Because you'll be replaced by those engineers in N months/years when they can outperform you because they are wizards with the new tools.
It's like failing to adopt compiled code and sticking to punch cards. Or like refusing to use open source libraries and writing everything yourself. Or deciding that using the internet isn't useful.
Yes, developing as a craft is probably more fulfilling. But if you want it to be a career you have to adapt. Do the crafting on your own time. Employers won't pay you for it.
I've had a chevy volt since 2014 and it's amazing at this. 30+ mile range gets me all the local travel that I need daily plus the gas range makes roadtrips completely stress free since I can just go get gas.
I agree and I'm consistently flabbergasted at how many "entrepreneurs" see this as controversial or even wasteful. It's like the same take that "insurance is a scam". (I would not be surprised of these opinions were strongly correlated)
What kind of insurance because both health and auto insurance absolutely are. I don't think it's a coincidence that these two forms are also mandatory by law.
Insurance where there's a well defined insurable event that has a known in advance payout are great, life insurance for example. "Insurance" where the insurance company gets to decide if and how much to pay out is flat out bullshit. Everyone with auto insurance has experienced the— we decided the value of the car we declared totaled is $x where the cost of buying your exact car same year same mileage is at least $2x, usually $3x.
My favorite health insurance story is the one time I had to have an operation out of network because there were no in-network doctors that could do it. I got all the right paperwork, insurance said they would cover it, got it done and the cost was well beyond my out of pocket max. I called up insurance asking where my check was for the difference between my oopm and what I paid. Well guess what, the insurance company "decided" that the operation actually cost exactly my deductible so they owed me $0. The breakdown was hilariously bad, they claimed an anesthesiologist costs $17.
I guess my disconnect isn't that I think startups shouldn't be accustomed to working with a lawyer, but that I expected they shouldn't need one for something like this. Maybe there are enough areas where a lawyer is needed that having one on retainer already should be something startups do, so asking them to help with this wouldn't be onerous.
At HomeLight we migrated from Heroku to Porter and it has been great. The team has been super helpful, the platform as stable as you can get, and the cost savings have been tremendous.
I’d highly recommend Porter as the place to go to get started these days. I don’t see any reason that we will migrate away in the next few years, if ever.
I ride a public bus from oakland across to SF a couple mornings a week (used to be every morning before covid) and that trip is basically like this. 3/4 full bus, no one standing, good cell coverage most of the way.
Shortcut maybe? It's definitely not the same exactly and I haven't used PL in a ton of years, but I think it works pretty well overall. The general organization is Milestones -> Epics -> Iterations -> Stories
I agree. I also drive a volt and 98% of the time it's driven with the battery, but those 2% of the time where I need/want the engine (like a camping trip this past weekend), it's really great.
I don't every want a 100% electric car. We're a 1 car household so I really want the flexibility of going wherever without having to plan around the charger network.
44m and my primary for of exercise these days is cycling. I clocked aust about 4,300 miles riding last year (down from 5,000 the year before). I ride 3-5 days a week normally. Some of these are 45 minute indoor rides on a trainer in the winter, but most of them are 1 hr to 5 hr rides after work or on the weekends. It helped to join a club that has regularly scheduled rides. I do a tuesday gravel ride and a thursday road ride with the club every week during the summer. They take up most of the evening (530-730 roughly), but I feel great when I'm on this schedule.
It's like failing to adopt compiled code and sticking to punch cards. Or like refusing to use open source libraries and writing everything yourself. Or deciding that using the internet isn't useful.
Yes, developing as a craft is probably more fulfilling. But if you want it to be a career you have to adapt. Do the crafting on your own time. Employers won't pay you for it.