Problem was tailwind had a very weak component library. I'd have been happy to pay for a more expansive set of components.
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And now they're blaming their upstream vendor! Embarrassing stuff to be writing on a public page.
This is why it's hard to take GitHub seriously. How can a single database cause an outage for everyone? This is amateur stuff. Have they no sharding or partitioning internally? Paying customers should not be impacted in the same way as free ones are.
If you think API companies have any value - Twilio (TWLO) is a case study against that.
Stripe wants to be in the business of collecting a % on the economy at large. This is why people buy Visa or Mastercard stock. It is not because of the tech but because it's effectively a tracker for economic activity (you could also argue rent-seeking over the economy but whatever).
Stripe can then sell potential investors on their stock being basically a tracker on the AI economy. Now you get access to private AI companies growth as well! IPO time!
There is very little innovation going on. And most companies do everything they can to stick to standard patterns, technologies etc where all the risk is removed and known in advance.
Often "good" programmers are worse - they over complicate the architecture, go off on tangents, try to solve problems the business didn't ask for either etc.
So bootcamps filled a need.
Hard to understand if this is something actually unlawful or something people don't like.
Not true. You also have to be sure that the company directors will never travel to the US even for a holiday or any third party country that would uphold an extradition request from the US.
It's just email. Nobody is going to jail to protect your email.
If you care that much run your own email server.
Most people work around it by self-hosting github (which has other problems but uptime aint one).
Not exactly sure how that changed anything but I see a lot less bot slop now.
AI, database tech, etc I find I read about it on X much earlier and the comments are a lot less negative.
X is what you make it. It will feed you with more of what you read and interact with.
These companies all pay insanely high silicon valley wages and deliver very little actual product development velocity for the wage costs involved.
The founders don't have the b**s to do the necessary haircuts themselves so they sell. Bending spoons takes the reputation hit that the founder should have taken and makes severe cuts.
BS then rationalises the roadmap, and either keeps it alive or invests into it depending on expected return.
Nothing particularly revolutionary other than they are an execution machine.
If you look at old test papers - the lack of intelligence in modern times is very stark.
Eg your socials might show you are a professional paid speaker at conferences. If you applied for a tourist visa that would be reasonable to flag you and ask you if you have paid gigs on the wrong visa.
Europe will also ask the same questions for foreigners. If you're a young woman travelling on your own you can expect questions to challenge if you might be earning money as a nanny on a visitor visa. Checking their phone messages to see if they've been making arrangements to this effect is a very straightforward way to determine intent.
Not everything is an evil conspiracy.