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A fool and their money...


It's a prerequisite to be a fool to invest in, or start, a business of the startup subtype. This isn't a bad thing™ on its own if there a path to something that can also be a mildly or wildly profitable business. One issue is not every founder can become a CEO, and that's okay. And not every startup->business CEO wears the CFO hat enough of the time to keep their numbers on a sustainable trajectory. That's one of the differentiators between startup CEOs and corporate CEOs.

For every wildly-ambitious founder or founder team, they need to bend an ear toward the sage advice of a conservative corporate CFO to ensure the venture stays alive and has a chance to thrive. Surrounding oneself with "toxic economic positivity" is a recipe for failure.


A fool and someones money


Are you specifically referring to method function receiver type annotations? Those are often left shorthand but shouldn't exist out of the type definition file anyway eh?


I’m referring to this guideline:

> Variable names in Go should be short rather than long. This is especially true for local variables with limited scope. Prefer c to lineCount. Prefer i to sliceIndex.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...


One of those is not like the other...

lineCount is literally perfect meanwhile sliceIndex could be anything.


Two shots for summer.


this is absolutely terrifying


not if nobody uses it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


It's similar to database backups - hopefully you'll never need it, but at some point you might. At that point you'd hope your data was intact


The cost of doing a database backup is usually much lower than the cost of doing event sourcing.


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