There is a recent British Netflix series called "The Capture" that is pertinent to this discussion. A little absurd at times, but for anyone who wants some mental floss around this topic it's a very interesting show.
MongoDB was hardly alone -- almost all of these projects favored getting people started quickly, and avoiding anything that slowed them for even a moment. And we've seen it in project after project that it absolutely helps uptake, and if your project requires an hour of analysis and configuration before being usable, even if this saves tens of thousands of hours in the future, it puts it at a dramatic disadvantage.
This is pretty dire for me as someone who was in the shadows. On the flip side I moved to a very low cost region so I feel like I'm in a better position.
As an aside, I realize this will be a deceased post, but make it still for the edification of the few who have showdead on.
"I think this shows off why linux desktop enviroments aren't up to par with other systems"
This may be true, but your example is spurious. I'm not a big user of OSX and I'm constantly amazed at how utterly terrible many of the affordances are. How unintuitive much of the system works. But it's idiomatic for the platform, so the people who use it a lot are accustomed to it and it feels natural. The same is true of every other platform.
Extraordinarily trivial C and C++ submissions see great traction on HN. A recent one -- pointer arithmetic -- saw a bit of confusion about how something so trivial was on here to see the HN zeitgeist argue that it's really because the critics felt so "stupid" from the submission that they had to strike out.
This place is not a representation of low level programmers at all, and sentiments about that realm are usually laughable caricatures as recited by beginners. HN is overwhelmingly junior devs and high level web devs who get amazed by bit shifting and pointer arithmetic.
"but think it's worth mentioning"..."There are people who work better in an office than at home"
The article specifically and directly addressed this. Right near the beginning, as a pretty major disclaimer point.
There are people of all stripes. One of the most infuriating things about the remote / office discussion is that people who prefer one or the other cast their lot as universal: everyone just slacks and is useless when remote, or everyone hates working in the office. Of course, like everything, people fall all over the gradient.
I suspect this article made a lot of people feel stupid
Anyone who doesn't understand pointer arithmetic in C has no business being involved with C. I'm not trying to be negative about this post, but the notion that people are feeling "stupid" about this is hysterical.
HN has absolutely trended toward utterly beginner type C information being some novelty on here. It's a bit bizarre, and the general skill level of the site has catastrophically declined.
-and in re-analysis it all holds completely true. Nginx gives my deploy flexibility, at essentially negligible cost. And no Go development should include a bunch of boilerplate code to do banal stuff like serving static content.
The temperature was entirely reasonable. The woman got burns because she was an elderly woman with extremely dry skin. If your skin is excessively dry, much lower temperatures can damage.
McDonalds still serves their coffee at the same temperature. Almost all brewers do. Because that's what customers desire (especially people who add milk/cream).
It's funny that people complain about media sensationalism, but then nonsense like this gets voted up. And yes, my comment will be dead (hurrah for showdead users).
"McDonalds raised the temperature of their coffee without telling people what it could do."
Horseshit. Raising temperature doesn't "reduce costs". They did it because a lot of people commute with their coffee and given that most people add milk, many found it unenjoyably cold when they got to their destination.
"Then, this woman gets third degree burns from something she expects to hurt and make her skin red at worst."
This was a very elderly woman with thin, extremely dry skin.
Your whole post is just garbage, but in the "one extreme or another" nature of social media now, it'll get traction. Just greedy McDonalds.
The serving temperature of McDonalds coffee is not at all atypical. Most home brew is at the same temperature.
An open source standard. And to be clear it's a minor derivative (mostly defined usaged) of those other crazy standards like HTML.
This submission is hilarious. Guy installs random plug-in without knowing what it does, then complains about theft. So incredibly ignorant, but HN today.
Over my career I've attained my MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD certificates. I've worked on and deployed massive solutions on the Microsoft stack, and still do.
But I absolutely cringe at how Microsoft fanboy this site has become. The post you replied to is pure cringe, and many of these comments are the sort of hilariously dreamy nonsense that these people parrot about solutions like Windows Phone. Some vague, hand wavy "well Microsoft makes other stuff too!" sort of noise.
This whole site has been overwhelmed by mediocre Microsoft devs. The amount of actually informative content has fallen to close to 0.
How so? Samsung simply executes very well. HTC has notoriously executed terribly, but even with HTC making misstep after misstep, Android has literally kept over 10,000 HTC employees employed for years.
What was their alternative? Cede the market? Go all in with Windows Phone? Try to do their own thing? (See: Blackberry).
Further, you could say that the entire smartphone market is zero sum. Apple is just as susceptible, as seen recently.
Android is generally a bad thing
This is like Donald Trump tearing into trade agreements, imagining up some world where everything is so much different. Without Android, shops like HTC would have been out of business years and years ago. Apple would be absolutely owning the entirety of the market.
The average tech company age is 29, and that includes management, middle management, the executive, and so on. 35 is absolutely "old" in the valley, without question. Many expect to have "retired" by then, or to have elevated to some senior level of decrepitude by then.
Outside of the valley it's much more common, but even outside in many shops you're viewed as a failure if you're still doing anything hands on or technical at that age.
Marginal? Holy shit, how isn't this completely transparent and dead, like my post will be?
Samsung is pulling in about $4B profit per quarter from their smartphones. "Marginal"? In what universe is $16B per year "marginal"? Certainly not this universe.
Just as a point of reference, Samsung's smartphone profits are greater than Walmart's profits. It's greater than the overwhelming bulk of world corporations.
(Yes, I realize I'll be dead, courtesy of dang and his clique. This is for the showdead)
That noise like this gets a pass on here is simply remarkable, and diminishes the entire site. Aside from the tens of billions that Google has made, Android has literally kept huge organizations and tens of thousands of people employed for years. It has a scale of revenue and income that would be a dream for most other industries.
But on here it doesn't "really make any money". Christ. The ignorance.