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by logicallee 4337 days ago
Though to be fair, everything is "really, really simple to build" and "the only plausible way they could have been `working on' it is if they aren't working very damned hard" when you're reading a negative, top HN comment.

I know there are few undertakings as trivial as nuclear physics. It's not even interesting enough to have to test it. I would deploy straight to production without a second thought - wouldn't you?

They need to fire their CTO like yesterday - it's a wonder they're they're still in business. I have half a mind to show them how to do it in Angular over the weekend. :)

It's only nuclear physics. This stuff was solved 70 years ago.

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Well, to be fair, building a crude atomic bomb is really not that difficult.

> They need to fire their CTO like yesterday - it's a wonder they're they're still in business. I have half a mind to show them how to do it in Angular over the weekend. :)

Well note that most of the startups here are not doing any difficult or novel tech; it's the same old boring web + mobile stuff that every other high-schooler with a JavaScript book could do. The "hard things" startups face are mostly about staying in business (and only long enough to have "an exit" and kiss the surprised users goodbye), which is a class of problems you don't have when you're building a first nuclear bomb for the government.