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> I couldn't seem to get anywhere.... My efforts were fruitless

I don't quite understand. You wrote that you offered a product which solves a problem for an audience. That's an achievement! Maybe even a great achievement, depending on what the product is and how many people use it and for what. I don't mean to belittle the sting of not enough people caring, following, upvoting etc. - but if people are using your product, then you've bettered their lives, and that is commendable and admirable.

Building a successful startup is not just not-easy, it is nearly impossible, in the sense that the vast majority of start-ups fail. Indeed, some people might be in a social echo-chamber where they get a distorted sense of what's feasible and what's easy. I would say the point is not just "pushing forward", but thinking about both the future of success and the future of - quite probable - failure of a start-up initiative. Also, considering whether what you want to produce will better help humanity if you promote it via a commercial enterprise or a free/public-benefit initiative instead.
You are not your startup. And defining risky endeavours like entrepreneurship only by its outcome, is setting a trap for yourself.

"Giving up" never got the recognition it needs. You cannot pursue new goals without letting go of old. You cannot find a new girlfriend without "giving up" on the old.

Life is all about letting go and be open to where it takes you next.

Good luck on your journey. Although the place you are in now feels miserable you will look back at it as a defining moment where new roads opened.
Also, there are some tools where you could convince someone up the chain to spend money, until they see the offer from the vendor.

I would have loved to have HashiCorp Vault Enterprise for instance, but the math just wasn't working out to get a feature you can get by... just running more of them.
It's worth noting that investment makes building a business wildly different to bootstrapping. You stop trying to build whatever a successful business looks like to you and have to build something other people believe in. That comes with a lot of compromises, different decisions, and 'selling out'. Some founders find that change in direction very hard to accept. Bootstrapping and investment are different journeys. Neither is easier.
Is anyone aware whether Bitwarden encrypts everything, or just the passwords like lastpass?
Lol.

Their key example is Figma…which is, effectively, a better knockoff of the native Sketch mac desktop app. It had that infinite canvas first.
I see it being called "The Friday Afternoon Dump" here [1]. The PR and marketing term for finding best timing is "press release timing".

Weekends are a prime candidate because press and journalists are off, but social media thrives in weekends. Friday afternoon is the sweetspot if you want to avoid press and social media virality.

1. https://xenophonstrategies.com/the-friday-press-release/
Because it would make them more money per car but not overall. And they aren't competitive in that segment with the assets they have. They would have to design different models, scale down production etc, a pivot of the company.

A better comparison is Mercedes or BMW, they're in a similar market segment and not selling 10x more cars at 1/5th the price live VW is. Still their market caps are lower than Tesla and their profits are in the same region (depends on which quarter you look at which one is ahead).
Tesla no longer has a moat in China- a more important market for EV than America.

As for Volkswagen the translation is "car of the people" which Tesla is assuredly not.
You tried and failed. There are others who dont even try and live with regret. At least you have no regrets about not trying. Take care.
I don't think the Go-stdlib is significant better than the Python-batteries. For normal stuff, you can build without dependencies in python too. The problem starts when you use more complex stuff, or want to save time by using a lib delivering certain benefits. After all, you can't build and maintain everything by yourself.
Sorry to hear that. But I actually see this comparison a lot in the literature.

Both heroin and alcohol are dangerous, but as alcohol is socially acceptable and widely available in a different forms, the perception of the danger differs. It's not a question for which drug we lose more people per year (alcohol is by far the clear winner here). It's a perception of these losses are different, and makes us believe that other drugs are more dangerous.
There's a short part in Ed Catmull's book Creativity Inc. about how Steve Jobs timed the Pixar IPO after the Toy Story premiere to ride the hype wave and told Catmull to wear a dorky suit for the IPO investor tour that Catmull would never wear because it made him look like a scientist. It was important to present Catmull as a brilliant genius from the lab.

Why I am saying this? I think selling something is a lot less rational then you'd think. And some people are frankly better than others at it. It's not enough to build something, even good, if people don't connect the dots on why it's good for them, or present it in a desirable way. And a lot of things these days people don't really need at all, so it gets even more difficult selling something.

Another point that I think is important when I wear my amateur psychologist hat is, why are you doing that? Do you want to be recognized as a brilliant entrepreneur? Success? Money? Do you enjoy it for the ride? If it's that, is it really important what the outcome is?

But your advice is also good - it's important to take care of yourself. Take care!
An “indie hacker” is a solo entrepreneur who (may be a digital nomad and) builds small revenue generating projects. Typically building them in series and letting them grow passively while working on a new one. Often active on twitter sharing work in progress and success/failure stories.

