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Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:56PM (#49001277)
Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:56PM (#49001275)
no matter your age and experience level, you can move organisations if you know how to tell stories.
Re:Show HN: Endor, run server software in your browser on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:24PM (#43549344)
This was a major gap waiting to be filled. After my experience with GH CodeSpaces, I've been wanting a system that simply provided the shell experience in the browser without the IDE. This should help I think.

Thank you.

Is Python support on the cards?

Re:Why Don't Our Leaders Care About How We Work? on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:13AM (#43514251)
It’s already established by research that power makes people less empathetic. Then come the incentives to do nothing.
Re:Hard Stop to Big Teams on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:43AM (#43269001)
Growth can be achieved with small teams. But, small team size must become a leadership skin so it cannot be taken off when it feels inconvenient.
Successful means what exactly?
Re:A better way to sell Coldplay tickets on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:15PM (#41979019)
Us tech people being tech people, we look at this as a systems design problem but no one seems to be considering what conditions lead to such massive demand for this show in particular. I can bet inadequate supply in general is a major cause, part of which is regulatory issues and red tape.
Calendar slot negotiations.
Re:Hopping too many startups in a row? on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:38AM (#41931951)
I never said theres a catch all meaning to difficult situations. Every one has to draw their own lines about it. I understand its in fashion to talk about RTO as a difficult situation and it certainly is for a large segment of employees but would it also be a difficult situation for a developer if they are asked to follow a coding style at work that does not conform to their own personal style?

Some might say yes, thats a difficult situation while others might say how stupid that is to make a situation out of that.

The point was, the difficulty levels can vary and employers would like to know where an employee stands so as to gauge fit with the ups-and-downs of a particular context of that particular organization.

There goes the spirit of FLOSS. Disappointing that Linus made it personal and bringing the history of his country into the issue. If we were to all start bringing our individual national gripes …

I wonder what this does to the corporate structures behind future FLOSS projects. Do they start setting themselves up in a way that’s immune to global high politics?

Re:Hopping too many startups in a row? on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:14PM (#41900378)
The recruiter perspective has some relevance too.

A question in their minds is whether candidates have the tenacity to stick through ups and downs of a company. This happens very frequently and I guess the employers are trying to gauge whether people will up and leave the moment things get difficult.

it may merit some nuanced explanation when such a question comes up.

Re:Why SaaS is dead and the future is agentic on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @01:24PM (#41850850)
The larger question is why would one need AI if the underlying problem of SaaS sprawl and data silos could be addressed without AI
Re:Why some travellers are falling out of love with Airbnb on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:22PM (#41839657)
They started out with places to stay and now throw experiences into our faces on the home page.

Compare that to booking.com home page that has stuck to “place to stay” as the entry point for the user for ten years since I’ve been using them both. That consistency means a lot and ends up occupying a space in the user’s mind.

Aibnb cannot make up its mind on what it is.

Re:Good bye Arc Broswer Your Killing My M1 MBP on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:00AM (#41838172)
Lynx
Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:38AM (#41826516)
You are right and I am simply putting myself in the shoes of the late stage investors. Perhaps they have been sold a story the drives confidence in a 2X return. When the story doesn’t hold up, there isn’t much of a multiples buffer to prevent losing money.
This is the most under appreciated principle for building a business, the one that’s most easy to relax and the one that requires most amount of self discipline and self control for CEOs and founders.
Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:46AM (#41826014)
My guess is, late stage investors are bringing money from a different class of LPs, who aren’t looking for asset classes that grow 20x.
Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:09AM (#41825849)
Demand and supply is playing a big role in the valuations.

One could argue that absent a MnA ecosystem, investors only have a handful of opportunities to multiply their investment. It leads to simple handing-off to next round investors as the one and perhaps only opportunity to get returns on the funds.

Only recently has the ecosystem understood the potential for IPO in India as a potential for exit.

Re:Build Systems, Not Heroes on Saturday October 12, 2024 @01:05AM (#41816570)
The degree of specialists that current tech stacks encouraged is not helping prevent creation of such heroes.

It’s no wonder that we now have software developers working under the assumption that one person can run the whole show.

Be outcome oriented
Re:Prioritize Through Purpose on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:19AM (#41785334)
In case theres further interest in reading about Purpose as a way to bring immense motivation and clarity, please see Deep Purpose by Ranjay Gulati(HBS Professor)
Religious ones help. Especially the parts About regulating and observing your own emotions. Bhagwad Gita was helpful to me as a Hindu.

Deliberate Calm is another one that helped understand on a more scientific level now our emotions are created and how that leads to our behavior.

Instead of blogs with marketing intent, founders should read the two things that matter most:

Four Steps to Epiphany Crossing the Chasm

Nothing beats those even today.

Maybe include Focus by Al Ries also.

Re:Prioritize Through Purpose on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:50AM (#41764715)
Prioritization conflicts are exactly the situations when Product Managers must step away from traditionally accepted management tools and frameworks and look deeper into Purpose.
Thanks for sharing. We sometimes forget the basics that we take for granted today.

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