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Yeah it definitely would. Historically, to OP's hesitation, databases & data warehouses haven't purchased BI tools, application layers, etc. But this is starting to change (e.g. Databric…

I'm knee deep in the data tooling space myself and it's quirky at first but not too surprising. This resembles the Google Cloud acquisition of Kaggle, or Microsoft's acquisition of Gith…

There's open source backend software and there's full-stack / GUI oriented software and in my limited experience, I don't think the latter always makes sense. Smarter people than m…

Highly recommend World Without Email by Cal Newport on this exact topic: https://www.calnewport.com/books/a-world-without-email/ …

Biggest challenge here is that you'll be starting over from scratch. First few years of any new job / role is going to be a lot of grunt work. Also, as many people have pointed out, you will…

Fair enough -- my mistake then. I would edit / delete if I still could but I think HN has a edit timeout

> I do wonder if the project is still under active development. They've publicly acknowledged that they're still working but have been quiet. > I imagine it’s very frustrating to not h…

Obligatory Shop Class as SoulCraft drop - https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-so... …

I remember listening to a podcast with the Braintree founder and he had mentioned how they worked with the other payment providers out there to create some shared, common standards. This type of compe…

World Without Email by Cal Newport talks a bit about the challenges here. Specifically, Peter Drucker advocated for autonomy in knowledge work. However, this often leads to a lot of creep around meeti…

Required viewing is Bret Victor's excellent talk "Humane Representation of Thought": https://vimeo.com/115154289 …

> > "We’ve known for a long time that software will eat the world — the comings and going’s of everyday life, once they are expressed as code, become infinitely easier to patch and improve …

It's insanely laborious to pull in information from datasets on systems, quickly transform them to approximate the answer to a question you're trying to answer, and have a discussion around …

Real personal computing, that benefits end-users on their terms. In the Future of Coding community, we often use the analogy of "home cooking". As in, we have restaurants & professional …

I will take this opportunity to mention Nadia Eghbal's book covering her work researching open source projects & communities. Super relevant: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Pu…

Honestly, smart home tech should embrace local first & end-user-programmable-first. I'm waiting for Dynamicland to come to my home: https://dynamicland.org/ …

This is awesome! I also recommend Idyll, a JS / React framework for creating scrollables: https://idyll-lang.org/docs I am a backer in the open collective :]…

Congrats on the launch! Any plans to integrate with Apache Superset? https://superset.apache.org/

> How would that look like exactly? You pay for the search product but you're able to do a ton of cool things that Google will likely never be incentivized to do. Basically turn the open web i…

If I could pay $5 or $10 (or heck $25) a month for a programmable search engine, then I'm ready. But competing with Google 90% on "their terms" seems super tough. Yes the design is a li…

+1 this, we bootstrapped at Dataquest and word of mouth played a big role

Besides resources like Indie Hackers, I highly recommend everyone here read Small Giants ( https://www.amazon.com/Small-Giants-Companies-Instead-10th-A... ) which focuses on companies t…