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I am not equipped to give an opinion on that either way. I’m just saying that building a successful business is independent of the accuracy of your ideology.
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Amen.
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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
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> Do you have the name or names of the person accused of 'attacking police with sledgehammers'? You should be less flippant. The accused's name is Samuel Corner. He and his friends are still on trial for their actions. Here's the bodycam footage where you see Samuel Corner attack police seargent Kate Evans with a sledgehammer while she was on the ground, fracturing her spine. Watch from 3m05s to 3m10s: https://www.yo…
The quote from the article continues. You cut it off. "It was me not really knowing what I was doing, I was trying to protect Leona, or Zoe. I couldn't tell who was screaming." "My friends were in danger and they [the police] were getting quite hands-on. "I remember just feeling like I had to help somehow. I would never think to do that to someone, I was just trying to help," he said. I don't have any opinion on this…
> The quote from the article continues. You cut it off.
I quoted three separate snippets from the article that I wanted to draw attention to, and gave you the URL to read the rest yourself.
I'm of the opinion that, someone who sledgehammers an unaware opponent and claims in their defense "I was just trying to help", they are being disingenuous. Especially as one of Britain's most elite and privileged youngsters.
If you'd like to quote more of the article:
> When asked by his barrister Tom Wainwright whether he was willing to injure a person or use violence during the break-in, he replied: "No, not at all".
Read that back to yourself while watching the attack footage again. Is this credible testimony?
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Going against everyone in your industry is contrarian. There are countless threads where Masad is attacked by mainstream venture capitalists and called "antisemitic" or "terrorist". Same with paulg.
That kinda depends on what questions the industry revolves around, doesn't it? For example, if I was once of the only vegetarian at YC, I don't think it would make me a contrarian. And it especially wouldn't if my background was of a Vegetarian-based religion.
Being against genocide and land theft is the correct side obviously.
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"Palestine Action" is terrorism.
Spray painting a bunch of airplanes is terrorism. Got it. Oh, and don’t come crying when the same authoritarian laws put in place for Palestine Action are used to label your cause as terrorism to quash dissent.
Guess you didn't see the footage of them attacking the police with sledgehammers?
https://news.sky.com/story/bodycam-footage-of-alleged-sledge...
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Why don't you just use Claude? I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them
Third world country could be region blocked. Not sure why this is controversial. I know it’s an issue with Cursor as they have to limit availability of models based on region. OpenAI specifically blocks India and Pakistan for example, among a long list of other countries.
i'm not aware of any service geo-blocked by OpenAI to either pakistan or india
Could u share a link or something?
P.s. found nothing on a google search
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#406So success buys you ideological latitude
Do you know how many politicians switch sides once they have lost their power? (well, not many have been in that situation, but still!)
As a powerful figure, you become a literal puppet in front of the public. Your opinions don't matter
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thanks for sharing, that's an interesting perspective actually. It's easy for us "pro devs" to kind of ignore platforms like Replit as "training wheels." I look at it and think "why would I use that, I have all my own stuff set up the way I like it locally". But us older guys (i'm not that old, 34, but still) can easily forget how valuable and exciting it is to have tools that make the publication / deploy easy. It's…
How long do those customers stay customers? Are their customers making money? Will they be able to build retention? I've got this question of every platform like this - Lovable, etc. Cursor and IDE tools and models cater to a smaller audience, but they're sticky, repeat customers, big spenders.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. These are valid criticisms of platforms like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, etc. that cater to "fast MVP" type customers. I'm not sure how you sustain the valuations if the churn inherent to those type of "hobbyist" or "solopreneur" type customers isn't solved.
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Yeah. I'd say about 1/4 of my time on my new app has been spent on deployment-related stuff, rather than the app itself. And I'm not inexperienced with servers and cloud. It's a pretty big deal to integrate that stuff.
I have a habit now of getting that out of the way first just so I don't have to think about it. Get a basic functioning prototype and then figure out my infra and deployment as early as possible.
Well, I got it out of the way early, but I keep discovering changes need to be made...
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A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical. No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy. (He did end up movin…
I think experienced programmers underestimate how tricky it is to sort the deploying to cloud platforms bit for beginners.
I've really shortened the loop on deploying my side projects with Claude Code. I run it with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` on a prompt I've written and it adapts it for the project in hand with a "safe" set of defaults, and I've got a basic verification script to ensure it's not unsafe (e.g. can't access postgres from the web, firewall blocking all non-required ports). The rest - which can vary from project to project, like creating VMs, configuring rules, whether it's a rust project or a docker compose file - Claude knows how to handle pretty well. Super super simple now.
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Spray painting a bunch of airplanes is terrorism. Got it. Oh, and don’t come crying when the same authoritarian laws put in place for Palestine Action are used to label your cause as terrorism to quash dissent.
Guess you didn't see the footage of them attacking the police with sledgehammers? https://news.sky.com/story/bodycam-footage-of-alleged-sledge...
Even if I hadn’t, I surely would have by now given the amount of “gotchas” in this thread using this crime as some kind of smoking gun justification for proscription.
But it is good to know that criminal assault is now equivalent to terrorism.