Once again, @shanselman delivers an exceptional talk—not about technology itself, but about us.
Take a few minutes to watch this. Hopefully, It's worth your time. https://t.co/nycfexc8Du
#technology#ai#genai#creativity#tedx
When I politely decline scheduling a "quick call", it's not because I don't literally have the time — there's always room for 15 minutes here or half an hour there! — it's that I can't afford to spare the attention.
The contributor covenant, and other CoCs like it, turned out to be a trojan horse. Every open source project would do right to reject or revert it. Here's the beautiful replacement that Matz put in place for Ruby when they came for him with this bullshit (we borrowed it).
Long stretches of uninterrupted time is the most powerful productivity cheat for competent programmers working on interesting projects. Unbelievable what a tiny team of such individuals can accomplish. Decade after decade.
Code and prose aren't the only things that need editing and pruning, company costs do too. There's an aesthetic quality to cutting needless costs, and seeing a tighter, clearer balance sheet. Beautiful code, beautiful prose, beautiful accounts.
I just found a cool feature in Visual Studio.
I can grab a project and drag it to dependencies to add a reference to that project.
I had no idea.
I thought it would be a nice experience if this worked... and it was 😍
I just found a cool feature in Visual Studio.
I can grab a project and drag it to dependencies to add a reference to that project.
I had no idea.
I thought it would be a nice experience if this worked... and it was 😍
Letting creative people just do their job -- without the constant interruptions and diverting obligations -- isn't just great for productivity, it's also wonderful for morale. Because nothing beats solving problem together with talented colleagues and shipping great software.
We're getting real with the realization that system tests have failed to be worth their weight. We're killing ALL the system tests (359 cases) in HEY, replacing them with a minimal set of smoke tests. Then leaning on controller integration tests instead. https://t.co/Dj7BFI62Os
Elon Musk's Secret To Running Incredibly Successful Businesses.
Check this short clip (4 min) where Karpathy share his insights from working with Elon Musk for a number of years.
Here are my key takeaways.
1.Elon runs the biggest startups. He likes to keep small strong technical teams with no middle managers. Elon was always a force against growth.
2.Creates a vibrant exciting place. Avoid large meetings and encourage people to walk out of meetings if you are not contributing or learning. The culture is that you are there to do your best work and less pampering.
3.He is close connected to the engineers. Spend at least 50% of his time talking directly to the teams. Finding blockers and remove them immediately.
Thanks for sharing @farzyness
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