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For those in the know... what are the best patterns out there for doing this at the moment?

Talked with a founder building something in this space that was inspired by Matt's post in October. lynq.ai (no affiliation, I just know Paul). I think when you look at this proble…

I remember interviewing there in 2009 and I stopped counting the number of languages I was told were being used on the SRO / backend side. I'm sure it wasn't, but it seemed like it…

That’s a first world problem. The big problem is becoming successful.

Likewise. I did our wedding site in it with a wufoo form back in 2015. Spent an evening at it, sent out email. Done! Literally never touched it again. Simply done and well executed…

Anything you put "work" in to (like serious hobbies, sports etc.) can still be considered a hobby / leisure. Lots of competitive low end golfers, tennis players, basketball players…

The revenue multiple is probably not the metric they used to arrive at the valuation, but it's certainly a normalizer that people use to compare outcomes. Multiples of trailing 12 …

The key is to decouple the two. When you are required to act, act and act decisively. If you are clear that the understanding could be deeper (and it usually can), you trigger a wo…

You err on the side of cutting "too much", because a. as the original author suggested, you want to cut once and b. because the downside of cutting "too much" is better than the do…

My 2c - the key is that the focus should be on delivery and not some justification for the work you did yesterday. The idea being that you are standing up looking at the work in fr…

110% agreed I've always felt a level of entitlement around that. You (the business) want me to learn and get better. You get more value over time that way.

The simple answer is that they (mostly) serve different markets

They ipo'd last year

>>> Mr HashiCorp has gone way too far down the rabbit hole, by the sounds of it. It makes sense to set up a subsidiary when you have a larger group of staff in a single location. O…

Dealing with real world data and applications means being liberal in what you accept. If you're producing CSV files, then you can be more strict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robu…

Kinda. It approximates cash flows for some types of companies. For others it doesn’t. Hard to generalize here. Ultimately the best measure of cashflow is cashflow. It’s a good norm…

Get Quantum. Serious improvement

"Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree / fire hydrant" is the canonical quote. I would assume the fire plug is the name of one of the things that failed while he re…

We've started using this for simpler decisions ala choosing a restaurant or a movie to watch. The 5-2-1 game... You pick 5 things, she selects 2, you select the final. Or vice vers…

The difference between doing that and talking to 3rd party integrators is the ability to compare across vendors.

You really can't generalize across Europe

Bringing this on a small tangent, but I've never been comfortable with 'sudo !!' and I can't really articulate why aside from wanting to be as explicit as possible. , , type sudo a…

These things are not really mutually exclusive. Defense in depth. Getting more information on building defensible software does not preclude the need to have someone knowledgeable …

Thanks for these, something resonated with me reading his description. Any other recommendations on the strategy side?

Comparing compensation for experienced engineers and new grads between companies isn't apples to apples.