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I spent the weekend working with Claude Code to build out a CLI script that can take a google sheet that has input tabs, output tabs, and processing tabs (which is the way I tend t…

I would challenge your assertion that you need a core competency in bare metal. AWS and GCE are performant enough--you're just not using them correctly. Invest in IaaS expertise an…

For evolutionary features, you're right. But I think the point in the article is that if you're trying to get to product-market fit, your customers' feature suggestions are rarely …

The proof is in your hostile attitude toward her. Her post is about how she felt profoundly unwelcome in the FreeBSD community. Your response is not a counter-argument to her feeli…

I never said that it "gave her the right" to do anything. I said that it did not negate the bad things that happened to her. I said that we should not ignore the very serious and l…

Thanks for the more specific links. She's definitely a strong activist for what she believes, and can certainly dish it out. I don't think any of that necessarily negates bad thing…

I just spent far too long reading both of those links, and I don't see anything there that contradicts anything Randi said in her post. If someone is regularly and routinely attack…

It's the difference between having great documentation and full sample applications and just having a skeletal description of bare API calls. The review of API Gateway does a prett…

Why is it that there seems to be the assumption that all "A" players are those who live to work, work 60+ hour weeks, and generally immerse themselves with their work? I employ "A"…

What's worth reporting back is whether Rackspace is worth using in a world where AWS exists. A year ago, the answer was "No". OnMetal looks very interesting, though.

I'm signing up. Will report back.

Great point--unless you need your core competency to be "innovator in HR policies", why spend any time there?

I agree that there's nothing wrong with being motivated by money as an employee, but there's lot of strong research that, as an employer, you keep more employees based upon non-mon…

Why is that we know the exact price of a gallon of gas more than the exact amount that's withheld from our paycheck due to taxes? We have occasion to interact with both amounts on …

In my experience, those who have made it to Series A have had enough humbling experiences to have learned how to hide obvious arrogance. I would agree with your assessment of brand…

I don't think that the mediocrity of other tech organizations implies that functioning ones are "badass". It's a sad state of the world that "actually shipping products that work" …

I have been struck recently over many conversations with different VC-funded startup CEOs (series A or B money, all at least $5M) at how strong the CTO/tech team rockstar/ninja koo…