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Sam Altman went from "I'm doing this because I love it" to proposing to receive 7% equity in the for-profit entity in a matter of months. Now he calls out researchers leaving for g…

Catholic churches are quite conservative in their own ways, primarily set up by Christian missionaries with the mandate to convert. The english language helped, sure, but it's the …

This is like saying more than a quarter of the code is from oss, examples and stackoverflow before LLMs.

Also that it maintains insertion order (since Ruby 1.9) opens up more use cases.

Elon Musk's Trump like behaviour - for e.g. poll regarding Twitter HQ, edit button, openly discussing product ideas etc would have definitely spooked Twitter. This would have led t…

The Matrix

Can you be a "VP of Sales" without ever doing any sales? Can you be a head chef without ever cooking? Sure, you can be immensely impactful being a people leader and a conduit betwe…

Would totally recommend this book "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html

Two books that might help: Courage to be Disliked - it's helped me put different life problems in perspective. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who W…

Product companies ideally optimise for outcome (growth/delight/adoption metrics). Consulting companies tend to optimise for output (delivering on time, code quality, reported bug c…

Java language gets its hate from its historical lack of focus on developer happiness. Beyond the language, the crufty experience with Java Bean, Java EE, WebSphere era all contribu…

There is intentional or incidental technical debt which is debt taken for good reason because of lack of enough context, YAGNI, or whatever with the understanding that it will need…

I have used craftwork design method framework to build startup landing pages and websites. https://craftwork.design/downloads/method-4/ It ships with many layouts, blocks and compo…

React Native/Expo Mobile app development used to take a lot of effort with separate builds for iOS/Android and low code reuse. React Native changed the game and made building mobil…

Gitlab is a great service and a great alternative to github and bitbucket. But it has been quite flaky over many years and it's quite surprising they haven't prioritised system sta…

I have found agile rituals like standups, retros, iteration planning meetings etc helpful because it gives multiple forums especially for junior developers to participate. These he…

Lack of motivation and thus focus could be due to many factors. Finding the root cause is the first step. If it is due lack of social contact (due to working from home), try hangin…

> These are not unusual traits when starting a company as a technical founder. Its actually not unusual to have technical cofounders who have no prior software engineering work exp…

I have an enterprise B2B app on react native with expo and the experience is great. Code push (over the air updates) on expo is a killer feature and something which Flutter doesn't…

The usecase in the article was to parse logs from a CDN serving cached content not an app server which serves every request.

Use Quip for documenting features, ideas, check-listing, task tracking https://quip.com/ Having one place for chats, documents, tasks is great. Its fast, simple and real-time!

I think the role of AI in eliminating these jobs is overstated compared to the role of Cloud, Dev Ops automation and faster iteration cycles afforded by relatively better abstracti…