antielectronite

Most stuff is not web now. There is software in everything everywhere not just web sites.

Niche does not mean "stuff I don't personally use at my job", but that is the only definition under which Typecript is not niche and c++ is. C++ in 2019 had the 4th most job listings according to Indeed. Calling that a niche is absurd especially in comparison to Typescript.

I don't necessarily disagree that not everything needs to be optimized for performance, but I would just argue that the use cases for Typescript are far more niche than the use cases for C++. There's more to software than just web stuff

I disagree with the notion that most applications are IO bound only. This is something people often say uncritically, but in my experience is false. Just using a non-native Electron or even Java application feels very sluggish and when you look at the Waterfall on slow web pages, what's slowing it down is very often unrelated to "I/O".

Secondly, C/C++ is like the third or fourth most commonly listed programming language in job listings. If you think all but 2 or 3 languages are niche, that is not what the word means.

C++ is not a narrow niche. We do see it pretty much everywhere and it continues to be the most used language for systems programming, games, embedded systems, and pretty much anything else where performance is critical.

I found these tweets to be very informative: https://twitter.com/okhanSTR/status/1207059687041982464

He's a lawyer who moonlights as a writer for SactownRoyalty, a Sacramento Kings fan blog that is basically being shut down by SBNation.

One interesting point he makes is that it's unsurprising that the Vox Union hasn't said anything about these hundreds of people losing work in favor of a dozen or so full time workers. It's not in their best interest to let people do part-time as a hobby what they do for their careers full-time.

It's interesting is how much better people have gotten at identifying doctored pictures overtime.

The 9/11 Tourist Guy picture that duped a lot of people 18 years ago looks like a ridiculous MS paint edit today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_guy

You think that it's a coincidence that every successful businessman in China is a CCP member?

But we're not talking about predatory payday loans, which are not even legal in China.

If you want to say that QE is "neoliberal" and that this is sort of like QE except bottom up instead of top down, I guess I could see your point although I would argue that it's convoluted because the bottom up vs. top down is a major distinction that no longer makes the two similar.

Also, I disagree that predatory lending is a cornerstone of the modern Democratic party, but that's neither here nor there.

It's such an imprecise word that it has become a way of showing distaste for something without offering specific criticism. Like in this instance-- what does a CCP backed company offering small, zero interest loans to its citizens have to do with Western left-of-center politics? I can't think of anything less "neoliberal", if anything it's communist.

Seeing everything from a US-centric view really not make sense here, since nothing comparable to this exists in America, and because microloans like this are a lot more meaningful to people in other parts of the world.

same with ads.

If that were true then foreigners on F1 and H-1B visas would be allowed to start their own companies. That not only doesn't take away jobs for locals, it creates new ones. But that's illegal.

Another aspect of immigration law that is shaken up by the growth of remote jobs is that it makes work restrictions unenforceable. Pretty much all expat digital nomads who travel around to work are doing so on tourist visas. It'll be interesting to see how governments react as this becomes more and more common

Yeah I'm seeing all kinds of weird analogies/ abstractions that try to explain what this thing is but not a single use-case or an example of somebody getting utility out of it. Is this a parody?

I think one reason journalists are having a moral panic about tech is that a lot of them seem to have a very unhealthy twitter addiction, which clouds their view on the impact social media has on society.

A lot of media people seem to spend ~8 hours tweeting almost everyday, which is obviously unhealthy but not indicative of how most people use "big tech".