Used Maya and cinema 4d for years.. just started switching to Blender because I heard the buzz around it.. and it is legitimately the biggest win for consumer open source software by a huge margin. Absolutely great product, I think I can get workflows as good or better than Maya out of this.. and Maya costs thousands of dollars a year.
So if I open a new small business and want to advertise it on AdWords or elsewhere on the internet I have no recourse? Word of mouth is random and unreliable even if you have a good product. Advertising is a healthy and essential signalling mechanism to broadcast the availability of a new service and there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with it in its self. The non-benneficial side-effects like extensive user tracking and practices that drastically harm user experience however are bad and a seperate issue to be dealt with.
Everywhere I have ever worked has relied on advertising for its existence, especially the ones that aren't household names. I understand how annoying some ads can be but, in general, the concept of advertising is essential to all of us having jobs.
Aggressive defensiveness of this calibre is not a good look and probably reinforces any stereotype people have of developers who would consider themselves ColdFusion devs. I don't think anyone would have a problem with someone who is a dev, that does cold fusion. but to act like that's all you are going to know and define your self that way is pretty lame.
Epic Games seem to be making a gambit that if they can become a marketplace that has significant market share compared to steam all the bad will will be worth it and people will forget. Since they know this Fortnite thing is kind of a limited windfall. So they are going HARD.
Maybe I was a jaded student, but I always thought of these questions as a game of answering what I know they want me to answer. These types of questions are obviously dumb, and they shouldn't be included in multiple-choice tests.
This is a great project. I've been attempting to achieve a similar goal but just by writing articles on topics I'm interested in. Even if its a synthesis of other things I'm reading or studying. Essentially trying to boil a subject down and re-explain it in a compelling way to help cement the knowledge.
I hear this from older developers a lot, that the problems we are solving today have been solved already. That may be true to some extent, but I think that is dangerous, the ways the problems are solved again have different characteristics and advantages and generally push the ball forward. I think of it like forest fires clearing out old grown for new, and I think it's best to just have a zen-like mindset of being a constant beginner.
I'm getting burned out on all the narcissists writing articles about how they thought everyone else was an imbecile, and rudely raged at everyone most of their career, and how great they are because they got slightly less cancerous. Life is too short for that, if you love something, or have a technical opinion, be a kind hearted teacher and discusser not a rage monster.
for me the biggest value to serverless functions is how nicely they tie in to the ecosystem of a cloud provider. using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful.
IO is a developer conference, the whole critique about unveiling it before they know everything about how to market the product, or before it's complete, is tone deaf.
The book Traction : A Startup Guide to Getting Customers was pretty good at explaining an all encompassing framework for asking and answering this kind of question.
It says this trip was organized by a rep from north east ohio which is the only reason they went there. Akron and Youngstown don't have the talent to develop a website, much less support more than a few tiny startups.