gilfoyle

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by gilfoyle 1y ago
Sam Altman went from "I'm doing this because I love it" to proposing to receive 7% equity in the for-profit entity in a matter of months. Now he calls out researchers leaving for greener pastures as mercenaries while the ech
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by gilfoyle 1y ago
Catholic churches are quite conservative in their own ways, primarily set up by Christian missionaries with the mandate to convert. The english language helped, sure, but it's the lack of opportunities in their own state and the higher
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by gilfoyle 2y ago
This is like saying more than a quarter of the code is from oss, examples and stackoverflow before LLMs.
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by gilfoyle 3y ago
Also that it maintains insertion order (since Ruby 1.9) opens up more use cases.
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by gilfoyle 4y ago
Elon Musk's Trump like behaviour - for e.g. poll regarding Twitter HQ, edit button, openly discussing product ideas etc would have definitely spooked Twitter. This would have led to serious talk and conditions that he should restrain
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
The Matrix
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
Can you be a "VP of Sales" without ever doing any sales? Can you be a head chef without ever cooking? Sure, you can be immensely impactful being a people leader and a conduit between business and tech without ever having written a
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
Would totally recommend this book "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
Two books that might help: Courage to be Disliked - it's helped me put different life problems in perspective. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World - This has been on my bookshelf for
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
Product companies ideally optimise for outcome (growth/delight/adoption metrics). Consulting companies tend to optimise for output (delivering on time, code quality, reported bug counts, number of stories, sprint velocity etc.) A
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
Java language gets its hate from its historical lack of focus on developer happiness. Beyond the language, the crufty experience with Java Bean, Java EE, WebSphere era all contributed to this. Thankfully, Java ecosystem has learnt from othe
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
There is intentional or incidental technical debt which is debt taken for good reason because of lack of enough context, YAGNI, or whatever with the understanding that it will need to be revisited and the developers are aware of it. This on
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by gilfoyle 5y ago
I have used craftwork design method framework to build startup landing pages and websites. https://craftwork.design/downloads/method-4/ It ships with many layouts, blocks and components in React that you can mix a
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by gilfoyle 6y ago
React Native/Expo Mobile app development used to take a lot of effort with separate builds for iOS/Android and low code reuse. React Native changed the game and made building mobile apps easy and much less expensive.
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by gilfoyle 6y ago
Gitlab is a great service and a great alternative to github and bitbucket. But it has been quite flaky over many years and it's quite surprising they haven't prioritised system stability over everything else. https://tw
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by gilfoyle 6y ago
I have found agile rituals like standups, retros, iteration planning meetings etc helpful because it gives multiple forums especially for junior developers to participate. These help break down information asymmetries that can creep up. How
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by gilfoyle 6y ago
Lack of motivation and thus focus could be due to many factors. Finding the root cause is the first step. If it is due lack of social contact (due to working from home), try hanging out with friends or acquaintances everyday. It's a go
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by gilfoyle 6y ago
> These are not unusual traits when starting a company as a technical founder. Its actually not unusual to have technical cofounders who have no prior software engineering work experience.
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by gilfoyle 8y ago
I have an enterprise B2B app on react native with expo and the experience is great. Code push (over the air updates) on expo is a killer feature and something which Flutter doesn't seem to have yet. If you are a small team that uses&
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by gilfoyle 8y ago
The usecase in the article was to parse logs from a CDN serving cached content not an app server which serves every request.
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by gilfoyle 9y ago
Use Quip for documenting features, ideas, check-listing, task tracking https://quip.com/ Having one place for chats, documents, tasks is great. Its fast, simple and real-time!
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by gilfoyle 9y ago
I think the role of AI in eliminating these jobs is overstated compared to the role of Cloud, Dev Ops automation and faster iteration cycles afforded by relatively better abstractions and tools for building software compared to 10-15 years