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New comment by CartyBoston in "My Time at MIT"

CartyBoston — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:09:17 +0000

I did not go to MIT but spent my entire career in Boston startups and tech. It is impossible to overstate how influential CSAIL was (and is?) in addition to it sounding here like a wonderful place.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Sweden eyes sending inmates abroad as prisons full due to gang crime wave"

CartyBoston — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:31:02 +0000

It's a pretty good definition if for some reason you think Paul Graham is in a position to decide what's "performative".

New comment by CartyBoston in "Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years"

CartyBoston — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:23:49 +0000

You don't suppose people are choosing to live elsewhere for any "political" reasons do you?

New comment by CartyBoston in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

CartyBoston — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:45:54 +0000

Twitter sucks because it's commercial. Threads sucks because it's commercial. Bluesky will suck because it's commercial.

If only there was a pattern we could detect.

Learn about the Fediverse (not just "Mastodon"), it's the only solution worthy of you.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Mental health in software engineering"

CartyBoston — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:58:22 +0000

This piece teaches me almost nothing about Vadim but shows me a ton about the environment he worked in. Someone built that culture, who are they? Why did they do it? Was Vadim complicit? Why did he feel so little control?

Hustle culture is not challenging, it does not help anyone grow, it simply exploits people. It's common, banal stuff.

New comment by CartyBoston in "No equality for working women in any country in the world, study reveals"

CartyBoston — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:58:06 +0000

Well the tech industry is certainly in no position to help or pass judgement, our lack of diversity is a industy-wide disgrace.

New comment by CartyBoston in "US spacecraft on the moon 'caught a foot' and tipped on to side, says NASA"

CartyBoston — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:32:23 +0000

“The vehicle is stable near or at our intended landing site,” Steve Altemus, the chief executive of Intuitive Machines said during a NASA news conference on Friday. “We do have communications with the lander.”

This is the quality of communication we can expect from commercial mission CEOs.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Private company landing on the moon today"

CartyBoston — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:11:08 +0000

The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing.

We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.

New comment by CartyBoston in "It's time to break free from Corporate Agile"

CartyBoston — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:34:27 +0000

In the startup world and in much of the tech corporate world in practice predictability is valued above all else. It's because investors, perhaps reasonably, value and therefore demand predictions.

But as we know that is fundamentally difficult. So many tech orgs make up a "hero-hustle" culture to compensate. "We're top 10% and we work all the time, this is the best we can do!"

Strong leadership is strong leadership, building the right product development culture is really hard.

New comment by CartyBoston in "CDC 6600"

CartyBoston — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:49:56 +0000

The first two machines I touched were a CDC 6400 and DEC 20 at Lehigh University in the 70s.

Both - while built by large teams - "felt" like they were designed by a single person, complete consistency across hw, OS, tools, and apps (programs). It's so foreign from the experience we have now it's difficult for me to describe.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Dana-Farberications at Harvard University"

CartyBoston — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:51:28 +0000

It's the name of an institution, not just a person.

New comment by CartyBoston in "The Myth of Meritocracy Runs Deep in American History"

CartyBoston — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:43:09 +0000

The meritocracy myth is s fundamental tenet of tech and Silicon Valley culture.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor"

CartyBoston — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:18:50 +0000

The bit about PG and Altman parting ways is interesting I wonder if anyone wants to share more :).

Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor

CartyBoston — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:17:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378216

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New comment by CartyBoston in "Ask HN: Is middle management the most vulnerable/disposable in a corporation?"

CartyBoston — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:19:29 +0000

"Middle management" gets a bad rap I think, I moved from big company middle management positions to startup founding teams and back my entire career. More senior managers in big companies typically lacked operational chops.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?"

CartyBoston — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:54:59 +0000

Just the questions show you may be on the right path. I'd look for emotional blocks inhibiting the implementation/coding work. In my aged experience virtually all procrastination is based in emotion.

New comment by CartyBoston in "Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI"

CartyBoston — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:35:45 +0000

Market share for what? Inflicting ads on people? Fortunately the W3C does not care (directly) about market share.

New comment by CartyBoston in "‘These are the people who could pause AI if they wanted to’"

CartyBoston — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:17:46 +0000

"If you were to heed Timnit’s warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies. If you heed Geoff’s warnings, you sit around a table at Davos and feel scared."

‘These are the people who could pause AI if they wanted to’

CartyBoston — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/11/signals-meredith-whittaker-these-are-the-people-who-could-actually-pause-ai-if-they-wanted-to