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akickinthestoneon The Accountability Problem

On one company I worked on, in one year tech team shipped 53 epics, delivering all the features sales, CS and product needs. By EOY the company grew zero. Literally zero. This was a series A company. CTO got in a meeting with the CEO and said: we delivered everything you asked for, but the company didn't grew. What went wrong? CEO wasn't able to act on this. In the end the company started by laying off the tech team - which delivered what is was asked for (even sometimes knowing that it was not going to work).

The more I think about it, I get a feeling that if your core product depends on software and your CEO doesn't know how to develop software, then your company is doomed to fail. And because all companies depend on software nowadays, more and more are doomed to fail. There's also this new idea of CFOs running the company. But they don't run the company, they run the books. It's hard to grow a product based on the books.

It's confusing and it looks to me that less and less people have the balls to be accountable for their lack of action.

akickinthestoneon Ask HN: What tools and frameworks do you use to fast prototype ideas?

What do you mean REPL?

akickinthestoneon Show HN: Puter Beta – A Computer in Your Browser

I find it amusing that I can play Doom :)

akickinthestoneon This Spreadsheet killed their homepage – good idea?

I believe it has its pros and cons. I like to land on the product but I might miss what's different.

I don't like that at first sight it looks like I have to manually add more rows and columns. When actually just need to copy paste and it expands. Or use the arrows.

Add rows on rows.. There's a joke here somewhere.

akickinthestoneon Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Is Out Now

I bought it. I know its an imperfect game. But I'm pledging my money. If they fail its on them. But on my side I did everything I could to help a new version of ksp1 to life.

The most annoying thing right now it's mannouver nodes. I don't see how long it will be burning.

And to be honest I missed starting a game with so many unknowns. Reminds me a lot of when I started to play ksp1. People will have to learn new ways to get things done, and they will. Besides bugs most comments I see is the kind: I used to X and now I can't. Remember that in ksp1 you didn't know that you needed to do X! Let's learn again :)

akickinthestoneon Read and Write API launched for spreadsheet Rows.com

So one can push data to the speared sheet instead of pulling. Planing on a python SDK?

akickinthestoneon Rows.com Launches API

So one can push data to the speared sheet instead of pulling. Planing on a python SDK?

akickinthestoneon Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(), ASK_OpenAI()

Has anyone tried asking open.ai for spreadsheet formulas?