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In terms of competition it's really the same. Whether you fight with a team of 1 for 5 businesses or a team of 10 for 1 business that is 50x bigger, on average as long as you have equal competition in each segment you walk away with the same. But you get very different customers, for better or worse.

A segment of a customer base is hardly a buffer, if you underserve them they will leave, and you will have wasted effort making an inclusive sales and support process to them.


That makes not losing those customers more critical: if you lose one of the 50 smaller businesses, your revenue is barely affected; if you lose that 50x whale, you’re out of a job especially given how hard it is to find another one of that size.

This shows up especially in the context of hiring: for a generation, there have been a ton of people who learn VMware at businesses of all sizes and your large shop can reliably hire them. Shutting down smaller sales affects that directly and because the smaller places are going to do something else it means that the people who move up to a bigger place are going to have direct firsthand experience contradicting what the VMware sales people are saying about how risky it is not to use their software.


That's not how you define either of those things.

Granted, software engineering is a pretty ill-defined term, but I'm pretty sure most would agree that agile project management is not software engineering.

"Being able to be picky about what to learn" being programming is also a really confusing idea. Programming is writing programs, it's not some learning philosophy, and it's certainly not some liberated opposite to software engineering.

I guess you're confusing having a job with software engineering, and spare time coding with programming.


It's wild how all the huge successful applications written in it manage to stay alive eh

I feel developers get habits on the kinds of estimates they throw, but at least for anything that isn't straight duplication, I can't say that I've seen much reliability in them. But to be honest, I've also not tracked time to complete in a way that would rule out my bias, as I find that kind of creepy and besides the point.


Free license:

> Telemetry Required (excluding ephemeral clusters of 7 days or less)

So not free, then.

Is there already a popular fork?


Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.


In what way is postgres similar to cockroachdb? Except for being a database. Going by that standard you might as well say that Access is an alternative to postgres. Which it technically is but...


Cockroach marketed themselves as largely Postgres-compatible, so I guess there's that.


I guess that's true, I didn't think about that. But i think that you'd probably not be using cockroachdb if you were fine with what postgres offers. Cockroach might be compatible, but it really isn't "comparable" in terms of use cases and deployment imo. I might be totally wrong though, I have not been following it and Postgres closely since some time around 2021?


It's useful to use a Postgres-compatible syntax. The point of Cockroach was always to compete with globe-spanning DBs like Spanner, not with (possibly) sharded PG.


Citus gets close for many usecases but the HA story sucks: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602


PG is nowhere close of What Cockroach does and probably never will.


CockroachDB was already under the BSL. It's interesting that they're further restricting it... Perhaps the BSL isn't the panacea folks are making it out to be.


it hasn't been open-source since 02019 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB#History so if there are popular forks they'd have to be five years old


BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the world. And if not, then they will be soon - BSL allows a maximum 5 year delay.


that may be (i haven't read the license) but i'm not persuaded it's relevant

if nobody forked it five years ago, they probably aren't going to fork it now

if somebody did fork it five years ago, they probably aren't going to try to merge in new source code drops as they convert to open source


Then why do you care? If nobody is going to fork it anyway, what’s the benefit of being open source from the beginning?


i don't care that much because i don't use it, and evidently not much of anybody else does either, or there would have been a popular fork. i'm just saying that this is probably not a good time to expect one to pop up


> 02019

Why not 002019? 6 digits. That would be valid a lot longer.


i wholeheartedly support your choice to henceforth format your years with six digits


I'm waiting for python support first. Not sure what the eta is or why it's taking so long. Every day we get closer to the eventual deadline.

> Extended date representations are not currently supported (±YYYYYY-MM-DD).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...

> MAXYEAR is 9999.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.MAX...

I'm also waiting for longnow.org to start using long dates behind the scenes, like image urls, html metadata, http headers, etc. They need to eat their own dog food as far as software goes.

    <link rel="icon" href="https://static.longnow.org/2022/06/favicon.png" type="image/png">
    <meta property="og:image" content="https://static.longnow.org/2021/10/header-talks.jpg">
    <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-06-11T17:21:23.000Z">


This is really painful, I don't want this pattern of data collection being common, Telemetry included.


Counterpoint, monopolization is not a good thing, and as long as Apple doesn't allow alternative app stores, we can talk about how the value they provide is artificially gatekeeping the devices of over a billion people from running the software they would like. There's not only business in this equation, and historically attacking tech monopolies through legislative power has been more effective than suggestion that businesses exclude themselves from business to make a statement.


But they’re not stopping me from supporting creators. I can go to Patreon.com on my iPhone right now and subscribe to any creator without Apple’s fees. If they took their app off the App Store tomorrow I will continue to be able to have all of the functionality because they have a functioning mobile website that allows me to do everything I want to do. The web is a perfectly suitable alternative here and it’s working, so why exactly do they need to be on a store with rules they don’t agree with?


