Emil Soman

Coder, YC alum. Always building.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@paraschopra <statutory image of fighter plane with red bullet holes here>

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@sa_lamoureux Here's wishing you many many more days of learning Ruby...so you'll know not to touch the thing with a 10 ft pole.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

HIRING ALERT! Looking for ace developers interested in working on an Elixir + ReactJS stack. Full time, remote friendly, kickass team solving a problem of massive scale. DM if interested/know someone.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

Meanwhile synchronous in-person tech teams:

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

I am the documentation

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

Last year, FOSSHack funded my crazy little programming language and this year it could be you. If you’re building an open source side project, check out https://t.co/IOE0DqBnVO @FOSSUnited

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@rickasaurus Print hello world using abstract factory pattern if they have guns.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@cemerick @_swanand I know this feeling

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

“giving every meth addict who can’t hold down a job a vote” . All are equal but some are more equal than others.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

If you ask many people who live under conditions of deep rooted injustice - workplaces, relationships, communities etc, they’ll say they’re happy because they’ve been conditioned to believe that.

[Tascha @TaschaLabs]

10 truth about China that mainstream media won’t tell you.

I lived half my life in China, half in US. The US media coverage about China is stuck in the cold war and laughable at best. Yet people eat it up.

Here’re 10 myths about China you often hear that are patently false👇

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@guyandtheworld Not an unpopular opinion. It’s a bad place to live in except for the weather and the tech community 💯

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

The two most valuable traits I appreciate in doers are clarity and focus. Never ignore an underdog who knows exactly what to do and is fully committed to doing it.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@_swanand Don’t mind, just blue tick philosopher things.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@_swanand I’ll probably be done with half of this list by the time i retire. I guess that makes me a semi-rounded engineer 😭

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

I dream of a day when nobody has to put up with OOP anymore.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

The blue origin flight was so awkward - the giant dildo shooting parachutes from the tip and bezos waiting for someone to come pick him up after they landed, but this takes the cake https://t.co/wpXNtc0t88

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@jaseemabid All my new web apps are named “MyApp” 🤷‍♂️

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@redrapids Koka - for its effects system
Hazel - for typed holes
Unison - for its distributed code execution

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@jaseemabid Statically typed BEAM langs

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

@tdinkar @jaseemabid Branching git history has never been a problem for me and I actually find value in merge commits. I never understood why we want to pretend dev collaboration is a single straight line when it’s not. If it’s a readability problem, there are tools/commands to help.

[Emil Soman @emilsoman]

Good managers use software estimation for macro instead of micro.