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New comment by mrdrqr in "AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible"

mrdrqr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:15:44 +0000

What parts of The Lean Startup would you update for the AI era?

New comment by mrdrqr in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

mrdrqr — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:56:00 +0000

you’re just complaining about unwittingly being promoted from an individual contributor to a manager.

New comment by mrdrqr in "Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant"

mrdrqr — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:35:11 +0000

Why even write 2IC if you then have to explain what it is?

New comment by mrdrqr in "Chat with your database using AI"

mrdrqr — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:39:21 +0000

Since AI's main achilles heal is that it can make up responses, isn't a database widget view the worst use case? Wouldn't you want to be sure the displayed data was exactly correct?

New comment by mrdrqr in "New allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein"

mrdrqr — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:29:51 +0000

The Lichtenstein estate wouldn't care because no one wants your copy.

New comment by mrdrqr in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

mrdrqr — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:36:28 +0000

How is that rotary encoder low profile?

New comment by mrdrqr in "New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie"

mrdrqr — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:02:01 +0000

This sounds exactly like the audio synthesis I did for a recent generative sound app. I didn't know too much so a very high q band pass filter over brown noise did the trick. Do that over several voices (not necessarily harmonic) and you get something similar. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/night-shapes/id1490540845