The Daily Index — Friday, March 15, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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FALSEHOODS PROGRAMMERS BELIEVE ABOUT TIME ZONES

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zainrizvi.io · 10 min

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THE TOP 100 GEN AI CONSUMER APPS

AI-native products and companies are growing faster and engaging users more deeply than ever before. Over the coming decade, AI will likely underpin category-defining companies. This article examines data on the most popular generative AI products to uncover patterns on how consumers are using the technology. It looks at the rate of progress in the industry, emerging categories, hot niches, the mobile vs web split, and AI as a global pursuit.

a16z.com · 11 min

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THE CURSE OF THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Titles help normalize pay ranges and allow for progression and evaluation. People who are not job hoppers or get stuck in the same company and title due to laziness, comfort, or other reasons are unfortunately prone to 'The Curse of the Senior Software Engineer'. This is when an engineer who has been senior for too long finds themselves between two worlds upon their next job search: they are too senior to be hired as a senior or they have too little leadership experience to be hired in a leadership position. Avoiding the curse involves either playing by corporate rules or exiting the game by switching to self-employment.

yieldcode.blog · 11 min

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SNAPCHAT WILL ALLOW USERS TO SAVE DMS

Snapchat is experimenting with an 'Infinite Retention Mode' that will allow users to save their direct messages.

axios.com · 2 min

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AFTER AWS AND GOOGLE, MICROSOFT SAYS IT’S REMOVING AZURE ‘EGRESS’ DATA TRANSFER FEES — BUT WITH CAVEATS

Microsoft will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no egress fees to align with stipulations set out in the European Data Act, but only for customers looking to completely end their association with Azure.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILL IN STARTUP ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

The singular skill that ultimately decides the success of a leader and their team is pacing - leaders must be in tune with their and their team's abilities and stamina.

danielmangum.com · 4 min

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THE FUTURE OF FARCASTER WITH DAN ROMERO

Dan Romero, the founder of Farcaster, a disruptive social network, talks in this interview about competing directly against Elon Musk, nerd sniping, prediction markets, and new business models.

generalist.com · 22 min

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DIGITAL FORGERIES ARE HARD

Expert witnesses on both sides of the case over whether Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto agree that much of the digital evidence provided by Wright is unreliable in one way or another.

mjg59.dreamwidth.org · 6 min