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"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

is brilliant writing. It's such good writing that it might convince you it's true. But it's cope. By that point, all senior engineer jobs will be automated too. And companies with old unknown chron jobs and USB sticks will get replaced by ones that innovate.


This is dogma


Quite a lot of smart people are taking it seriously

We are at AE Studio with research like https://ae.studio/research/self-referential and https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10188

Anthropic is doing interesting work here, Eleos exists (https://eleosai.org/), and https://digitalminds.substack.com/p/digital-minds-in-2025-a-... is a great review of other compelling work

The field is just beginning but it is worth taking a serious scientific approach to this work


> The field is just beginning

Computational linguists have been saying this since the 1990s. There is still no real theory collating language with consciousness.


Towards Consciousness Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6Hu-DhQwE


If you're watching this unironically, you need to go back and read your Kant/Hegel. These people would have been run out of conferences on a rail.


Why do you consider what is being done in the references above to be a scientific approach?



$31K in '08. What is it today?


A very quick calculation (using AMZN's $61b net sales in 2012) yields about $116k per minute.


One thing that would contribute to extra cost is a large amount of advertising that they are paying per click that ends up leading to a page being down.


Seems like the only difference from CardMunch is they import contacts to Salesforce for you.


Currently, Salesforce and Google Contacts are the key differentiators.

At present, CardShark lets you push business cards directly to Salesforce and iPhone contacts, as well as Google Contacts (instantly via the FullContact web app). Additional integrations will follow - our goal is to allow users to transcribe business cards and push the contact info to wherever they want (from within one app, without cumbersome syncing).

We simply rolled Salesforce out first due to the fit and size of the market.


This is a huge deal for folks stuck in Salesforce. I've already had our team of 6 regional sales managers begin using the app.


There's also an API behind the scenes


All the functionality is exposed as an API.


Ironically, I felt inclined to upvote this from the main page, but upon reading the comments no longer do


Not incredibly ambitious, but would be cool:

Gmail like it used to be before the Google Plus redesign, with Boomerangforgmail and Idonethis built in


What was your old startup 8 months ago?


http://thecityswig.com/, but you emailed me so I'm assuming you figured that out!


Can you provide a link to buy the heart rate monitor/easily see options available?


Hey sorry, I meant to get that up too. So, during my testing I've found that the Polar H7 is really the best heart rate monitor, bar none.

You don't need any electrode gel with it, it keeps perfect track of your heart, and it doesn't disconnect like some of the other monitors.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Polar-Bluetooth-Smart-Heart-Sensor/dp/...


FYI, Polar H7 is iOS supported only. Android/Windows users should not buy one.

http://www.polar.com/en/support/FAQs/H7_heart_rate_sensor_co...


They're Stripe for marketplaces, and they're great. (we've used them since Sept at https://crunchbutton.com)

Question though: why doesn't Stripe support marketplaces?


Marketplaces are higher risk and don't fit the agreements that Stripe has with their bank partners. Deets:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/67


We do, just with a slightly different model. (:

Full answer at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4879633


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