>If they took their app off the App Store tomorrow I will continue to be able to have all of the functionality because they have a functioning mobile website that allows me to do everything I want to do. The web is a perfectly suitable alternative here and it’s working, so why exactly do they need to be on a store with rules they don’t agree with?

Because majority of the people expect that app exists for everything and because Patreon.com is not just a website, it is a complex web app. And a complex web app usually works better on smartphones when it is in the form of native mobile app than just a website in the internet browser.

I think PWAs are the viable future. Native apps are too much problematic when it comes to developing and managing them; taking in consideration you need to wrestle with two monopolistic behemoths like Apple and Google on top of all the technical complexity behind like I said developing and managing them.


> because Patreon.com is not just a website, it is a complex web app

I don’t agree with this as someone who uses Patreon relatively frequently. It’s actually quite a simple website, and the main thing I care about is the ability to manage my subscriptions, which I can do on the mobile website today.

Maybe there’s an argument for the creator posts being a bit more complex, but nothing a non PWA shouldn’t be able to handle well.

Also with Patreon specifically, the creators tend to tell users how to support them, so it’s trivial to include “make sure to visit the website, it works on mobile too!” When they call out.


There are now alternative app stores in europe.


Why only Europe?


Because regulation is forcing this.


Why do you say that one needs to use Emacs? Like, I love using Emacs for the elisp and having the power of a full lisp machine, but for CL I didn't find sly-mode/slime to offer anything particular paradigm-shiftingly more powerful than the vim/nvim adaptions?

This very side is written in CL in vi, if I'm not mistaken?


It's written in arc, a lisp language Paul Graham created. I think you're right about vi, though.


The site is written in Arc, which is a language written in an older version of Racket.


I thought "ah maybe they're saying scarce digital assets, because they don't wanna be conflated with NFT pyramid schemes".. clicked link, and found fullblown ponzinomics with "assets" paying out tokens.

And people wonder why most of us are tired of this stuff.


I don't know why you see it as any sort of ponzi.. it's just an experiment with digital assets, role-playing and world building. Involving money is a pyramid scheme? Perhaps not the thread to discuss. Guessing the reaction is because crypto is mainly grifters + money grabs.. and the cringey apes were the worst representatives.


>Perhaps not the thread to discuss.

So you can't deny it's a Ponzi scheme, but you just don't want to discuss it here? But YOU brought it up!

This thread is a FINE place to discuss it, since YOU started the top level thread by shilling your Ponzi scheme here all by yourself, before suddenly trying to cut off the discussion when it didn't go the way you planned, so let's discuss it anyway:

Yes it's a Ponzi scheme on its face (or rather on Fernando Botero's faces ;), and worse yet, it's based on misappropriation of an artist's work, plus you also blatantly infringe on and dilute many trademarks at the same time, for money.

You're not the victim here, so don't try to act hurt that "many around here don't love scarce digital assets" and surprised that "I don't know why you see it as any sort of ponzi". Yes you do know, because it obviously is, and you even tried to make a dishonest weasley disclaimer "I know ... but ..." when you first shilled it here, as if it's wrong and unfair to you that people hate Ponzi schemes and stealing art and infringing and diluting trademarks and shilling on Hacker News.

Dan Olson (Folding Ideas): Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

>If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.

Chris Natsuume (Ninesquirrels): Let me explain Blockchain gaming and Play-to-Earn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzup7XDyq8

>NFTs are a pure scam. Blockchain gaming is a pyramid scheme. Play-to-Earn is not only a scam, it's deeply immoral.

Chris Natsuume (Ninesquirrels): Using NFTs to own ingame objects: Also pretty much a scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IYjsWBbmKI

>In this video, I'd like to clarify and further explain: Using NFTs to own ingame objects is an unnecessarily inefficient byproduct of a larger scam.


Well you sound very angry. I didn't want to hijack another persons post to discuss an unrelated topic, but happy to discuss. I wasn't shilling anything I was sharing a procedural project related to this very post. These links are great for context on the tone of your reply, but say nothing of my project. As charming as Dan Olsen is (/s) there is a place in this world for digital scarcity, it's interesting, it's valid and even if 95% of the crypto ecosystem is cringe and scams, there are a lot of good people doing good work.


It kicks an immediate feeling of joy in me whenever anything related to _why is mentioned.

For those who never encountered his work, I'd recommend very much checking out "Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby". It doesn't matter if ruby is nothing you want to learn, it's just a fun, artistic, odd read. So is Nobody Knows Shoes, of course.


An account of _why's merry adventures from 2010: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/why-a-tale-of-a-pos...


I have little web culture, but I always love internet stories like that. It really is a contrast to social medias. Maybe it's because on such blogs and fragment of life, it's the human that "do the internet", instead of the internet doing the human( if that makes sense?).


O _why where art thou?


I'm curious about the usage. I've seen it mostly replaced with ruby, but wonder if this is a bubble phenomenon.


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