i realised this too late. and then noticed -- the type of founder they let me. for us the unwashed masses, who are blue collar coders who went to state school. we're just filling up rejection numbers.
yet the arbiter of what determines who succeeds is not YC but the market.
that's the part they leave out. the cannabis they test in the labs is probably 5mg. The flower sold in the streets is over 20mg.
I have seen people go into psychosis from weed. & no it wasn't laced. I have seen my gf's dad go from a non-smoker to rolling a blunt every hour. I have had friends drop out of college due to weed.
they might raise a valid point. But I don't think enterprise companies will migrate to google cloud, given how products are frequently killed. Now compare that to AWS and Azure. Both AWS and Azure have kept a lot of zombie services running even if they save 1/1000%.
this is the self-destructive behaviour that's prevalent in the JS ecosystem.
say a newbie wants to develop a website or web app and they run into this. The amount of tools listed is overwhelming, even for me who's been doing JS for over 7 years.
and the sad thing is JS can be pretty productive, without the merchants of complexity shilling their tools.
Express.js v5 just got released. Thanks doug & other maintainers. Yet the API has been stable for over 10 years.
Vue.js even with the new composition Api - the api has been stable for a long time.
& other useful node libraries like 'pg' etc.
The only recent useful thing is tailwind.
Next.js / Nest.js etc are all complex tools that are completely unnecessary and shilled by dev-tools companies
Even for tailwind, I've only ever found it really helpful in react projects. Styling in react has always been a pain, and the recent(ish) solution of CSS-on-JS is a horrible solution in my opinion.
Tailwind was designed specifically to solve styling in react so this does make sense, but as soon as you enter the space of wanting more simple tech that has been stable for years you're throwing out react and might as well throw out tailwind as well, it just isn't needed when CSS is back on the table.
Edit: I should have also included here that there is also absolutely nothing wrong with using Tailwind if that's where you are most productive. We're long passed the days of tailwind shipping unused piles of utility classes, shipping is plenty important if that's where your productivity is.
I get the frustration but that frustration itself can discourage newbies that look up to more senior peers.
I am not saying that learning all these tools is necessary to be a productive developer, but at the same time we should also not easily be discouraged by their mere existence and reject any acquisition of new skills because there is just so much noise to filter through.
One can learn about (or ignore) them one after another, relaxed and with an open mind.
I'd say the bigger issue was the speculative trading. Why would you use it to buy things that will depreciate in value if you think the currency itself will go up in value? Likewise, why would you buy currency if tomorrow its value can tank really hard?
The reason floating crypto isn't viable as a domestic currency is it's a taxable capital gains/loss event every transaction, and not directly useful in paying those taxes. A recordkeeping nightmare, intentionally created by the tax masters.
congrats. Data Oriented Programming is cool, but you can easily get lost in the complexity of certain things.
there's another related book from one person active in the Clojure ecosystem. Though the book examples are in JS.
also, thank you for taking the step forward on doing your own small part in changing the 'AbstractFactory' thinking that's pervasive in the Java world.
difficult to help startups grow, if they never reach the growth stage. that's why a robust pre-seed / seed stage ecosystem is necessary.
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