This is insane and I love it!
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The Zig Foundation model of paying contributors is really interesting. I don't think I've seen it done on this scale before, but hope it takes off.
You are mistaken.
Personally, 8 is the largest I would have a team. At that point you should consider breaking it into two teams of 4 (even if those teams periodically recombine from the original set of 8 people).
(I suspect you are aware, but just in case this is new to you.) This is essentially the core of Extreme Programming.
They could either make two models (incurring the costs associated with having two different SKUs) and let people pay more for the one with more power or make one with intrinsically more power and let the people that don't want it pay less with it nerfed.
I would have thought that people (like me) that have spent our lives making a zero marginal cost product would understand the economics at work here.
Aside: I know "boomer" is just slang for "not young", but I can't help but think that only the most tech-savvy Baby Boomer would identify with that EQ; Gen-X would be more applicable.
I think things could be great, but there are many obstacles along the way to be aware of.
From the article:
> Outside of Amtrak’s once-daily City of New Orleans, Tennessee has only three rail transit systems (two of which are currently suspended). That leaves just the WeGo Star in Nashville, which is among the lowest-ridership commuter rail lines in the country.
Do yourself a favor and read a few chapters.
commit e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca
Author: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Date: Tue Jul 23 00:00:00 2024 -0500
top: attempt once again to allow help text translation
Back when our release 4.0.1 was being readied, sources
were sent to the TP (Translation Project). However one
person named Benno Schulenberg refused to release them
for translation. His stated reason was the top command
line help text which then finally included long forms.
He demanded that the help text be broken into separate
strings instead of a single large string. But, all the
top text (some much more complex) has just one string.
So that stated reason was, at the least, inconsistent.
[ I suspect the real reason was that Mr. Schulenberg ]
[ thought that the carefully right-justified English ]
[ wording would also be required of translations too ]
The bottom line was that Benno took it upon himself to
change the TP motto from "you code, we translate" into
"first we tell you how to code and then we translate".
Rather than bend a knee to that despot, I disabled the
text entirely, admittedly denying users a translation.
Now, with this commit we enable translatable help text
but with a hint included to ignore the justified text.
Reference)s):
. Oct, 2022 - finalized translation exclusion
commit ab05a3785f29cc4b754e17c53bfb3d8ba054563e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>Is it that they don't agree that "the New World [...is...] much more welcoming [...of...] all sorts of productive folk"?
> calling out inexperience is unnecessary IMO. I love it if someone loves programming. I think that's great.
I'll observe that the commenter did not make the value judgement about inexperience that you appear to think they did.