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by morgante 3y ago
Good article - we've helped tons of teams complete long-term refactors at my startup (grit.io) and this approach definitely works better than attempting any big bang migrations. Having a small and representative example PR is huge fo
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by morgante 3y ago
Interesting approach of basically providing a meta-layer on top of existing tools. Do you have an example of how you inject context into the codemods? The approach we've taken at Grit is two-fold: 1. When something must be addressed
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by morgante 3y ago
Those don't need to be separate systems, and keeping them in one system is often beneficial to see the evolution of the concept. I'll frequently have an idea and toss it into a backlog ticket. Maybe just as a title to start. When
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by morgante 3y ago
Don't patronize me, your comment would have been better without the asshole remark. In fact, it's you who struggles with reading comprehension. All of the examples from the article are massively successful businesses, not lifest
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by morgante 3y ago
There are certainly a few notable exceptions (Chrome and Android), but google3 really is a massive monorepo. It does contain forks of tons of open source code in the third party folder. I don't recall if the Linux kernel is in /
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by morgante 3y ago
I put "failure" in quotes because they absolutely did fail in what they originally set out to do. Nobody raises venture capital to build a "minimally profitable and very stable" business. Thinking about it like the old j
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by morgante 3y ago
Yes, an acquisition would trigger SAFE conversion. Investors would be paid out according to their converted equity percent.
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by morgante 3y ago
Right. It's fine/expected if the "failure" comes in this category (though many investors would encourage you to simply repay them and move onto something with more growth potential). The unethical thing would be pitching
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by morgante 3y ago
It's fine if they're happy with it. I'm just saying that this would be just as much a "failure" as it would be for their investors. I know I never would have quit my well-paid, enjoyable job to start a company if th
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by morgante 3y ago
The VCs won't see a return, but what's the upside for the founder there? Paying yourself a "nice salary" is not a win considering how hard it is to get a company off the ground.
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by morgante 3y ago
There have been plenty of bootstrapped billion dollar outcomes. Mailchimp ($12B) is one recent example.
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by morgante 3y ago
Liquidation preferences rarely kick in until later rounds. Most seed rounds are just 1x.
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by morgante 3y ago
> The airplane founders/owners got a big payday. I would not assume anyone got a major payout in an acquihire.
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by morgante 3y ago
> Over 450,000 organizations use Airtable and over 50% of the Fortune 500 are paying customers That’s Airtable (the acquirer) not Airplane. I’d be astonished if Airplane had anywhere near that much traction.
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by morgante 3y ago
I think windmill.dev is conceptually closest to Airplane, and since it’s OSS you don’t run the same risk if disappearance.
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by morgante 3y ago
I've done a lot of work in this space, and unfortunately the answer is largely no. These provide a nice frontend for writing simple rules, but I would not want to (essentially) write an entire transpiler in yaml. For Python->JavaScr
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by morgante 3y ago
AST-grep is well done - the speed is particularly impressive and it's quite easy to get started with. One of the downsides of the simplicity is that rules are written in yaml. This works nicely for simple rules, but if you try to save
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by morgante 3y ago
> We already know Meta has a great AI lab and people are screaming about this Q* garbage which they don't even know what it does. Noam Brown (researcher on Cicero) left to OpenAI this year and has specifically been working on AI sea
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by morgante 3y ago
People who worked with him at OpenAI and Stripe.
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by morgante 3y ago
Who are these "sales people" you're referring to? Surely not Greg Brockman, one of the most talented engineers in the world.
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by morgante 3y ago
> - GitHub is owned by Microsoft, which owns Azure. Their compute will be way cheaper 99% of the time. Your product advantage must be significant enough to justify higher costs. This definitely isn't true. GitHub Actions are extreme
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by morgante 3y ago
Both can be true. Most violent criminals will commit another crime after release, but the severity and swiftness of that crime will depend on how likely they are to be punished for it. Even if punishment had no deterrent effect on recidiv
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by morgante 3y ago
This is completely untrue and does a tremendous disservice to the many impoverished people who do not become criminals. > The difference between the average criminal and you is a couple of meals. This is an insane point of view! Most c
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by morgante 3y ago
> By this logic we should just never release them. The problem with that is it removes the deterrence effect—if you're going to get the same punishment for murder as for shoplifting, criminals will exercise no restraint. > Should
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by morgante 3y ago
> If locking large numbers of people up for inordinately long times prevented crime, the United States would be the safest place in the world. Comparing between countries with massively different demographics is pointless. The US simply
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by morgante 3y ago
> If you can stop them from doing it again by locking them up in comfort for 10 years instead of discomfort for 20, then that is what we should do. You're never going to stop many of them from reoffending. Even the "best"
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by morgante 3y ago
> [0] There are few parsers that consider "failed, but could run if the next symbol is valid" and "failed and no way to continue" as separate statuses so you can make progress by enumerating (hopefully intelligently s
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by morgante 3y ago
The PR is in bad taste: positioning a paid offering as the logic next step for learning Rust does a tremendous disservice to new learners. It's clearly marketing for their company—what I would expect if CodeCrafters had underwritten pr
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by morgante 3y ago
We've reached a similar conclusion for refactoring. The first version of our product ( https://grit.io ) was entirely LLM-powered. It was very easy to get started with, but reliability was low on enterprise-scale codebases. S
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by morgante 3y ago
We provide feedback to all applicants. Some take it poorly and this is the risk we run. Regardless of the communication differences your "friend" may have felt, there is no justification for you to have posted the insinuations com

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