joncalhoun

People have a mental cap on what text should cost. If someone creates instructional content that provides thousands of dollars in value, they can sell videos for $200+, but a book version is hard to sell over $50, even if both provide the same value. Even for free content it is easier to monetize YouTube than it is to monetize a blog.

If we want people to create more text-based material, it needs to have similar financial incentives.

Many employment contracts prohibit doing additional contract dev work. I agree the spirit of contract to hire is great, but worth noting it won't work for everyone.

I'd double check that you don't have multiple orgs. You used to share a cess to your account with people, then they made some org change a while back that essentially moved that shared access setup to an org and gave you a new personal account iirc. Easy to not realize you have both.

Go to the bank and say, "I would like to withdraw money from my account." Do they hand you your balance in cash, or ask you how much?

Obviously one can withdraw all of something, but I'm skeptical of it meaning "all" by default.

Does steam take any cut of in-game purchases for free to play games? I don't think they do, so that is a difference to consider.

The most frustrating experience is when I'm already paying for an app and intercom constantly nags me and gets in the way of me using the actual app.

Was this a timed take home project or something with a flexible timeline? That is, was it "You have to respond within 3 hours of receiving this email with your solution" or something more flexible?

I mostly understand why some companies do the x hours routine, and when I've done interviews this way I've historically performed well, but it just felt like it added unnecessary stress. For instance, anyone on the job doesn't have to worry about issues like, "What if I couldn't get the app up and running because I had the wrong version of X installed?" longer than maybe their first day on the job. And if you plan on hiring an engineer for a few years, one day is irrelevant. At best this felt like it favored contractors who were more experienced at jumping into new projects frequently.

I don't think plausible deniability works on one-of-a-kind artwork. Even if you assume your dealer is legit, any cursory research will tell you it was stolen. It would be like buying the secret formula for Coca-Cola and claiming you didn't know it was stolen because it went through multiple middlemen.

Now imagine being the dev who keeps making proposals and working diligently at the problem only to have countless ideas and proposals shot down for one reason or another. Ian Lance Taylor is persistent if nothing else and I'm hoping his hard work pays off with this proposal.

Most people - traveled or not - would be okay with this if they knew the service person was making a fair wage. The problem is that service workers are not fairly compensated in the current system so our options are (a) hurt the service worker by not tipping to make a point, or (b) tip so the service worker is fairly compensated.

The only real way this changes is if we first make sure service workers are fairly compensated, but for most people this isn't a big enough issue to prioritize it - we only discuss it in forums like this when an article this appalling gets posted - but it is a big issue for the millions of restaurants in the US who would have to increase wages so they will all lobby against it.

The page is a little rushed, but the worst thing you should see is an ugly error message.

This is a TRIAL RUN, but if things go well I want to make this a regular thing with new designs by a variety of artists, and I'd love to donate proceeds to orgs that are doing good things in the Go space. Eg Women who Go or Golang Bridge (suggestions for orgs are welcome). I think there are a lot of great places that could do way more with more funds.

If you experience any issues or have questions just let me know - [email protected] - the FAQ tries to answer most, but I'm sure I missed something.