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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
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Meta: It's a shame all the [dead] comments here over the title of this post are hidden to most. I think it's a good reminder of the opposition some face in this (and other) industries for merely existing.
I don't have them hidden. I can't find anything derogatory about women; rather, the comments point out perceived hypocrisy around naming genders in titles. The comments about Nadia specifically were great, including a dead comment saying what a blessing she is to the rails community. > Ruby on Rails community is so lucky to have Nadia Another dead comment says it's not impressive, but doesn't mention gender. Two dead…
My take as well. People seem to think this should be a noteworthy accomplishment irrespective of gender. The source seems to be objection to perceived patronization of women, not not hate or disparagement of women.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
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Meta: It's a shame all the [dead] comments here over the title of this post are hidden to most. I think it's a good reminder of the opposition some face in this (and other) industries for merely existing.
I don't have them hidden. I can't find anything derogatory about women; rather, the comments point out perceived hypocrisy around naming genders in titles. The comments about Nadia specifically were great, including a dead comment saying what a blessing she is to the rails community. > Ruby on Rails community is so lucky to have Nadia Another dead comment says it's not impressive, but doesn't mention gender. Two dead…
I probably wouldn't have written the title that way. In the body of the article, identifying the gender feels much more natural.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#205I tried using this but it was too onerous to import my existing list of books I’ve read (1000+). So I gave up after a bit. I usually don’t really have trouble finding books to read anyway. BTW my library (and probably yours too) has a free service where librarians will actually recommend books for you based on other books you liked or other criteria. I found those recommendations to be very good.
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Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#206StoryGraph is an excellent tool and I continue to use it daily. I’ve also found Hardcover.app, which I quite like. It has an API and a slightly more refined UI, but it’s clearly more than one person working on it. Of course, if your focus is book clubs, Fable is likely the app for you
Excited to hear about Hardcover! I like StoryGraph but the lack of API frustrates me - I want to be able to sync back to my general notes store (Obsidian). Hopefully Hardcover works better with that.
Which is funny, StoryGraph is a Ruby on Rails app, exposing an API is a doable thing, which leads me to believe it is not a priority or a purposeful design decision.
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The more popular HN gets the more clickbait-y, attention-seeking and polarising titles and articles we're getting. I also think the more popular it is the less weight each down-vote/flag has, we will see more and more of such content being posted. I and most of the people I know or work with really don't care whether something is/was made by a man or a woman. IMO that's totally unnecessary part of the title and its s…
The thing is, I don't think it's click bait in this case. One person running a large service is notable, appropriate content for HN. And she's a woman, so one woman is per reasonable, factual, non editorializing headline given that "one woman" is a descriptor that's been in widespread use for some time.
People seem to be reacting to it like it's poison.
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A certain fraction of this website's user base are, and always have been, basically Quark from DS9. Some really bizarre attitudes to women.
Hilarious! But even on DS9, there was room for a Quark.
And Quark tried to learn, or adapt. He wasn't always successful, and he was cut out of a lot of situations where his behavior was considered unacceptable, but he did at least make some efforts.
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#209I always wonder, how do sites like this get their list of books and book metadata? Do publishers have an API? What about Amazon?
https://openlibrary.org/ has a pretty good set of data and a decent API. You can mix and match too, since openlibraries covers kinda suck half the time.
It's alright. I would use it for a tool where the most important part is having a more-or-less accurate author title ISBN mapping, but not for anything where I need precise bibliographic metadata.
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It's only work if your sustenance depends on it, or if you bet on it to make it big, if you need to be compensated for it. Otherwise it's a hobby, and enjoying your hobby 10 hours a day, 7 days a week is an envious life, if you can afford it. (Barone specifically could not; he had to have a part-time job as an usher in a theater; that was work.)
There is no such thing as a 10-hours-a-day-7-days-a-week hobby.
Farming?