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Spotify is a public company!

Fair point!

> the test setup failed

Most testing frameworks allow you to skip with a message if setup failed, which can help

> the test code itself divided by zero

I think this is a bug you do want to know and should be rare once code is merged into master (there's a bug in your code, just so happens it is test code!). However if for some reason you rely on a non-deterministic value that can make your test code fail in some way I have used Python decorators in the past to mark a test as such and raise a specific message.

> I don't know if business schools are really pushing this idea now or if it's in vogue for some other reason but everybody outside of management hates it.

I think most senior leadership at Lockheed are engineers and not MBA-types, certainly the CEO has a bachelors of engineering from the Air Force Academy.

This is probably to try reduce the risk of big projects with one payout causing financial pains during down markets. The government is going to budget for a subscription way in advance so you suddenly see monthly income for the next lifetime of the administration.

One business market a lot of people are enviable is furniture on payment plans - you sell an item and get cash every month for the next couple years. Industries where you have such a clear forecast are much easier to plan around (yes, this was something from Business School lol).

At least the Tenderloin has a 24/7 block party! /s

Even if Singapore is authoritarian and unfree, if they have high happiness scores, high life expectancies, high standards of living, maybe we have to accept you can have some good authoritarian places to live.

They do try to stop you doing it - you can't just ask for an email, but you can ask for a string to get around that

Not just enviable, they have the worlds highest GDP per capita, the only Asian country with a triple AAA rating by all ratings bodies, good integration policies (low crime but basically a 20/20/20/20 split between Buddhism, Atheism, Christianity, and Islam - not completely 20:20:20:20 but can't remember the right numbers and it's close-ish), one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and pretty awesome food!

It's almost like cracking down on crime in a tough way with liberal economics can lead to a great place to live.

Look at what drugs can do to a place (SF) - if it works maybe it's worth it?

I'm not sure tbh! I also agree with PostgreSQL. The last time I used MySQL was MariaDB in 2015/6 or something.

> todays tech landscape is far less edgy

Writing an app in a microservice architecture with services in Rust, Go, and Nim. Database is a serverless DB like Planetscale. Front end in HTMX. Etc…

I think any tech your team is not already familiar with, and isn’t the standard pick, is an innovation token.

A way for the humanities to get some of the CS STEM funding by writing sci-fi.

Edit: The number of AI safety sessions I’ve joined where the speakers have no real AI experience talking about potentially bad futures, based on zero CS experience and little ‘evidence’ beyond existing sci-fi books and anecdotes, have left me very jaded on the subject as a ‘discipline’.

I believe it comes down to three groups:

AI researchers/organisations wanting to make their work sound very important/scary

Humanities researchers wanting STEM funding

AI organisations trying to bring in legislation to slow down competition

My best friend is a radiologist and I guarantee he’s not working 32 out of his 40 reading slides - there could definitely be a way to organise them to have 32 maximum hours with the same output

Congrats!!

Anyone know of an HN alternative where people comment about how to quickly trial MVPs or build apps quickly etc, rather than just negatively attack someone making a killing solo-bootstrapping small apps?

> being successful by talking about how they are successful.

Can you actually back this up? For example, can you tell us how the $30k MRR he's making from a ChatGPT Web UI layer is related to your comment?

He has split his MRR very cleanly and most of his money comes from a web UI over ChatGPT

Actually he's selling a web UI over ChatGPT

> We focus way too much on tools, processes, and forget that at the end of the day, we're trying to exchange useful products for mone

Yep, just look at @levelsio and his $250k MRR stack of apps built with PHP and jQuery

> I'm a little disappointed by all the negativity here, but I suspect most of us are just jealous.

Yep x2, for a website built around startups a huge number seem to be against a solo founder bootstrapping apps successfully