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Mikeal Rogers
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Mikeal Rogers
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Hacker of a certain age.
Startups: Remote teams are too hard. Also Startups: Let's build our entire business on open source libraries made by people in different parts of the globe collaborating without ever meeting in person.- Dear iOS developers, Nobody ever wants to open URLs in your embedded browser. Please stop.
- Starting a conference for people that work in tech but grew up poor. Talks: * Low fee ways to send money to family. * Making yourself feel ok about spending $50 on brunch. * Where people with money store their extra money instead of just leaving it in your checking account.
- This open source credit card component is one of the best I’ve seen.
- Be fair, the team at Twitter doing UI is obviously not the team that tries to get rid of hate groups. For one thing, the UI teams exists.
- Apple: * Employs 125,000 people. * Is worth $887B. * Makes $229B in profit a year. * Ships an operating system update to 400M people with a blank admin password.
- Imagine winning a market so dramatically that your competitor shuts down their competing services, hands you their IP, and gives you money for the trouble.
- One thing that sucks about getting old in tech is that you see a lot of your colleagues become the people shooting down new ideas and trashing whatever the next thing is that might displace them. They become the same people we had to fight against when we came up.
- Invest in your programming practice, not the code you’ve written. The code you write is temporary, don’t try to hold onto it, don’t consider it precious. Your practice is forever, nobody can take it away from you, and you improve it every day you write code.
- The New Programmer: OMG, I'm so excited about this idea I have to sit down for 10 hours and write it. The Experienced Programmer: OMG, I'm so excited about this idea, I better take a walk and think about for a few hours before I sit down and implement it.
- Many people seem to think CSS is “easy” or at least easier than the things they do. These people are *always* terrible at CSS and somehow don’t respect a discipline they have not been able to attain. I’ve been trying to do CSS for 15 years and am, at best, mediocre. It’s hard.
- This is probably the most useful thing an internal engineering team has ever made publicly available
- Developers: Native is more powerful and will always be better. Also Developers: Writing a Desktop app is too hard so I'm going to package up a binary with literally all of Chrome and Node.js so that I don't have to use the native APIs.
