mrichman

Does anyone actually use Xcode as their daily driver if their full time job is not macOS, iOS, etc developer?

I actually like Yehuda the best. But I grew up on Horowitz Margareten.

But not peanut butter :)

WTF does #20 mean? "Occasionally pick random words, sentences, or paragraphs and hit delete. Did it matter?" JF and DHH are among the biggest narcissists I've ever met.

How do you politely decline unending requests for 1:1 meetings with junior team members, despite when part of your job is to mentor them?

I am no longer a Rails user, but Rails was the reason I switched to a Mac and abandoned .NET and Windows completely. Those demos using TextMate were sweet.

How is Rust difficult to run? It's a single binary with dependencies usually statically linked.

I went into solutions architecture (known elsewhere as sales engineering) at AWS. It pays way better and I don't have to compete with people 25 years younger than me who will work for $10/hr on the other side of the world.

This is the most practical answer I've read thus far. However, I actually code via SSH into AWS EC2, so my local CPU is irrelevant for compiles.

What use cases is this CPU ideal for? It's not a GPU, so gaming, ML model training, and crypto mining are out.

We've never been so close to dilithium crystals. `2(5)6 dilithium 2(:)l diallosilicate 1:9:1 heptoferranide` for the uninitiated.

These people aren't slaves. They are welcome to find other employment if they find the terms unacceptable.

Got me!

What if your startup is in the embedded systems space, for example? I don't think you'd be doing your MVP in Python.

So in his opinion, choosing Rust is a premature optimization?

I tried getting into Clojure (I have an undergrad Lisp background). I just couldn't become productive, and the tooling seems fragmented. Been moving many of my workloads from Go to Rust.

Cool. EC2, ECS, EKS, Serverless?

Nice! What's your tech stack and how long did it take to build your MVP? Can you share your current revenue and expenses?

I haven't heard of Nim until now. I've been a Go programmer for years now, and I see a lot of potential. I wonder why Nim hasn't taken off. What's the catch?

Amazon EventBridge schedule -> Lambda function -> SES. This should cost you pennies, assuming you ever break out of free tier.

Why on earth do you bill by the hour? You should be doing fixed fee based on value.

Why shouldn't they?

So what? Ice cores from Antarctica show that at the end of recent ice ages, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere usually started to rise only after temperatures had begun to climb.

Why should I use your tool and not Joplin?

So glad my tax dollars went to recreating Bootstrap.

Remind anyone else of Newspeak?

The Bible.

Elon Musk needs to get in on this.

I looked at his employer's job openings. Lost me at "online personality assessment".

The client is on the hook to articulate value. It's the consultant's job to coax it out of them - ask "Why?" five times, for example. High effort + low value => consider declining the project. I wouldn't take on any work that isn't highly profitable. Thanks for the question! I'd love it if you posted it on my Disqus forum on my site as well. Perhaps I'll amend the article with this Q&A.