The point doesn't need to be to amass followers. It can be to share knowledge and spread news. There could be a more useful variation in this medium than today's Twitter.
Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I went ahead and implemented part of (2): letting the user who posts to rate. I'll work on ranking posts by this score.
Most of the time I search for information I need is because I don't know anything about that part of the software. I never found this kind of information in Slack.
Parse the company docs, or our rep, and now we're talking.
I'm thinking of writing a website that requires the employer to give feedback. Else the site will list the bad employers.
Or it requires the employer to pay upfront per candidate who applies, and they employer gets a full refund if they give full feedback.
If I were HR I'd be running away from this, because of liability, which is probably why employers don't give feedback at interviews. So the site will require candidates to sign away their rights of of suing the employer over the interview process.
> something I have a solution for in a way that no one is doing
Is the general direction for this something you can share? 30 years of database literature accumulated a lot of knowledge. It's be a bold claim to say there's something powerful yet non-obvious.
That's not what I meant. I understand caching helps.
What I meant is will there ever be a way for caching to happen automatically behind the scenes without me ever having to do anything at all to make all this happen.
For example, the OS caches files, but I don't have to configure the OS file cache by hand. The OS takes care of it.
> Fatal Famililal Insomnia is erm.... fatal. Its certainly not because you didn't forget.
It might be. It's a kind of garbage collection. Long-lived dynamic programs with bad GC run out of memory and exit with fatal errors, precisely because they didn't forget.
> Things scale differently in different markets and products.
This is vague.
Running on the cloud is always more expensive than running your own infrastructure past a certain size and always provides less predictable performance.
Won't it get annoying if new posts of lesser ranking keep showing up first?