> Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential.
The amount of founders who choose to domicile their company in Estonia because the ticket rates and ease look attractive and who don't understand that this will still need to be administered in their local market as a CFC (controlled foreign corporation) would probably say differently.
> Just choose a jurisdiction where investors understand how the legals work (Delaware C-corp, UK Ltd is OK too) and there's a finite administrative burden and/or commoditized tooling in place to help you handle it.
That's exactly what EU-INC is trying to provide/solve afaict.
Totally agree. If I don’t understand the code as if I’d written it myself, then I haven’t reviewed it properly. And during that review I’m often trimming and moving things around to simplify and clarify as much as possible.
This helps both me and the next agent.
Using these tools has made me realise how much of the work we (or I) do is editing: simplifying the codebase to the clearest boundaries, focusing down the APIs of internal modules, actual testing (not just unit tests), managing emerging complexity with constant refactoring.
Currently, I think an LLM struggles with the subtlety and taste aspects of many of these tasks, but I’m not confident enough to say that this won’t change.
Fairly subjective, but personally I find all apps being within the browser quite constrictive. I'd much rather have my apps unencumbered by browser chrome and unintended keystrokes, persisting their window size/position and all kind of other affordances. Definitely not a fan of the 'browser as the OS' philosophy, as it feels a bit inception.
That said, I'm less and less bothered by an app that's Electron under the hood, but I think that's more to do with the quality bar for native apps slipping over the past few cycles (macOS) and forfeiting their advantage.
In Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic style – pretty much a bible amongst typographers – he states:
We should “[u]se spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to set off phrases.” Bringhurst then adds this devastating indictment:
The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.
With a warrant from a judge people should be compelled to provide access to their encrypted files or be in contempt of court with all that entails. Anything else is overreach.