igor_filippov

Slightly off-topic, but once ActiveRecord(Rails) - always ActiveRecord. After years of developers complaining about SQL DBs being "difficult" and MongoDB allowing to "easily prototype", I still don't get what's hard about working with PostgreSQL if you use something like Rails.

Nothing comes for free. If your schema doesn't live in your DB, then it lives in your app code. In the end of the day, you have to handle data model changes.

Well, I'm with Apple now.

Last time I've used Ubuntu was about 5 years ago. And it seems to look the same now. I wonder if anything meaningful was achieved during that time in terms of UI/UX besides switching desktop environments back and forth.

Not the military.

Are there more products with the same model as Sidekiq which have the same level of financial success and are one man show?

I worked with only one, the one my partner foolishly chosen before I've joined him. Issues we faced:

- Developers were almost completely illiterate when it came to basic things, like http vs https, using git, encryption vs encoding. That's just something I wasn't ready for

- Using old technologies, i.e. Eclipse for Android development when almost everyone is on Android Studio, having libraries which haven't been maintained since 2010 as dependencies

- Communication was horrible, I had to write 10-20 emails before I could get any answer

Because often there's no correlation between engineering culture and business.

I'm from Crimea and I don't get this either.

Yeah and apparently Germany has only two of them.

I once saw an apartment for rent where host mentioned only vegans are allowed. I wonder if accepting people regardless of their food preference should be part of Community Pledge.

Still cheaper than paying rent in Bay Area I assume?

If you can't make money, entrepreneurship is not for you.

No, just put aside some money before quitting your day job and you're fine. Again, if you can't manage to fund development of your MVP, then maybe entrepreneurship isn't for you. I guess the same applies to the "Venus Project".

I've met his followers in Berlin once, "naive" - the best word I can find to describe them. In the end, they struggled to answer the core question: "Why would anyone take seriously a man, who can't prove his idea in a lean way?". Please, build a city where everyone is happy and everything is handled by the machines, show the rest of the world you're right! Reminds me of wantrepreneurs who can't scrape together 10k to build an MVP for their startup idea. If you can't find money to build a prototype, then no sane investor should trust you.