> Programmers continuing to become more expensive, computers continuing to become less so. Therefore, the smart bet was on making those programmers more productive EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COMPUTER!
I used Blot for about 5 years for Second Breakfast. Its ease of use got me started blogging. Very cool app/service, highly recommend.
I had it strung up with RSS to Mailchimp to auto-send new posts to a mailing list. Recently just switched to Ghost to make that more integrated, we'll see how it goes!
Haven't thought of this. Couldn't you just give a model a way to constantly "chew" on something? Maybe an ever-ending loop of some sort of prompt stimulation?
Do you have an API where you can get audio clips back reasonably quickly? Like if I wanted to use this in a voice support bot, could I send a text blurb to an API and fairly quickly get back an audio file?
Teaching the history and story of the scientists who made different genetic discoveries, and along the timeline they made those discoveries, made everything make sense.
Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.
I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).
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Interesting, why do you think Hitchens wanted to be Orwell? [I know he was a huge admirer, but he also seemed he lived quite a different life with different kinds of output.]
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We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 11 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:
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Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, Greece, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com
Bottle wants to keep everyone stocked with insanely good local food.
Bottle combines memberships, e-commerce, texting, and automation so that farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers can sell direct and build better businesses. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)
We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:
- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)
- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)
- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, e-commerce, and texting)
Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, Greece, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com
Bottle wants to keep everyone stocked with insanely good local food.
Bottle combines memberships, e-commerce, texting, and automation so that farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers can sell direct and build better businesses. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)
We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:
- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)
- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)
- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, e-commerce, and texting)