Typically Bending Spoons buys a successful product with lots of user by a company that couldn't control the spending, took too much investment and sells so that investors can recoup some of the money.

Great product, badly managed business.

This might not apply to Harvest. The details of their business before acquisition or the sale price are not public but logic dictates that the business wasn't doing that well, and owners sold it to salvage as much as possible or it was doing well and owners sold to get a big, one-time paycheck and be free from day to day drudgery of running a company.

I always wonder: why couldn't the management of the company that sold to Bending Spoons do what Bending Spoons does.

It's not rocket science: reduce the cost and increase revenue (by increasing prices)?

I ported GPUI to C++ and I wrote file manager in it.

It's as complex a desktop app as you can get: docking system, tabs, lists, trees, dialogs.

I don't know what the author alludes to as an app that would be too complex for GPUI.

I also know win32 programming and QT and GPUI is more capable and faster than either. I mean win32 is a tragedy but QT is decades of work and doesn't offer anything that GPUI lacks.

Like I said: bull. You can write any desktop app you can imagine in GPUI.

It's not the accountant that paid $20k for his mistake but the accountant's client.

I personally saw one in Krakow, Poland.

Cybertruck does not have EU homologation so Tesla can't sell it in EU. Because at the moment they don't want to.

You can buy it, import it and certify for legal use. It requires minor modifications but is perfectly legal.

https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=6%2F...

Zero commits are from DHH. It seems he already handed reigns over to other people.

The video is a good idea but not like this. It's both large and I can't see anything, just things moving.

When I fullscreen, instead of getting larger video, I get the same thing.

Record a video (and upload to youtube) that does a well-paced walkthrough of doing an analysis, with narration, maybe demonstrating how it's unique / different from windbg.

WWII ended in 1945.

The law creating ICC was adopted in 1998 and the actual creation of ICC happened in 2002.

Some aftermath.

Hypermiling records using Tesla cars:

  - 1078 km, Tesla S, 25 mph, 
  - 975 km, Model 3, 20-30mph
  - 909 km, Model 3, 50mph

2. It has solar panels. That tells me those are not serious people (or a PR stunt).

Solar charging math on area that small is so brutal that adding cost / weight of solar panels on a car is sheer stupidity. Adding few miles of range per day (on sunny day parked outside) doesn't make sense.

You're more likely to have a regular outlet in your garage and recharge 100 miles overnight.

That "no longer developed" note is from September 2025.

They made a bunch of non-trivial improvements in 2026: https://simplenote.com/blog/

What exists is a web page where you can express an interest in that offering.

But you can't buy a cybercab today.

This whole article is much ado about nothing.

Tesla has a page to gauge interest in something they might offer at some point in the future.

That's it. That's all there is to it.

That's not crazy because if past predicts the future, that revenue will grow quickly. At $8 billion/year it's just 7.5 years, which is a reasonable investment.

So SpaceX is buying 15 years of future cashflows, assuming no change in revenue. Which is bad assumption given past growth was gigantic.

They are also buying 300-400 employees with proven record of training good coding models.

Their expertise will be used to improve Grok Build coding agent.

Also, they're using stock, not cash, so effectively they doubled the amount of money raised.

EGCS was created because Cygnus, a company whose business was based on GCC, wasn't getting their patches to GCC, maintained by non-company FSF.

Cygnus outcompeted FSF by so much that FSF folded and made EGCS maintainers new maintainers of GCC.

I just don't see average open source project being forked and improved by so much that it eliminates the original.

This requires 3 rare things to happen:

- the project is important enough

- the project is half-dead

- someone is willing to out-compete the original project

That won't happen to e.g. Laydbird. Yes, it's important but it's making rapid progress and they also use ai, so you can't outcompete them just using ai. It's a full-time project for at least one person (Andreas Kling) so unless you manage to find a band of great, unemployed programmers I don't see how you would compete.

Granted, their profitability is better but in 2021 they were (rationally) valued based on Great Expectations which didn't pan out.

Now they're (rationally) valued on Much Less Great Expectations.

So I think it has nothing to do with skills of early investors (not the boogeymen, irrelevant private equity) and everything to do with Coinbase being a fast growth company at the time of IPO and being negative growth company after IPO.

They make money by curating an index i.e. a list of companies and licensing that list to other companies for a fee.

If they pick good, profitable companies with great future, then the business continues. If not, the business fails.

So when you're debating "should/shouldn't", the only perspective is that of Nasdaq, the company, and they only question they "should" be interested in is: is SpaceX a good company with great feature that will make the list better.

The 6 month rule was created by Nasdaq, the company, in order to pick good companies. It's not a religion. It's not a suicide pact.

Therefore when faced with historic IPO (the largest IPO ever) it's a sign of good management that they are not applying the same rules to SpaceX (debuting at $1.75 Trillion) as they do to companies that IPO at $100 million.

The reason is not "whatever".

Only very successful CEOs can negotiate super voting shares. In this context "successful" means "runs very profitable company".

If you're crap CEO (your company is not very profitable) then investors won't say "sure, you're crap CEO but we'll give you a complete control so that you can continue to be crap CEO".

Only when you're very successful you can negotiate complete control (which investors don't want to give unless they think they'll make lots of money).

And the best predictor of future success is past success.

Therefore companies run by CEOs with super voting shares were successful in the past and are more likely to be successful in the future.

The guy who landed on the Moon testified in congress opposing giving SpaceX any money.

The government wanted nothing to do with SpaceX.

SpaceX won the contracts despite the government, not because. They won the contracts because they offered the best product at the lowest price.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

Do explain to me his evil plan of becoming rich by lying about going to Mars and yet agreeing to only get paid when he does go to Mars.

The rules are made by politicians.

All it takes to change the rules is to rotate politicians.

Or enough public dissent that the same politicians are forced to revert the rules.