Urgent Developer

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[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Sorry I haven’t filed that JIRA issue yet. I was doing my tax return first because the form has fewer fields.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

lol

[Naval @naval]

As long as young startup founders keep choosing the SF Bay Area, the rest of the industry has no choice but to follow.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

I want a horse that shits more.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Do you want faster horses or cars?

Is the best choice always cars? No

At times, you want faster horses (and less roadside manure)

Other times you want to invent the car

Or invent the airplane

And often, you want to make horses faster *while* inventing the car or the airplane

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Sorry I can't use your new offering but I refuse to be part of "social proof" for that idea.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

What we really need to make this app successful is someone with a PhD in electrical engineering.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

I put Slack on "do not disturb" for 30 minutes. I feel more relaxed and I lost 10 pounds.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Great news: We hired an MBA to collect and read a list of status updates.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Slack productivity hack:
1) Uninstall Slack.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

I have just one quick question about this chart. Are you free for a minute?

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Our app is iOS only because we're really just finely crafting a fundamentally superior product for fundamentally superior people.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

@dhh @pierce Wow - It's almost like you're offering software, but as a "service".

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Office: A place where people transmit infectious diseases and unconvincingly feigned half-smiles.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

I assume your title is "Director of Things that don't Scale"

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Because those are the only two options in the world.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

👇🏼fun poll that a lot of startups are making - should you locate in SF vs Palo Alto or in-between?

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Our advertisement was nominated for an award!
Great! What impact did it have on the business?
...
It was nominated for an award!

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

You're in the top 100 companies in a city with 50 total companies. Congratulations!

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

I realized the problem at the core of our conversation: You think you're good at this.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Interesting strategy. Does your CEO report to a ouiji board of directors?

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

"10x engineers" are good fucking collaborators. Let's stop rewarding unhelpful stereotypes that aim to justify people who make themselves difficult to work with.

[Shekhar Kirani @skirani]

9. 10x engineers are poor mentors as they can't teach others on what to do OR parcel the work. They always think "It takes too long to teach or discuss with others, I would rather do it myself." They are also poor interviewers.

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

Wow - We were declared a "leader" in a category we fabricated, and it only cost us tens of thousands of dollars paid directly to the author of the report!

[Urgent Developer @UrgentDeveloper]

In order to reduce costs of fixing timezone conversion bugs, we will be moving our headquarters to a new building in UTC. Pack your things.