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by philjr 2y ago
For those in the know... what are the best patterns out there for doing this at the moment?
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by philjr 4y ago
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 problem originally, you say - that's a bad idea. Why wou
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by philjr 4y ago
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 was basically "everything" :-)
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by philjr 4y ago
That’s a first world problem. The big problem is becoming successful.
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by philjr 5y ago
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.
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by philjr 6y ago
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 etc. I've found it one of the best outl
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by philjr 6y ago
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 months net profit would be more common for a smaller en
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by philjr 6y ago
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 work effort to understand more. So the next time you need to m
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by philjr 6y ago
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 downside of cutting too little. For everyo
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by philjr 7y ago
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 front of you and the TEAM itself should be focused on how to m
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by philjr 7y ago
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.
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by philjr 8y ago
The simple answer is that they (mostly) serve different markets
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by philjr 8y ago
They ipo'd last year
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by philjr 8y ago
>>> 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. Or when you want to do things like give them stock o
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by philjr 8y ago
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/Robustness_principle
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by philjr 9y ago
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 normalized measure of a stable mature business, but it can overs
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by philjr 9y ago
Get Quantum. Serious improvement
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by philjr 9y ago
"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 refueled. Doesn't quite go together in my
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by philjr 9y ago
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 versa. Stops the back and forth and shares responsibility.
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by philjr 9y ago
The difference between doing that and talking to 3rd party integrators is the ability to compare across vendors.
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by philjr 9y ago
You really can't generalize across Europe
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by philjr 9y ago
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. <up>, <ctrl-a>, type sudo and enter is near
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by philjr 9y ago
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 try to rip it apart afterwards.
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by philjr 9y ago
Thanks for these, something resonated with me reading his description. Any other recommendations on the strategy side?
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by philjr 10y ago
Comparing compensation for experienced engineers and new grads between companies isn't apples to apples.
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by philjr 10y ago
That would be an opt-out strategy, would it not?
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by philjr 10y ago
Right. So most folks here aren't following the "enterprise" space too much, but disclaimer: I work at Workday, a direct competitor to Oracle in the Business Management (ERP) software space. My background's in hosting &am
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by philjr 10y ago
You send them to bed early without dinner
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by philjr 10y ago
returning multiple values was the key part of the sentence
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by philjr 10y ago
I don't disagree, although I'm sceptical that's intentional on Google's part. I think if you applied some common sense to the situation and you were able to get off your moral high horse about what's correct vs answ

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