The Daily Index — Tuesday, November 7, 2023 · TLDR Index

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A VIDEO GAME THAT PAYS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM WORKING REMOTELY

Remote work is like a video game that pays. There are many similarities between video games and remote software engineering. This blog post looks at insights and lessons learned over almost two years of remote work. Remote work can be very rewarding, but it is not all rainbows and unicorns. Getting to know the people that you work with in person can help improve communication and collaboration immensely.

dtransposed.github.io · 10 min

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ASK HN: WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT AT THE MOMENT? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

A Hacker News thread on developers' passions. Topics discussed include developing a life purpose, powerlifting, running, small city council politics, and mental health. A similar thread from exactly a year ago is linked to in the original post.

news.ycombinator.com

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HERE’S HOW RISING PAY TRANSPARENCY IS CAUSING AN EMPLOYER COMPENSATION INFORMATION ‘ARMS RACE’

Pay transparency has not significantly altered average wage ranges listed in job postings, but more employers are including a range of cash benefits, perks, and flexibility options.

cnbc.com · 3 min

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BUMBLE ANNOUNCES SLACK CEO LIDIANE JONES WILL BE ITS NEW CHIEF EXEC

While Bumble now has a clear line of succession, the move leaves Slack in a bit of a pickle.

techcrunch.com · 5 min

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XAI PROMPTIDE

xAI's PromptIDE is a development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research.

x.ai · 8 min

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THE ARCHITECTURE BEHIND A ONE-PERSON TECH STARTUP

This post breaks down the setup for a one-person SaaS tech startup, from load balancing to cron job monitoring to payments and subscriptions.

anthonynsimon.com · 22 min

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WHY ARE WE STILL SURPRISED THAT STARTUPS ARE HARD?

Even Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, one of the five US companies currently worth over a trillion dollars, wouldn't do it all over again if he had the chance.

benn.substack.com · 9 min

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MY COMPANY DIED — LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES

Braid was a company that designed and shipped a type of multi-user financial account called a money pool - it took two and a half years for the company to find product-market fit, after which it grew - but the company was dead just a few months later.

every.to · 14 min