Due to a series of airline mishaps I’ve been at MDW since crack of dawn. I usually fly out of ORD.
I realize my sample size is 1, but this is striking: I’ve overheard more casual homophobia in this one visit to MDW than in seven years of flying out of ORD. Like, combined.
Wtf?
I’m also not sure why it’s so trendy to hate ORD.
It’s a GIANT intl airport. I can count on my fingers the number of U.S. airports that face the logistical challenges that ORD does.
And, you don’t want to hear this: given what those challenges are, ORD does pretty good.
(QT'ing to credit the OP. Screenshot without the handle in case, at some point, the OP wants to delete their association with the idea. The idea will remain in the screenshot so this thread retains context.)
There is nuance to this topic. Twitter has stripped it. Let's talk.
Example 1: In my second-ever computer science class as an undergrad, I went to my teacher's office hours asking for help.
The teacher speculated that I "lack the intellectual firepower" for a programming career.
Fast-forward to now: I'm a professional software engineer, I teach some extremely highly-regarded programming classes at the U Chicago Master's Program in CS, and I do workshops for O'Reilly and at cons.
I roast that teacher constantly on purpose to make a point.
1. Building from scratch is fun and sexy and works as clickbait, basically. 2. Building from scratch is what programmers get monetarily rewarded for, so it's what they're incentivized to learn. 3. It's WAY f**king easier to teach.
I am not on the RailsConf committee this year, but I have been on it in the past. So I am in a good position to shed light here, from a removed position, on the CFP process.
I'd...recommend this reading for anyone submitting to conference CFPs.
The way MOST CFPs work is that a group of volunteers raise their hands to participate in talk selection for a variety of different tracks or topics. All of these people are doing this on top of their full time jobs.
In 2022 I reviewed 278 RailsConf proposals while on vacation.
Reviewers don't know who submitted which proposal. We know the title and the abstract, and if the submitter sent an outline, we have that too. Most submitters don't submit a very complete outline.
It did not occur to me that this would happen, but so far it has happened twice (AMAZING) so...I have a solution!
Suppose you want your WHOLE TEAM to take the tech debt course, but you don't want everyone to have to submit their own individual expense report.
What we do is...
1. Email me how many instances of the workshop you need for your team. 2. I send you an invoice for that amount. 3. I make you a custom 100% discount code with that many instances. 4. Your team can all use that code to get the course on their own accounts!
Nota Bene: it would not surprise me if I eventually hit a platform limit on the number of "free" instances I can create.
If that happens I'll call them and ask that I be allowed to continue to do this until they make it possible to purchase multiple course instances.
The design elements that make a home "high value," in the eyes of real estate agents, tend to make the home good FOR ENTERTAINING.
High ceilings create space in crowded rooms.
Marble countertops are impressive.
Open plans seat large groups.
2/
Those same elements often make the home worse for living.
High ceilings make the space harder to heat.
Marble countertops have limited resistance to heat and acid, which...come on, kitchens are for COOKING
Open plans mean fewer people can concentrate in the same floorspace.
3/
So it sounds like, in a month, @heroku is going to end free plans. Apps deployed and hosted for free until now will have to pay, migrate, or perish.
Let's talk about the sustainability of internet businesses for a second. You will not like what I have to say.
In what I'll call the Centralized Software as a Service Industry, it's actually not that easy to break even and the companies that are doing it aren't who you think they are.
How did we get here? Have a seat.
Once upon a time, making money on the internet was extremely easier.
The market was not as saturated, the public was not as jaded toward ads, and programmers did not cost as much as they do now.
I've talked about this period some; why it was so easy to make something "visionary" back then, and why it's not like that now: