It was really just a rhetorical joke, but I wrote an app that is a system, based on a custom backend and native frontend.
I wrote a special native management app, and often use that, to implement dashboard functionality, like the kind of thing that the HN mods do.
Yeah, I could, for example, feed the logs into an LLM, and get fancy reports, but it’s a lot easier to simply hit the charts button in the navbar, and view interactive graphs, customized exactly for my workflow.
No, I'm saying they are hyping up some random podcast while saying sweet nothings. I really don't like empty hype. I want some actual content to posts that actually says something, not just links breathlessly encouraging me to go spend an hour listening.
Not sure where you get the breathless bit from. If you don't want to listen, then don't. If you want me to summarize everything for you and give you the bullet points that is also something that will take more time than I am willing to commit at the moment. You can listen to it, or not. No skin off my back. The irony with some of the commentary is along the lines of "don't listen to influencers" and the like. I provided a link to (what I feel to be) a very worthwhile listen that is the antithesis of the grab-a-headline news of late. I have no connection to this particular podcast and have listened to a handful of episodes over the years on subjects that interest me. This particular subject (Huge IPOs, what is or isn't tracked, what float is, etc) turns out to be a relatively deep domain and there are inherent tradeoffs between different approaches. That's all.
The middle one is the ad-hominem puffery. The rest isn't quite exactly 100% 'of the person's, but still doesn't give me any actual leads into what the content is: its just empty puffery.
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