A key theme for many is building lifestyle businesses that collectively provide “passive income” and financial independence. But unlike “FIRE” it’s “financial independence, casually work while enjoying life”

A common and well known person is Pieter Levels:

https://levels.io/projects/
>I have 0 expertise in phone battery replacements

Well my initial post you replied to was precisely about phone batteries if you would be so kind to read it again. So...

>All I am saying is there is a market for these things once the specs are open and user can choose themselfs.

And I told you already that the market has existed for a long time and is now flooded by low quality fakes and knockoffs that can set your house on fire. So we need legislation to force manufacturer to sell original batteries to the consumers instead of having consumers go online or to dodgy corner shops and risk buying dangerous fakes.
> I never had a paid customer

Getting at least one paid customer shouldn't be all that hard, I feel like you've been spending too much time interacting with and marketing to "indiehackers" who are essentially influencers. Take a step back and a break from this world and maybe come at it from a different angle, go to the places your actual customers would be.
> I mean, your govt is banning enough of the shit with some real questionable reasons

I love advocates of democracy and freedom of speech always taking up the time, in the middle of a brutal war no less, to show us the righteous path.

Well guess what: war is the absolute worst enemy of democracy, there can be no polite debate and pluralism while the enemy is blowing your children up. A country defending from a aggression is a fascist state where everybody has an assigned post and maintaining the chain of command is an existential duty. Democratic armies do not exist.

It's no coincidence that all authoritarians and fascist tend to start wars or invent enemies, they long for this state of total control where the whole nation is forced to rally behind them. For Ukraine, that enemy is very much real and the resulting fascism is the only way forward as an independent nation. There is nothing "questionable" about it.

As for advocating for freedom of speech, yes, there is place for that after the Russian aggression ends. Or one could try to setup a booth in the Kremlin square and promote those ideas into a country that, allegedly, is not at war with anybody.
My experience shows that in order to succeed you need: 1) someone who knows marketing in the area you are targeting (medical equipment marketing is not the same as, say, cat hairdresser marketing or dev tools marketing); 2) someone who will sell - yes, a salesman, a person who likes to talk to customers, call people and knows how to sell stuff in your target group.

I am not talking here about building all those famed sturtups created by 3 "scratch your own itch" techies in the cellar and that succeeded by pure chance or thanks to connections founders had or other factors that average indie founder cannot control.

If you are indie dev, you should not make yourself dependent on luck or accident.

Start with this: marketing guy, who knows the market, such person in two hours can invalidate your idea and give you 5 better ones.

Learn some marketing stuff by yourself (books like Start Small, Stay Small will not make you rich in a day, but will open your eyes to the way things are working, most of this is obvious once you read it, but this is psychological "I knew that all along" phenomena - although you somehow knew this, you were not using this.

Same with sales, stuff will not magically sell by itself. You can count that your product will become "viral" or something, but, again, you make yourself dependent on chance. Just have someone who will help you do the stuff, you are not that great at.
The fact that you think this is an obvious tell just shows that it could be used strategically against you. Some players will use any means available to level each other. Don’t be so sure :-)
I won't name names but I'd generalise it to people very obviously trying to sell a dream more than a product.
You listed the less-important parts of that story. The important part was what your start-up offered, how it helps the world, and whether the product(s) and the technology went on to be used by many people/organizations or not...
> Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), not every app uses XMPP.

App doesn't need to 'use' XMPP to use push notifications. For developers, it is essentially identical to using FCM. XMPP part here simply offers a very effective way to decentralize the service, as federation server-to-server part in XMPP is wonderful, and top XMPP servers like ejabberd have great performance.

> Well, please at least try to understand the thing you're criticizing before, that's the bare minimum.

My company has created this very thing for a customer years ago, so I think I pretty much do understand what you are creating.

It wasn't open, yet, the effort to make it open would be pretty small. We could probably release it, but I don't see the real need for it, as it is a likely dead end: making apps run in the background on Android was what we did for years, and the writing is on the wall. Background running becomes more and more difficult with each new version of Android, even on pure Android phones. Biggest manufacturers, however, like Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi simply kill off background processes without mercy. So it is more than likely we won't be able to run 'dispatcher' apps on Android, just like we can't on iOS, and we'll have to rely solely on push notification service which is built into the phone OS. If there is a fight worth fighting, it is the one to force phone OS developers to open this part of an OS to allow using custom push notifications services.
From what I can tell from reading about this, it seems like people are mainly worried about brute-force password-guessing attacks. Lots of people pick lousy master passwords so there is the possibility of some real damage being done.

