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Also, its in the employers best interest to keep salaries down and convince their employees that living in Canada (Vancouver instead of San Fran) is better (how ever you define better).

Yes, especially true. I've yet to see any Canadians who have actually received a raise in recent years. No one talks about it and no one knows whether their salary will be increased to at least meet inflation. It's a little messed up.

That's changing, more people are keep their mouths shut more often on social media because they know their data is being scooped up.

I think it's a matter of educating more customers; they have no idea that it's even possible to host their own Google or Facebook in some instances.

Maybe it isn't a big market but the market does exist and it does require more customer education and awareness raising. It's a harder sell than enterprise sales.

1. company is created around the project 2. other companies started using the project and find it handy 3. companies need maintenance and support: consulting companies start opening up shop and serving them 4. parent company gets more customers because they're the first/official supporting company

This similiar to the Wordpress model I think and they're fairly successful, they've got a whole ecosystem.

We have added the Sandstorm Technology Roadmap to the Sandstorm repo, where you can learn about everything Sandstorm has built and plans to build.

Perfect, now another company can take a chance on raising VC funds for this or bankrolling it themselves.

https://www.codementor.io/perl/tutorial/how-to-use-json-in-p...

However, most people have dismissed it because they think Perl 5 is dead and anything using Perl should be replaced with Python or Ruby or Go or Rust or some other language.

The hacker flavour of the language has been preserved and that's the niche it would fill for me...if I didn't have to basically do frontend web all day.

The changelog here looks like a git log :/ I mean, I can do better on my own projects (and have been trying to do so with node-oauth-libre) but for a major project it would be nicer if it had nice release notes.

Exactly what I was looking for: the cold brutal logic of captialism. It's all good if it's low-cost.

Even after all of this you will still get bad answers.

...yes, of course, you're not paying for quality, you're paying for quantity and to reduce your costs. If you were paying for quality you would put up a few posters on college campuses and pay more.

Their goal is to be remain necessary and collect a paycheck. They're middle-men and this is why I encourage devs to talk directly to clients and get used to solving client/customer/user problems through direct feedback rather than relying on the broken telephone system.

Also this is when unions and co-operatives start to look like a good idea. If Gigster and other sites like it were operated as co-operatives, where every freelancer is also a member of the organization, they wouldn't be so inclined to hire middle-men and to rip people off.

This is also an awesome advert to see how they work remotely all together and I'm sure they're hiring for DevOps people now ;)

I'm also not sure how low of a bar it is when they did a study, coded the results, creating a coding system for surveys that can be used by others, and did more research to make sure they were asking the right questions.

I'm willing to bet that this is the first paper in a series of them and they'll use it to grab more grant $$ to do more in-depth research.

It's also a good starting point for local companies to be the Uber or Lyft of their city. For example in Toronto, Hailo doesn't exist and Lyft doesn't operate here either. It would be awesome if a company could just pick up LibreTaxi, pour in some $$$ for marketing and sales and start it up for Toronto.

I keep wondering whatever happened to all the other tools out there because everyone in corporate life has consolidated on this big complex tool. Maybe all other project and task management tools were too open/open source? Didn't feel enterprise-y enough for managers?

I can't take this article seriously after reading that and after reading this:

So I spent a few evenings with Rust

How long did it take you to learn C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl or other languages? MONTHS. Many many many months. Sure you could get something up and running in a few evenings but after many months did you realize that earlier code could be better. Each language has its own obstacles and spending a few evenings isn't enough time to get around them.

I gave Haskell a pass but after checking out Elm I can see more of its power. I gave Rust a pass because the language was changing but now that it's stable I expect to sit down for a few months at least learning it.

But saying "you need to spend a few months to get intimately acquainted with the language" is just not going to work in practice if you're hoping about breaking in to the mainstream.

You mean it's okay for everyone to struggle to work with JavaScript for years and years trying to come up with an OO system and a module system and trying to just bundle the files for the browser, but it's not okay to spend months on getting intimately acquainted with the language?

Who cares if Rust becomes mainstream, we only need the best open source code to use it (like Firefox and the other C/C++ libs that are thinking of porting over). We don't need it to be mainstream, we just need it to be possible to learn it within a reasonable timeframe (less than a year).

Focus on deliverables and that outs the bullshitters very quickly.

This part is illegal as hell and pretty much sums up why a union is absolutely needed in some workplaces; to curb this kind of crap.

When something like Access (or LibreOffice Base) can be used instead to fill in the gap.

I totally believe that the SMB space is ripe for massive disruption.

It is but the incentives are geared towards selling to big clients.

(This is why I've taken photos of some restaurants in Google Maps and posted them; they aren't doing any advertising on their own so it's nice to help them along and get more visitors).