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by noodle 3y ago
I don't think so. This boils down to a set of already installed, pre-configured gems in a starter project. That's always how Rails has worked. When I was consulting, I had exactly this for myself before Bullet Train ever existe
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by noodle 3y ago
> that companies are currently racing to go to market with some "ai thing" and most are chasing it because it is the "next big thing" in their mind, not because they know what problems for their end users that it can
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by noodle 3y ago
FWIW, I've found uses for it already that will improve the company I'm building in the very short term. Maybe you disagree in the magnitude of the value, but I find it to be at least somewhat significant. Enough to pursue. I&#x
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by noodle 4y ago
> The only reason people make apps that don't need to be apps is to get another marketing channel through App Store distribution and another user reach channel through notifications. I wrote a longer response but decided to scrap it
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by noodle 4y ago
I personally take a more pragmatic approach, though perhaps its "post-modern". How well-architected, tested, groomed, etc my code tends to be is proportional to the confidence the business has in the problem space. If I have a de
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by noodle 4y ago
I personally agree with your point of view on what DRY is. But,I don't think that's what's being taught or talked about anymore. When people say DRY they usually mean an abstraction layer that merges two similar concepts in
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by noodle 4y ago
Same. I think the article's title lays it out well. "Amazon's Big Dreams". Amazon wanted to do a specific set of things w/ Alexa and they've found that the market doesn't want any of that. I'll ne
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by noodle 4y ago
I agree with this point, though at least in theory this is a path for them to get more $ and therefore expand the network further/faster, also potentially increasing the size of the moat. We'll see if they actually do that, thoug
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by noodle 4y ago
I've hired for a few remote startups in the past. It certainly could be your resume, but my offhand is that your FAANG experience prices you out of the remote market, either directly (you're telling them) or indirectly (recruiter
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by noodle 4y ago
I'm not going to go into details for the purposes of anonymity, but I took over a website that is a resource for a community I'm very involved in in order to prevent that website from being shut down. It costs me money to keep af
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by noodle 4y ago
Rails on postgres with React in the frontend is my default swiss army knife. I know Rails well and it still gets stuff done fast, comparatively speaking. If the problem space I work in requires something different or solves the problem be
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by noodle 4y ago
Dunno the technology behind it specifically, but the various types of fast charging has really unlocked the potential in EVs, IMO. Making an EV act more like an ICE car is what made them pop in terms of viability.
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by noodle 4y ago
The article is about corporate staff, not warehouse workers.
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by noodle 4y ago
If they were making record profits, they would be looking to expand their profitable divisions, would they not? They would likely not lay people off, but reorganize internally to move resources away from failing areas and into the clearly
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by noodle 4y ago
> What situation are people in that they have to result to this? Is this an issue with getting laid off and trying to find a FAANG job? It's reflective of the type of company you're interviewing for. I lived in Seattle for a wh
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by noodle 4y ago
I've hired quite a few, and generally speaking they've all turned out great. Having said that, the volume of resumes that come in to the ones that I've actually hired is vast. Myself and my recruiters have probably sifted t
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by noodle 4y ago
I briefly worked on starting a small competitor to TM as a contractor (which is incidentally still around and doing fine). The reason TM is hard to disrupt boils down to this: Everyone makes more revenue when they go with TM - artists, ven
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by noodle 4y ago
I run a small-to-medium (based on your definition) website that is entirely ad-supported. It occasionally peaks into the large territory. It's not really "viable". This may be because of the industry it's in, which doe
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by noodle 4y ago
I'm currently in an engineering leadership position hiring for a startup not impacted by this downturn. I see the numbers and do interviews, but not a Recruiter per se. > Have you noticed that more people are applying for the sam
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by noodle 4y ago
I don't think the first paragraph and the second paragraph necessarily flow into one another. I've worked with a lot of people in tech that are very proficient at their jobs that have no clue about "basic" computing stu
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by noodle 4y ago
Sure, I've done that before many times, as well. It isn't my preference, generally speaking, for earlier-stage startups.
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by noodle 4y ago
> Hiring for a particular tool-chain or framework Dunno about this one. This is very much so FAANG type of thinking, not really (newer) startup type of thinking. Sacrificing a few man-months to training is something that is hard to do
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by noodle 4y ago
You could say the same thing about a lot of companies that were allegedly on the edge of IPO. Lots of IPOs got shelved due to the bad market conditions
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by noodle 4y ago
> I'm thinking of starting out on my own someday, but I wonder, is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field ? Yes. I've done it before, and am doing it now. Including at startups. It&#x27
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by noodle 4y ago
I've been hired to more than one job through these posts over the past ~15 years; and I've also done hiring for my teams successfully through these threads. Having said that, in the last ~2 years, we've had FAR less success w
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by noodle 4y ago
> Any idea how to validate this part? Productized consulting until you find commonality
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by noodle 4y ago
The challenging part is the process is actually integrating an onboarding system into your app - doing the right thing at the right time in a way that looks seamless/intentional and works consistently. If you want to build a successf
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by noodle 4y ago
> I'm just curious to hear how many of you have experienced something similar. Is it common? Is there something obvious I'm not thinking of to help avoid these situations? Had the exact same thing happen, yeah. One person inte
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by noodle 4y ago
The company is paying like $150k/mo in salaries (conservative ballpark based on 20 employees). $1k/mo at that point is a rounding error, and if in total that spend actually does move the needle on productivity in any significant
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by noodle 4y ago
I'm in my late 30s and no. I enjoy working with early stage companies and starting my own companies, and being a generalist is essentially necessary in those situations. If you do this as a specialist, you'll end up wearing many

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