flashgordon

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by flashgordon 2y ago
Yeah this is where my own internal conflict is too. May be this cheap flooding is required to bring down the cost of creation so the truly high quality games/content creates by the top 1% will be valued more (though finding would be mu
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by flashgordon 2y ago
You are saying as if it is obvious but given all that is going on my first reaction after reading this (the post i mean) - ok so what loop holes they are going to use and what back room dealings went on (or are going on).
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Is it me or does every time SoftBank get involved in anything it is a clear sign of bubble and oodles of over valuations where early folks get bailed out and later ones are left holding the bag? I'm not even talking about wework. Ot
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Ah now that is an envious life! Not have to worry or be distracted by a full-time job that too by choice! Hope he gets to crank a lot more out!
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Quite possible. But is it preferable though?
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Spot on product managers are constantly pushing for new features (for their growth) so quality goes on the wayside.
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Great point. I'm actually writing and putting things up in a blog. ETA end of april. If you are ok for rough notes happy to share high level notes over email (no I'm not planning on selling anything and frankly I didnt find an
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Depends on how to study. Ive been working on this for years. Many people just jump into a solution (or what they think is a solution) to the problem (or what they think is the problem). And this usually triggers interviewers who are l
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by flashgordon 2y ago
I guess I should have added some context. I have been (and keep swinging between) ic and management roles (including managers) regularly. I love coding and try to sneak in some when I have time (as a manager). But that a manager should alwa
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Just curious have you managed people? At what capacity (tl? Em? Pm?)? How big was your team? What was the company env like in which your team(s) functioned?
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by flashgordon 2y ago
This. What is that country. I don't say it because I think us is the greatest but almost feels like every other countries is trying to emulate or become US wrt to crony capitalism. What is really left out there that will survive t
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by flashgordon 2y ago
You gotta do you! I cannot survive without vim and despite having used tons of editors and ides nothing comes close to my distraction-free-ness as vim. Next best thing for me is vimbindings. Again even if you are productive in notepad n
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by flashgordon 2y ago
So another one to consider: It is not about a "higher" bar as much as a more "standardized" bar and more importantly to weed out the "uncompliant" ones. Leetcoding style preparation is pretty much a 2-3 hour a
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by flashgordon 2y ago
First of all congrats: You actually got "some" success in a startup ... In your twenties... Thereby seeing most of it and getting the regrets out of your system. These are amazing combinations. Which means you know how to call o
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by flashgordon 2y ago
How about share revenue with them? Sadly if you don't do it, someone else will (not condoning it). You might as place yourself as a channel for them and incentivised to create more recipes for you?
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Spot on. I joined big tech when I was not so young (having done stints several "IBMs"). The amount of Kool aid being dishes out was just staggering
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by flashgordon 2y ago
So what you are forgetting is top performers get taken care of financially. And they also have special deals where RTO is not enforced. It is much easier to have a blanket RTO with incentived attrition and allowing X% exceptions in secret
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by flashgordon 2y ago
True - As a FE noob I am definitely not asking for the olden days. I do lament often CSS just does not feel intuitive for me and it could be just being used to iOS layouts or more old school layouts (think Swing, Android etc). What made
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Hey sorry for the noob question. I wasnt actually sure what you meant by design systems - Is there actually a level of "understanding/expertise" one needs to have to just "get" it? For context even though I am no
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by flashgordon 2y ago
I think this sounds exciting. As a backend eng (who prefers Htmx) and someone who totally struggles with css, reading your intro made me walk away feeling dumber than before. Again not expecting an ego boost or anything. Something that
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by flashgordon 2y ago
The reality is (and not in defence id managers) managers are getting just as effed by "leadership" (ever notice how managers are framed as scumbags but leaders are saviors?) and sadly managers cannot tell employees - "hey mat
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Ask HN: When would you fork instead of waiting for proposal/PR acceptance?
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by flashgordon 2y ago
This is a fair point. After 5 failed startups (you'd think id learn and give up) building products and velocity had never been an issue. "Selling" is the one absolute North Star. Even if you built a feature-to-feature clon
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by flashgordon 2y ago
True that. It I was thinking more about other products that are "lowish" scale and not ad driven. Especially SaaS products.
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by flashgordon 2y ago
I seriously wonder why this is not happening more given all the copilots available. I guess the h1bs don't have the time/appetite to do this. Wouldn't locals have enough of a vendetta to do this?
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by flashgordon 2y ago
> Forward to now, my new company, still bootstrapped, is over $10M ARR and profitable with 113 employees growing at 60% a year. I have over 51% of the shareholding and over 60% of voting shares. I still write code every day and behave mo
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Interesting. Wouldn't this actually be a deterministic problem based on graph analysis. Id have thought LLMs would have been more effective taking the out out some graph recognizer and then identifying what those higher level constr
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Wait 60? Surely not direct reports? I'm guessing you have about 4-5 managers? Impressive that you have the luxury of picking up some coding tasks with 4-5 managers!
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by flashgordon 2y ago
So the problem is not just black and white - consume ads or dont. It is when my data is being sold without my consent or visibility, when an accidental visiting a page installs tracking cookies and shows annoying opt-out screens, when ad&
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by flashgordon 2y ago
Shudder is a fair reaction. Except the manager is now forced by hr to make a hr decision because that way too level "leadership" wouldnt be culpable!

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