production beats consumption.
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John Mathews retweeted
latest version
some people have asked for a PDF (idk why, but ok) you can have that one here: visakanv.com/memex/ – at Singapore
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I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.
I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to.
Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?
Follow along 👀
John Mathews retweeted
This is incredible. A snowball fight filmed by cinema pioneers the Lumiere bros in France, 1896. It's been colourised and had the speed adjusted.
John Mathews retweeted
⏰ It's CLI time.
In May, I'll give you a command-line tool each day. I'll try to make it interesting for every living soul. I like hard mode, even when I lose.
Help me carving history with some shell madness. Gimme your tricks for each CLI to spread love in the Universe. 💕🧵
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I’ve audited 500+ websites over the past 6 years.
Here are 17 learnings to help your landing page convert:
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If you don't find previous versions of yourself sorta cringey are you even trying?
I think we should all just be changing faster instead of worried about becoming a 'right version' before participating in the world.
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• Study hard.
• What others think of you is none of your business.
• It's OK not to have all the answers.
• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
• Knowledge comes from experience.
• Imagination is important.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Stay curious.
John Mathews retweeted
There are 2 rules in programming
1. Test your code
2. Don't forget rule #1
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Omg, $17k #BITCOIN
Amazing how last time this happened, it was being breathlessly covered everywhere and this time ... not so much
John Mathews retweeted
You can go to school and spend years trying to learn about marketing, or you can spend a few minutes watching Steve Jobs
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So society’s *real* key workers have just been revealed.
Not the bankers. Not the traders. Not the elite hedge fund managers.
It’s the nurses. The doctors. The delivery drivers. The carers. The porters. The teachers. The shelf stackers. The check out staff.
#COVID19
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Literally all I do all day as a software architect:
That's harder than you think
What do you really want?
What about ops and maintenance?
Do you know what ops and maintenance are?
Your timelines are insane
That tech doesn't exist yet
I can't estimate what's never been done.
John Mathews retweeted
Can someone explain to me why Keybase is involved in some cryptographic currency get rich quick scheme? Is the implication that Keybase is falling apart?
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One of the most common questions we get is: "how do I run a routing node?", or "why am I not forwarding payments?". In response, today we're releasing the first part of our multi-part guide on operational Lightning routing node management by @bvu: blog.lightning.engineering/p… ⚡️
