LIGHTNING LEARN

10 ideas
in 5 minutes

Alex McFadyen

I'm going to share 10 ideas, quotes, thoughts, I've collected.

I find them helpful, I thought you might too.

Alex McFadyen

VP, Software Engineering

@BEN

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I build technology, with an amazing group of developers, most of whom are in different countries (most of the time)...

but right now they are in this room!

PROGRAMMING

Build for replacement,

not reuse.

PROGRAMMING

Write code and documentation,

as if the future maintainer

knows where you live

PROGRAMMING

2 hard problems in programming

1) Naming things
2) Cache invalidation

...
3) Off by one errors

APIs

Make one the special case of many

HR

Select for attitude,

over skills.

Skills can be learnt

REMOTE WORK

The price you pay

for excellent people, working where they want

is constant

over communication

REMOTE WORK

When working with remote contributors,

make sure ALL communication

is somewhere everyone can see it.

No water cooler work conversations,

keep everyone in the loop.

IDEAS

An Idea without execution is just a dream.

You won't get paid anything for a dream.

IDEAS

If you don't understand

WHY you are building something,

you will build the wrong thing

IDEAS

Excellence is

lots of little things

done well

THE END

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