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by srpablo 3mo ago
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 closer to reality, in the early 200
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by srpablo 3mo ago
> 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 it to a middle schooler and have them make a cartoon
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by srpablo 7mo ago
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 add a new data model. AIs are pushing many things forward
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by srpablo 8mo ago
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, including being one of the languages "stars," b
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by srpablo 10mo ago
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 some things easier and some things harder, and so when
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by srpablo 11mo ago
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 appreciate, and it has promise." If you have a s
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by srpablo 1y ago
lmao Google him
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by srpablo 1y ago
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. The first https://www.youtube.co
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by srpablo 2y ago
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 worked, completely undermining your thesis. It was madn
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by srpablo 2y ago
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 considering what anyone else has said about it.
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by srpablo 2y ago
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 history we've polled popularity or approval. Many
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by srpablo 2y ago
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 effectiveness for any given person. CBT is awful for me, fo
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by srpablo 2y ago
My favorite thing said about Ev Williams: with Twitter then Medium, he managed to kill blogging _twice._
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by srpablo 2y ago
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 it has more to do with tech labor arbitrage[1] than an
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by srpablo 2y ago
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/Viscera_Cleanup_De...
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by srpablo 2y ago
> 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 investments." I don't
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by srpablo 2y ago
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
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by srpablo 3y ago
I happen to agree with you, but I'll note one _very_ celebrated CEO loved tweeting-while-inebriated so much he bought Twitter
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by srpablo 3y ago
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 that, since a) I think it's kind of obvi
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by srpablo 3y ago
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 than any technical merit or experimentation. Said another w
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by srpablo 3y ago
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 on my personal blog, going into the intentions an
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by srpablo 3y ago
> 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 says that in order to get the same results, we need to b
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by srpablo 3y ago
> 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 amounts of value. Definitely agree on this. > You can’t
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by srpablo 3y ago
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"? If you don't care about your end product
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by srpablo 3y ago
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 Marvel is having trouble cranking out the hit
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Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry(morepablo.com)
307 points by srpablo 3y ago|266 comments
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by srpablo 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I updated the language a bit to better reflect how that whole interaction went down, which was a playful chat between two seasoned devs with ~12 companies between them. I also removed the language that was being per
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hi, I'm the author, and LOOOOOL Thanks for the laugh.
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hi! Thanks for posting this, it and the replies pointed out an error. I've since corrected the article.
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hey, thanks for letting me know! I'll correct the article

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