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As someone who had some outages due to AI traffic and is now using CloudFlare's tools: Most of my site is cached in multiple different layers. But some things that I surface to una…

Yes, no question, assuming Rails matches what the startup is trying to do well enough. I've worked in other frameworks, stacks, etc and nothing beats the raw productivity of Rails …

That's true, I'm mostly commenting on software because the article is about software, and this might be anecdata, but it certainly seems to me like patent trolls are more prevalent…

Don't think I've ever worked for a startup that had any patents whatsoever. I think I consulted with one IIRC, and they folded largely due to their hyperfocus on tech to the detrim…

Fully agreed. IMO its a critical thing to provide engineers an IC career path that enables advancement without requiring moving into a manager type of job. Otherwise, you get peopl…

> My example was to refute the parent poster who implied, in a seemingly general sense, that stock issuance doesn't impact earnings, which is false. I was talking specifically abou…

Their comp is largely stock, not cash. Eliminating them won't move the needle much on net loss.

Agree with this. There are also still lots of companies hiring CS grads. They just aren't paying FAANG level comps. Kind of strange to hear people say they're going to pivot into b…

Depends 100% on the company you're referring into. The larger the company, the less personal it tends to be. Conversely, if the "current employee" is a leader with hiring authority…

Depends so much on so many things. Like, what kind of app/company are you building? How big is the company/app/team(s)? Who is on your team? What are your other practices? Etc.. Fo…

> modern software development is trivial to learn LMAO c'mon. This basically undercuts anything else you say here. Go teach your grandma react and see how trivial it actually is.

You can see this with a "new" ANY dev, because there are only 4 years of college and far more years are required to learn the increasingly complex technology environment. I graduat…

> This is pretty trivial to build once you have given it some thought, it sits nicely next to the work you do building health-checks into the various tiers of your infrastructure, …

This depends a lot on the product. Some products, companies, markets, etc simply NEED capital to get off the ground. Hardware for example is fairly pricey on average. Tech's evolut…

The potential to game things exists everywhere. Tax CO2 and people will want to find ways to technically reduce CO2. For example, what if it becomes cheap enough to just convert al…

Because the intent of such a hypothetical law would be to reduce/capture C02, but the end result of it is that it financially incentivizes generating more C02 through some unexpend…

> It seems fairly straightforward to just ask verbal questions? This is basically my interviewing POV. If you've done the work, you can talk about the work intelligently if I ask s…

Sticker pricing, at least, IIRC

Strongly disagree with this. Its very easy to stand out, in many different ways. > How will emailing someone directly help if he doesn’t have a unique set of skills that helps him …

Honestly, I don't know. I don't see enough of the "not close, easy rejection" type resumes, I see things after they've been filtered. But I'll see if I can get an answer to that qu…

Well, to give you my POV - my company is still hiring because the business fundamentals are still strong. We're making money and using that money to pay people. But I have friends …

> I've wondered about that. Sometimes I see jobs that sounds super interesting, but I only match maybe 50% of the unique bits of experience they want. Really depends on what the co…

As someone on the other side, with open positions we're hiring for: There are probably fewer job openings than there were, but I don't think my company or anyone in my network have…

Those types of conversations are going to depend a lot on their context. Like, if your company is a large company that has a lot of operationalized tooling around corporate agile, …

Modern corporate Agile isn't the same as Agile Manifesto Agile. Even though they have basically the same name, don't mix the two up. Sprints are one tool in your toolbox. Use them …