We are perhaps in something of a "quantum winter" at the moment, given the activity on the financial side of the QC industry as far as reverse listings, SPACs, and mergers have gone.
I work in this field as I find it compelling and the challenges of finding a worthy business case that applies beyond the fantastical potentials is one I feel worth my efforts/years. But equally open to failure where such yields an advance in our learning.
Aaronson is always an entertaining voice in the industry, although his focus on AI means less than I would hope to nudge us along at times. But he was in fine form at Q2B conference in Santa Clara recently, and I'm not anywhere near close to my contributions to the industry to ignore his thoughts as valuable to the discourse. Especially when pushing back on the emotional velocity we might have at times.
Putting aside product strategy and Howard Hughes for a minute, it's worth paying respect to the Revue team. A little group of good humans in the Netherlands, creating a slick and well designed product in an otherwise competitive space. It's a testament to a lot of good work and the kind of energy that makes this industry such a joy at times.
It's also one of endless examples of the downsides of acquisition for users (if not the founder/team with equity, who know the game they're playing). I often think of the analogy of rich kids from dysfunctional families who buy a lot of cool stuff and don't really do much with it after their social signal moment. Been on both side of this to some degree in the industry and it's never fun to see the users let down at the end of it.
While this is part of what keeps the industry going, it would be nice to see more open source outcomes for such well designed products. But to end on a positive... well done team, hope you all go on to make awesome things again.
It's a sad thing to think of someone's grandchildren one day researching their family tree, and seeing all the blatant lies their family member said on behalf of... of all companies... Facebook. It's hardly the honourable legacy to be "talking head denying the thing that the company did, always does, and always will do".
Typo in the URL making it 404... but I'm sure most readers will work that out. Great to see quality podcasts on the history of open source like this. Being involved myself, there's a LOT of hilarious, strange, and very awesome moments in time I hope we manage to capture.
Good to consider. But also worth understanding the role that paying a bank interest has in defusing the "rent money is dead money" myth. Many property markets around the world are in a bubble, again, and inversely have competitive rentals, especially after the pandemic. Owning a home, with a mortgage, incurs often far more impact from the interest to the bank than if one simply rented. Let alone maintenance, rates, etc, let alone the illiquidity. I'd rather not have a house in Lisbon as a non-national when the nation hits another crisis.
Not to challenge the great point you make about CoL, but there's so much cultural distortion around home ownership that it's almost a parody of fundamental economics.
> Many property markets around the world are in a bubble
it's only a bubble if it pops.
> there's so much cultural distortion around home ownership that it's almost a parody of fundamental economic
Again, it's only a distortion if it doesn't persist for so long to become a persistent ground truth.
A house is not a house is not a house because location, location, location. You can put the same exact dwelling structure in two different places and they can have two very different values because everything around the house matters too and if those things persist, they become as real as the house.
Ah so you expect housing prices to continue to grow above income forever? Maybe in the future a single house can cost more than the entire country's GDP or something like that right? House prices only go up!
It's not impossible. If you live off your income then you've already been excluded from purchasing a house. This is what happens when wealth inequality becomes very extreme.
Beta user here. The phone ringing is literally my nightmare as the head a of product team. We are entirely remote and globally distributed, so async is our religion.
We were using Signal and Voxer together, as our specific use case requires nuance that voice is great for. We tried Loom but like Voxer, it just adds this linear playback experience that's so painful at scale.
Being able to speak in realtime, but review at a glance, is amazing. Verbz is indispensable to teams like ours in a kind of "it's so obvious you want voice and text at once" kind of way. The task allocation thing is already "hey that's cool" but seeing their roadmap, gets me excited. Of course, everyone and their dog will copy Verbz now, it's pathetic that Messenger and WhatsApp don't do this by default, so it's the "cool other stuff" they're adding that I'm curious to see. But even as a beta user I don't get shown everything so YMMV.
Beta user here. We use this at the management level. One of our core mgmt team has Android. They get the emails in the meantime. The benefit has outweighed any inconvenience - obviously any new product comes in stages - and we've used this as a force function to better understand how and why we work the way we do. HN more than anybody should get that tech takes time to developer even in parallel, but it's always entertaining to see people go off all the same. Our one Android user is cheering you on. Every nudge helps :P
Beta user here. We're a globally distributed remote team that works on a project with significant nuance/context that voice messages have been amazing for. We also work entirely async.
So the benefit for us has been using Verbz to do voice, with automagical transcription as well as source audio. The task allocated and personal notation is icing on the cake.
We're still working out what else we want or need, or how best to use this, but that really core (maybe really niche) use case for us has been amazing. It... just works. This will be a default product and feature set within six months. Easy.
I work in this field as I find it compelling and the challenges of finding a worthy business case that applies beyond the fantastical potentials is one I feel worth my efforts/years. But equally open to failure where such yields an advance in our learning.
Aaronson is always an entertaining voice in the industry, although his focus on AI means less than I would hope to nudge us along at times. But he was in fine form at Q2B conference in Santa Clara recently, and I'm not anywhere near close to my contributions to the industry to ignore his thoughts as valuable to the discourse. Especially when pushing back on the emotional velocity we might have at times.