Find a partner. It can be a person, it can be a small business that might be interested in selling your software… You need at least one partner
You could try to take out a business loan or keep grinding as a side hustle, but if you don’t know how to build a product (and I don’t mean architecture) you need someone who does
And I say it as someone who has come to that realization the hard way
Then don’t get Galaxy scale with it, I wasn’t. This has nothing to do with evolution, that’s a myth of capitalism. Capitalism developed organically, not naturally… There’s a huge difference
Throw 50 people into an empty resort for a week with nothing to do. What happens? They play games, they cook together, they go on hikes together, they start projects, they separate and return to the group as needed
This isn’t a hypothetical. Have you never experienced the natural human state? No multi day reunions or weddings? Or living on campus at University? Just any situation where money isn’t really involved and everyone is around with lots of free time
Of course. Because we’re social creatures, that’s our natural state
Most of humanity’s problems exist not because they’re inherent, it’s because for 1000 generations we’ve been building up self-reinforcing social structures that have entered the end stage. Where everything is squeezed for profit and the real value of it is drained away
We like to do things together. We’re wired for it. With unlimited time and resources, why would we not live near and visit our favorite people? Why would we not explore the world around us? Why would we not work to make life nicer? Why would we not reach out to others who fall through the cracks and find themselves isolated?
But honestly, it’s probably because I have ideasthesia. I feel ideas tactically
Bad code feels slimy, problem areas feel like sharp angles, good code feels clean and smooth, like a smooth river stone with clean even grooves that gracefully curve
Best advice I can give is to strive to write elegant code. I don’t strictly follow style guides or do docstrings… These are superficial. I try to match the style of the project, but my code is consistent even in projects that are not
Elegant code is pretty, regardless of formatting. You’ll know it when you see it, junior devs will follow the patterns without instruction. It does not require explanation, it does exactly what you think it does, and it makes complex problems simple
Yes, but only ship of thesius style
I’ve seen how people code, I’m writing my own stack on the way up
Yeah, but that would be like launching a nuke. The whole world is dependent on TSMC for like… All of modern life
Luxury space communism is what they have in Star Trek.
You can make anything with no human labor, so why shouldn’t everyone have access to whatever luxuries they want? Obviously there are practical limits for the common good, like everyone can’t have a yacht, there’s not room and it’d destroy the oceans. But everyone could share a fleet of yachts
Instead, people work for social status, and because humans just like working
What I’m referring to is what if we mastered automation and shared the fruits of robotic labor freely? When machines can build and maintain themselves outside of the gravity well with no human involvement, we’d have an exponentially scaling pool of workers and basically infinite raw materials
Then we’d be free to do the jobs we want to do, not what has to be done or what has a high work to reward ratio
Nope, sorry. I just break my code into neatly grouped chunks, and I’m very consistent
I regularly go “I need something to do X”, and when I go to write it it’s already there. It does exactly what I need it to do, otherwise why would I name it X and not X_for_situation_y? I would never
My utility functions are reusable, my classes handle their own logic internally, and so my business logic is clean and readable. My code flows straight and clear, along a single path whenever possible
So yeah… When I start working with people, there’s the initial confusion then this moment where they go “Oh! That’s really easy to understand”
I get regularly complimented on my code for how understandable it is radiates smugness
Tomorrow the Epstein files will be released, 70% of all politicians and most billionaires will be arrested for pedophilia, and we will come together as one to build luxury space communism
Don’t wake me up.
It’s extremely important, because you’re never really picking a programming language, you’re picking a stack
You can technically write an android app in Python, but should you? You’re now locked into a framework used to run apps in Python, which are going to be much more limiting than other languages and frameworks. But you’ll also have access to Python libraries, which gives you options in that direction
Then you examine the context. How good are you at learning other languages? How long/complicated is what I want to do? Does this need to be performant? How long do I need to keep this working?
And most importantly, and you really have to think this one through… Will I need to extend the original goals in the future?
So really, yes, it’s very important. A bad decision in the beginning could cause problems for decades
China seems to be closest though, if they reach viable modern CPUs first…
But realistically, I think China made a deal with the West to hold off on Taiwan until we have at least one modern chip fab working in the US and Europe
Yeah, that’s what I mean
Doesn’t matter if China’s chips are economically viable if they’re the only ones making advanced chips…
And even then, it’ll need to be commerically viable to compete with the West.
Well, unless they invaded Taiwan…
You’re halfway there.
Yes, it was the best tool, in context
In that context, what was better?
Exactly. And what is the best tool? The best tool for the job
I haven’t used Facebook in 10 years. When do I get my democracy back?
How cute. You think we have other options?
We don’t.
I meant to delete the comment to keep things simple, but what I was going to say is something like
fine, but debt is like gambling. There’s situations where it makes sense, but it’s addictive. It’s mortgaging your own future, even when it maths out it’s a risk - shit happens
And if you over leverage and under perform, it’s over. If you can pay yourself and your employees, you’re better off never taking on debt again.
Like Wegmans. It’s the very best grocery store, everyone who goes there agrees. They grow slowly because they only open new locations when they have the cash to do so, and so they never have to compromise on quality in any way
Understandable, but it’s something to work towards. Talk to people you know about it, you’d be surprised how opportunities come out of the woodwork
It will take time, you can either go to networking events to try to speed it up or keep chugging away in a sustainable fashion in the meantime