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I played American football for 8 years and I have lifted weights for 20+ years. I preach deadlifts to any male hacker and/or office worker who will listen. To the women, I preach kettlebell swings.

Good. Everyone deserves a voice. Free speech and all that.

I'm not arguing at all. I'm speaking the truth. What are you doing?

"Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt"

Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

The narrative about COVID is starting to fall apart and these cynical people want to make as much money as they can before it falls apart completely.

CDC admits only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths were actually caused by COVID.[0]

[0]: https://t.co/W7Sxq4Pmos?amp=1

Ah, thank you! It looks like Agenda[0] does use that model. Here's a blog post with details[1] in which they mention that Sketch[2] also uses the same business model (with some minor variations).

tl;dr: you buy the app and 1 year of updates. You keep what you pay for.

I wonder if it would be viable for an app like photoshop to have a feature marketplace. You start with a very basic version of the app and you buy the features you want piecemeal. You then have a separate service contract for ongoing support (ie: bug fixes).

[0]: https://agenda.com/ [1]: https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agend... [2]: https://www.sketch.com/

I hadn't thought of that one. I rather like it. Does anybody other than Jetbrains use this model?

It's a subscription based model. It needs your account/email to make sure you're still subscribed.

Disagree. This puts pressure on the app developer to release versions with new features whether it makes sense for the app or not.

I balk at yearly subscriptions to software too for the exact reason you state. But, I also realize that one time purchases don't keep the doors open indefinitely. I wish I had a magic solution for this conundrum, but I don't.

I hate the infinite canvas in Sketch. It sounds great when you're creating things, but you have no idea where anything is when you go back to read it later.

Another factor here is employability. Employers go with the latest fad framework because they think it'll improve their ability to hire engineers in the short term. Unfortunately, this means that web developers need to always know the latest fad framework, whether they like it or not, or they won't get interviews let alone job offers.

> The difference between Law and Theory (in scientific discourse) is not what you believe it to be.

ELI5?

> It is a fundamental law.

> Systems theory

I'm confused. Is it a law or a theory? And no, it can't be both. Laws are proved. Theories are unproven.

I'm completely ignorant on this topic, so I apologize for asking what must be an extremely stupid question to you, but: what makes stability a static quality whereas resilience is a dynamic quality? Are these statistical definitions that I can look up somewhere?

Youtube should hire you to redesign their site. Simple, fast, and easy to use. Nicely done.

Let me know how that goes for you.

Again, how does that make the status quo untenable? It hasn't done much to hinder google's operations in Europe.

Justice exists to prevent chaos and restore order. How does that make the status quo untenable?

How?

Those are not the definitions of those words. Neither Justice nor reparations are designed to change the culture. In fact, they're designed to do the opposite: maintain the status quo.

Even if you were to get it, what would that change? The culture of consumer exploitation would still be there. How do you change something that's been a cultural cornerstone for over a century?

> Nim is an amazing language that suffers from a lack of momentum and hype.

And good multithreading and network libraries.