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Disco Stu meme Paul is my favorite example of "brain gout." I learned what gout was as "a disease kings used to get by eating foods that were too rich." Paul's writing when he was …

> What could an application do with Flash in 2005 that we can't do with a modern web application today Show me the JavaScript framework (or tool that exports JS) that you can give …

I think it's a bit like `rails generate`, where it massively speeds up getting a CRUD webapp 0 to 1, but once you get to GitHub or Shopify size, you need a lot more than that to ad…

Ramp is mostly their Python monolith. They have a blog post about their use of Elixir for one service but it's really not their core stack. Brex was a lot more all-in on Elixir, in…

Every coder has parts of programming they love, and parts they hate. Additionally, they have a mental model of what is risky, and what isn't. Languages, by their design, will make …

I'm really torn -- you and your engineers should be excited to work on your codebase. You should enter it and be like "yes, I've made good choices and this is a codebase I apprecia…

lmao Google him

Similar topic explored in videos from a friend of mine I call the "Adventure Game sommelier," because he's played so many of them and can recommend you one for precisely your needs…

lmaoooooo buddy "oracle" implies they know something; the people brought in to fire people at Twitter spent almost no time in determining who was good or even how the company worke…

It's a thing tech (and tech-adjacent) people say when they rub their temples and decide to try to work out the solution to a problem from their existing ideas and biases instead of…

He won the popular vote by less than Hillary won it in 2016, _when she lost the election._ Every time he's been candidate or president, he's the least popular of either in the hist…

It's made my life way, way better It's not a panacea, and the way people talk about it drives me crazy. There are many different modalities, with very different levels of effective…

My favorite thing said about Ev Williams: with Twitter then Medium, he managed to kill blogging _twice._

Haha I was checking the comments precisely to see if this was the case. This happens nearly everywhere a language that isn't Java, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, or JavaScript is used. IMO…

I often joke that every startup job post Series A is you playing Viscera Cleanup Detail[1] for the "heroes" of the pre-PMF stage [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Visc…

> Repeat after me, "my creative energy should be spent on my customers" "I should save my energy, so I won't exercise." "I should save money, so I won't deploy it towards investmen…

Here's a video I liked that's both more informative and less sensationalist on frozen treats like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbtOepN5Bw

I happen to agree with you, but I'll note one _very_ celebrated CEO loved tweeting-while-inebriated so much he bought Twitter

Sure! I find most responses (like the other one on this comment) talk about the social as it relates to the technical (what I call "atmosphere" in [this blog post][1]). I'll avoid …

Author here; I have a lot of other posts in my personal blog about this, but: the current trends in VC-backed tech companies are about minimizing risk and following fashion, rather…

Thanks for the kind words! Another comment mentions it, but last I checked Elixir is still powering the Authorization service. You might be interested in a "making of" post I wrote…

> I some ways, I think the 3-part series and your article are basically saying the opposite. The 3-part series acknowledges the market conditions and overabundance in the past, and…

> If you want to be as profitable as Google or Facebook, you probably do need some rockstars, but you also need to be developing a technology or business that produces tremendous a…

Hi! Author here :) > It really comes down to what you prioritize. Do you prioritize the output and the value added? Or do you prioritize making your engineers feel like "rockstars"…

Author here. Well, sure, but to the contrary: DC has had a much harder time imitating Marvel's success, even with great IP. Universal tried to create the "Dark Universe." And even …