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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I meant how the implementation works behind the scenes. Like what’s the persistence layer? How are changes subscribed to and persisted? ACID transactions? ect. Looks like we’ll have to wait and see what the author publishes later.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Interesting and very mysterious. How does the data syncing work? Can the developer hook into changes to execute business logic? How are changes to the same data point from different users handled?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I don’t think this model is bootstrap-able. It’s pretty much a social media play, which requires lots of burn to acquire first cohort of users. My friend bootstrapped a genius for books competitor with a subscription model and it was really
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
It sounds like a Herculean marketing effort to rebrand from rap music to all music then to sophisticated literature. Those markets are completely different. Then of course theres the copyright issues.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Eventually the cloud is going to burst and everyone’s data will be public Why? This was Epik being hacked not AWS or Azure. It’s just a domain registrar. And a shady one at that. Their lack of security is not indicative of the rest of
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Do governments have the technologies to become carbon neutral? From my maybe uniformed perspective it seems like we’re still several scientific breakthroughs away from alternative energies and sustainable technologies being competitive and
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Apple’s Privacy Mythology Doesn’t Match Reality(wired.com)
25 points by peterthehacker 5y ago|1 comments
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Only half of California homes are owner occupied. [0] So, there could be more CA voters renting than home owners. To put that in perspective, Texas has over 60% owner-occupied housing [1]. [0] https://www.census.gov/quickfact
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
The sample size is in the article: > Nearly 13,500 drivers were randomly sent one of two policy review forms to sign… The distribution referenced is of mileage, which you’d expect to have some kind of right-skewed, continuous distributio
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
While you’re right in a broad sense your points are irrelevant here. This is about fraudulent data (apparently created with a random number generator) being used. This is not and should not be something we expect from scientists. If this st
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> In the first sign of something amiss, the 13,488 drivers in the study reported equally distributed levels of driving over the period of time covered in the study. In other words, just as many people racked up 500 miles as those who dro
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Singapore’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects - VICE Asia(youtube.com)
3 points by peterthehacker 5y ago|0 comments
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
That chart with “Weak Foundation” vs “Solid Foundation” reminds me of Martin Fowler’s chart in his Refactoring book that compares “good design” vs “no design”[0]. [0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DesignStaminaHypothes
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
To be clear: staying in business is the universal success metric I mentioned and cited earlier (not funding or exit). Here’s another source citing the same 9/10 failure (10% success) rate for all startups in the U.S. > Many small bu
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
That’s not survivorship bias. And the measures of success in the article I cited are universal. The way you’re describing success (not going out of business) is included in those sources.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
But your example, Screenhero clones like Pop ( https://pop.com/ ), are in a large, competitive market. That doesn’t fit the qualifications of a small, underserved niche like the article describes.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
How is that survivorship bias? Bootstrapped, small, one person companies are still startups, where the odds of success are less than 10%, while venture-backed startups is 20%-30%. [0][1] What non-survivors are excluded from these cohorts? [
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This has been analyzed by many, but the stats you see reported often are that 9/10 startups fail while 7/10 venture-backed startups fail [0]. Perhaps the reason why a startup has no investor interest is because the market is too s
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Finding a market like that sounds really difficult to do. How does someone discover a market like this without a ton of luck?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> In this universe, of bootstrapping to several hundred thousand per month in revenue, a founder can walk away with $5m, $10m, $20m (depending on the multiple) in around half the time it’d take to build a “unicorn”. The odds of this leve
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Can Judo build native desktop apps as well or just mobile apps?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Whenever I see a business try “co-leader” stuff I think of that episode of the office where Jim and Michael are promoted to “co-managers”, then Oscar comments, dripping with sarcasm: > Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any orga
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Does Tesla have data showing how much better or worse AutoPilot is at driving vs a human driver?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Given this, why does Copilot write such crappy code? > The reason is because of how language models work. They show how, on average, most people write. They don’t have any sense of what’s correct or what’s good. Most code on GitHub
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Good point. I was thinking of changing styles via DOM, like CSS-in-JS, but you’re right that “y to CSS” would still be there.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
It definitely adds to the bundle size, but how much it adds depends on your implementation. This discussion on the topic is pretty interesting [0]. One comment from that discussion says “it is possible to double to the size of your source c
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Technologies like TypeScript are still dependencies that require transpiling to vanilla JavaScript and add to the bundle size. While typescript is becoming more and more common (for good reason) it still is effectively a workaround that com
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This project will transpile python code to JavaScript code instead of something WASM-based, like pyodide [0]. What are there the performance and usability consequences of each approach (py to js vs. py to wasm)? [0] https://githu
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I stumbled upon a security issue with your site. I was reading this LP trying to understand what this product does and saw this quote > Military-grade encryption and security Then I checked your site’s CSP policy on Mozilla Observatory:
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I believe this is the essay you’re referring to: Before the Startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html

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