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This is one of the most fantastic submissions to HN I've seen in a long while. It's relevant in many different ways; it's about a startup, it's about a minimum
by henrikschroder 15y ago
This is one of the most fantastic submissions to HN I've seen in a long while. It's relevant in many different ways; it's about a startup, it's about a minimum viable product, it's about untapped market potential, it's about economic success, it's about a jaw-dropping kludgety mother-of-all-hacks, and it offers insights about what matters, both to users in large corporations, and to the author.
And it's funny as hell.
- beagle3 15y agoEverything apenwarr (Avery Pennarun) writes is worth reading, be it code or essay. He's been writing much less since he's started working at Google, but there's a lot of history for you to read. Of his open source stuff: bup is awesome, sshuttle is awesome, and wvdial is a lifesaver for those rare times you need it. I'm quite sure do/redo is awesome, although I can't provide 1st hand testimony.
- dirtyaura 15y agoRedo is great, I evaluated several make systems for our iOS C++ framework after I got too annoyed about the complexity of waf, and we ended up using redo. Is redo awesome? Maybe. We have written a few "usability layers" on top of redo, so I can't evaluate it fully as it is.
- apenwarr 15y agoredo as a concept is awesome. redo as an implementation just recently reached version 0.11. So I think your description of "great" above is more than generous enough at this phase :) Thanks for being patient enough to use it so early on.