Gitlab also took VC money and have an exit as their only option. Doubt they'll get as far as GitHub did though, and the option to just grow slowly into a solid independent business is off the table. Probably an acquihire with small return to investors.
One point that is often lost on the discussions of fake video/"deepfake" is that this development won't only make it easier to fool people into believing something that's made up, but it might also make people more distrustful of things which are actually true.
When it's been spread out enough that anything can be doctored to an indistinguishable extent, everything becomes deniable by those being caught, and the skepticism explosion is going to raise the bar for investigative journalism / actual evidence to standards high enough that few will have the resources to produce them.
I think the Brave Browser and associated Basic Attention Token (BAT) are a step in the right direction. It's hard to escape ad revenue if you want to avoid paywalls, but Brave at least gives users privacy, control, and revenue share.
I found mental math became a lot easier after practicing it a little bit.
Might be a good way to teach kids binary. Tell them nothing about bases, conversions, or anything, just give them decimal numbers with a different name, wait for the phonetic patterns to take hold, then show them what's behind it.
I'd love such an arrangement myself too, especially remotely. I have friends who tutor on Thinkful or some other company so they can choose to do fewer hours a week and dedicate themselves to family/projects, but that pays much less than working as an engineer. It works for them because they live in low cost-of-living countries.
It also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one.
I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open revenue numbers, is profitable, and specifically focused on making the business as automated as possible to have time. He was going to write and sell a "metabook", but decided against it precisely for reasons of credibility. He's publishing it for free at https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/.
It's good to see there are some actual cases, and it sounds at least more doable than the crazy startup lottery that is, ironically, more socially acceptable. (Passive stuff is for lazy people.)
I use RSS with Blogtrottr to get updates by email. But I prefer it when the blog has its own newsletter. Saves me the trip to Blogtrottr and receiving their ads on each email.
Surprised this got no traction. I'm interested in seeing what HN thinks about this too, especially with regards to blogging on Codementor Community vs Medium vs your own space. Are there reposts or other threads that have comments on the launch?