taylorwc

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Vibecoding, Negative Expertise, and the Future of Engineering(abstraction.vc)
3 points by taylorwc 1y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Generative AI(martinfowler.com)
1 points by taylorwc 1y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 2y ago
I do indeed work in VC. But as another reply mentions, any accredited investor can write small checks into startups, and most preseed/seed founders are happy to take angel checks.
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by taylorwc 2y ago
Disclosure, I’m an investor in Jamsocket, the company behind this… but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that every time Paul and Taylor launch something they have been working on, I end up saying “woah.” In particular, using ForeverVM with Cla
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Plane: A distributed system for running WebSocket services at scale(github.com)
3 points by taylorwc 3y ago|0 comments
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Researchers say generative AI isn't replacing devs any time soon(leaddev.com)
2 points by taylorwc 3y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 4y ago
Pixar acquisition by Disney comes to mind
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How do I hire a developer advocate?(amplifypartners.com)
19 points by taylorwc 5y ago|14 comments
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by taylorwc 5y ago
Definitely some exciting stuff like Redwood and Wasp working to solve these problems. I always loved what Meteor tried to do for this, though the JS ecosystem sort of evolved in a different direction.
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by taylorwc 5y ago
I’m 100% convinced I would never have learned to code without Meteor… it made so many things simpler. You should check out wasp[0], which has a lot of philosophy in common. Disclosure: I am investor in the company behind the project. [0] h
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by taylorwc 5y ago
I have read most of his stuff, including The Pale King. It is absolutely worth reading, but also recall that it was published in an unfinished state posthumously. It is not a particularly easy read but has some extremely compelling themes.
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by taylorwc 5y ago
This and Bill Watterson’s commencement speech at Kenyon[0] are both things I read a few times a year—-challenging and relatable. [0] https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html
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by taylorwc 5y ago
Typo in the title, ought to be “Skeptic.” Unless, that is, his skepticism is also directly tied to handling sewage.
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Customers Love Free Stuff but That’s Not Your Problem(abovethecrowd.com)
1 points by taylorwc 5y ago|0 comments
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Mind the Platform Execution Gap(martinfowler.com)
1 points by taylorwc 5y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 5y ago
> Do you outright reject "open source" projects ... ? No! I'm bullish on open source, I just think the current climate is weird. I have a small vc fund, currently 8 portfolio companies and almost half have at least some op
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by taylorwc 5y ago
Haha I mean nothing that was obviously ridiculous, like “Applebee’s, but open source” or something. It was more just really hand-wavy logic around why their product needed something open source, with no really compelling answer.
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by taylorwc 5y ago
It exists! Disclosure: I am an investor in the company behind this project. https://github.com/Parabeac/Parabeac-Core
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by taylorwc 5y ago
I’d feel a little bad calling any out bc it’s usually not too hard to figure it out if I gave that info even without a name :)
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by taylorwc 5y ago
Early stage investor here. You’d be shocked. It’s extremely en vogue to start a company and have your value prop be “open source alternative to X,” without any regard for whether there is actually any logic to something being open source.
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Bitcoin Is Time(dergigi.com)
444 points by taylorwc 6y ago|1145 comments
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by taylorwc 6y ago
This seems a little myopic. Definitely earnings growth is a factor, but it can’t really explain what just happened with GameStop and WSB, nor most of Amazon’s rise over the past decades. Future expected cash flows, market size, interest rat
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by taylorwc 6y ago
Just from a 30k foot view, the lender has a valid legal claim to that money. If you accidentally paid your mortgage or rent without meaning to, should the lender have an obligation to return it?
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by taylorwc 6y ago
As usual, it's worth going out of your way to read Matt Levine's column on the matter [0]. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...
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by taylorwc 6y ago
Here's a pretty good explanation of that how that can happen: https://nope-its-lily.medium.com/gamestop-power-to-the-marke...
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The Great Splunkbundling(rakgarg.substack.com)
1 points by taylorwc 6y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 6y ago
OP was making a reference to a recurring line in Arrested Development.
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by taylorwc 6y ago
Same reason an NBA team will draft someone who isn't ready be a starter averaging a double double. If I believe the team is elite and that the potential is there, there's potential for such an asymmetric outcome that it's a w
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by taylorwc 6y ago
Early stage (preseed and seed) investor here. I think the easier way to conceive of this is that if I have conviction around the team but not necessarily the product, I will likely invest. The inverse is almost never true for me. I have inv
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by taylorwc 6y ago
Corey Quinn from Last Week in AWS jokes about using Route53 as a db often, including this hilarious twitter thread [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1120653859561459712

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