wayne-werwolf

قبل 9 أيامdiscuss

As other's already pointed out, the author argues about the primary intent of code review. Of course you find bugs while doing it, and that's a nice side effect, but doing code reviews to assert correctness is maybe suboptimal QA. At least that is my take ...

wayne-werwolf

قبل 21 يومًاdiscuss

This is a good point and I agree, this is just marketing. But I do think there is a moral continuum in that. I want to say on one end lies purely factual dry information: "On offer today are bananas, they cost x currency units, which is cheaper than Store ABC ...". On the other end is something amoral--maybe a good word is "scam"? Selling hopes and dreams, as I called it, is not immoral per se, I also agree. Where the threshold into amorality lies? idk ... But to take the Gym example, I've seen ads which are pretty okay, and some that are scam-ish. If they sell you a realistic, attainable goal of "getting fit" or whatever, that's okay. If they show you a pro athlete (10y+ training, substances and genetic luck) and tell you that "everyone" can achieve this ("you only need to sign up! just a few months!"), that is amoral to me, but not a scam. I would categorize the example in this post somewhere in that moral category.

wayne-werwolf

قبل 22 يومًاdiscuss

I think the point the author is trying to convey, is that they are similar to MLM schemes in that they profit off of peoples hopes and dreams. Altough there are MLMs that are pure pyramid schemes, there are some where it is also not impossible to earn some money with it. Their products do not even have to be downright bad or fake. Having read Daniel Kahneman, I suppose with (economic) desperation people become especially suceptible to hear the siren's call of such marketing. What would have made the comparison to MLM more apt tough, is if there would be a thing like: you buy X subscriptions and may resell them, or if you have Y people that you convince to also become subs/tokens sellers you also get a cut.

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