It was a big influence on me and something I recommend and quote often.

I'm curious if your perspectives on the topics of "The Lean Startup" have changed I the era of AI tools. Particularly curious what you think about the role of MVPs to test a market.

This has been on my mind the past few weeks because of a recent experience during a company hackathon:

A few years ago I gave a talk about prototyping and MVPs at the Audio Developers Conference and in this talk to explain the concept of an MVP I proposed a silly idea for an audio plug-in (that replaces a singers voice with the sound of flamingos) as a demonstration of how we might test that there is a market for this plug-in before building it. I gave some examples of how we could test this like a landing page MVP, concierge MVP, etc.

Recently during the two days of this company hackathon I was too busy to do a project of my own because I was helping on-board colleagues with Claude and getting sucked into some leadership meetings. During the demos meeting I decided to try to build my voice replaced with flamingos plug-in and built a working plug-in in under two hours and this got me thinking:

If I can build a real functioning plug-in that a user can try in their host application in less than two hours why would I use non-software MVPs to test a market when I can build working software just as fast or faster than I could setup a non-software MVP a few years ago.

Of course there is more to learn from "lean" than just MVP (I'm also a big fan of the andon cord and the 5 why's)

(to anyone commenting on vibe coding I looked at the code and while not all of it was ideal I wouldn't consider this "vibe coded" and for serving the purpose of an MVP a couple things in the code that were a little funny are not a problem)

This reminds me of a trick I came up with for mixing Python and C++ in the same file using overlap in their syntax so the file is valid for both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwYjI9cJd0

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Does anyone know what paper I might be thinking of? I can't seem to locate it.

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He has some budget and was looking for a developer to hire to work on the project. I was thinking it would be better for him to find a collaborator (if not co-founder) than just a contractor for hire---even if this collaborator would need some stipend to cover their time.

It has been a few years since I have been working with any early stage startups or trying to do my own so I wanted to ask out for advice on how and where to look for a co-founder.

He is going to be moving to New York City soon so I'm curious if anyone has any in-person suggestions for him to meet folks (I'm from Boston-area myself so don't have suggestions in NYC). I'm also curious if anyone has any suggestions a "job board" of sorts but for finding co-founders (co-founder internet dating?)? Both to help him look for someone before he finishes his move to NYC and also because he may be interested in collaborating with someone remotely.

I didn't feel like I had any up to do date suggestions for my friend so any suggestions y'all may have would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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To answer your question, if you are not looking for particular LISP I would checkout Racket as I think that has a non-emacs IDE.

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I am not the OP for either GitHub issue nor have I responded yet; I just found these when doing a little digging after our legal department responded that they were hesitant to approve using WebView 2 in our products. Later a may join the new thread to provide that data point.

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> Around 2005, Jobs faced a crucial decision. Should he give the task of developing the device’s software to the team that built the iPod, which wanted to build a Linux-based system? Or should he entrust the project to the engineers who had revitalized the software foundation of the Macintosh? In other words, should he shrink the Mac, which would be an epic feat of engineering, or enlarge the iPod? [1]

When this article first came out, I made the assumption that this statement meant iPod OS was Linux-based---also feel like I heard that somewhere else---but I have not found any sources to confirm this. Anyone else know?

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I think we started with System Software 2.0(4.0), but it might have been an earlier version. Soon updated to System Software 5.0 and MultiFinder (and 4MB of RAM for multifinder). I remember the upgrade to System Software 6.0, because my copy of Dark Castle stopped working---eventually I figured out that there was a copy of System and Finder on Disk 1 and that I could boot from that instead of the external SCSI HD.

My parents bought the computer for office use in their jewelry design/manufacturing studio; so I could use it there when they were doing bring-kid-to-work-daycare, but they also often brought it home in the Mac Plus carrying case. I have fond memories of using the How to Use Your Mac tutorial: the mouse tutorial and the start was fun and something I could easily learn by watching; I remember the Finder tutorial that followed challenging as it had text instructions so at first I couldn't do it on my own and would need help---I think trying to do the Finder tutorial played a big part in learning how to read.

I remember using Mac Paint a lot, but also watching my mother work on the computer and wanting to learn what she was doing: Mac Draw (for jewelry design), Excel[2], and CAT IV (CRM). My pediatritian was also a Mac user and would go to Mac World and would give me disks with SWAG games he got.

Later when my parents got a Macintosh Performa 575[3] to replace the Mac Plus, they made the fatal mistake of setting it up at home---I wasn't going to let that multimedia machine go! Luckily they made a good parenting decision and decided it would be better for my sister and I to have access to the Performa since they could get by a little longer on the Mac Plus at their office. Eventually they brought the Performa to work and replaced that with a PowerMac 7200/75.

[1]: Side note: Around this time also saw 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time; my father got it for me as a 1st birthday present.

[2]: I liked using simple expressions for calculations, but mostly making graphs; lots of pet graphs (i.e. 1 cat, and various numbers of fish).

[3]: Might be mistaken on the specific model.

The example I used in the lecture where datamoshing came up was the music video for Charlift's "Evident Utensil"[1]; I always thought this was a neat example.

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