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New comment by cubicmeter in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

cubicmeter — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:23:02 +0000

Interesting in that I wonder whether government organizations and in particular the highly qualified government members and their functions can be protected in a similar manner from political leaders elected in a democracy.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

cubicmeter — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:55:49 +0000

New comment by cubicmeter in "Temozolomide Is Explosive"

cubicmeter — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:42:50 +0000

this could be true that as a different example along the lines of the same conclusion: Women-only medical conditions are less known by medical fields, and there are fewer treatments. Its because the society treats women's lives less seriously. For example pregnancy is still pretty mysterious in general medicine. Birth control pills are to prevent women fertility etc. It could be true that children lives are deemed more important by parents and more researched.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Ask HN: What do you use to pay out multiple people (Stripe/Wise/PayPal, others?)"

cubicmeter — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:50:25 +0000

unrelated but then somewhat related question, how is it that fees are negligible, but they aren't on eth, bitcoin etc?

New comment by cubicmeter in "Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)"

cubicmeter — Fri, 07 May 2021 04:29:18 +0000

%90 less natural

New comment by cubicmeter in "The health benefits of better air"

cubicmeter — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:25:59 +0000

Unless the author is not only a scientist but a really good one, I cannot personally believe any of this material.

If particles were as essential to health as claimed, smokers would have a much much shorter life expectancy.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas"

cubicmeter — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:42:15 +0000

good luck competing with 1000 other companies on that existing category

New comment by cubicmeter in "RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)"

cubicmeter — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:32:36 +0000

You can compare selling a database to selling git. Nobody is selling git itself, they sell the hosting around the tech, or create a dev workflow (gitlab) that uses git at its core.

If anyone tried to sell git itself it would be impossible. I never used mongodb for reasons listed in the article. But there is free and open source and resilient postgres.

the companies who succeeded around git did not build git. it would be a tough thing to develop both git and the hosting / workflow business around it.

so I guess the lesson to learn is don't try to build extremely sophisticated software as a startup where there are already good enough open source alternatives.

New comment by cubicmeter in "OpenSocial Specification"

cubicmeter — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:31:18 +0000

thank you xml enthusiast I hope you write xml all day long

New comment by cubicmeter in "OpenSocial Specification"

cubicmeter — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:09:11 +0000

when I hear spec and xml I don't want to use that thing.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?"

cubicmeter — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:57 +0000

You are already making progress or you are not a narcissist after all. Narcissists never accept that they are narcissists or come to that realization.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?"

cubicmeter — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:05:22 +0000

true for other fields than AI as well. theory most of the time makes sense at the moment you need it for a practical problem.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?"

cubicmeter — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:30:40 +0000

" Starting a company is much harder than you think it is - no matter how hard you think it is; it's harder." This is very true, I wish there was an easier way to start.

New comment by cubicmeter in "Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?"

cubicmeter — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:58:08 +0000

I was in your shoes working at a FANG after selling my first company and I quit 2 years ago.

First of all I completely understand that your position bores you to tears. Been there and I know how it feels, especially if you are the type of person who could start a company.

Also, it is hard to connect with a company mission. All company missions boil down to just serving users and making money.

I wanted to quit and start a company all the time.

The fact is though, startups are really really hard to pull off. I came to realize this after building several, completed, shipped, but non-monetized projects after quitting.

Especially if you are at a FANG, probably where you live is also not that cheap. And given the loss of income, you will eventually come to a point of struggle where you are both not making money and trying to bring up a really-hard-to-bring-up startup project.

I'd say that is the surprise. Lifestyle-wise though, it has been awesome. E.g. Your entire day is not programmed by somebody else and telling you what to do. Be creative as you wish. Truly follow your dreams (the projects I built were my dreams and glad I did them). Do a workout any time of the day when you feel like to, these have been great, and my stress level has been lower.

You need to figure out how to make money though, and that's not easy if you plan on doing a startup.