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Isolation might also prove to have some staying power.

It's lowering the bar for developers to enter the marketplace, in a space that is wildly under saturated. We'll all be fine. There's tons of software to be built. More small busine…

Honestly, I've developers saying the same thing about IDEs and high level languages. This new generation of tools add efficiency the same way IntelliJ added efficiency on top of Ec…

It was brutal, but the mentality was - it's brutal now but you have the power to fix it, so engineering hours went into fixing broken windows. That adopted mentality pays off tech …

Don’t build it to sell - explicitly. Build it to solve your business problem and tell the guy building it “after we’ve separated ourselves from our competitors and we’ll either dec…

This summarizes my career nicely. Great advice IMO.

This summarizes my career nicely. Great approach advice IMO.

I think he’s toeing the line of “listen build it yourself but you’re missing a decade of expertise I can add to your stack tomorrow” That said, my feeling is the guy doesn’t have a…

Second this. Cross functional knowledge is the secret sauce of in-house designed software. Nothing off the shelf does that. Integration is where cross departmental solutions live a…

I have a fully staffed team it’s not 5m a year. For a company twice his size. These are very generous consultant pitch #s not reality. We doubled running 1-$200k/guy … 2x full stac…

My caution is at the end of working with free lancers you have no technical retention. My company worked with freelancers/consultants for years, it just delayed the inevitable. You…

I started as a “programmer” for a similar sized company, we’ve 2.5x and I’m the CTO now. I can share a great deal of input if you would like to chat sometime, message me/I’ll make …

I don't think a magic number is the right solution here.

When I integrate systems, I use that system's natural key (love it when it's a unique ID, but in the systems I work in - it almost never is). That said, I use that natural key as t…

This assumes useful tests. There's a false equivalency drawn between writing tests means you wrote good code. In reality, those who can write good tests can also write good code. M…

Bingo. Pure, unadulterated ego

I think "cool" is synonymous with, "would they be a good fit for your team/culture" ... not a specific type/race/ethnicity/political persuasion... Are they someone that's going to …

Smart, foolish, arrogant. Officers handled it well.

Create a progressive tax on multiple homes. Increase tax on corporate owners. There

Talent value to the company. We sadly let someone walk because while they were SUPER talented, they weren’t working effectively on things that mattered

There is some barrier to entry. My friend, a much less skilled developer, was much better at the craft of SO. I just lurk/solve my own issues

Literally everything AI right now

I’ve got a codebase written in the extreme programming paradigm that has become a linchpin for operating our enterprise. I can fire up an AI to build out my missing unit tests in 1…

Less aggressive language.

I barely post but here here. Leveraging the executive branch as the government creates a bipolar governance, every 4-8 years we have a totally different country and outcomes. We ne…