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I would liken it more to the male equivalent of facial beauty or weight: most men have a general level of facial beauty and weight they expect in a partner. And if not met, there i…

Anything else I can read about smol? also, are you using a tool to collect those metrics? what is it?

Look at Cursor CLI: https://cursor.com/cli

I met with ~80 funds over two rounds and they were all great experiences. Especially in the early ones, when I was still learning the dynamics of pitching, they were all overly pat…

The P&L of every software company has an R&D expense (R) in a total cost (T). We can debate what R is, and R might be approaching 0, but it is not 0. This does not mean that R is o…

Apologies. When I met you in circa spring 2019 you described Ashby to me as mid-market ERP, which I had quite a few thoughts on given the amount of ERP work I had done. Sorry for d…

He didn't say there wouldn't be competitors. He was actually acknowledging the competitors exist, but he was expressing how none of them are in the consideration set of Greenhouse'…

> Our thesis is that the cost of producing code is heading towards zero This (correct) thesis should illicit an interesting question about the future of SaaS markets: What happens …

This is just a tragic way to view the world, on so may levels: 79 is a great run for anybody. And more importantly, Craig Venter did more in 79 years than most people could do in t…

The only reference I can find to this is a Business Insider story[0], and they are known for salacious and dishonest articles. It looks like they paused hiring for some number of w…

> That’s what dies if I can’t keep going. Your priorities are completely wrong. You need to redirect the time and energy you're spending on this project towards getting back to sta…

It's curious to see the rational argument against the emotional choice the author makes. The critical piece here is the anecdotal (but true) insight that engineering orgs have been…

> I believe this cultural divide is a big reason America won't make it back to the top What top are you referring to? We're in a thread about a US company announcing its new $30B f…

Put winter tires on your vehicles. I'm surprised by the number of people who tool around in snow and ice in 'all season' tires. Also, that writing tone is obnoxious.

That website has an uncanny resemblance to Hex circa 2024.

> There is an amount of baby cash that would work Probably not. A vast majority of families in the US raise children without a nanny. If the "only" preclusion is 'I don't have enou…

I just read both articles and I think his summary is accurate enough to stand behind his claim that putting off having children (if you want them) because of a theoretical situatio…

> you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones. Empirically, that group exists,…

Something I've come to accept and try to remember: people will complain about literally anything you give them to opportunity to complain about. The world is better today in every …

If there was serious interest, they would taken a next step by now. They won't give you a hard no unless you're an absolute joke. They will wait and see if there's any deal heat. A…

I've built up to a very similar process, but it looks like yours is a much better oiled machine. Specifically I struggle with getting enough architecture thoughts in place for the …

You'd have to be using very antiquated (by nearly two decades!) patterns or practices for SQL injection to be a concern.

> Nah. Just write the good SQL for your database. You may not need to use an ORM, but hand writing SQL, especially CRUD, should be a terminable offense. You _cannot_ write it bette…

That's not really how data is requested. Most of these identifiers are foreign keys - they exist in a larger object graph. Most systems of records are too large for people to assoc…

> Stripping information from an identifier disconnects a piece of data from the real world which means we no longer can match them. But such connection is the sole purpose of keepi…