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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by sgt »

krapp wrote: post #174
sgt wrote: post #169

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Btw, glad I am not the only one making a mental note of someone being a "ferengi". It is such a perfect description somehow. And our industry is full of them.

Well, the Ferengi were intended to be a parody of American capitalism. And the tech industry in many ways has turned itself into a parody of American capitalism. And the worst of Hacker News might as well be a parody of the tech industry.

Never mind Twitter these days.

I still follow Elon for his rocket stuff but his fanboys are relentless if you criticize him or his universe even slightly.

Or criticize aspects of capitalism even, like the one guy who said the purpose of a company is to make an impact, not primarily to make money. I think he was toast after they were done with him.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by s1artibartfast »

ziddoap wrote: post #182
qup wrote: post #176

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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 don't really find any of the specific comments notable, hateful, or oppositional. The fact that gender is mentioned at all, when it's never mentioned in posts that have "one man dev team" in the title, doesn't imply anything to you?

I think there is a lot of reactionary sentiment, sometimes misplaced, stemming from decades of articles where gender is the newsworthy aspect of the article.

Almost no one will read "one man Dev team" and think that gender is the central point, opposed to a simple descriptor.

The same phenomenon occurs with race fairly often. It is not uncommon for professionals to take offense or question gender or racial qualifiers when other people describe them.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by blueflow »

madeofpalk wrote: post #167
dang wrote: post #201

[stub for offtopicness] [good grief]

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.

Replace "woman" with "man" and evaluate if it would be any less or more appropriate.

Society is not holding women and men to the same standards.

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Post by atomicnumber3 »

fmbb wrote: post #142
atomicnumber3 wrote: post #76

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That, and most orgs simply do not reward or even pretend to care about these kinds of improvements. If you delete bad (but working) code, and replace it with good (and, let's assume best-case scenario - also working) code, what has actually changed for the business? Nothing. Except that in 3 years the junior dev that gets a ticket about doing something in this area will come in and not notice the code isn't a dumpste…

Good code and bad code are not objective values. I have worked with many people that spend days replacing good code with bad code because they are ”paying down technical debt”.

This is a good point, but I think it's mostly a precondition to having the luxury of the problems I was describing. If you can't even broadly agree on what is good vs bad code, your engineering org has deeper problems. You don't even need substantial agreement, just enough to identify what the genuine problem areas are, vs what's just not how someone would've written it themselves.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by BadHumans »

Alupis wrote: post #194
ziddoap wrote: post #182

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> I don't really find any of the specific comments notable, hateful, or oppositional. The fact that gender is mentioned at all, when it's never mentioned in posts that have "one man dev team" in the title, doesn't imply anything to you?

Are we not at a point where it would be vastly more appropriate to title this "one person dev team"? The reality is your gender has nothing to do with your ability to write software. Software is the greatest of equalizers. There is definitely a subset of society that feels it necessary to thrust gender into discussions where they have no place - such as this article. Are we supposed to be more impressed because it wa…

> Are we not at a point where it would be vastly more appropriate to title this "one person dev team"?

People see person and man as synonyms. One man dev team and one person dev team would illicit the same response but one woman dev team forces people to comment on the title.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by andrewmutz »

ryangs wrote: post #170
phildenhoff wrote: post #147

StoryGraph 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.

I’m going to guess most of their users aren’t asking for an API

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by bwb »

wood_spirit wrote: post #211
bwb wrote: post #37

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It is so bad!!! I use Nielsen's API, but the data is pretty rough, and you have to spend a lot of time cleaning it. Plus, the archaic industry standards around genre are hard to translate to what readers use - https://www.bisg.org/complete-bisac-subject-headings-list . Ingrams and Bowker are the other big metadata providers. Ingram's is good but expensive, but the data faces the same issues.

Do any of the sites use collaborative filtering for “uses who like x also like y” for a nice filter bubble? I imagine it complements or my even supersede tags. (Admit I haven’t looked at all the sites people are mentioning in the comments yet- lots of good leads!)

ya, I do this; I am not sure what the other websites are doing, though. If you email them I bet they will tell you.
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