aoleinik

There are content curators for the publications - essentially, you just submit them and if your article is good enough they’ll publish it.

I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.

Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.

If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.

Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.

I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest. [1] https://anth-oleinik.medium.com/

Out of curiosity, what _should_ the US be working on? The only two things I can think of that really needs more man hours is space travel and quantum computing, but those fields are generally far from being revenue generating and require mountains of initial investment.

I agree that ad tech and social media are net negatives, but what are the alternatives? A dead economy, where most of the money circulates on necessities?

Not asking this sarcastically or rhetorically - genuinely want some good insight on what people who say the current direction of the US is poor think the direction should be.

While I believe this is true for most “high level languages” (JS, TS, Java, Python etc.) I think when you’re doing low level languages like Rust and C/C++ you really need to hire for those languages

While the author hasn’t updated the main link, it’s clear he checked up on the article until atleast 2017: one of the comments originally was a base64 encoded string, and the author edited and deleted it so that no one would run random base64 strings off the internet.

On a slightly unrelated note: your landing page is gorgeous on mobile. How did you do the 3D phone image on the splash? I’d like to emulate that :)

Thanks!

Out of curiosity, does knowing COBOL pay well in 2021? It seems COBOL programmers are in critical demand and free market economics should mean that COBOL programmers get paid premiums.

I would research this by myself, but not really sure where to start - and googling “COBOL Developer Salary” leads to results in the 80-120k range (which is no small number, but not significantly different from a modern language developer)

Ha! Interesting the different dialect chosen between posting this on WSB and here!

Either way, great work. I saw your post earlier today (?) on WSB and was impressed then and I’m impressed now.