Sep 30 2020
How long do you think this code will run?
We have just spent the last 24 hours fixing a nasty bug in production.
We have just spent the last 24 hours fixing a nasty bug in production.
My previous post was about the things we do wrong
I should probably mention the things we're fucking awesome at.
I'm probably biased but I've always been a strong opponent of the VC-backed model and the "Silicon Valley" way of doing things - when a big "exit" is the ultimate goal everyone aims at.
When you have a small startup, you don't have enough hands for everything. Neither you nor the team. Not only that - your brain also tries to avoid tedious tasks, preferring to engage in fun and interesting ones instead. The benefit of being overwhelmed is there's always plenty to choose from.
Most remote work guides I see during these days of COVID-19, are all about optimizing for remote work in a remote company where everyone will keep working remotely forever. I haven't yet seen any realistic, simple, unsexy and "down to earth" guides on how to urgently switch a "traditional" old-school corporation to remote in 1 day.
Ages ago some dude I met at the Microconf conference (I don't remember his name unfortunately) explained to me how B2B software sales work in under 3 minutes, and it was brilliant.
Programmers often wonder, why executives make more money than developers. How come "John the manager" gets paid more than me, who's doing all the work?!
Here's a little C# hack I'd like to share, might be really useful to other devs too since it's a very common pain in all languages, not just .NET.
The .NET Framework's built-in WebClient class does not have a built-in timeout feature.
