th3byrdm4n

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by th3byrdm4n 1y ago
Isolation might also prove to have some staying power.
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
It's lowering the bar for developers to enter the marketplace, in a space that is wildly under saturated. We'll all be fine. There's tons of software to be built. More small businesses will be able to punch-up with LLMs teari
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
Honestly, I've developers saying the same thing about IDEs and high level languages. This new generation of tools add efficiency the same way IntelliJ added efficiency on top of Eclipse which added efficiency on top of Emacs/VI&#x
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
It was brutal, but the mentality was - it's brutal now but you have the power to fix it, so engineering hours went into fixing broken windows. That adopted mentality pays off tech debt fast.
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
Don’t build it to sell - explicitly. Build it to solve your business problem and tell the guy building it “after we’ve separated ourselves from our competitors and we’ll either declare our company a software company that does logistics, or
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
This summarizes my career nicely. Great advice IMO.
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
This summarizes my career nicely. Great approach advice IMO.
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
I think he’s toeing the line of “listen build it yourself but you’re missing a decade of expertise I can add to your stack tomorrow” That said, my feeling is the guy doesn’t have a prebuilt fit for his company / he’s already shopped ex
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
Second this. Cross functional knowledge is the secret sauce of in-house designed software. Nothing off the shelf does that. Integration is where cross departmental solutions live and that’s an underrated nightmare
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
I have a fully staffed team it’s not 5m a year. For a company twice his size. These are very generous consultant pitch #s not reality. We doubled running 1-$200k/guy … 2x full stack devs (me) 2x data guys 1x MSP for IT. That team wa
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
My caution is at the end of working with free lancers you have no technical retention. My company worked with freelancers/consultants for years, it just delayed the inevitable. You need to start building your in house team. Find the ON
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
I started as a “programmer” for a similar sized company, we’ve 2.5x and I’m the CTO now. I can share a great deal of input if you would like to chat sometime, message me/I’ll make a point to check tomorrow. Quick notes * projects that
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
I don't think a magic number is the right solution here.
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by th3byrdm4n 2y ago
When I integrate systems, I use that system's natural key (love it when it's a unique ID, but in the systems I work in - it almost never is). That said, I use that natural key as the "link" to my internally managed, norm
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
This assumes useful tests. There's a false equivalency drawn between writing tests means you wrote good code. In reality, those who can write good tests can also write good code. My rules of thumb: "Be a goldfish" - Forget
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
Bingo. Pure, unadulterated ego
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
I think "cool" is synonymous with, "would they be a good fit for your team/culture" ... not a specific type/race/ethnicity/political persuasion... Are they someone that's going to disrupt your te
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
Smart, foolish, arrogant. Officers handled it well.
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
Create a progressive tax on multiple homes. Increase tax on corporate owners. There
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
Talent <> value to the company. We sadly let someone walk because while they were SUPER talented, they weren’t working effectively on things that mattered
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
There is some barrier to entry. My friend, a much less skilled developer, was much better at the craft of SO. I just lurk/solve my own issues
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
Literally everything AI right now
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by th3byrdm4n 3y ago
I’ve got a codebase written in the extreme programming paradigm that has become a linchpin for operating our enterprise. I can fire up an AI to build out my missing unit tests in 10 minutes what would take a developer 3 weeks to accomplish.
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by th3byrdm4n 4y ago
Less aggressive language.
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by th3byrdm4n 4y ago
I barely post but here here. Leveraging the executive branch as the government creates a bipolar governance, every 4-8 years we have a totally different country and outcomes. We need a functioning legislator. How we go from here to there is
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by th3byrdm4n 5y ago
Let’s make an agreement called YCTO - such that I promise if someone attacks you in comments, I will defend you by attacking your aggressor, and if someone attacks me in comments, you’ll do the same. … that agreement is purely defensive. If
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by th3byrdm4n 8y ago
What a horrible way to end a post. Try - always be mindful and intentional with your actions and the actions of those around you. Work hard towards building a better world.
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by th3byrdm4n 8y ago
I'm sure this was in the works well before Safari/iOS 11 implemented the majority of the PWA standard, but can someone help me understand what the target market is for this in 2018? We just built a ground-up PWA and users LOVE it
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by th3byrdm4n 8y ago
You're one chart away from [deleted].
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by th3byrdm4n 8y ago
Solid list for any CS theory-thirsty minds :) My mentoring CS professor's recommendations included these 5 books as well as the following: * Pragmatic Programmer * Gödel, Escher, Bach. * Programmer Pearls He also had a great deal of C

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