> One produced a 200% improvement in an internal product, one a 40% improvement in a product with thousands of users, one a 1% improvement in a product with a billion users? Compare that.
Try to assign money/revenue/PR to that and you'll have decent proxy for impact.
Again: what money is attributable to each feature? Are subscriptions up 2% because of the new payment flow or because it's tax refund season? Are they down because of the new UI or because of tariffs? It's not realistic to tell them apart most of the time.
>This goes for all new startups (non-profit or not!) if you want me to give you money, make it easy for me to give you money.
Man, as far as I know this is not some wanna be unicorn startup, this is curiosity-driven, for-hackers content managed by people who were top at competitive security for many years
Visual studio code sucks badly, just most common developers started with it and are used to it in the same way that Windows was "the os" for the same kind of developers at a specific point in the past.
It is even worse know that vscode and all the clones are packed with llm agents that such devs can't live without.
For one thing for example, the latency of the editor is crazy for someone that worked with native editors.
I've been helping people with programming, from students struggling with classes, thru people trying to get 1st job, to people working in industry.
They were passing their classes, getting jobs and completing their tasks.
So I've witnessed how maaaany things people need to learn, what things are not easy to them and so on.
I'm not saying other jobs are easy/easier, but none of my friends, who work in "traditional" industries like homebuilding, road maintenance, manufacturing, etc, etc. needed to push THIS MANY hours into it in order to get 1st job, be decent on it, improve, get promoted, etc.
Almost none of them is learning during their free time in order to get better, etc.
>If you want a challenge, try almost any other job than development, and you'll realize how easy all this stuff actually is.
I mean, difficult != hard.
software eng. is difficult cuz requires a lot of time to put into in order to be proficient.
Better efficiency of X86 mobiles CPUs does negate much of the advantage of ARM laptops. It's just not worth the trouble of going through a major software transition.
One thing that I find suspicious is the large delta in single thread score between ARM and X86 currently. The real world performance does not suggest that big of a difference in actual use. The benchmarks suggest a 25% performance delta but in actual use the delta seems to be less than 10%.
Of course Apple Silicon has the efficiency crown very much locked down
Since they have become a marketing target the benchmarks have become much less useful.
In general you pick companies, products, teams, initiatives, tasks that you're interested about, so it's not like it is purely dependent on luck
If you have skills and see opportunity then going for that may result in nice outcomes :)
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