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Yorick Phoenix retweeted
Over what is... An embarrassing number of years, being around first time founders and listening to them I've noticed one really pivotal key... Thing...
They'll come in and explain all the stuff to me, everything they want to do.
And that's the point, they want to do.
Like I get it, you want to do the stuff you enjoy, the stuff you're good at, I can empathize.
Except that's not how it works. Everything I've built I've done through eating glass. Not doing extreme versions of the things I'm good at so it feels hard.
It came from literally doing large quantities of focused work on things that I certainly didn't enjoy and often were not particularly good at.
You really need to get deep with yourself on this if you're going to start up a business that reaches scale, because reaching scale is about building for scale, and building for scale ain't much fun.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
I see AI-assisted programming as the comeuppance for all those devs who decided "agile" meant "we'll never write specs or documentation."
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
The 2023 ESLint User Survey is now live! This is your chance to tell us how you're using ESLint and how you might like it to change:
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(Please RT for reach.)
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
This is a great read about teaching and catching students cheating. I had a similar experience when I used to teach law. And it was especially disheartening because the consequences were so severe: never being allowed to join the Bar. crumplab.com/articles/blog/p…
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
I can see why someone in government would think remote work was bad, since it makes slow organizations go slower. What he doesn't realize is that it also makes fast organizations go faster.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
Part of being a leader is reminding people to do what they said they were going to do. This won’t make you popular, but it is part of the job.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
brilliant video. puts things in much-needed perspective -- youtube.com/watch?v=o_cImRzK…
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
New blog post, How I think about solving problems: humanwhocodes.com/blog/2020/…
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
As a senior engineer in a new role, it's tempting to focus on bold, sweeping changes that justify your lofty title. This is a mistake. Your first order of business is building trust with your team. Nothing erodes that trust like revisiting plans they're already executing on.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
We continue today's posts with another that recognizes many of the folks who were essential in developing the #Arpanet, and its successor, the Internet.
cfl.re/2BPwI0p
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
Dear policymakers,
We know terrorists are bad. We know they depend on encryption. They also depend on gravity.
Asking mathematicians to "backdoor encryption for terrorists but make it safe for everyone else" is as dumb as demanding physicists do the same for gravity.
#kthxbai
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
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Yorick Phoenix retweeted
The challenge with adding more engineers to a project. Just moving from 3 developers to 4 doubles the number of lines of communication.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
Lots of people asked, and yes, cooling an iPhone with ice packs will drastically improve restore speed from an iCloud backup. The phone will absolutely peg the CPU as it downloads the universe, and almost immediately throttle itself.
Yorick Phoenix retweeted
Mandatory password expiration is a wonderful example of why we should rely on science instead of intuition. It seems like an obviously useful thing to require—but study after study has shown force password changes to be counterproductive.
