On the opposite side of the spectrum my kids got like 10 lbs of candy just going to different apartments at a 46 floor NYC building
The country is so unwalkable that we literally just trick-or-treat with cars in parking lots.
Erik Bernhardsson
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Erik Bernhardsson
@bernhardsson
Building everyone's favorite AI infrastructure platform @modal
- Just saw a startup with 7 people that has a CEO, a CTO, a CFO, and a VP of Eng 🤔
- Someone needs to write a blog post about the stacks of Chinese tech companies. Feels like there's a lot of software/techniques that are widely used in China but not so much elsewhere.
- Estonia tenbagging its economy in 25 years is pretty remarkable. What’s the secret?
- If you rank every major software innovation (OOP, containers, version control, deep learning, consensus algorithms, asymmetric encryption, whatever...) by the value it created, the relational database would come out at the top and it's not even close
- Tech bros new to AI: "I think Google will be disrupted by AI"
- Excited to announce I’m a guinea pig in an A/B experiment at Drizly. Please promote the product manager who is measuring my price elasticity for vodka at 2.30pm on a Monday.
- A show I would seriously love to watch is one where a Ph.D. in queuing theory (or operations research) goes to random places like airports or hospitals or whatever and figures out tricks to optimize flow.
- This country should bring in 10x more H-1Bs and also make the pathway from H-1B to permanent residency 10x easier
- * There are 100M knowledge workers in the US * That's $10T/year in salaries * My new startup can make them 10% more productive * Even if we only capture 10% of the value, that's $100B/year * We're selling coffee * Invest in my coffee startup at a $1T valuation
- It’s pretty crazy how inefficient most CI setups are. We’re spending 99% of the time reinstalling 99% the same dependencies as last time and recompiling the same code as last time etc. How did we end up in this situation?
- Blog formats ranked by reader friendliness: 1. Self-hosted blog 2. Github Pages ... 57. Pinning theses on a church door ... 275. Medium
- This might be heresy but: 1. Code reviews are a massive productivity tax with tiny quality benefits 2. They should not be mandated 3. The author should feel free to request a review if they want it 4. If you don't trust your engineers, invest more in CI, or hire better ones
- Genuine question: what happens when they run out of letters in the alphabet?We’re excited to announce that Databricks is raising a Series K investment that values the company at >$100 billion. We’ll use this new capital to accelerate our AI offerings for customers, including expanding Agent Bricks and investing in our new database offering, Lakebase.
