For reference on that: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...

Parents reads as a comment on the usefulness of applying mathematics to problems in the world (applied mathematics) and discovering mathematical problems that push mathematics forward (pure mathematics) in the process. Pure mathematics is incredibly important, but I’d hardly count it as useful if we need to wait centuries.

> but I’d hardly count it as useful if we need to wait centuries.

This is not the fault of the mathematicians.

Love inkscape and wish it could get some engineering love around MacOS. For quick work I'll use it on MacOS, but anything deep I switch to Windows.

What issues do you have? I use Inkscape on Mac almost every day and lately hit very few bugs. I think a lot of them have been fixed in the last year or so.

It used to be almost unusable with all the UI bugs (can't close tabs when you open them, can't resize the window without panes bugging out or the app crashing, etc).

I get the occasional crash where it just closes completely for no reason, but very rarely in the last year.

My top 2 picks: 1) The fact that dialog windows almost always open on the wrong display if you have two displays and the external is the main one, 2) The fact that windows' positions/sizes are not remembered, There are a few other things (for example, occasional performance issues) but these two annoy me the most.

Aside from that, I absolutely LOVE Inkscape - there are no better tools if you want to have granular control over the SVG.

Edit: here's another one, not sure if macOS related tho - auto-selecting the parent when clicking the path underneath it. Because of that, I can't use a hotkey to switch the visibility of the selected path on/off (Inkscape switches the visibility of the parent layer instead, affecting everything that's inside).

Yes those are my picks too! Aside from that, I totally agree, it works great on macOS.

Social logins, email logins, password resets, multi-tenant, organizations, many to many users to organizations, etc etc. Not necessary for MVP, but can definitely be painful hacking in later if the MVP hits.

What you are talking about is in a large part authentication. You can do authentication using an external service and still have your user table locally. You can also do authorization locally with a local session table while leaving authentication to a SaaS.

By the time you're so big you need all of that, there will be other people at the table to "hack that in".

I strongly disagree. If you’re selling to other businesses, much of that is an expectation.

Social logins, multi-tenant and organizations are very far from table-stakes for an MVP.

Whether it's painful to put in later or not is sadly nothing that the managers and executives concern themselves with.

Depends on the company and product. The SSO/Social login, multi tenant and multi platform are indeed needed for my MVP.

Indeed it depends of course. Though I don't find it fair for those requirements to be presented as table-stakes and required, as my original parent comment seems to have done.

All I am seeing here is Django modules

Django, Rails etc handles this.

So... you just have to not build your web app in the most popular web app language? Somehow i think there will be big time debt from that decision

Not as big as the debt you will get from having to implement it all yourself. And it's not like he's suggesting you use cobol - there is not an issue of finding people who can work with both rails and django, so the popularity isn't really relevant.

Those are both very popular languages for web backends, and both of those platforms are mature and robust.

Share price can and does go up because layoffs usually means opex goes down

This is the first time I've encountered this. I want all footnotes to work this way! Otherwise I'm off into a rathole and never return. Love it.

FTA “Hence the Series A: we have some computers to buy.”

Maybe not adds in, but wraps around. You could accomplish much of this with fairly simply bash scripts.

You could accomplish all of it with claude -p (headless mode).

Admittedly I might be missing a flag or two with claude, but how are multiple loops and comparisons of solutions done with just headless mode?

You have building blocks like "--resume <sessionId>" and "--fork-session".

For example, one thing you can do is curate the context of an "immutable" conversation and then reuse it as a base context for other prompts.

It's just a prompt.

Via skills.

Indeed.

Where are people finding time for these sort of projects.

They bootstrap a workflow with a prompt then build an orchestrator off that then prompt it to be converted to an opencode plugin and then prompt a website to be generated advertising it and then prompt a tool that reviews hacker news feedback and automatically incorporates feedback into next generation of the tool. At the end of the week they go to their manager and complain they are out of tokens for the actual job they are being paid for.

Haha, not far off. Only difference is I'm not spending my tokens at work. I use this on a side project video game that I'm developing.

xcode's new AI using claude is not performing as well as claude code for me. I've tried a couple times and quickly fall back to using vscode with xcode sitting in a window beside. I don't mind the copypaste of warnings and errors since my workflow is less vibe and more directed/iterative.

It’s been done before. Send the glassholes to Molotov’s in SF. https://sf.eater.com/2014/2/26/6272945/heres-the-video-of-th...