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Funding for this project is crowdsourced using GitHub Sponsors and Patreon.

Based on the project github page, it seems that this is their version of weird/fun stuff, that is not done as a part of their job.

And the file served is of pdf file. The font used is Titillium Web. The color of my bike shed is that of brown wood color.

Did I also contribute to the discussion of the tool?

Yes, of course there are people who really want to do those. But op was presenting their main point of view related to "the slow evaporation" part.

Like op, more and more people can't get past the idea of starting or contributing to FOSS is no longer worth their time, due to various reasons, such as: their free labor of love was turned into another corporate money making tool.

Surely the C-suites of the company will employ whatever brilliant ideas that we talk over the water cooler. The water cooler is the fountain of innovation after all.

Perhaps they should put all the water coolers in the executives' offices, so they can listen to all the brilliant conversations that take place at the water cooler.

I believe back in the Java days, there are packages that are also doing something like this (comment preprocessor for generating code)

Those plugins would try to point out that the comments that they would preprocessed would look somewhat different from regular comment, e.g.

//this is a regular comment

//#while comments that start with '#' would be preprocessed.

It's still an issue that would shoot the foot of the next person who would maintain your code though.

So to continue our bikeshedding:

Hacker News has no shortage of resourceful people that can silently handle the issue by themselves (the first comment even said themselves that they could simply use Reader Mode!). But the main point of my reply is: look at the number of replies that focus on the style of the website, and compare that to the number of replies that focus on the point of the post/article.

The first sentence literally points out that the post is a continuation of previous post that elaborates on why Go Enum sucks.

It just dawns to me that "complaining about the style or minor usability of the website" is a type of bike shedding that happens regularly in hacker news.

Instead of contributing to the discussion related to the post, it's easier to just go "the website sucks."

Pixel Tablet 3 years ago

existing software support*

Any hardware issues (mind you, the failure rate is pretty high, especially keyboards), and you're left with a broken device.

Thank You MDN 6 years ago

Maybe Mozilla should hire more people in those places, if they need to do so to save money.

They did hire from places with cheaper labor cost, such as Taiwan. They still got axed.

Thank You MDN 6 years ago

So maybe until you prove your worth as great leader that gets company from decline into growth, your salary shouldn't keep growing by the millions?

These are pretty big Flask apps too, which have thousands of lines of code, dozens of packages, tons of assets and require running Celery, Postgres, Redis, etc..

I was trying to create a new project last month trying to put all of these together. One thing that I was stuck in was putting these together:

- non-single-thread-Flask

- Redis pub-sub, subscribe to listen to a channel

- and websocket (such as socket.io) upon receiving redis sub message, pushing the message to client side.

I found out that this was a non-trivial thing to do, as redis subscribe is a blocking function, and I was not able to push websocket message from redis subscribe callback. I wonder how did they do that, if any?

I'm not educated enough to speculate, but how is this different from the scale of global warming? As in, the earth is big, but we still manage to change our environment in such a short timescale. Will this another underestimation of our ability to screw ourselves?