DandyDev

Where do they claim to be “open source”?

I admit not to have read the whole paper, but in the intro nowhere do they mention “open source”, so it seems unfair to measure them by that definition

It is open, just not by your definition. You can view, use and modify the code to your hearts content. Sounds pretty open to me!

That seems a little dramatic, no?

I joined an AI startup in 2021 as the first employee. Both founders were already older than 30 back then. One of them was even 35+ gasp. We raised $40M+ since then. No OpenAI like valuation but by no means bad I’d say! Especially for a European startup.

Get yourself together and rise to the challenge!

We use MongoDB in conjunction with RealmDB to build an offline first mobile app. For this specifically it works very well. You basically define which parts of your document collection should be synced to which device, for example based on a query that contains the user id. MongoDB takes care of syncing the right data to the right device when internet connection is available. On the device, the data is stored locally in RealmDB, which represents the other side of the sync.

This is not easy to do with PostgreSQL, which we use for all other scenarios requiring a DB.

Yep, it’s so sad.

Every time Firefox is mentioned, there is someone that goes like “I have tried it but it was so buggy/slow for me”

And meanwhile, I’m using FF as my daily driver with zero issues. And I’m quite sensitive to buggyness or performance issues.

Apologies for that! The only other version of the rider I could find was in a Google Groups thread. That felt even worse somehow

The alternative is a big design upfront?

Absolutely! Honestly, I wouldn't trade my job for a US job 3x the compensation. I enjoy top health care, unlimited paid sick leave, unlimited vacation days with a soft-enforced minimum of 30 days per year etc.

Am I sometimes jealous when I see US tech compensation? Sure! But like you say, it's about much more than money + stock.

How to tell you’re US-based without saying you’re US-based.

All kidding aside, 150k is a lot of money where I come from (around Amsterdam). I lead the engineering department of 30+ people in a 3 year old startup and I earn less than that.

I think Docker is a great installation method.

- People who use Docker (Compose) can easily get up and running with a project in minutes

- People who dislike/don’t use Docker can at least use the Dockerfile and Docker Compose file as a reference to learn how to install the dependencies and the service itself.

But then developers need to learn to play that game. What is the business/financial reason to create small images? Can you come up with a KPI that makes it clear to the whole business that creating smaller images is important? (e.g. infra costs).

If not, than really why should anyone care about image size? If it does not have a meaningful impact on company results, it’s really a form of self-gratification isn’t it?

I often read these kinds of comments on HN and I don’t understand them. I’m using FF on MacOS and it feels like exactly the same experience I used to have on Chrome. Except that I like multi account containers better than Chrome profiles.

I would love for HN commenters to share a recording in which they show this “buggyness”

Please don’t take this advice as gospel. Cloudformation has a few problems:

- it only lets you manage AWS resources. And even if you’re not running multi-cloud, you’re bound to have a bunch of non-AWS resources like a DB vendor somewhere that you want to put on IaC as well

- it’s slow as molasses

- even if you feel HCL is bad, it will probably not be as bad as the huge swathes of YAML/JSON Cloudformation has you write

- despite what the console makes you believe, drift detection is practically non existent

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists.

As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accounts, Opportunities etc. Does Revert work with that at all or does it assume a certain default data model?

Not many companies hire CTOs through regular channels, and it’s likely you’ll be seen as overqualified for lower rank jobs.

I think you can basically do 2 things: try to get into contact with executive head hunters or make it very clear on your resume and LinkedIn that despite your tenure as CTO you’re very much open to EM or IC engineering roles.

Well, don’t keep us in suspense! Which language is it?!

Why don’t _you_ come up with examples where non-VC funded but successful businesses are doing well in part because they chose to ignore types?

At this point, I’m not even sure what you are trying to prove and I’m starting to feel that whatever it is, you’re trying to prove it to yourself mostly.

I would also prefer type checks to be done at runtime as well. The reason Python doesn’t do that is likely indeed the cost to performance

So what you’re saying is that by introducing type checks, you’re actually uncovering bugs. Seems to me like proof of value right there.

What does surprise me is that adding types to your PHP code adds _runtime_ errors. With Python, type annotations are predominantly used by static typecheckers and are ignored at runtime (except from some libraries like FastAPI that use reflection to inspect the type annotations). I always assumed all dynamically typed languages that introduced explicit types worked the same way

That is an odd and cynical take.

I see a TON of open source projects (frameworks, libraries etc.) on the frontend alone that are built using TypeScript. And on the backend Golang is hugely popular and Rust is gaining a lot of traction. All in open source. Not every one of those open source projects is backed by VC money or built by consultants.

> not open-source yet

Can you be more clear? Is the Desktop app going to be open-source in the future? If so, what license?

Do you intend to monetize this product? If so, how?

As a side note: I find it strange that you feel the product is not stable enough to share the code, but apparently stable enough to share the product itself.

As I understood it, we only have access to a few decades worth of high-grade uranium. After that we’re left with low-grade uranium which is hard to mine and refine - which incidentally you need fossil fuels to do (the mining part)

With regard to space needed: imagine if every existing building had roof top solar panels. We’d get quite far. I think we have the space for a few wind turbines to get us the final few kWh.

What do you think we should do with nuclear waste?

And how do you feel about giving every country in the world access to technology that also lets them develop nuclear weapons? Or should a select group of countries be environmentally conscious and the rest use fossil fuels? Renewables can be given to every country without risk.

This article has some interesting insights with regards to nuclear vs renewable energy: https://energypost.eu/renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispel...

How is nuclear power much more sustainable than solar and wind energy?

I didn't know her, so I googled her. What comes up the most: her YouTube videos and podcasts. That's the definition of "content creator".

I find 35 young. Young != not adult.

Having a successful nationwide bookclub does not stop her from (apparently) being a content creator. And vice versa, being a content creator does not diminish the success of her bookclub.

You seem to suggest that being a content creator is somehow "less worthy" than having a bookclub. Many people are super successful being content creators on YouTube. Are they less because they don't run a bookclub?

Sounds pretty elitist to me

The comment is factual, right? The person is young? Check. She is a content creator? Check. She promoted his books? Check.

Nothing patronizing about that

Edit: meant as a response to sibling comment

I asked a question, I didn't indicate preference.

Also, if my statement is the dumbest you have ever seen, you haven't seen many statements....

Is that such a bad idea? It's probably better for the majority of the other species that inhabit this planet

But what is the alternative? You've said it yourself that religion plays a lesser role in people's lives, so people apparently don't feel they should optimize for a better hypothetical afterlife.

What remains are two options:

1. Optimize for the future/betterment of humanity

2. Optimize for your own happiness

Option 1 feels a bit like optimizing for something that will always be our of reach for me personally. It's almost like a reverse pyramid game where I'm doing something that only people who will live after me will benefit from. Except they won't really, as they'll be optimizing for yet farther into the future.

I'm perfectly happy optimizing to keep the planet a great place to live, but as half of a consciously childless couple I don't feel particularly inclined to make sure that there are actually descendants to enjoy this planet. I'm okay if other species inherit the earth

I'm gonna be a cynic here. Maybe they have a sustainable model _now_, but there is no telling for how long the VCs will be happy with the revenue this model generates. Somewhere down the line they might want to see a better ROI that involves converting Hoppscotch to a cloud-only app just like Postman and Insomnia