cloud files(gmail, dropbox etc.) on a hard disk. Snail mails it upon request.
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Crypto bubble perspective:
Size of dot-com Bubble losses: $5 Trillion
Housing bubble losses: $6 Trillion
Crypto ābubbleā: total marketcap currently at $650 Billion, about 10% of dot com and housing bubble
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Taking control of things you actually control yields better results than trying to control what isn't in your control.
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āAmericans spent more than $80 billion buying lottery tickets in 2016. That's more than they spent on movies, video games, music, sports tickets and books -- combined.ā
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āIf you just take our billion dollars in funding, youād be a unicorn.ā āSoftbankās pitch to every non-unicorn startup.
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Prompt took under 10 mins to write
Took about 5 back and forth to get into this state. ie. initially the dates didnāt align with day of week. Pointing it out fixed it!
Note the spec in picture is mediocre at best compared to what Iād spec for a front-end spec CONTRACT dev
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There is a saying that the moment before you die is when you really start living. When doing a start-up you actually see that play out.
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This is an insane perspective. Whatās next? A tweet thread abt how grocery stores are scamming us because a gallon of milk in NYC doesnāt cost the same as a gallon of milk in Bangalore?
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By this logic, funding for internet businesses has fallen off a cliff in the last two decades since fewer businesses mention āinternetā in their description.
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reminds me of @richardartoul after a year at uber: ādude thereās so much duct tape itās insane you press a button and a car still shows upā š¤£
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Why are fentanyl dealers not considered street vendors?
Itās weird that you support cops arresting street vendors for selling food but not deadly drugs š¤¦āāļø
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Elon Musk has spent more time in mid-Market and the Tenderloin over the past year than majority of San Franciscoās elected leaders š¤·š»āāļø
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It sounds increasingly weird when people make a distinction between the internet and "the real world."
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The Internet seems to do a great job of helping bring revolutions but sadly, has much less of a role post-revolution. This needs fixing.
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If you find gpt4 giving you buggy code and wasting your your 25 msgs quota, try appending this prompt. Just tried for 5 mini swiftui coding tasks and it worked 5/5 times in a single shot (vs. giving me buggy code 5/5 times when I just asked it to give me code)
"When responding...
1. Give me the psuedocode
2. Then tell me the code changes one step at a time
3. Then take a deep breath
4. Then review your last code snippet for errors and either print: "I have checked this code will work" or "Sorry, here is the revised code:
5. Then, give all the code in a single block
6. finally, review the final code block for errors that Xcode might throw; if you find any errors, just tell me "SORRY LET ME TRY AGAIN" and begin at step 1 again"
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