What I am trying to suss out is how worried I should be. My master password is a ~20-character mixed-case nonsense passphrase with spelling errors and digits thrown in. Am I being clueless about the threat level if I conclude that there’s a vanishingly small chance my stuff will get decrypted?

Ironically, “switch away from LastPass” was on my to-do list for the holiday week anyway, but now, just to be on the safe side, I guess it will be that plus “change all the passwords on accounts I care about.”
All in good spirits with a smile and a wink ;) though I don't appreciate being language policed.
For the longest time we (and in many places probably still do) literally taught students multiplication tables. That is, hardcoded answers for a * b with a, b <= 10. As soon a double digit integers are involved - tough shit.
> A big fact of the entrepreneur world is that it is hugely based on luck. Luck of finding the right idea, the right market, the right timing, the right connections, the right customers, the right employees, the right financing.

This is not true!

I have seen successful business built from scratch by people who had no connections, no money and no privileged background (and no VC money). And I will say this for sure, it is lots of hard work and hustle. Luck comes to those who do these things first, it is not the other way round.
If the buck doesn't stop with me, then I really don't care where or when it stops. This is the key issue with free markets and why they fail totally at anything long term, complex or socially important (like healthcare and education).

And that is assuming there even if a buck. Plenty of people are entirely happy to destroy their kids future as long as they can pretend they didn't know (or that it hasn't actually happened). That's true for education. LA parents are happy with low test scores as long as they can get low taxes and high grades to point at if anyone starts asking questions. The same is true nation wide and internationally in the anglo-sphere west at least. If one citizen cannot read or add up, that is a problem for them. If no one can, that's a problem for society/government/employers etc.
Entrepreneurship is a rich man's game. Notice that almost all of the guys who made it big come from wealth, and had the money and the contacts to lean on to make their product a success.

I'm sorry you got caught out by the charlatans who hype up entrepreneurship and sell people lies about success.

Please don't blame yourself, this isn't your fault, you were hoodwinked by false prophets.
This will probably change as we get more cores and performance/efficiency ones. Macs already run a lot of the low-priority tasks on their slow cores leaving the fast ones available for interactive activities.

I don't disagree on the current approach though. If I start a, say, long build job from a terminal window, I have control over the resources it can take. If, OTOH, I start a program from the GUI, it's reasonable to assume I want it to have full control, at least while it has the focus.

Now, letting the GUI dynamically renice non-focused processes would be very nice.
Nearly every relatable problem in Seinfeld was contrived to death, blown up for comedic purposes, and trivial to begin with...

We somehow lived in the 70s and 80s and mid-90s without mobile phones (and even until 2007 and the iPhone for most people without smartphones) and did just fine...
When you know you know. It's like the difference between pushing a boulder uphill and downhill. Very hard to predict ahead of time - you just have to keep shipping stuff.
In case it fails, GPT-3 would still be good at collecting the details and making a nice summary for the human to take over.
Across the pond, there is also the NCSC password guidance. It's better than linking to some obscure paragraph in a standards document; it's written in plain English, aimed at the layman, and explains exactly why the old doctrines are bad:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-a...
This. I really dislike the term "lifestyle business". What's wrong with a stable long-term business that makes founders and customers happy? Why does every business need GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH at all costs, even if the result is a net negative for customers?

I sometimes explain to customers that if my business were VC-funded, it would grow and be developed much faster, but in the end there would need to be an exit and there is no exit scenario that is good for the customers. Think about it: there could be an IPO, in which case the business would need to start addressing a huge audience and increase growth (which always hurts existing customers), there could be a strategic acquisition or an acquihire, very few of which go right (this usually results in shutting down the service within 2-3 years), or the VCs could decide to fold the company, stopping the service outright. There is simply no good scenario.
I am one of those who is never been satisfied with my current calendar/todo/task/planner solution that's because we are productivity nerds. Every year or every few years you tend of optimize what you are doing as you get comfortable with your current solution because you want to add more to it as the number of things you want to track grows and expands.

Over the years my calendar has become something to remind & track my recurring tasks and events. I use a physical notebook as my planner(daily/weekly tasks) and note taking (almost like a bullet journal) but I also use Trello for project tasks and long term goal & its related tasks. I am not a fan of Notion but people love it so I have to use it when I need to collaborate with people.

And this is my current setup from past 18months, before that I relied heavily on my calendar for most tasks. But at some point it felt weird being stuck on the calendar and it ended up being a distraction as I was exposed to other things in my calendar most of the time. Your brain doesn't stop thinking about what you just read even if its not immediate.

