introducing better-result, my opinionated take on the rust result type for typescript after having written about 100 times
npm i better-result
*disclaimer*: if you can use effect-ts, you should use effect-ts
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every time i’ve built something without effect over the past almost 3 years ive come to deeply regret it and wish i had just done it from the start
you do need to think about how do you get to revenue so that not just you can do it forever, but then you'll be valued on your long-term road map, not not valued on your probability of dying.
the best of the best still get offer from us because if we don't hire those folks today, what senior engineer will we have for yeah years from now, right? You have to feed the talent pipeline
I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
It has a surplus of STEM graduates that are often underemployed, while "Hukou" residency restrictions complicate hiring hourly labor in coastal factories.
But right now like there's no way to press pause on their biological time. So like what if you had an ambulance of the future, right? Like what if you could take someone who is on their deathbed and um you know find some way to you know just sort of hibernate them basically until um the sort of critical cure for their disease comes online.
And so the not growing part, what I like to say is maybe the you and if you are not growing, you're dying is you the person as opposed to you the company.
Say goodbye to cycles of mock and doc feedback, and say hello to code-first prototypes with constant iteration (on prompts, models, etc) to answer three key questions.
Slurs of ‘childless cat ladies’ usually target female graduates, but in the US, Sweden and Finland the real decline is happening among people with less education.
And I notice that the tiny handful of people capable of caring about 200,000 people dying of neglected tropical diseases are the same tiny handful of people capable of caring about the next pandemic, or superintelligence, or human extinction.
And policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created
I can't remember when exactly I started looking into David Ogilvy – or where I got this book, probably from a secondhand bookstore somewhere – but once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. Ogilvy had such a great personality. Very spirited, opinionated guy with a great sense of occasion.
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