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by laurentl 4mo ago
My read is that we're traveling along Gartner's hype cycle. Tokenmaxxing/"who needs developers anymore" is the top of the peak. "oh no we ate our entire budget in 3 months" is heading towards the through o
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by laurentl 1y ago
Old-fashioned I guess: LinkedIn I applied for a CTO position out of curiosity, had a conversation with the CEO (now my cofounder) and hit it off. I was "lucky" to have worked with a so-so CEO previously so I knew exactly what soft
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How Public Cloud ate private hosting: an illustration of the Innovator's Dilemma(lau.rent)
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by laurentl 2y ago
I suppose you've fundraised at some point in the past 13 years. If you have, the advice you probably received was to start with the tier 3 VCs, hone your pitch, and move on to the VCs you really wanted to work with once you had your pi
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by laurentl 2y ago
I have an email address with a personal domain, and my "legacy" Gmail account. I like having an email address with a custom domain, and I think that it's a (weak) signal about your technical aptitude/geekiness. If you wa
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by laurentl 3y ago
I signed up for the ChatGPT Premium waitlist a week or 2 ago; I haven't received anything as of today. In related news, my beta access to Mistral was just approved (I signed up this week).
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by laurentl 3y ago
Define "middle class Americans"? Hard to give a precise answer otherwise. A few (other) explanations: * QoL is hard to be rational about, and is something that (I think) has to be experienced first-hand. European salaries are mo
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by laurentl 3y ago
I did a (regular, non tech-focused) executive MBA at 35, after about 3 years as a developer and 10 as a technical manager. I would absolutely do it again. After my MBA, I transitioned into a CTO role; I'm fairly sure I would have gotte
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by laurentl 4y ago
A few observations from your initial description to maybe help you figure out how you want to handle this. 1. Most people calling the helpdesk are in a very specific state of mind: they have a problem and they want it solved. They're n
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by laurentl 5y ago
Good call. A lot of red flags in here, including one I haven't seen in the other comments: the relationship with the brother. If you're both technical, you have more seniority than him but he has more shares and co-founder status?
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by laurentl 5y ago
I love 202 for sentimental reasons (latest problem available when I picked up PE, seemed impossible at the time, felt thrilled to solve it) and 422 because I find the solution so elegant. I haven't touched PE in years but I still remem
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by laurentl 5y ago
This problem holds a special place in my heart. When I first discovered PE* I checked the latest available problem, which was 202 that week. I remember thinking at the time that it was impossible to solve. Fast forward a couple of years and
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by laurentl 6y ago
The answer to this question is almost always: "the stack you're most comfortable with". In your case, given that you have (apparently) a strong Python background, you should try to see how far you can go with Django and some
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by laurentl 6y ago
If you want a nice tour of classical CS concepts in bite-size chunks, give the "Advent of Code" a try (adventofcode.com) It's a collection of 25 vaguely Christmas-themed problems published each December. The 2019 advent requi
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by laurentl 6y ago
Seems I can't reply to parent so putting the link here: https://www.tlt21.com/the-product-leader-reading-list/
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by laurentl 6y ago
Moonshot-Internet | Lead developer | Paris, France | ONSITE (WFH 3 days/week) | Full-Time Hi, I'm Laurent, the CTO of Moonshot-Internet. We're an Insurtech aiming to make insurance simple, easy to use and useful. I'm loo
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by laurentl 6y ago
Also, you might find the Rand leadership Salck ( https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ ) to be a good place to have discussions with peers on all sorts of topics.
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by laurentl 6y ago
Unless I misunderstand your concept, using your website would entail granting it rights to my AWS account to access billing info and shutdown pretty much any service. So, something close to the Administrator policy. I guess you could do som
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by laurentl 6y ago
Daniel Jarjoura recently published a fairly complete reading list that might be useful: https://techleadership.substack.com/p/the-product-leader-rea... Some books I’ve read and enjoyed and/or found useful: The har
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by laurentl 6y ago
Matt Levine (Bloomberg) gives a convincing explanation in a recent newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-01/stocks... In a nutshell, he argues that stock price is a reflection of the
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by laurentl 6y ago
I would start with a basic question: what do you want to do? Your current job let you explore a lot of topics and roles: which did you like best? Which do you see yourself pursuing for the next few years? Your post seems to imply that you
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by laurentl 6y ago
1) I usually bike on a low-resistance setting where I can talk without being out of breath (similar to talking and walking). If I’m on a higher setting and I need to talk, I just stop biking. 2) I was going to insert a joke about meetings a
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by laurentl 6y ago
I have an exercise bike to which I added a tablet (an old bookshelf plank I had lying around) on which I can put my laptop. It’s pretty hard to type but it’s perfect for conf calls and a bit of light document reading. I have a lot more co
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by laurentl 6y ago
Microsoft Powerpoint (and to a lesser extent Word). I lost count of the number of days I spent trying to make my presentations and documents look good (which for me means pixel perfect). To be clear, this isn’t a failing of the software per
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by laurentl 6y ago
I went through the same question a few months ago. I settled on OCaml. Pros: it's reasonably straightforward to pick up, and it shines as a functional programming language. There are some good learning resources out there, e.g. Real W
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by laurentl 6y ago
BeyondCompare (cited in the original thread), especially the folder comparison feature. Saved my sanity when our team's shared directory stopped syncing silently on my laptop and I had to figure out which files I needed to sync manuall
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by laurentl 6y ago
As a hiring manager, I’ve had success with WttJ, LinkedIn, and talent.io I gave up on ChooseYourBoss, I don’t know how it is for candidates but the UX for recruiters is awful. Never tried Glassdoor, to be honest it never crossed my mind. (P
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by laurentl 7y ago
You don't have to speculate, there have been several cases where the Prudhommes re-qualified contractors as full-time employees. It usually takes 1) a well-organized union in company Y to help with the legal process, round up candidate
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by laurentl 7y ago
We configure all our test addresses to success@ses.amazon.com (or whatever the simulator address actually is) so we don’t spam or get banned by inadvertance
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by laurentl 7y ago
> Better books have followed in this zeitgeist Any suggestions?

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