Things that used to be hard and are now easy
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#2Until "large prime factorization" makes this list, I think we're cool.
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#3"Building fast programs, with Go/Rust"
Sure, bud.
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#4I've only been using desktop Linux for 15 years, but it is vastly easier to use it as a daily driver than it used to be. It still has its problems--just yesterday I sunk an hour into an elusive bug. But when I was doing that, I remembered that such things used to be nearly constant and aren't any longer.
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#5"Building fast programs, with Go/Rust" Sure, bud.
They are both so much more pleasant to work with than C.
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#7As someone who leans frontend, I find firebase and serverless (somebody else’s server) solutions really powerful for prototyping an idea or building a proof of concept. You can get something in front of your users tomorrow. I would second guess SaaS startups that start by building the infra/data models unless they’re going for a highly technical play (aerospace, hardware, etc) or already have a ton of market knowledge.
I’m in the middle of a mongoDB to Postgres migration for a product with 0 users. When you’re trying to scale from 0 to 1 user then everything should help you explore the user’s problem space, even if it seems backwards to build the UI before the backend.
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#8> Building cross-platform GUIs, with Electron
How about no. I so want this abomination of a technology uninvented.
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#9As someone who leans frontend, I find firebase and serverless (somebody else’s server) solutions really powerful for prototyping an idea or building a proof of concept. You can get something in front of your users tomorrow. I would second guess SaaS startups that start by building the infra/data models unless they’re going for a highly technical play (aerospace, hardware, etc) or already have a ton of market knowledg…
Scaling from 0 to 1 user? Is this a personal project?
Re: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
#10As someone who leans frontend, I find firebase and serverless (somebody else’s server) solutions really powerful for prototyping an idea or building a proof of concept. You can get something in front of your users tomorrow. I would second guess SaaS startups that start by building the infra/data models unless they’re going for a highly technical play (aerospace, hardware, etc) or already have a ton of market knowledg…
Scaling from 0 to 1 user? Is this a personal project?
Nope