I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer • Hacker News Board

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by dennis_jeeves » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 11:35 AM UTC

httpsterio wrote: post #44

ZinZirconium wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Team players don't work alone. What has happened to all the introverts who work alone? They're not working in tech. Tech is for extroverts who get paid to copy from public GitHub repositories and paste into private GitHub repositories and sell proprietary products built upon code ripped from open source projects. But that's okay. Not everybody can be an extrovert who gets paid to pretend to code. RMS said it best: >…

It your takeaway is that on the RMS debacle, then I find it rather sad. Without diminishing his achievements, the man is such a bad people person that he literally couldn't understand and respect other people's boundaries and sexually harassed several women. No matter how good of an activist or a movement leader you are, if you can't stop yourself from being a huge creep, you should not hold a position of power and w…

>sexually harassed several women.

Links please with specifics. Also is there reasonable evidence?

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by loa_in_ » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

Traster wrote: post #34

donretag wrote: post #3

I am a good developer, and even better communicator. That said, I have no interest in social media. It just seems so forced.

Let's face it, it's not much to do with being a good communicator. People don't go on twitter because they want to be more effective at communicating, they go on twitter because that's where the audience is despite it being a terrible place for communicating complex issues. (Here, let me link you to that 27 tweet thread, which, inexplicably, is 27 separate posts instead of a single post because we're insane ).

On the other hand it's pretty smart because if you are looking for feedback where is exactly a place for feedback every 140 characters or so

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by Doxin » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:22 AM UTC

faceplanted wrote: post #20

moritonal wrote: post #11

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The content which you can't read unless you have an account. Post it as a comment and I'll delete mine happily.

Right click -> open in incognito tab.

Alternatively add a cookie exception to block all cookies from medium. Works a treat.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by anupamchugh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

phalangion wrote: post #9

moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

I wish we could stop complaints about Medium from showing up on every post from Medium. It's a distraction from the content, and off topic, and yet the complaint shows up with remarkable regularity.

I couldn't agree more.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by anupamchugh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

They reward read-time only if the reader is a member.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by dragonwriter » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

anonytrary wrote: post #21

moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

This problem isn't unique to Medium. Content itself performs optimally in the current web ecosystem when it is click-baity and stretched out. I've seen just as bad stuff from developers who create their own #learntocode[0] blogs. [0] Referring to the current trend of developers creating YouTube channels and blogs that funnel people into their "crack the Google interview" subscription course that is basically just the…

> This problem isn't unique to Medium. Content itself performs optimally in the current web ecosystem when it is click-baity and stretched out

It's true of content where “performance” is based on driving attention, whether it's directly paid that way (Medium) or indirectly paid that way (anything advertising supported).

Content that is intended to “perform” by serving the interests of a direct audience or sponsors (direct subscriptions without ads, patronage model, nonprofit backed mission-oriented content not supported by ads, or, for that matter, most for-profit backed content published to support corporate interests rather than as a direct revenue source) doesn't share the problem, though some of those categories may have their own different performance-model based problems.