nthacker

I partly agree. I do think that the amount of choices and decision paths that an individual senior engineer needs to make are increasing, since we keep piling abstractions above abstractions.

There's only so far one can get by looking at Quickstarts and tutorials. If you do find a tutorial online, a big struggle is replicating and getting it to run. There's quite a lot of Open source software now, thanks to Github, but getting to a point where you can run the code, understand what it does and replicate parts of that are super time consuming. If companies knew how many man hours are dedicated towards this, they'd be shocked at the loss of productivity.

My main thesis is that intermediate stage learning is self-driven, and there needs to be an ecosystem of tooling that can provide & enable replication, remixing of software with sufficient walkthrough of what the code does

I've been pondering and working on this exact problem for over 4 months. I agree with you. The amount of time that engineers spend at work to teach themselves, test or experiment with frameworks, libraries, architectures is really high. Personally I've spent hours of unproductive work before a breakthrough and certainly there's a component of the difficulty in searching, piecing together ideas that are not basic.

You mention video walkthroughs and that you would pay for something like this. I'd love to do a video call and chat to learn more: nirmalthacker@gmail.com

Yeah for an AND function, f(a,b) <= min(a,b)

I have a question:

Isn't the real reason that these debt-buying companies(and the evils that come with it) exist because of bad-lending and in this case, an overpriced, inefficient health-care system?

This talk by Martin Fowler is a fantastic overview into the SQL vs NoSQL discussion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_g07C_Q5I

As an unrelated question - what are some of the other well known accelerators, that are at par (or better) than YC?