The thing is, the more you dig deeper into optimizing this, the more holes you find in your system as everything at this point leads back to you(the user) actively needing to go to those systems yourselves.

Plus this product is for e-ink tablets, which is currently a niche product and as people switch to new products its easier to have a better optimized solution for it than going back to older solutions which requires weird ways to sync on the new device or something. I don't know how difficult working on other apps is on e-ink as I don't own one but generally moving away from heavy smartphone use over the years has taught me that these systems can work very differently on various platforms.
> Is learning any sort of Assembly language a good investment of time?

Learning to understand Arm architecture specifically or computer architecture in general can be invaluable. A particular Assembly syntax is just a way of expressing what you want to do.

I would suggest reading a book about computer architecture or taking a course. And if you are like me and are interested in what complicated things hardware does to fulfil the needs of software, you might want to first read a book on operating systems (like OSTEP by Arpaci-Dusseaus, which is marvel of accessibility and challenge for students), because it will make you ask relevant question.
They were very lucky to succeed then. Entrepreneurship is so heavily weighted towards the wealthy, privileged, well-connected set.
It was a mistake though. Because now the politicians get blamed for the cookie banner chaos.

I hope they will go back on this and mandate DNT after all.
While these things are true, I can't help but think the advantages are outweighed by the fact that tech savvy people are some of the cheapest people around when it comes to paying for software. How many of us expect to build an MVP entirely on the free tier of something?
Indie hackers had a great post a couple of years ago looking at how many projects posted there were actually successfully. I don't remember the details now, but I remember it being a depressingly small number that made me realise how statistically stupid it was to attempt to create a tech startup.

I think the conclusion was that you probably had something like a low single digit percentage chance of building something that's profitable but makes < $1,000 / month. And the chance of building something that would replace your income was something like 1 in thousands.

If you're building something you love then by all means do it, but as someone who's been in your position and who has seen several of my colleagues and friends in your position at this point I tend to recommend people against trying to create a tech startup. It's almost always a waste of time, money and more stress than it's worth. Plus it's not like we get paid bad for working a regular job in tech.

Imo there's just way better ways to make money. Tech is weird in that you're competing against a lot of very smart people, the barriers to building a tech product are very low, and the competition is global. In contrast if you open a used car lot you'll typically be competing with few average business men in the area who had the capital to start the company. Your chances of success are astronomically higher even if it's capped.

If you really want to start a company at least leverage the high income you make as a tech worker to start something with some barrier to entry. It might not make you a multimillionaire, but I've seen way more people successfully go from a tech job into opening a restaurant or into real estate.

Anyway, sending you love man. I hope you're doing okay. I know how hard it can be accepting that your dreams will never materialise. I wanted to be an a tech entrepreneur since I was young teen. I wasted most of my best years behind a keyboard and monitor building stuff when I should have been having fun with friends. When I realised in my mid twenties that I wasted a decade of my life aspiring to something that would never happen it took something like 2-3 years for me to get over that feeling of being lost in life.
D doesn't store capacity in each slice. This allows a slice to fit in registers more often. Instead for GC allocated slices, the GC will store metadata before the first element of the allocation. That does make it slower to access, particularly when the slice points past the first element, but it is cached to speed up repeated accesses to the same allocation. Repeated appending can be further speeded up by using a dedicated Appender type.
> VW (or rather, the VAG group) is simply a different kind of company.

Exactly. Which is why comparing unit sales and expecting that to correlate to stock price is not logical.
None of those was any kind of big problem. Minor incovenience at times at best, and lazy dependance now at worse.

I mean "- Getting lost on the city due to a wrong turn or similar", and amazingly billions still managed to get to their home, work, activity place just fine, even as tourists!

>- No convenient messaging of other people independent from wires. You had pay phones and that's it. And maybe you could leave a message

It was trully a marvellous time then!
Nope. Expected ratings distributions were published immediately on the the rollout of GRAD in the spring.

The support check in process was explained not too long after. The rollout was indeed messy, with a lot of support check ins being given in December as a “check the box” process to make getting a low rating possible, with no time for a report to adjust. But this is only because the new system requires a formal check in before making it possible to get the lower ratings. This is portrayed as insidious but actually makes it strictly more difficult to get low ratings.

The new “meets most” rating captures an implicit “low CME” from the old system and does mean that more people will now officially get undesirable ratings. But this was known ahead of time.

None of the material in this article is new.
If true ... is that a lie, or the inability to know scientific fact before it's been studied?

Applies both to Fukushima and Covid response.